PHY300 aka PHY308 - Spring 2007

Computational physics using Python

Professor: Simon Catterall, 309 Physics Building, 443-5978, smc@physics.syr.edu
Class times: 12:30pm-1:50 pm
Tuesdays: Physics 106 Thursdays: Physics Cluster 115.
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This course is aimed at science and mathematics majors who are interested in both science and computing. The goal of the course will be to show how computers can be used to learn about scientific concepts and how they can be used as a tool in solving scientific problems. Our main scientific examples will be drawn from physics and we will study them using a programming language called Python. In practice most of our work will use a extension of this language called VPython which has a simple-to -use graphical environment.

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Final project presentations

These will take place Thursday April 26 and May 1 in Physics 106
You should hand in your final project writeup by Friday May 4

Final

The Final will be Friday May 4 12:30-2:30 pm in Physics 106 Revision sheet available
Links to presentations here

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Last modified: Mon Jan 8 2007