Monday, October 16, 2006

Free Materials on Computational Physics using C++

Today I plan to start reading computational physics. Before I start, I have looked around for the materials. Surely, internet still be my best book store (Free book store). In a short time, I found a lot of cool materails. (I use google search.) And the best that I found is this free book
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~ntg/780/readings/hjorth-jensen_notes2005.pdf
This is a computational physics book (using Fortran and C++). The author is M. Hjorth-Jensen.

If you interest in this field, these link may be (I can say "will be" not "may be") helpful.
http://www.fys.uio.no/~mhjensen/
http://dmoz.org/Science/Physics/Computational/
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~ntg/780/
http://www.physics.utah.edu/~detar/lessons/c++/
My favorite picture from M. Hjorth-Jensen's book

But if you are a newbie, and don't have any programming experience. I would like to introduce you to start with Python, because "Python is a modern object oriented programming language which is freely available. Python has a short learning curve and with the specified modules has powerful facilities for numerical calculation and visualisation." (from http://www.phy.uct.ac.za/courses/phy321f/compphy.htm)
All of these links will be helpful.

http://www-teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk/computing/ProgrammingResources/programming.html
http://www.phy.uct.ac.za/courses/phy321f/compphy.htm

And I have one more nice material which I forget it for now. I promise, I will find it and tell you soon.

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