Computational Physics Unit

Content developed/modified for Portsmouth University, 2nd year Computational Physics Unit. Six lectures (python).

Text Book: Newman, M., Computational Physics - Revised and Expanded, [2013] Some Chapters available to download from: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/computational-physics/

• Tips for getting the most out of Computational Physics unit. Why people chose different languages. (e.g why we’re doing Python). Introduction to Python programming in general, and specifically in Portsmouth.
• More introduction to python - lists and arrays. User defined functions.
• Graphics and visualization with python.
• Stochastic methods (in python)
• Stochastic methods (in python)
• Monte Carlo Simulations (in python; lab not done in 2017)

For those interested - a really nice Markdown Cheat Sheet can be found at https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet#code