FIZ 272E - Computational Methods in Physics

Course Objectives

Introduction to Linux, shell commands, shell programming, Programming with C++

Course Description

TOPICS:
1. Introduction to Linux, shell commands, shell programming
2. Programming with C++: Anatomy of a C++ Program
3. C++ programming in ROOT
4. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a matrix, Gauss elimination
5. Random numbers, Monte-Carlo applications
6. Data analysis, interpolation and curve fitting
7. Numerical quadrature, Gaussian quadrature
8. Solutions of ordinary differential equations, Euler and Runge-Kutta methods
9. Basics of finite differences method