Applied Computational Physics - Joseph F. Boudreau, Eric S. Swanson

Applied Computational Physics

Buch | Hardcover
936 Seiten
2017
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-870863-6 (ISBN)
143,40 inkl. MwSt
A textbook that addresses a wide variety of problems in classical and quantum physics. Modern programming techniques are stressed throughout, along with the important topics of encapsulation, polymorphism, and object-oriented design. Scientific problems are physically motivated, solution strategies are developed, and explicit code is presented.
Applied Computational Physics is a graduate-level text stressing three essential elements: advanced programming techniques, numerical analysis, and physics. The goal of the text is to provide students with essential computational skills that they will need in their careers, and to increase the confidence with which they write computer programs designed for their problem domain. The physics problems give them an opportunity to reinforce their programming skills, while the acquired programming skills augment their ability to solve physics problems. The C++ language is used throughout the text. Physics problems include Hamiltonian systems, chaotic systems, percolation, critical phenomena, few-body and multi-body quantum systems, quantum field theory, simulation of radiation transport, and data modeling.

The book, the fruit of a collaboration between a theoretical physicist and an experimental physicist, covers a broad range of topics from both viewpoints. Examples, program libraries, and additional documentation can be found at the companion website. Hundreds of original problems reinforce programming skills and increase the ability to solve real-life physics problems at and beyond the graduate level.

Joseph Boudreau is a professor of physics at the University of Pittsburgh. He obtained his B.A. degree from Harvard University and his Ph.D from the University of Wisconsin. As an experimental particle physicist, he has concentrated on precision measurements in electroweak physics in the ALEPH experiment at CERN, on bottom physics at the CDF experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator laboratory (Fermilab), and on top quark physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. He is a former CERN associate, a former visiting scientist at Fermilab and the Center for Particle Physics of Marseille (CPPM), and a former Starr foundation visiting fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. Eric Swanson is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He obtained his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1991 and subsequently spent three years at MIT and six years at North Carolina State before moving to Pittsburgh. He has published more than 100 papers on theoretical hadronic physics, condensed matter physics, and biophysics. Swanson was named an APS Fellow for his work on exotic particles and is a founder of the Topical Group on Hadronic Physics of the American Physical Society. He has been a visiting scientist at Oxford University, TRIUMF in British Columbia, Jefferson Lab in Virginia, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

1: Building Programs in an Linux Environment
2: Encapsulation and the C++ class
3: Some Useful Classes with Applications
4: Interpolation and Extrapolation
5: Numerical Quadrature
6: How to Write a Class
7: Monte Carlo Methods
8: Precolation and Universality
9: Parrallel Computing
10: Graphics for Physicists
11: Ordinary Differential Equations
12: Polymorphism
13: Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
14: Rotations and Lorentz Transformations
15: Simulation
16: Data Modeling
17: Templates, the Standard C++ Library, and Modern C++
18: Many Body Dynamics
19: Continuum Dynamics
20: Classical Spin Systems
21: Quantum Mechanics I - Few Body Systems
22: Quantum Spin Systems
23: Quantum Mechanics II - Many Body Systems
24: Quantum Field Theory

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Over 200 illustrations
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 177 x 252 mm
Gewicht 1930 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Theorie / Studium
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Angewandte Physik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Mechanik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Quantenphysik
ISBN-10 0-19-870863-7 / 0198708637
ISBN-13 978-0-19-870863-6 / 9780198708636
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