Department of Physics

10ΥΚΟ21 Computational Physics 

Course webpage: eclass.uoa.gr/courses/PHYS192

Course outline

Course content

• Algorithms and their implementation on computers. Numerical calculations and uncertainties. Truncation and rounding errors in numerical solutions. Frequency diagrams (histograms).
• Random number generators. Inverse transform method. Rejection sampling. Introduction to the Monte-Carlo method for integration and simulation of stochastic physical problems.
• Solution of algebraic equations of one variable and linear systems of equations. Applications to simple physics problems.
• Fitting using the least squares method, polynomial interpolation, and their applications in laboratory measurements.
• Numerical differentiation, numerical integration, and their applications to problems in basic physics.
• Numerical solution of ordinary differential equations of 1st order, 2nd order, and systems. Applications to simple physics problems.