Computational Physics: Problem Solving with Computers
by Rubin H Landau, Manuel J Paez, Cristian Bordeianu
Publisher: Wiley-VCH 2012
ISBN/ASIN: 3527406263
Number of pages: 526
Description:
This upper-division text surveys many of the topics of modern computational physics from a computational science point of view. Its emphasis on learning by doing (assisted by many model programs), as with 2nd Edition, but with new materials as well as with Python.
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