Numerical methods in Physics I.

The aim of the course is that students gain practical skills in a programming language, learn how to handle data and run simple calculations

Course info

Neptun code: fiznum1f18la
Instructor: László Oroszlány
Semester: 2
Type: Lecture + Practice
Credit points: 2
Prerequisites: -

Topics

  • Basic of the Python language
  • Simple control statements
  • Modules, classes and plotting
  • Symbolic calculations
  • Linear algebra, numpy
  • File I/O
  • Curve fitting, FFT
  • Datahandling with pandas

Recommended readings

  • Wes McKinney: Python for Data Analysis, (O’Reilly 2013)
  • Joel Grus: Data Science from Scratch (O’Reilly 2015)

Course material