An introduction to computer simulation methods : applications to physical systems

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gould, Harvey , 1938- (Author), Christian, Wolfgang (Author), Tobochnik, Jan , 1953- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : Pearson Addison Wesley , c2007
Edition:3rd ed
Subjects:
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