Intro to Scientific Computing PHYS 27 Physics Department University of the Pacific

Scientific Computing

Introduction

• Welcome
• The Scientific Computing Environment
  • Homework 1: What is Scientific Computing

Installing a Scientific Environment

Cygwin

• Pre-Installation
• Installation
• Post-Installation
• What did I just get?
  • Homework 2: Test your installation

Unix

Introduction to the Unix world

• Moving around
• Copy, Move/Rename, and View Files
• I/O Flow and the Pipe
  • Homework 3: Moving around in Unix

The Text Editor

Editors

• A Text Editor
• Learning More About Emacs
• Intermediate Emacs
  • Homework 4: Using Emacs

Data Visualization and Analysis

Gnuplot

• Scientific Visualization/Gnuplot
• More fun with Gnuplot
  • Homework 5
    

• 3-D plots
• Plotting Data from a File

• User Defined Functions
• Fitting Functions to Data
• Fitting Data II / the Using Command
• Saving and Printing
  • Homework 6

• A Worked Example: Theory and Experiment in Freefall

Scientific Publications and Drawings

Latex for Scientific Publications

The Xfig Drawing Program

• Using Xfig
  • Homework 9: Xfig

Remote Control: Nov. 9-15

Remote Login and File Transfer

• SSH and SFTP
  • Homework 10

Algebra, Calculus, and Symbolic Math

Symbolic Math and Linear Algebra

• Intro to Mathematica
• A taste of Octave
  • Homework 11

Simple Programming

• Intro to Programming
• Scripting