{"id":27,"date":"2022-05-17T20:07:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T20:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/academic.csuohio.edu\/kaufman-miron\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2023-01-31T21:04:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T21:04:49","slug":"phy520-computational-physics-spring-2020","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/academic.csuohio.edu\/kaufman-miron\/phy520-computational-physics-spring-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"PHY520: Computational Physics, Spring 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Instructor:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/academic.csuohio.edu\/kaufman-miron\/\">Miron Kaufman<\/a><br>OFFICE: SI-116, Email:<a href=\"mailto:m.kaufman@csuohio.edu\">m.kaufman@csuohio.edu <\/a><br>Class meets on: M and W 2:00-3:50PM in SI-117A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Textbook: Miron Kaufman:\u00a0<em>Computational Physics<\/em><br>Recomended Books: Giordano\u00a0<em>Computational Physics<\/em>; Gould and Tobochnik,\u00a0<em>Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1. MathCad Tutorial;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2. Monte Carlo hit and miss; Compute pi.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3. Monte Carlo hit and miss; Compute volume of truncated cone.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/academic.csuohio.edu\/mkaufman\/kaufman\/Montecarlolab4.pdf\">Monte Carlo hit and miss; Compute volume of hyper-sphere in D dimensions.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>5. Quasi-Random numbers; Standard random number generator.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6. Descriptive Statistics;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacob_Bernoulli\">Bernoulli <\/a>&nbsp;and Normal Distributions;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abraham_de_Moivre\">De Moivre <\/a>&nbsp;approximation; Histograms.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>7. Image Processing with Mathcad.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8. Simulations of probabilities problems proposed by Chevalier de M\u00e9r\u00e8 (based on Pascal and Fermat letters).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>9. Radioactive Decay and Poisson distribution.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>10. Simulations of probabilities problems proposed by Frederick Mosteller.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>11.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/academic.csuohio.edu\/mkaufman\/kaufman\/Montecarlolab11.pdf\">Random walks in 1D<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>12. Ideal Gas in 2D; Entropy Law.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>13. Ideal Gas in 3D Einstein-Smoluchowsky Law of Diffusion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>14. Simulations of probabilities problems proposed by Marilyn vos Savant.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>15. Cellular Automaton; Fractals; Game of Life.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>16. Simulation of the baseball world series.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>17. Geometric Probability.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>18. Chain Reaction; Critical mass.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>19. Ehrenfest Urn; Loschmidt&#8217;s Paradox.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>20. Ising Model of Magnetism 1D; Metropolis Method.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>21.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/academic.csuohio.edu\/mkaufman\/kaufman\/Montecarlolab21.pdf\">Ising Model of Magnetism 2D; Metropolis Method.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>22. Ising Model of Magnetism, Mean Field Theory.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>23. Mechanics: Projectile motion with air drag.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>24. Mechanics: Tunnel through Earth.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>25. Mechanics: Pendulum.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>26. Mechanics: Three body problem.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>27. Chaos Theory: Logistic Equation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>28. Chaos Theory: Butterfly effect; Lyapunov exponent.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>29. Electricity and Magnetism: Motion of charged particle in electric and magnetic fields.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>30. Electricity and Magnetism: Biot-Savart law applied to spiral current.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>31. Electricity and Magnetism: Laplace Equation; the Potential and Electric Field in Parallel-Plates Capacitor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>32. Nuclear Physics:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Compton\">Compton <\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/academic.csuohio.edu\/mkaufman\/kaufman\/Montecarlolab32.pdf\">Scattering.<\/a><br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>No class: M January 20, M February 17, M March 9, W March 11.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Last day to withdraw from the course: F, March 27.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instructor:\u00a0Miron KaufmanOFFICE: SI-116, Email:m.kaufman@csuohio.edu Class meets on: M and W 2:00-3:50PM in SI-117A. 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