- Hardcover: 721 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 2 edition (Aug 30 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0201506041
- ISBN-13: 978-0201506044
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 19.7 x 3.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #964,608 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
Now in an exciting new edition, this book teaches physical concepts using computer simulation. The text illustrates structured programming techniques and encourages students to develop good programming habits in the context of doing physics. Designed for college students at all levels, Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods uses True Basic, a user-friendly, accessible computer language. As an introduction to the use of computer simulations, this book is also appropriate for students majoring in fields other than physics.
Features and Benefits
Expanded chapters on chaos, normal modes and waves, electrodynamics, fractals, complexity, and quantum mechanics have been added, in addition to exercises and open-ended research projects.
The text emphasizes teaching physics through computer simulation, as opposed to teaching programming or numerical analysis and provides variety of level and flexibility within the physics curriculum.
Supplemental programs and additional information is available at the Authors' Webpage.
From the Back Cover
: Now in its third edition, this book teaches physical concepts using computer simulations. The text incorporates object-oriented programming techniques and encourages readers to develop good programming habits in the context of doing physics. Designed for readers at all levels, An Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods uses Java, currently the most popular programming language. Introduction, Tools for Doing Simulations, Simulating Particle Motion, Oscillatory Systems, Few-Body Problems: The Motion of the Planets, The Chaotic Motion of Dynamical Systems, Random Processes, The Dynamics of Many Particle Systems, Normal Modes and Waves, Electrodynamics, Numerical and Monte Carlo Methods, Percolation, Fractals and Kinetic Growth Models, Complex Systems, Monte Carlo Simulations of Thermal Systems, Quantum Systems, Visualization and Rigid Body Dynamics, Seeing in Special and General Relativity, Epilogue: The Unity of Physics For all readers interested in developing programming habits in the context of doing physics.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Makes Physics a pleasure,
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This review is from: Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods, An: Applications to Physical System (Hardcover)
Excellent, outstanding book for clarity, elegance, writing style and level of detail. This book won't leave you alone on the intricacies of marrying physics and computer programming and will make your programming activity more intereesting if you are more of a programmer and you physical studies more rewarding and less"pen-and-paperlike" if you are an aspiring physicist. In fact I highly recommend this book to anyone that has an interest in how nature works and in playing with computers. The extreme clarity of this book makes it accessible to junior colege students and even to advanced, motivated high school students or for self study. I would have preferred to see the example code in the book in C or better C++ but using BASIC has the advantage of making the book more esy to read and is just sligtly annoying for the C++ or Java programmer. ( Are there any other kind of real programmers? ;) Just make sure you master your language enough to make calculations, use functions, and are able to produce at least some basic graphics (using C++ and openGL or DirectX would rock). Judge by yourself, but I would buy without a thought a book whose first chapter is on the "Coffe Cooling Problem".
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3.5 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews) 6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
very good introductory computational physics book,
By Locust - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods, An: Applications to Physical System (Hardcover)
This was my first comp. physics book and it was easy andvery instructive. I can assure your money is well spent. If you find this book too easy, then you should move on to Thijssen's Computational Physics which is intended for the `graduate' level readers. Only 4 stars (not 5) because I don't think that the codes provided in the book are that useful. Everyone has different coding style. What really matters is the physical concepts and not the numerical receipes. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Pretty good introductory book,
By Etelvina Fonseca "EFonseca" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods, An: Applications to Physical System (Hardcover)
Good introductory book on Computational Physics.Projects proposed cover different difficulties so it can be used for college students at all levels.Concepts are well explainded. Introduces areas including linear and nonlinear systems, normal modes and waves, and electrodynamics. This second edition offers expanded material on chaos, complexity, and quantum mechanics, programs with more use of graphics, and appendices on Fortran and C. 6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Makes Physics a pleasure,
By Riccardo Audano - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods, An: Applications to Physical System (Hardcover)
Excellent, outstanding book for clarity, elegance, writing style and level of detail. This book won't leave you alone on the intricacies of marrying physics and computer programming and will make your programming activity more intereesting if you are more of a programmer and you physical studies more rewarding and less"pen-and-paperlike" if you are an aspiring physicist. In fact I highly recommend this book to anyone that has an interest in how nature works and in playing with computers. The extreme clarity of this book makes it accessible to junior colege students and even to advanced, motivated high school students or for self study. I would have preferred to see the example code in the book in C or better C++ but using BASIC has the advantage of making the book more esy to read and is just sligtly annoying for the C++ or Java programmer. ( Are there any other kind of real programmers? ;) Just make sure you master your language enough to make calculations, use functions, and are able to produce at least some basic graphics (using C++ and openGL or DirectX would rock). Judge by yourself, but I would buy without a thought a book whose first chapter is on the "Coffe Cooling Problem". |
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