PHY 421 - Computational Science

Credits: 1 to 2

A course on computational methods for the modeling of scientific phenomena, including a selection from the solution of linear equations, interpolation and extrapolation, integration, function evaluation, series, elliptic integrals, sorting techniques, minimization and maximization of functions, eigensystems, statistical description of data and modeling, partial differential equations, and the finite-element method.

Prerequisites: MTH 211 and CIS 300.