Physics 410: Computational Physics: Suggested References


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UNIX and General Information

There are many available Unix books representing a wide range in levels of presentation. With the rapid increase in popularity of Linux (the ``public domain'' version of Unix originally implemented on the PC architecture), many of the available references focus on that particular flavour of Unix. If this is your first experience with Linux, I suggest that you first browse the Operating Systems section of the University Bookstore (or any other bookstore with a computer section), to find something which appears suited to you. The following books are fairly representative and should be widely available

Maple (Symbolic Manipulation)

I will request that the Bookstore stock the following books (or equivalents) on Maple. There way be some problems with availability, in which case alternate measures (to be discussed in class) will be adopted. I will be referring to the above sources in the lectures on Maple. In addition, you may find the following sources handy:

Fortran 77 Programming

This is the most problematic subject, since Fortran 77 textbooks are almost all out of print (partly due to the development of Fortran 90, Fortran 95 etc.) Fortunately, Fortran 77 is an easy language to master at the level which will be required for this course, and the instructor will be supplying ample source code which you can use as a guide.

C Programming

Linear Systems