With the great progress in numerical methods and the speed of the modern personal computer, if you can formulate the correct physics equations, then you only need to program a few lines of code to get the answer. Where other books on computational physics dwell on the theory of problems, this book takes a detailed look at how to set up the equations and actually solve them on a PC.
Focusing on popular software packages like Mathematica, Maple and MatLab, the book offers undergraduate student a comprehensive treatment of the methodology used in programing solutions to equations in physics.
Chapter 1 Equations of Motion
Chapter 2 Vibrations and Waves
Chapter 3 Building a Differential Equation
Chapter 4 Partial Differential Equations and Quantum Mechanics
Chapter 5 Applications