Physics 410: Computational Physics: Suggested Hardcopy 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 free (!), Open Source 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 decent computers section), to find something which appears suited to you. The following books are fairly representative and should be widely available. (Note that the listed Bookstore prices are from September 2001.)

Maple (Symbolic Manipulation)

We will be using excerpts from the following sources in class: 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.

Fortran 90 Programming

The following are useful references:

C Programming

Linear Systems