PHYSICS 141/241

Computational Physics I (N-Body Simulations)

Winter 2006

Course Information

Professor:

Julius Kuti

Office hours: M 1:30-2:30, or by appointment

Office: 5410 Mayer Hall

Phone: 534-6096

E-mail: jkuti@ucsd.edu

Teaching Assistant:

Hao Xu

E-mail: haoxu@physics.ucsd.edu

Secretary:

Pamela Smilo

Office: 5414 Mayer Hall

Phone: 534-7142

E-mail: psmilo@ucsd.edu

Instructional Accounts Manager:

Sally Witucky

Office: 2113 AP&M

Phone: 534-4061

E-mail: switucky@ucsd.edu

Announcements

(last updated at 11:00 am on Monday, February 20, 2006)

Instructional Accounts and Electronic Doorkey Access

Instructional Computing (Labs, Hours, etc.)

Accounts Office

Handouts and Course Assignments

Course Outline and Lecture Notes

• Introduction
  • Lecture 1 Computer Modeling and Class Project (1/9/2006) 
• Classical Mechanics and the N-Body Problem
  • Lecture 2 Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Dynamics (1/11/2006)
  • Lecture 3 Gravitational Potential and N-Body Equations I. (1/18/2006)
  • Lecture 4 Gravitational Potential and N-Body Equations II. (1/23/2006)
  • Lecture 5 Simulating the Solar System (1/25/2006)
  • Lecture 6 Collisionless Boltzmann Equation I.  (1/30/2006)
• N-Body Simulations
  • Lecture 7 Lab Discussion of Assigment I (2/1/2006)
  • Lecture 8  Collisionless Boltzmann Equation II.  (2/6/2006)
  • Lecture 9  Collisionless Boltzmann Equation III. (2/8/2006)
  • Lecture 10 Aarseth's N-body code (2/13/2006)
  • Lecture 11 Galaxy Modeling I (Isothermal sphere and King model) (2/15/2006)
  • Lecture 12 Midterm and Final Projects I  (2/22/2006)
  • Lecture 13 Midterm and Final Projects II (2/27/2006)
• The Final Project: Galaxy Collisions
  • Lecture 14 Galaxy Modeling II (Milky Way)  (3/1/2006)
  • Lecture 15 Treecode (3/6/2006)
  • Lecture 16 gyrfalcON: Force Algorithm with Complexity O(N) (3/8/2006)
• Molecular Dynamics and Review of Class Material
  • Lecture 17 Preview of Physics 142/242 (3/13/2006)
  • Lecture 18 Discussion of final projects  (3/15/2006)

Laboratory Notes

Manuals and Pointers

 ClassList PDF file