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020			_a9783319004006
041			_aeng
082			_a530.15 _bSchC2
100			_aScherer, Philipp O. J.
245			_aComputational Physics : _bSimulation of Classical and Quantum Systems [2nd ed.] / _cPhilipp O. J. Scherer
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aSwitzerland: _bSpringer; _c©2010
300			_axviii, 454p.
490			_aGraduate Texts in Physics
520			_aThis textbook presents basic and advanced computational physics in a very didactic style. It contains very-well-presented and simple mathematical descriptions of many of the most important algorithms used in computational physics. The first part of the book discusses the basic numerical methods. The second part concentrates on simulation of classical and quantum systems. Several classes of integration methods are discussed including not only the standard Euler and Runge Kutta method but also multi-step methods and the class of Verlet methods, which is introduced by studying the motion in Liouville space. A general chapter on the numerical treatment of differential equations provides methods of finite differences, finite volumes, finite elements and boundary elements together with spectral methods and weighted residual based methods. The book gives simple but non trivial examples from a broad range of physical topics trying to give the reader insight into notonly the numerical treatment but also simulated problems. Different methods are compared with regard to their stability and efficiency. The exercises in the book are realised as computer experiments.
650			_aTheoretical Physics
650			_aMathematical Physics
650			_aScience
650			_aPhysics
942			_cBK
999			_c6935 _d6935