NOTES, TEXTBOOKS AND USEFUL LINKS

• Useful links on: operative system, compiler, graphic utilities

- A short list of the main UNIX/LINUX commands

- Fortran 90/95: A short but good tutorial of F by Harvey Gould

- Another one on Fortran 90/95:  Fortran 90 for the Fortran 77 Programmer by Bo Einarsson and Yurij Shokin; detailed, useful in the comparison Fortran77/Fortran90/95  

- Gnuplot official site

• Main textbooks:
  - "An Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods: application to Physical Systems", H. Gould, J. Tobochnik and W. Christian, Addison-Wesley (2006), III edition; H. Gould and J. Tobochnik, Addison Wesley (1995), II edition; or Part 2 of the 1st edition. Some draft chapters of the III edition are available on the Web (COMPADRE website) ; also some programs (only a few are in Fortran). This is the main texbook of the Course.
  - "Statistical and Thermal Physics with computer applications", H. Gould and J. Tobochnik , Princeton University Press (2010). On line text, java simulations and other material are on line.
  - "Computational Physics, 3rd Ed: Problem Solving with Python", R.H. Landau, M.J. Paez and C.C. Bordeianu, Wiley 2015; "A First Course in Scientific Computing", R.H. Landau, Princeton University Press (2005); see Web page of R.H. Landau.   - "Computational Physics", 2nd Edition -  by Nicholas J. Giordano, Hisao Nakanishi
  - "Introduction to modern statistical mechanics", D. Chandler, Oxford University Press (1987)- "Fortran 90/95 explained" by M. Metcalf and J. Reid (Oxford University Press)

• Some other useful books:
  - "Understanding Molecular Simulations: From Algorithms to Applications", by Daan Frenkel and Berend Smit, Academic Press, 2001.- "Computational Physics - An Introduction", by F. J. Vesely, Plenum Press, New York, 1994; Second Edition, Kluwer, 2001.- "Computational Physics", by J. M. Thijssen, Cambridge University Press.- "An introduction to Computational Physics", by Tao Pang Cambridge University Press (New York, 1997).- "Computer Simulation of Liquids", by M.P. Allen and D. Tildesley, Clarendon Press (1987); program library of the book (mainly in Fortran-77)
   
• Other useful links:- Lecture notes and exercises of the course of prof. Giorgio Pastore (Laboratorio di Calcolo) for the I Year of Bachelor (Laurea) Degree in Physics, a.y. 2024/25

• - Numerical Recipes: home page (old editions available on the website for free)

Other suggestions will be given during the lectures (see slides from time to time)