An introduction to computer simulation methods : applications to physical systems
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Francisco :
Pearson Addison Wesley ,
c2007
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| Edition: | 3rd ed |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Tools for doing simulations
- 3. Simulating particle motion
- 4. Oscillations systems
- 5. Few-body problems: the motion of the planets
- 6. The chaotic motion of dynamical systems
- 7. Random processes
- 8. The dynamics of many-particle systems
- 9. Normal modes and waves
- 10. Electrodynamics
- 11. Numerical and Monte Carlo methods
- 12. Percolation
- 13. Fractals and kinetic growth models
- 14. Complex systems
- 15. Monte Carlo simulations of thermal systems
- 16. Quantum systems
- 17. Visualization and rigid body dynamics
- 18. Seeing in special and general relativity
- 19. Epilogue: the unity of physics