Computational Physics (2nd Edition) (2025)

vectorcrumb

Could somebody provide some opinion on the book and/or accompanying course?

HexDecOctBin

What physics do I need to know to follow this book?

ktallett

I did a few courses across academic years that were based around this book and it's very handy skills to learn. Whilst perhaps not in the moment, it's a good introduction to implementing functions and equations, before you lead on to the next steps of specific functions and methods of analysis alongside hpc with parallelization.

friendlyasparag

I took Mark Newman’s course some years ago. It was fantastic! Geared at sophomore/ junior year physics major — someone who had completed the basic intro sequence. I am sure this book is also great.

lkm0

The matplotlib chapter seems fairly barebones but I remain in awe at this gorgeous latex work

inzlab

computation will revolutionize physics.

queuebert

I think the course by Richard Fitzpatrick is a much better selection of content if you want to actually do computational physics: https://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/329/329.pdf