PHY480 Report 3

PHYSICS 480 COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS
Why take it?

What students will learn (according to the class webpage):
Course Description
Course Outline

Where these techniques will be useful:

WEBPAGE CREATION:
Personal webpages, corporate webpages, web-publishing of research, etc.

VI EDITOR:
Useful whenever editing or creating files in UNIX - html code, fortran code, mail files, etc.

UNIX & FORTRAN COMMANDS:
Basic language & command understanding necessary for programming in Fortran in a UNIX environment

GNUPLOT / GRAPHING ROUTINES:
Visualization & presentation of basic results: changes in a variable (energy, velocity, etc), positions of particles, etc.

NUMERICAL METHODS :
Used to solve the equations describing virtually any physical system

PERSONAL TESTIMONIAL
Reflections (link)
What I personally found useful in this class (especially if it was new, if I am using / or will use it in the future)