• 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: Introduction to Fortran (for Physics Computations), by Phil Duxbury (Michigan State University, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, USA);
    - 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
    - List and detailed description of INTRINSIC FUNCTIONS in Fortran 90/95 from Fortran90/95 for Scientists and Engineers, di S.J. Chapman
    - A short list of the main gnuplot commands and the official gnuplot manual

     
  • 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 - Fortran Version", S. E. Koonin and D. C. Meredith, Perseus Books (1998);; some programs are available on the web.
    - "Computational Physics: problem solving with computers", R.H. Landau, M.J. Paez, J. Wiley & Sons (1997, I ed.; 2007, II ed., enlarged, M.J. Paez and C.C. Bordeianu); and the most recent "A Survey of Computational Physics: Introductory Computational Science", R.H. Landau, M.J. Paez and C.C. Bordeianu, Princeton University Press (2008); "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)

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  • 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
    - Lecture notes by prof. Chiaruttini (Dept. of Math & Comp. Science) (in Italian: "Il Fortran 90/95 per esempi") with examples
    - Numerical Recipes: home page; see also the specific link to the Second Edition (1996) in Fortran 90 (Obsolete edition, no longer supported) (newest: Third Edition (2007) in C++)



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