syllabus
time: Tues/Fri 1:30pm - 3pm (subject to change)
place: Sci 217
level: intermediate
credits: 4
faculty: Jim Mahoney
text: none
Numerical simulations and data techniques have become increasingly important tools for understanding physical systems.
This course explores these computer approaches to doing science. Topics include computational differential equations, chaos, fourier transforms, and statistical modeling.
Prerequisite:
Participants must have
previous programming experience,
math through at least calculus,
some exposure to differential equations,
and at least one semester of physics.
Source material will be mostly online
or what we can scrounge from the library
or our bookshelves.
