Computational Physics: Problem Solving with Computers

by Manuel J. Páez, Rubin H. Landau, Manuel J P?ez

Book Overview

Computational physics is the process by which computers help solve problems in the physical sciences where the difficulty or complexity places them beyond analytical solution or human endurance. This text explains to the reader how to program the hardware or use program libraries to solve specific problems occurring in the physical sciences.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471115908
• ISBN13: 9780471115908
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Wiley-Vch
• Length: 548 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.8" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

review

Not 5 stars only because the the book is an older version of the one in the picture. It has the same content, however.

This book is for advanced physics

The number of stars I gave the book is basically irrelevant.I'm writing the review to point out that the book should be called: "computations for *advanced* physics".Most of the topics covered in the book are for second year physics, or advanced topics. That's neither good nor bad, it just depends what you're looking for. If you want to find ways to apply computer programs in a first-years course -- this ain't it. There are probably only a few cases in which the topics are close enough to first-year physics to be relevant (multiple waves on a string; contrasting an idealized model of a pendulum with a "real-one").Having said that, I give the book some pluses for covering a wide range of physics and mathematical topics, and a bit of a minus for writing that can be fairly opaque.