PHYSICS 39907 Fall 2024 (MR417S) TTh 11:00-12:15

Current version: syllabus.pdf

Professor: Mark Shattuck (markdshattuck@gmail.com)

Office: Steinman Hall T1M-16 x8161, (MR419)

Office Hours:  Th 4:00-6:00 (MR419) (or by App.)

Website: https://gibbs.ccny.cuny.edu/teaching/

Textbook: Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing, William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, William T. Vetterling and Brian P. Flannery.

 

(Free online)

http://numerical.recipes/book.html

 

8/29(Th)

Introduction to Computing, LaTeX, overleaf

 

9/3, 9/5

Algorithms and Programming,

Introduction to Matlab

 

9/10, 9/12

Data visualization

 

9/17*, 9/19*

Finite difference and summation

 

9/23, 9/28

Molecular Dynamics 

 

10/1(T)

Solving Linear Equations

 

10/8, 10/10

Minimization, Root finding, Optimization

 

10/17(Th)

Boundary value ordinary differential equations

 

10/22, 10/24

Partial differential equations

 

10/29, 11/31

Random processes

 

11/5, 11/7

Random numbers, Probability and statistics

 

11/12, 11/14

Monte Carlo

 

11/19, 11/21

Spectral Methods

 

11/26(T)

Finite Element

 

12/3*, 12/5*

Finite Element

 

12/10*, 12/12*

Genetic/Annealing/Machine Learning

 

 Final Project

 

 

 No Class

10/3, 10/15 (Mon Schedule), 11/28 (Thanksgiving)

 Special Class*

9/17, 9/19, 12/3, 12/5, 12/10, 12/12 (Class online)

 

 

 

 

 

General Information

 

Attendance: 5% of grade from class participation.

 

Reading Assignment: Reading assignments should be completed before class.  

 

Grades: Grade will be based on class participation (5%), weekly problem sets (50%), final project (25%), and take-home final exam (20%). The problem set can be legibly handwritten or typed, but must be submitted electronically as a PDF on Blackboard.

 

Academic Integrity and Plagiarism: The CCNY Policy on Academic Integrity will be strictly adhered to. The document entitled, “CUNY Policy on Academic Integrity” is available from the link at the bottom of the CCNY Home Page. Make sure you have read the details regarding plagiarism and cheating, and be clear about the rules that the college follows. Cases where academic integrity is compromised will be prosecuted to the fullest extent according to these rules.