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PHYS 580   COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS FALL 2010 The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. -- R. Hamming Location: P-148 Time: TuTh 12:30-1:45 pm Instructor: Dr. Calvin Johnson Office: P-135 Phone:  594-1284 e-mail: cjohnson@sciences.sdsu.edu Office hours: M 11- 12, W 12 -1, Tu 2-3 pm (note: I am generally available in my office daily and am happy to  schedule appointments if you want to be sure to find me.) Syllabus  Grading policy IMPORTANT: You will NEED to know how to program in either Fortran or C—I will NOT teach beginning programming. (For that please take PHYS 317 or COMP 526). However, you can teach yourself. You can use any textbook on Fortran, such as Structured Fortran 77 for Engineers and Scientists, 5^th edition, Delores M. Etter, or these postscript notes on Fortran by Clive Page of the University of Leicester. LINUX and FORTRAN pages Demo algorithms Class projects Recommended resource books on COMPUTATIONAL physics: * Numerical Recipes (in Fortran, also in C), Press et al Fortran version available on-line here (AVAILABLE on 24-hr reserve in Love Library) * Computational Physics, Koonin and Meredith * Numerical Methods for Physics, A. Garcia * A First Course in Computational Physics, P. DeVries * Introduction to Computational Physics, T. Pang Last updated  Aug 26, 2010