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Second cycle degree course in
Physics
Università degli Studi di Parma
Department of Mathematical, Physical and Computer Sciences

LABORATORY 1 (UNIT II A)
cod. 1001252

Academic year 2009/10
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Fisica sperimentale (FIS/01)
Field
Sperimentale applicativo
Type of training activity
Characterising
48 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
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Integrated course unit module: LABORATORY 1

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Learning objectives

Students must acquire some skill in modelling physical problems and to solve their dynamics with numerical analysis and/or simulation techniques.<br />
The importance of error  estimate will be emphasized.

Prerequisites

no prerequisites

Course unit content

 This Lab consist in a series of numerical experiments whose aim is to familiarize the students with advanced solution techniques for physical problems which do not lend themselves to a closed analytic solution. <br />
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This year's themes  are the following:<br />
<ol>
<li>Celestial Mechanics: the Newtonian dynamics of the Solar System leading to an estimate of the secula perielion advance for Mercury. <br />
</li>
<li>MonteCarlo: simulation techniques applied to the calculation of the spectrum for simple quantum mechanical systems like the anharmonic oscillator and the Ammonia molecule. <br />
</li>
<li>Non-linear dynamics: a reproduction of the historical Fermi-Pasta-Ulam experiment.</li>
<li>Diffusion processes: the study of stochastic differential equations with applications (Brownian motion, Uhlenbeck, Langevin)</li>
</ol>

Full programme

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Bibliography

Bibliographic information supplied during the Lab activities.

Teaching methods

"in itinere" evaluation and final reports.

Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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