Jan 13, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
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PHYS 441 - Introduction to Computational Physics

3 Credit Hours
Explores modern scientific computational techniques needed by undergraduate physics majors and minors. Topics covered include applications in physics involving: numerical integration, numerical differentiation, special functions, Monte Carlo simulations, ordinary differential equations, chaos theory, machine learning, and other selected methods. This course incorporates an individual student semester project in computational physics and requires access to an appropriate computer for homework and the project.

(RE) Prerequisite(s): PHYS 136 * or PHYS 138 * or PHYS 231 * or PHYS 251  with a C or better and COSC 101  or COSC 102  or COSC 111 * with a C or better.



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