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Course Title  Computational Physics
Course Code  ICPY 490
Credit  4
Semester Offered  1, 2, 3
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Degree  Undergraduate
Programme  Bachelor of Science in Physics (International Program)
Course Description  Basic mathematical operations: scattering by a central potential. Ordinary differential equations: stability, order and chaos in two- dimensional motion. Boundary value and eigenvalue problems: stationary solutions of the one-dimensional Schroedinger equation. Special functions and Gaussian quadrature: Born and eikonal approximations to quantum scattering. Matrix operations: determining nuclear charge densities. Elliptic partial differential equations: elliptic equations in two dimensions. Parabolic partial differential equations: the time-dependent Schroedinger equation. Monte Carlo methods: the lsing model in two dimensions. Fast Fourier transform: diffraction, image processing.
Prerequisite  ICPY 331 and ICPY 332
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