Computational Lab in Physics
Physics 102

Jim Crutchfield
chaos@ucdavis.edu; http://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos

Fall 2012
WWW: http://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/courses/clab/

Lecture 1

Reading

Topics:

  1. Introduction and motivations
    1. Why compute?
    2. Complex systems
    3. Logic of the course
    4. Goals
  2. Class survey: Interests, background, and abilities
  3. Course logistics
  4. Labs and homeworks
  5. Software tools and program development