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What physics do I need to know to follow this book?
by HexDecOctBin 6mo ago
What physics do I need to know to follow this book?
- mapt 6mo ago> Exercises by chapter Click on a chapter to download: Chapter 2: Python programming for physicists Chapter 3: Graphics and visualization Chapter 4: Accuracy and speed Chapter 5: Integrals and derivatives Chapter 6: Solution of linear and nonlinear equations Chapter 7: Fourier transforms Chapter 8: Ordinary differential equations Chapter 9: Partial differential equations Chapter 10: Random processes and Monte Carlo methods Chapter 11: Data science
- griffzhowl 6mo agoLooks like not much. The book is about using Python to implement numerical methods, mainly about teaching the Python part, and that's all explained. You might be missing motivation if you don't know any physics, but even so, basic mechanics using differential equations seems to be enough to give context, at least for the earlier parts
- kordlessagain 6mo agoWeber's Electrodynamics.
- elteto 6mo agoOnly after working through Rudin’s Analysis first.
- analog31 6mo agoJust to give a bit of flavor, I was a math + physics major in the 80s. The physics curriculum had some oddly named courses such as "theoretical physics" that were not really physics courses but were meant to give you the math and computational background needed for the more advanced courses or for graduate work. The math was stuff that wasn't covered extensively enough in the math major courses, such as vector calculus.