Lectures: Tu 3:30 - 5:20 pm, Disque 704 Office: Disque 610 Phone: (215) 895-2723 Fax: (215) 895-5934 e-mail: steve (at) physics.drexel.edu
This is the fourth in a series of hands-on ``computational labs'' designed to complement the traditional ``lecture/lab/recitation'' Physics instructional sequence. It is intended to be taken after PHYS 305 (Computational Physics II) and concurrently with PHYS 327 (Quantum Mechanics II). Students will be introduced to basic scientific programming techniques and problem-solving strategies, as applied to problems in quantum mechanics (see course outline). Some of the techniques used in the course will rely heavily on material presented in PHYS 105 and PHYS 305.
There is no set text for this course. Much of the computational material will be drawn from the text Numerical Recipes in C, by W. Press, S. Teukolsky, W. Vetterling, and B. Flannery (1992, Cambridge University Press). Some material will also be distributed via the course web site. Also, it probably won't hurt to have your Quantum Mechanics textbook handy!
Grading will be based on homeworks completed during the quarter (80%) and on a longer final homework project (20%). There will be no mid-term and no final examination.