Computational Physics - Oscillation and Chaos
(PHYS 1901 only)

The material in this section of the laboratory course is intended to provide an introduction to computational physics: using computers to solve models of physical phenomena, using models to try to understand the phenomena, interpreting your results and (very importantly!) communicating them to others. You are expected to own the current edition of Physics 1 Laboratory Notes. That section of those notes covering the material in the computational physics section also appear on these web pages in PDF format.

The Computational Physics section of the course runs for 3 weeks. If you are not familiar with the software package on which the course is based, MatLab, you should make sure you work through a tutorial before you start (see Learning MatLab).

All sessions are conducted in Room 407, Carslaw Building. The course consists of 3 sessions.

Assessment will be based on completion of the exercises.

The following hyperlinked materials are available on this web site:

Background	Learning MatLab
Student Exercises	Student Notes (PDF)
	MatLab files

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