| Individual course details | ||||||||||
| Study programme | Applied and Computer Physics | |||||||||
| Chosen research area (module) | Computer Physics | |||||||||
| Nature and level of studies | Undergraduate studies | |||||||||
| Name of the course | Computer simulations in physics | |||||||||
| Professor (lectures) | Jovan Puzović | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (examples/practical) | Marjan Ćirković | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (additional) | ||||||||||
| ECTS | Status (required/elective) | Required | ||||||||
| Access requirements | Numerical methods in physics; Physics of atoms and molecules | |||||||||
| Aims of the course | Mastering the basic knowledge of computers simulation in physics. | |||||||||
| Learning outcomes | Students are introduced to basic method of computers simulation in physics and to use some of already existing programs packages for simulation. | |||||||||
| Contents of the course | ||||||||||
| Lectures | Generators of random numbers; Modeling of nonuniform distribution of random numbers; Inverse function method; Rejection method; Advance methods for modeling nonuniform distributions; Simulation of neutron transport trough matter; Program package GEANT4 for simulation of particle interaction with matter; Generators of particle production in high energy physics; Program package CORSICA for generating particle spectra at the sea level induced by primary cosmic rays. | |||||||||
| Examples/ practical classes | Computational exercises follow the lectures; Home work; | |||||||||
| Recommended books | ||||||||||
| 1 | Numerical Recipes in C, Second Edition,Cambridge University Press, 1992 | |||||||||
| 2 | D. Krpić, Uvod u numeričku fiziku, Faculty of Physics, Belgrade, 1998 | |||||||||
| 3 | G. Fishman - Monte Carlo Concepts and Algorithms, Springer, 1999 | |||||||||
| 4 | GEANT4 - User Manual | |||||||||
| 5 | CORSIKA - User Manual | |||||||||
| Number of classes (weekly) | ||||||||||
| Lectures | Examples&practicals | Student project | Additional | |||||||
| 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Teaching and learning methods | Lectures; Solving problems; Consultations; Practical classes | |||||||||
| Assessment (maximal 100) | ||||||||||
| assesed coursework | mark | examination | mark | |||||||
| coursework | 10 | written examination | 40 | |||||||
| practicals | oral examination | 50 | ||||||||
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