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"There is an increasing need for undergraduate students in physics to have a core set of computational tools. Most problems in physics benefit from numerical methods, and many of them resist analytical solution altogether. This textbook presents numerical techniques for solving familiar physica...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Franklin, Joel, 1975- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Mathematical physics.
Physics > Data processing.
Numerical analysis.
Physique mathématique.
Physique > Informatique.
Analyse numérique.
Mathematical physics
Numerical analysis
Physics > Data processing
Physik
Numerisches Verfahren
Numerische Mathematik
Mathematica.
Problems and exercises
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Programming overview
  • 2. Ordinary differential equations
  • 3. Root-finding
  • 4. Partial differential equations
  • 5. Time dependent problems
  • 6. Integration
  • 7. Fourier transform
  • 8. Harmonic oscillators
  • 9. Matrix inversion
  • 10. The eigenvalue problem
  • 11. Iterative methods
  • 12. Minimization
  • 13. Chaos
  • 14. Neural networks
  • 15. Galerkin methods
  • References
  • Index.