Computational Physics
by Angus MacKinnon
Publisher: Imperial College London 2002
Number of pages: 48
Description:
This course aims to give the student a thorough grounding in the main computational techniques used in modern physics. This is not a text in computing science, nor in programming. It focuses specifically on methods for solving physics problems.
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