Physics & Astronomy

• All chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated with new material on Java, complex systems, visualization, rigid body dynamics, and relativity.
• The text emphasizes learning physics through example using computer simulations, in contrast to teaching programming or numerical analysis in isolation. It can be used at a variety of levels within the physics curriculum.
• The programs are written in Java using the Open Source Physics library (See Open Source Physics: A User’s Guide, by Wolfgang Christian) to make input/output, plots, animation, and routine numerical tasks easy to implement

Preface

1. Introduction
2. Tools for Doing Simulations
3. Simulating Particle Motion
4. Oscillatory Systems
5. Few-Body Problems: The Motion of the Planets
6. The Chaotic Motion of Dynamical Systems
7. Random Processes
8. The Dynamics of Many Particle Systems
9. Normal Modes and Waves
10. Electrodynamics
11. Numerical and Monte Carlo Methods
12. Percolation
13. Fractals and Kinetic Growth Models
14. Complex Systems
15. Monte Carlo Simulations of Thermal Systems
16. Quantum Systems
17. Visualization and Rigid Body Dynamics
18. Seeing in Special and General Relativity
19. Epilogue: The Unity of Physics

Computational Physics  (Physics & Astronomy)

Harvey Gould uses molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo methods to study glasses, the dynamics of first-order phase transitions, and other problems in statistical mechanics. His work involves the application of computer simulation algorithms as well as renormalization group and cluster methods. Gould recently co-authored the second edition of an undergraduate level text on computer simulation in physics. He can "foresee the day when physics students take a required computational science curriculum comparable in scope to the present day mathematics curriculum."

Gould is a native of California and received his B.A. and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He did postdoctoral work at the National Bureau of Standards and taught at the University of Michigan before coming to Clark University in 1971. His leisure time is spent with his family and listening to music, especially jazz.

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