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Appendix A3



A3 Some good books


VESELY:
COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS - AN INTRODUCTION Plenum Press, New
York 1994. Second edition 2001.
Both this textbook and the web tutorial you are just browsing are based on the course I offer at Vienna University.

POTTER:
COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS. Wiley, New York 1980.
Very valuable text; in some places too demanding for the beginner.

HOCKNEY, EASTWOOD:
COMPUTER SIMULATION USING PARTICLES. McGraw-Hill, New York 1981.
Very good, particularly, but not exclusively, for plasma physicists; covers large areas of computational physics, in spite of the seemingly restrictive title.

PRESS, FLANNERY, TEUKOLSKY, VETTERLING:
NUMERICAL RECIPES IN FORTRAN. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992.
Excellent handbook of modern numerical mathematics; comes with sample programs in various programming languages.

GIORDANO:
COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS. Prentice-Hall, New Jersey 1997.
This is one of those texts in which little is said about the origin of the the algorithms used. However, it is redeemed by its large collection of charming physical applications. Use it together with a more method-oriented text.

GOULD, TOBOCHNIK:
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SIMULATION METHODS: APPLICATION TO PHYSICAL SYSTEMS. Addison-Wesley, Reading 1996.
Nice "hands-on" introduction; starts out with elementary physics problems and works up to such cutting-edge applications as dynamical quantum simulation and renormalization.

GARCIA:
NUMERICAL METHODS FOR PHYSICS. Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1999.
Carefully organized introduction to the field; presents many examples, including code and graphics.

GERSHENFELD:
THE NATURE OF MATHEMATICAL MODELING. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999.
Grand tour through applied mathematics, covering analytical, numerical and observational models.



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