Physics 410: Computational Physics: Notes


This document will be updated throughout the course.
  • Sep. 6 and Sep. 8: Overview/review of MATLAB [PDF]
  • Oct. 12: The Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg Method [PDF]
  • Oct. 12-Oct 18: ODE Applications using ODE45 [PDF]
  • Oct. 20: Solving BVPs with the ODE45 Integrator and Shooting [PDF]
  • Oct 30: Tridiagonal Structure of FDA for Diffusion Equation [PDF]
  • Nov. 1 and Nov. 3: The 1-D Wave Equation [PDF]
  • Nov. 23: Nonuniformly distributed random numbers and Diffusion Limited Aggregation [PDF]
  • Nov. 29: 2D Ising model [PDF]
  • Dec 4: REVIEW [PDF]