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New Additions to

Survey of Computational Physics

 

Rubin H Landau, Manuel J Paez, & Cristian Bordeianu, 2008

  
  1. GENERAL VIEW
    1. Complete reorganization and rewriting, for clarity & coherence
    2. Added materials provide survey of essentially all of CP
    3. Learn by doing; codes incorporated for all topics; not theory of CP
    4. Accessible to undergraduates (engineered to follow new "First Course in Scientific Computing" text)
    5. Follows computational science view of combining science with mathematics and computer science
    6. Continues problem solving paradigm to organize materials and present materials in realistic setting
    7. Java codes and applets integrated into text; F90 and C codes on CD
    8. CD containing codes, applets, animations, vizualization files
  2. MAJOR ADDITIONS NOT IN WILEY 2nd Edition (new chapters)
    1. Visualization (including free packages: ptPlot, OpenDx, Grace, Gnuplot)
    2. Wavelet Analysis & Data Compression
    3. Molecular Dynamics
    4. Computational Fluid Dynamics (incl shock waves, solitons)
  3. EXTENSIONS (NEW SECTIONS)
    1. IEEE floating point arithmetic (in both)
    2. Trial &Error Searching and Matrix Computing with Libraries (both)
    3. Object Oriented Programming with Java (major extension)
    4. Additional PDE techniques: successive over relaxation, finite element methods, Crank- Nicholson, Lax-Wendroff
    5. Short-Time Fourier Analysis, FFT, Fourier Filtering
    6. Nonlinear Dynamics of Coupled Predator-Prey Systems
    7. Waves on a Catenary