Topic outline

  • Course Description

    The use of computers in Physics has grown enormously in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, to the point where computers play a central role in virtually every new physics discovery. Assuming no previous computer programming experience, the course will introduce the basic ideas and programming skills of computational physics and students will develop their own computer software to solve problems in quantum physics, electromagnetism, biophysics, mechanics, chaos, nonlinear dynamics, mathematical methods in physics, geophysics, spectral analysis and other areas.

    This course gives a modern introduction to the basic methods in computational Physics and an overview of the recent progress in scientific computing. Many examples from recent research in Physics and related areas are given with the Mathematica and other computer packages and computer languages. Basic computational tools and routines, including the ones for numerical integrations, differential equations, mathematical modeling, data visualization, spectral analysis, and matrix operations, are dealt with through relevant examples, and more advanced topics, such as quantum mechanics, mathematical methods in physics, geophysics, wavelet analysis, molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo simulations and quantum computing are also treated.


  • Day 01

  • Day 06 (Second Semester 2024, November/December)

    • Data Files & Other Materials URL

      The attached google drive link has a RAR file consists of the following folders

      01. Files

      02. Surface Area & Volume

      03. Gravity Problem
      &

      04. TV vs Distance


  • Student feedback form

  • Mathematica 13.2.1 Software - License Version

  • Rescheduled Examination Assignment 2_2024

    • Reading and Writing Files

    • A/L Marks

    • Rescheduling the Assignment 2 Cancelled due to Presidential Election

      • Rescheduling the Assignment 2 Cancelled due to Presidential Election

        Dear All,

        The practical Examination for Assignment 2 which was scheduled on the 20th of September 2024 was cancelled due to the University closure for the presidential election. This examination has been re-scheduled on
        27th of November 2024 from 11 am to 12 noon 

        28th of November 2024 from 11 am to 12 noon 
        and on 
        4th of December from 3 pm to 4 pm.

        5th of December from 11 am to 12 noon.

        Please pass this message to the groups who have missed the Assignment 2 due to Presidential Election holiday.

        --
        Dr. Mrs. Sivayini Kandeepan

    • Global Warming Data Set

    • PHY 308 1.0 Practical (Computational Physics) Examination (End of the Year)

      The Computational Physics Final exam will be commencing on the 05th of February 2025. The list of students and their groups are attached herewith. Please check it and let me know if any changes are required. 

      Also if there are any repeat students, please contact me as soon as possible at ssivayini@sjp.ac.lk.


      • PHY 308 1.0 - 3rd Year Computational Physics Practical Examination 2025 - Exam Time Table
        Date Time Group
        05/02/2025 Wednesday 09.00 - 12.00 WM1
             
        05/02/2025 Wednesday 13.00 - 16.00 WE1
             
        10/02/2025 Monday 13.00 - 16.00 ME2
             
        13/02/2025 Thursday 09.00 - 12.00 TM1
             
        17/02/2025 Monday 13.00 - 16.00 ME1
             
        19/02/2025 Wednesday 09.00 - 12.00 WM2
             
        19/02/2025 Wednesday 13.00 - 16.00 WE2
             
        20/02/2025 Thursday 09.00 - 12.00 TM2

    • PHY 308 1.0 - 3rd Year Computational Physics Practical Examination 2025 - Examination Papers