PHY201 - Physics Computations II
Maintained by
Phil Duxbury
All course materials and worksheets will appear here
Instructor
Prof. Phil Duxbury - Rm 205PA, 353-9179, duxbury@pa.msu.edu
Teaching assistants
Aleksandar Donev (Fortran) - donev@pa.msu.edu
Patrick Gallagher - gallag63@cse.msu.edu
Course Outline
This one credit course is the second of
three such courses (PHY102, PHY201, PHY301)
designed to teach undergraduate
physics students how to use computers to solve
physics problems.
PHY102 emphasizes the use of Mathematica.
PHY201 develops your knowledge of programming in Fortran 77 and Fortrn 90,
though you also need to use Mathematica from time to time.
PHY301 emphasizes object-oriented programming primarily in
JAVA but we will also have to talk about C++ and C which are the predecessors
to JAVA. Mathematica will continue to be used from time to time.
Course Assessment
75% will come from your solution to the weekly worksheets. For each
worksheet which is not completed your grade is reduced by 0.5. If you
complete all the worksheets but do not do the lab. exam, you get a 3.0 grade.
25% will come from a one hour practical exam at the end of the semester.
This exam will be held in the last week of semester
during your regular
lab. time. In the exam you will be asked to
write simple Fortran code and to use Mathematica. Nothing new will be
introduced. You will need to know how to use the online help facilities.
(Tentative) Lab. Schedule - Room 346 Giltner Hall
Tuesday: 1-3:30pm.
Instructors Donev
Students Chvolka, Arnold, Elliot, Harris, Ochoa, Santonocito
Tuesday: 7-9:30pm(PHY301).
Instructor Gallagher
Students Kuxhaus, Strahler
Thursday: 2-4:30pm.
Instructors Duxbury
Students Chvolka, Dumont, Katsuhara, Schepler, Strahler, Trionfi, Weerts
Thursday: 6-8:30pm.
Instructor Donev
Students Lam, Lande, Oostdyk, Park, Prichard, Welsch
The worksheets
Worksheet 1 - due 8th Sept. at 5pm.
Worksheet 2 - due 15th Sept. at 5pm.
Worksheet 3 - due 22nd Sept. at 5pm.
Worksheet 4 - due 29th Sept. at 5pm.
Worksheet 5 - due 6th Oct. at 5pm.
Worksheet 6 - due 13th Oct. at 5pm.
Worksheet 7 - due 27th Oct. at 5pm.
Here is Alex's solution
Worksheet 8 - due 10th Nov. at 5pm.
Here is Alex's solution
Worksheet 9 - due 8th Dec. at 5pm.
Test Exam and it's
solution
The final exam is 8-9pm Thursday Dec. 7th in rm346G
Reference materials
Introduction to Fortran
Reference Manual and many links to fortran resources.
The textbook "An introduction to Fortran 90 for Scientific Computing"
by James M. Ortega, is very nice. Buy it if you intend a career which includes
scientific computing.