Dr. Ian Balitsky

Professor of Physics

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Office:

Old Dominion University
Oceanography & Physics Bld.
Office: 323
Phone: (757) 683-5814
Fax: (757) 683-3038

E-mail: [email protected]

Mailing Address:

Ian Balitsky
Old Dominion University
Physics Department
4600 Elkhorn Ave
Norfolk, VA 23529

Physics 420: Introductory Computational Physics

Course Information:

This course was originally developed by Prof. A. Godunov. You can find the original course at http://ww2.odu.edu/~agodunov/teaching/phys420_10/index.html

Lectures:
Physics & Oceanography Building, rm 203, TR 16:20-17:35
Office Hours:
Physics & Oceanography Building, rm 323, TR 13:00-15:00
TextBook(s):
A. Godunov and A. Klein ``Introductory Computational Physics'', Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006
Reference Book(s):
``C++ Primer Plus'' (6th Edition) by Stephen Prata, Addison-Wesley, 2011
Course Syllabus: Phys 420

Lecture Notes:

1. Introduction:
Part 1       Part 2       Part 3: Intro C++    C++ classes          Part 4

2. Numerical methods:
Part 1       Part 2      Part 3       Part 4       Part 5       Part 6

3. Computer simulation methods:
Part 1: Random motion       Part 2: Non-uniform distributions
Part 3: Data modeling       Part 4: Chaos
C++ program for calculation of a n-dimensional integral
C++ program for random walk Header
HW assignment 0 (not graded).
1. Write a program to solve the quadratic equation by using the quadratic formula to obtain roots. Your program should also be capable to handle complex roots.
2. Write a program that calculates a series of Fibonacci numbers and checks which ones are prime numbers. Test your program on first 25 Fibonacci numbers.

Please send your programs to [email protected] and cc to [email protected]

HW assignment 1 Due Thu Oct 9 at 4 p.m.

HW assignment 2 Due Tue Oct 21 at 4 p.m.

HW assignment 3 Due Thu Nov 6 at 4 p.m.
Solution

HW assignment 4 Due Sat Nov 15 anytime (send to [email protected], cc [email protected])

Project 1 (projectile motion w/o air resistance) Due Thu Oct 30 at 4 p.m.

Project 2 (projectile motion with air resistance) Due Thu Nov 13 at 4 p.m. (send to [email protected], cc [email protected])

Project 3 (random walk on a lattice) Due Tue Nov 25 at 4 p.m. (send to [email protected], cc [email protected])

Final project (part 1) Please send to [email protected] and cc to [email protected] by 4 p.m. on Thu Dec. 4

Final project (part 2) Please send to [email protected] and cc to [email protected] by 7 p.m. on Tue Dec. 9

Please note that the absolute deadline for any late assignments is Tuesday Dec 9. If you have any questions send a e-mail to [email protected].

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