num_pages: 244
description: pt. 1. Simulations with deterministic processes1. Introduction2. The coffee cooling problem3. Motion of falling objects4. The Kepler problem5. Oscillatory motion6. Many particle systems7. The chaotic motion of dynamical systems8. Wave phenomena9. The fields of static charges and currents. pt. 1. AppendicesA. Summary of the core syntax of BASIC, FORTRAN and PascalB. Examples of input and output statementsC. Index of true BASIC programsD. Listings of FORTRAN programsE. Listings of Pascal programs. pt. 2. Simulations with random processes10. Numerical integration11. Random walks12. The percolation problem13. Fractals, kinetic growth models, and cellular automata14. The approach to equilibrium15. Microcanonical ensemble16. Cononical ensemble17. Quantum systems18. Epilogue: The same programs have the same solutions. pt. 2 AppendicesF. Index to true BASIC programsG. Listing of FORTRAN programsH. Listing of Pascal programs.
language: English
title: An Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods: Applications to Physical Systems, Part 1
publisher: Addison-Wesley