Physics 210 - Introduction to Computational Physics - UBC/Fall 2012

Physics 210: Intro Computational Physics: Course Notes & Resources

This document will be updated throughout the course. Note: "PDF" denotes Adobe Portable Document Format.

Also note that I will sometimes lecture using the whiteboard, and then you will be expected to take your own notes. (i.e. not all notes for the course will be posted electronically.)

Course Web Pages Hard Copy [PDF 16 pages] & Intitial Survey [PDF 1 page] (Sep 10)
Unix / Linux [PDF 37 pages - Last update Sep 29] (Sep 10 - Sep 22)

Overview of Programming [PDF 12 pages) (Sep 22)

Maple (Sep 24 - Oct 6)

Maple Documentation from Past Versions
Maple 9 Learning Guide [PDF 332 pages]
Maple 10 Introductory Programming Guide [PDF 398 pages]
Maple 10 Advanced Programming Guide [PDF 452 pages]
Maple 5 by Example [HTML]

MATLAB (octave) (Oct 8 - Oct 27)

octave

octave documentation [HTML]
info documentation (for help with octave's doc command) [HTML]

Numerical Computing with MATLAB by Cleve Moller: [Individual chapters in PDF]
Experiments with MATLAB by Cleve Moller [Individual chapters in PDF]
Resources from Mathworks, the distributors of MATLAB

MATLAB Central: Contains searchable contributions from the MATLAB user community
MATLAB Tutorial: Contains Mathworks tutorials, as well as links to other sites and resources

Mathtools.net: Another exchange site for MATLAB users (contains physics section)
A collection of Matlab Resources (including tuorials) compiled by Ian Mitchell, UBC CS

Finite Difference Approximation (Oct 29 - Nov 17)
Cellular Automata (Nov 19)

MATLAB/octave code for 1D 2-state, range 2 totalistic celluar automata: Driver tca.m and main function ca.m

Maintained by choptuik@physics.ubc.ca. Supported by CIAR, NSERC, CFI, BCKDF and UBC