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Physics 580 Computational Physics - The Autumn 2008 Adventure
Class webpage: www.physics.sdsu.edu/~mbromley/teaching/phys508fall2008/
Classroom:  P-149
Lecturer:  Dr. Michael Bromley
My office:  P-139, Phone (619) 594 6161
Email:   mbromley@physics.sdsu.eduZZZ
Times:   Tuesdays, Thursdays, 12:30-13:45pm
Extra Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays: I will be in the P-247 lab / my office for one hour (2pm-3pm) after each class dedicated to Physics 580 help. For other times send me an email too see if i'm about.

Syllabus and Course Details

Timeline and Datafiles

Prerequisites:   Note that the Current Schedule is somewhat out of date

• Physics PHYS 354 (Modern Physics), and
• Physics PHYS 400A (Classical Electromagnetism) or concurrent registration.
• Also Computer Engineering COMPE 160 ( Intro. to Computer Programming),
• or Computer Science CS 106 ( Intro. to Computational Programming with Fortran.

There is flexibility in the prerequisites. PHYS 317 (Introduction to Computational Physics) or COMP 526 (Comp. Methods for Scientists) are obvious alternatives to either COMPE 160 or CS 106. I will assume that you have a good working knowledge of a 3rd generation language, either Fortran 77/90 or C or C++. If you only have experience in a 4GL (ie. Matlab, Mathematica, IDL), you must see me! I may recommend that you first take PHYS 317/COMP 526.