PHYS 305: Computational Physics II

Topics

1. Course overview

2. Programming review
   • Python programming
   • plotting data using matplotlib
   • program acceleration using numpy
   • some sample files:
     • simple_func1.py
     • simple_func1_numpy.py
     • simple_plot1.py
     • simple_plot1_numpy.py
   • a more complete example

3. Introductory exercises

4. Numerical integration of ordinary differential equations