Using Physics to Learn Mathematica to Do Physics: From Homework Problems to Research Examples
Physics Education
2007-12-17 v1 Computational Physics
Abstract
We describe the development of a junior-senior level course for Physics majors designed to teach Mathematica skills in support of their undergraduate coursework, but also to introduce students to modern research level results. Standard introductory and intermediate level Physics homework-style problems are used to teach Mathematica commands and programming methods, which are then applied, in turn, to more sophisticated problems in some of the core undergraduate subjects, along with making contact with recent research papers in a variety of fields.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0712.2358,
title = {Using Physics to Learn Mathematica to Do Physics: From Homework Problems to Research Examples},
author = {R. W. Robinett},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.2358},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
27 pages, 3 figures