COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS

This is a very clearly written introduction to computational physics. It includes such modern topics as Fourier Analysis and Random Numbers, which are typically absent from computational physics books, without sacrificing the discussion on traditional topics such as linear algebra and differential equations.The tone of the text is that of a friendly teacher. Very often, computational physics textbook get drowned with unnecessary and dry discussion on algorithms and errors. Newman realises that while such discussion is important it can also unnecessarily repel the new student. Unnecessarily, because we now live in an age where Python and Numpy have made computational physics a joy instead of a chore.Newman embraces the Python programming language. He describes each concept with a small Python implementation. He also discusses library functions available in the Python standard library and in Numpy or Scipy. There is useful discussion on how to use Python and how to install it on your computer.There are not many but very useful and elaborate exercise problems.Do not be worried that this book is self-published. I highly recommend it for college students for their self-study. This book and a laptop with Python installed is a perfect set-up for any student to master computational physics. I also used this book recently in a course I gave to PhD students to good effect.

This is best book for doing computational physics and also using python as a programming language. The cost is very high and we don't have free PDF in internet so I was forced to purchase this book. But it is worth it coz with this book we will not only learn computational techniques but also apply it on physics based problems.

Excellent book for both Physicists and Computational Physicists.. I think I can safely say, this book is to Python what 'Numerical Recipes' is to C/Fortran.. This book should be made compulsory for undergraduate students.. I hope it will make its way there.. Thanking Mark Newman for the much sought after and wonderful book..

The book is written in very simple and easily understandable way. You will have an introduction to Python language and lots of Physics problem solved in python. Also, the numerical methods and algorithms are described in a very compact and beautiful way. So, you won't find much difficulty writing those programs in any other programming language. Wish to thank Professor Mark Newman Sir for such an wonderful gift.

This book just covers some calculus used in physics and basics. I do not recommend it for students / scholars / teachers / instructors.

Excelente libro

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This is an amazing book to learn, from zero, computational physics and python!100% recommended.

This book is the clearest introduction to numerical methods for physics I ever read. The product arrived intact and on time.

Excellent balance between keeping things understandable for beginners on this specific field and giving enough depths so that a student with some amount of physics, maths and computing background learns with every page . In the same way, the equations and their derivations, are presented in a very understandable way, without unexplained jumps or comments like "its trivial to see". The presented codes were also very readable and comprehensible.