29::196 Computational Physics:
Assignments for week 1
GN: N. Giordano and H. Nakanishi, Computational Physics,
second edition, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006
ZO: R. Zimmerman and F. Olness, Mathematica for Physics,
Springer,
Second Edition 2001.
(based on version 5; on reserve at the physics library )
Go through the Mathematica tutorial
Other tutorial
given in class (click
here for the notebook)
And more
(From ZO, save it and open as ch1.nb)
Readings: GN, Chapter 1; Section 3.5;
Optional Readings: ZO: chapters 1 and 5 (it is recommended to use the source
file at the same time)
Problem set: ZO Chapter 1, Problems 1, 3,
4, 6 and
8 (mostly an exercise to find the difference between versions 5 and 7).
Find the level curves of the real and imaginary parts of
f[x_] := beta*x + (1/2)*(Log[x] + Log[2 - x]) for 2 complex values of
beta of your choice.
email the notebook to ymhw09@gmail.com no later than Tuesday 1/28/09. No late work.