Programming and Numerical Methods for Scientists

Instructor contact information:

Office: 032B Cardwell
Postal: Physics Dept., 116 Cardwell Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506
Phone: 785-532-6476
E-mail: gahs@phys.ksu.edu

Course Information

• Syllabus
• Outline (initial plan)
• Resources
• EVO connection info for our students stationed out of town.
• copyright

Miscellany

• Precompiled binaries:
  • SIMH altairz80 precompiled exectuable program for Mac
• External links:
  • NASA-2000-tm210289 from www.cs.odu.edu/~mln.
• Example source code:
  • bounce2.cc as written in class
  • bounce2.cc working well on linux
  • a 1-d, 10 ball "bounce" program, works on any system
  • Bouncing ball program using ROOT graphics
  • euler1.cc: Straightforward Euler integration test program
  • Minimization example using ROOT
  • Fitting voltmeter example written in class 9
  • log-L fit to probability distribution from Class 0x0B exercise:
    • as written in class
    • slightly modified version that works
    • output from fit-logL-1c
  • Code used for making histograms for class 0x0C example 1 (also useful as example of MC simulation for class 0x0A): classCh_example1.cc, classCh_graph_cdfhist.cc.
  • Example code for class 0x0C significance test (for example1's data and model): signif-LogL-1c.cc.
    • output
    • histogram of output
• Data sets:
  • datasets for Class 0x0B exercise and assignment: dataset 1 and dataset 2.

Course Notes

• Class 1: slides
• Class 1.5: slides
• Class 2: notes
• Class 2.5: HTML slides (S5), plain HTML, or pdf from pdflatex.
• Class 3: HTML slides (S5), plain HTML, or pdf from pdflatex.
• Class 4: HTML slides (S5), plain HTML, or pdf from pdflatex.
  • See also the bounce2 source code in "Miscellany" above
• Class 5: HTML slides (S5), plain HTML, or pdf from pdflatex.
• Class 6: HTML slides (S5), plain HTML, or pdf from pdflatex.
  • See also the euler1 source code in "Miscellany" above
• Class 7: PDF -- notes only, partly LaTeX but mostly handwritten. (Note: it takes me about 6 times longer to typeset the notes than it does to handwrite them.)
• Class 8: HTML slides (S5), plain HTML, or pdf from pdflatex.
  • See also the minimization-in-root-3d source code in "Miscellany" above
• Class 9: HTML slides (S5), plain HTML, or pdf from pdflatex.
  • See also the minimization-voltmeter source code in "Miscellany" above
• Class 0x0A: HTML slides (S5), plain HTML, or pdf from pdflatex.
• Class 0x0B: HTML slides (S5), plain HTML, or pdf from pdflatex.
  • See also the datasets for Class B exercise and assignment: dataset 1 and dataset 2.
• Class 0x0C: HTML slides (S5), plain HTML, or pdf from pdflatex.
• Class 0x0D: HTML slides (S5), plain HTML, or pdf from pdflatex.
• Class 0x0D.8 (13.5): HTML slides (S5), plain HTML, or pdf from pdflatex.

Note: there is no difference in the content of the "HTML slides (S5)", "plain HTML", and "pdf from pdflatex" files. Only the formatting differs.