Comp Methods-Physics Problems

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Computational Methods for Physics Problems: This course introduces students to numerical solutions of physical problems. Topics to be covered are: numerical methods for simulating single particle motion, trajectories in 2D and 3D, oscillatory motion, 2D and 3D motion of a charged particle in an electromagnetic field, dynamics of a driven pendulum, damp driven pendulum, classical scattering cross-sections for Yukawa potential, planetary motion, solution of one dimensional Schrodinger equation, random numbers, introduction to classical Monte Carlo method, and determining the geometry of a small cluster with classical potential.