Physics 307

Fall 2009

Science and Computers I: Notes

Week 1 (Tuesday): Introduction to MATLAB I
Week 1 (Thursday): Introduction to MATLAB II

Week 1 (Thursday) and Week 2 (Tuesday): Curve Fitting in MATLAB

Week 3 (Thursday): Solving Differential Equations Numerically: Euler's Method

Week 4 (Tuesday): Solving Differential Equations Numerically: Euler's Method

Week 5 (Tuesday): Solving Differential Equations Numerically: Harmonic Motion I
Week 5 (Thursday): Solving Differential Equations Numerically: Harmonic Motion II
Week 5 (Thursday): MATLAB function for damped, forced nonlinear pendulum

Week 6 (Thursday): Chaos/Runge-Kutta

Week 8: Fourth-order Runge-Kutta Exercises

Week 10: Numerical Integration (Assignment included)
Week 10: Numerical Integration Example Code 1
Week 10: Numerical Integration Example Code 2

Week 11: Systems with Randomness

Week 13: Finding the Roots of a Function (Assignment included)
Week 13: Root-finding Bisection Example Code

Week 15: Partial Differential Equations: The Wave Equation