Introduction to Computational Physics.

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Introduction to computational methods, with applications to planetary motion, numerical integration, chaotic oscillations, percolation, random walks, diffusion limited aggregation, molecular dynamics simulation, Monte Carlo methods, and Fourier transforms. 2 lectures, 2 one-hour laboratories. Prereq: PHYS 251 , MATH 166 and CSCI 160 or ECE 173 . Coreq: PHYS 252 .