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2013-2014 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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2013-2014 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

PHY 521 - Computational Physics

3 credits
Prerequisites: CIS 115 and PHY 313 or equivalents
Application of computational techniques to computer simulations in physical science and engineering. The course covers physical concepts such as realistic projectile motion, planetary systems, nonlinear dynamics, chaos and fractals, and electromagnetic and quantum systems. The course exposes students to numerical algorithms and methods such as solutions to optimization, quadrature, fast Fourier transform, and boundry value problems, and gives hands-on experience in programming and computer simulations.