-- Lecture notes, overview (pdf)
-- -- see also pages 7 ... for PES (from last year's notes)
-- -- more about PES
-- -- Metropolis MC
-- -- pages 11 ... random numbers (from last year's notes)
-- -- Random walker (animation with code in c) (Happy Coding)
-- -- The Drunken Sailor (or Ajarn?) problem (Univ. of Athens (GR))
- more about fitting
- Summary/overview of week 1
- homework Oct 4-5
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Additional information and illustrations
- Timeline of famous contributors to statistical and quantum mechanics
- Wave functions (from Wikipedia) (notes pages 29-32)
- Hydrogen wave functions (Physics Forum) (notes page 32)
- Hydrogen wave functions (Hyperphysics) (notes page 32)
- various 1D wavefunctions
- Aj.Teepanis Chachiyo excellent online courses, in Thai (SIAMPHYSICS)
(check in particular 'Quantum ...', Statistical Mechanics, Numerical Methods)
see also the many computer codes (in several programming languages) that are provided)
more writeups (about specific questions) later (work in progress)
check also older links on previous page
A recent paper in Europhysics Letters (EPL) from one of this year's winners of the Nobel Prize in physics
(check some keywords in the abstract)
- MATLAB (available to you through VISTEC)
- GNU Octave, like MATLAB, free
- gnuplot (use 5.2) universal plotting (and fitting and scripting and ...) software, free
- VMD, molecular visualization (and evaluation), free
