PHYS 123Digital Computation
- Faculty
- Science
- Offered
- Fall
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1987–88 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Introduction to computer applications in physics. Numerical solution of problems in classical mechanics. Storage, analysis, and display of experimental data. Graphical techniques for constructing field plots and solving the Schrédinger equation. For Co-op Physics students or students intending to major in Physics
As printed in the 1990–91 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Requirements, as last listed
Antireq: CS 102
Check it elsewhere
- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1987–88 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1990–91 to 1994–95 5 calendars
Introduction to computer applications in physics. Numerical solution of problems in classical mechanics. Storage, analysis, and display of experimental data. Graphical techniques for constructing field plots and solving the Schrédinger equation.
For Co-op Physics students or students intending to major in Physics
Antireq: CS 102
Offered Fall · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1987–88 to 1989–90 3 calendars
Introduction to hardware and software
organization of digital computers.
Features of the FORTRAN and BASIC
programming languages, structured
programming, algorithms applicable to
the solution of problems in physics. For Co-op Physics students or
students intending to major in Physics. Antireq: CS 102
Offered Fall · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit