Computational Physics 1, 5 cr

Tampere University

Description
Completion options

Teaching periods

Course code

FYS.420

Language of instruction

English

Academic years

2024–2025, 2025–2026, 2026–2027

Level of study

Advanced studies

Grading scale

General scale, 0-5

Persons responsible

Responsible teacher:

Ilkka Kylänpää

Responsible organisation

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences 100 %

Coordinating organisation

Physics Studies 100 %

Core content

Setting up your numerical experiment, i.e., "Good Enough Practices in Scientific Computing"
Linux basics
Data visualization
Numerical calculus and linear algebra
Numerical solution of ordinary and partial differential equations

Complementary knowledge

"Best Practices for Scientific Computing"
Perceptually uniform colormaps
Multi-dimensional calculus
Relation to computational physics
Basics of related numerical framework

Specialist knowledge

Archiving and publishing your numerical experiments
Publication-quality figures (filetypes, typography, and graphic design elements)
Advanced methods (Monte Carlo integration, FFT-based differentiation and analysis)
How to select and implement algorithms
Usage, implementation and development

Learning outcomes

Recommended prerequisites

Further information

Learning material

Equivalences

Studies that include this course

Completion option 1

Student's workload for the course is about 120 hours. Voluntary lectures 2h/week, exercise sessions 2h/week, and computer laboratory 4h/week. Weekly exercise problems are mostly small coding exercises. These exercises will prepare the student for the coding project work that will be returned at the end of the course.

Participation in teaching

Lectures (English)

07.01.2025 – 27.04.2025