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Course Information Course Learning Outcomes Course's Contribution To Program ECTS Workload Course Details
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COURSE INFORMATION
Course CodeCourse TitleL+P HourSemesterECTS
FIZ 437COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS – I3 + 07th Semester4,5

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Course Level Bachelor's Degree
Course Type Elective
Course Objective The aim of this course is to help students learn by having them solve a very wide class of computational physics problems by using numerical methods.
Course Content Introduction to Computation, Numerical Differentiation and Integration, Finding the Roots of Equations, Differential Equations I: Initial Value Problems.
Prerequisites No the prerequisite of lesson.
Corequisite No the corequisite of lesson.
Mode of Delivery Face to Face

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
1To learn that what is the computational calculation.
2Learning of the numerical differantiation and integration
3Learning of the solutions to the differantial equations with initial value problems

COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
PO 01PO 02PO 03PO 04PO 05PO 06PO 07PO 08PO 09PO 10
LO 001 442      
LO 002 442      
LO 003 442      
Sub Total 12126      
Contribution0442000000

ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION
ActivitiesQuantityDuration (Hour)Total Work Load (Hour)
Course Duration (14 weeks/theoric+practical)14342
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)14114
Assignments6530
Mid-terms11313
Final examination11818
Total Work Load

ECTS Credit of the Course





117

4,5
COURSE DETAILS
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Details 2009-2010 Fall1SEVGİ ÖZDEMİR KART


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Course Details
Course Code Course Title L+P Hour Course Code Language Of Instruction Course Semester
FIZ 437 COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS – I 3 + 0 1 Turkish 2009-2010 Fall
Course Coordinator  E-Mail  Phone Number  Course Location Attendance
Prof. Dr. SEVGİ ÖZDEMİR KART ozsev@pau.edu.tr Course location is not specified. %
Goals The aim of this course is to help students learn by having them solve a very wide class of computational physics problems by using numerical methods.
Content Introduction to Computation, Numerical Differentiation and Integration, Finding the Roots of Equations, Differential Equations I: Initial Value Problems.
Topics
WeeksTopics
1 Chapter 1 - Introduction to Computational methods: Representations of Numbers in Computer, Digital Error Types
2 Chapter 2- Numerical Derivatives and Integrals: Numerical Derivatives, Forward, Backward and Comparison of Symmetric Derivatives, Application: Variable Force in the one Dimension
3 Numerical Integral-Simpson and Trapez Formulas, Subprograms, Comparison of the Simpson and Trapez Formulas.
4 Gauss integrals, Subprograms
5 Singular Integrals, Application: Exact Solution of the Simple Pendulum
6 Chapter 3 - Root Finder: Interval Half Method, Beam Method
7 Newton-Raphson Method
8 Applications: Ising Model.
9 Midterm
10 Black-Body Radiation, Square Well Potential
11 Chapter 4 - Differential Equations I: Initial Value Problems: Euler Methods, Runge-Kutta Method.
12 Second Order Equations and Linear Equations Systems, Applications: Hunt-hunter Model.
13 Projection Movement With Air Friction, Movement of Planets
14 Van der Pol oscillator, Chaos in the Lorenz model.
Materials
Materials are not specified.
Resources
Course Assessment
L+P: Lecture and Practice
PQ: Program Learning Outcomes
LO: Course Learning Outcomes