Basic Concepts in Computational Physics

Some Basic Remarks -- Part I Deterministic Methods: Numerical Differentiation -- Numerical Integration -- The KEPLER Problem -- Ordinary Differential Equations – Initial Value Problems -- The Double Pendulum -- Molecular Dynamics -- Numerics of Ordinary Differential Equations - Boundary Value Problems -- The One-Dimensional Stationary Heat Equation -- The One-Dimensional Stationary SCHRÖDINGER Equation -- Numerics of Partial Differential Equations -- Part II Stochastic Methods -- Pseudo Random Number Generators -- Random Sampling Methods -- A Brief Introduction to Monte-Carlo Methods -- The ISING Model -- Some Basics of Stochastic Processes -- The Random Walk and Diffusion Theory -- MARKOV-Chain Monte Carlo and the POTTS Model -- Data Analysis -- Stochastic Optimization. - Springer eBooks. - Printed edition: 9783319024349