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An Introduction to Computational Physics

Numerical simulation is now an integrated part of science and technology. Now

in its second edition, this comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to

the basic methods of computational physics, as well as an overview of recent

progress in several areas of scientiﬁc computing. The author presents many

step-by-step examples, including program listings in Java TM , of practical

numerical methods from modern physics and areas in which computational

physics has made signiﬁcant progress in the last decade.

The ﬁrst half of the book deals with basic computational tools and routines,

covering approximation and optimization of a function, differential equations,

spectral analysis, and matrix operations. Important concepts are illustrated by

relevant examples at each stage. The author also discusses more advanced

topics, such as molecular dynamics, modeling continuous systems, Monte

Carlo methods, the genetic algorithm and programming, and numerical

renormalization.

This new edition has been thoroughly revised and includes many more

examples and exercises. It can be used as a textbook for either undergraduate or

ﬁrst-year graduate courses on computational physics or scientiﬁc computation.

It will also be a useful reference for anyone involved in computational research.

is Professor of Physics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Following his higher education at Fudan University, one of the most prestigious

institutions in China, he obtained his Ph.D. in condensed matter theory from the

University of Minnesota in 1989. He then spent two years as a Miller Research

Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining the physics

faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the fall of 1991. He has been

Professor of Physics at UNLV since 2002. His main areas of research include

condensed matter theory and computational physics.

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An Introduction to

Computational Physics

Second Edition

Tao Pang

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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