Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!alan From: alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: "Computational Physics" book. Message-ID: <1317@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Sep-84 16:21:08 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1317 Posted: Mon Sep 17 16:21:08 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 06:38:51 EDT References:Reply-To: alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak) Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica Lines: 27 Summary: In article KEsler@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA writes: >I remember seeing a book with the above title (or something like it). >Does anyone know the author and publisher ? --kevin. Computational Physics by David Potter John Wiley & Sons 1973 Not a light book at all. Requires a lot of study backed up with thorough familiarity of diffeqs. of physics. I bought it, but it was too much for me to learn anything from. Safe to guess that it's meant as a graduate text. TOC Intro, pages 1-10 Elements of the Difference Method 10-40 Partial Difference Eqs for Continuous Media 40-80 Numerical Matrix Algebra 80-116 Particles: N-body action at a Distance 116-132 Particles: Field Calculations 132-162 Particles in Self-consistent Fields 162-186 Phase Fluids 186-201 Classical Fluid Dynamics 201-257 Hydrodynamics with Long Range Forces: Stars, Plasmas, Magneto-fluids 257-291 sdcrdcf!alan