Course

Mechanics and Computational Physics - PHYS2120

Faculty: Faculty of Science

School: School of Physics

Course Outline: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/

Campus: Kensington Campus

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: PHYS1221 or PHYS1231 or PHYS1241, and, MATH1231 or MATH1241; Exclusion: PHYS2010, PHYS2020

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

Damped and forced harmonic oscilltions and resonance phenomena. Central force problems and celestial orbits. Variational principles; the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of mechanics; coupled oscillators, normal modes, continuous systems and fields. Many-particle systems.

Use of computers to solve problems in Physics. Topics will be chosen from, but not limited to, random number generators, Monte Carlo techniques, sorting, numerical intergration, gravitational, cellular automata, classical mechanics, and data analysis.

Assumed Knowledge: First year physics and mathematics


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