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

    • Student Handout 2025 File

      Full handout for the Students (PDF File with 56 pages)

      Attendance for the Practical Classes (2025)

      According to the UGC regulations, the students should have at least 80% attendance for the lectures or practical classes to be eligible to sit for the final examination.

    • Objectives & Learning Outcomes of the course File

      This is Objectives & Learning Outcomes of the Computational Physics Practical 


    • Mathematica 11.3 Software : Download Link URL

      Using the above link you can download Mathematica 11.3 Software that is essential to PHY 308 1.0 Computational Physics Practical (Sem I & II)

    • Mathematica Software Installation Guide Link URL

      The above link useful to how Mathematica Software Install to your Desktop PC or Laptop PC. Goto the LINK and Play the video !!!

      Further more support :

      Mr. Binara (Assistant Lecturer) : +94719036393  &      kbinaratirath      @yahoo.com

      Mr. Nisal Udaara (Demonstrator) : +94754867186  &   nisaludarakeashan@gmail.com

  • Student feedback form

  • Mathematica 13.2.1 Software - License Version

  • Reading and Writing Files

  • A/L Marks

  • Global Warming Data Set

  • Assignment 1_2025

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      • Topic 11

        • Topic 12

          • Topic 13

            • Topic 14

              • Topic 15