PHYS 246

Fall 2022 All Classes

All Classes

Physics on the Silicon Prairie: An Introduction to Modern Computational Physics

SHOW FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE

Credit: 2 hours.

You will become a fearless code warrior, exploring the behaviors of systems that are too complicated for analytic characterization. You will calculate the trajectory of a relativistic starship and confirm an insight of Ramanujan, the "Man Who Knew Infinity." You will generate diagrams of spacetime curvature near black holes and confirm that General Relativity causes the non-Newtonian behavior of Mercury's orbit. You will calculate Π using simulated grains of sand. There will be chaos, Monte Carlo simulations, and adaptive numerical integrations.

Approved for Letter and S/U grading. Prerequisite: PHYS 211. Corequisites: MATH 231, PHYS 212, and PHYS 225. No prior programming experience is required. We welcome concurrent enrollment of high school students who meet the specified prerequisites.

My Favorites

My Schedule

Section Status updates every 10 minutes.

PHYS 246 class schedule data for fall 2022
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	73013	Laboratory-Discussion	A	4:00PM -5:50PM	R	222 Loomis Laboratory	Neubauer, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Section Info: For assistance enrolling: Please contact the Department of Physics Undergraduate Studies Office through the following Queue@Illinois Queue: https://queue.illinois.edu/q/queue/864 Please do not contact the course instructor(s) directly. They cannot assist with enrollment or add seats to a closed section.