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Nasser M. Abbasi

Introduction:

I took this course in winter 2002 at san Jose stat Univ. while I working full time at Applied Biosystems. Used to drive from redwood city down Hwy 280 to san Jose. The traffic was bad as one gets closer to san Jose during rush hours. It was an evening class which was nice as I like night classes more than day ones. This was very tough course, so much work. Many students dropped out due to heavy HW load.

Course description Numerical techniques and computational methods applied to solving problems from various branches of physics.
Units 3 (Semester system)
University California State University, San Jose.
Instructor Dr. Alejandro Garcia. http://www.algarcia.org/ algarcia@algarcia.org
Text book Numerical Methods for Physics, 2nd Edition. A.L.Garcia.

This is the text book errata

This is the Course web page

Course description

scanned in First sheet of course description, in HTML.

scanned in second sheet of course description, in HTML

I was planning to get an MS in physics at san Jose. These are the requirements I was told at the time:

205 ADV Dynamics (Fall) GARCIA

210 Electomagnetic theory (Spring)

230 Methods in Mathematical physics (Fall)

240 Computational physics (Spring) GARCIA taken, grade A.

263A Quantum theory I (Spring)

and approved other graduate letter grade B course.

MATH 143C or 143M

MATH 243

MATH 200 elective

PHYSICS thesis (3 credit)

Total 30 units.

Course notes

Some notes I’ve written during this course PDF

HWs Table

#	HW	#
1	Thursday 1/24/02. Review of Matlab. HW1, due tuesday 1/29/02 is 1.3 (a,b). Here is HW1 completed in HTML . HW1.doc This is teacher solution	13	problem_5_12.htm notes_on_sampling.htm problem_5_15.htm
2	HW2, due thursday 1/31/02 is 1.10 (a-d). Here is HW2 completed in HTML . HW2.doc This is prof. Solution: page1 page2 page3	14	Problem_5_17a.htm
3	Tuesday 1/29/01, HW3 due 2/5. 1.13, 1.16, 1.22, 1.26 My solutions: problem1.13.htm problem1.16.htm problem_1.22_part_a.htm problem_1.22_part_b_and_c.htm problem_1.26.htm see prof program related to this HW. HW#4, 2.1, 2.2(a-e) due Thursday 2/7/02 My solutions to the above Problem 2.1: p1 p2 p3 2.2_error_plot.htm 2.2_other_parts.htm	15	problem_5_20.htm problem_5_23_part_b.htm problem_5_24.htm problem_5_27.htm
4		16	HW_6_4_a.htm
5	HW 5, due Tuesday 2/12/02 2.5, 2.6, 2.12, 2.15 problem_2.5.htm problem_2.6.htm problem_2.12.htm	17	problem_6_8.htm problem_6_12_part_b.htm problem_6_6_c.htm
6	HW 6, due Thursday 2/14/02 problem_2.21.htm solution to 2.22	18	Problem_7_5.htm Problem_7_2.htm
7	problem_3.5.htm	19	Problem_7_8_partb_corrected.htm Problem_7_8_partc.htm problem_7_12.htm
8	HW_3_14.htm HW_3_18.htm	20	problem_8_5.htm problem_8_1.htm
9	problem_3_25.htm problem_2_23.htm	21	problem_10_12.htm problem_10_6.htm problem_8_8.htm
10	problem_4_15.htm	22	problem_10_13.htm
11	problem_4_18.htm problem_4_16.htm problem_4_20.htm problem_4_24.htm problem_4_25.htm	23	problem_9_8_part_a.htm
12	problem_5_3.htm problem_5_6.htm	24	problem_9_12.htm problem_9_13_part_b.htm
	These are some HW’s which I am not sure where they belong problem_10_13.pdf problem_10_14.pdf problem_10_4.pdf problem_10_8.pdf	25	problem_11_9.htm problem_11_4.htm (need to correct small bug in this matlab code, later..)
		26	Problem_11_18.htm

Midterm PDF