Computational physics : problem solving with computers /

Computing software basics -- Errors and uncertainties in computations -- Object-oriented programming: kinematics -- Integration -- Differentiation -- Trial and errror searching -- Matrix computing and N-D Newton Raphson -- Data fitting -- Deterministic randomness -- Monte Carlo applications -- Therm...

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Main Author: Landau, Rubin H.
Other Authors: Páez Mejía, Manuel José, Bordeianu, Cristian C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH ; ©2007
Edition:2nd revised and enlarged edition.
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Summary:Computing software basics -- Errors and uncertainties in computations -- Object-oriented programming: kinematics -- Integration -- Differentiation -- Trial and errror searching -- Matrix computing and N-D Newton Raphson -- Data fitting -- Deterministic randomness -- Monte Carlo applications -- Thermodynamic simulations: ising model -- Computer hardware basics: memory and CPU -- High-performance computing: profiling and tuning -- Differential equation applications -- Quantum eigenvalues via ODE matching -- Fourier analysis of linear and nonlinear signals -- Unusual dynamic of nonlinear systems -- Differential chaos in phase space -- Fractals -- Parallel computing -- Parallel computing with MPI -- Electrostatics potentials via finite differences (PDEs) -- Heat flow -- PDE waves on strings and membranes -- Solitons; KdeV and Sine-Gordon -- Quantum wave packets -- Quantum paths for functional integration -- Quantum bound states via integral equations -- Quantum scattering via integral equations.
Physical Description:xxi, 593 páginas : ilustrado ; 24 cm. + 1 CD-ROM.
Bibliography:Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice
ISBN:9783527406265 (pbk.)
3527406263 (pbk.)