Laboratory for Computational Physics: Using Computers to Build Insight

计算物理实验室：使用计算机建立洞察力

• 批准号: 9152107
• 负责人: Daniel Styer
• 金额: $ 2.48万
• 依托单位: Oberlin College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-04-01 至 1993-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9152107&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Laboratory; Computational; Physics; Using; Computers

This project is expanding the Oberlin College physics department's existing network of two UNIX work-stations (currently used solely for research) to nine machines. These computers are being used for student/faculty research and for assignments and projects in existing courses, but most importantly they are making possible a new course entitled "Introduction to Computational Physics". This course takes advantage of the many cases in which the physical question and its algorithmic solution are intimately linked, so the physics and the algorithm illuminate each other. Because it exploits this link to the fullest, the course has only one prerequisite physics course, and thus is taken by students as early as their freshman year. The course 1) excites and attracts students at an early stage in their college careers, 2) allows appropriate use of computation throughout the physics curriculum, and 3) develops the student's physical insight.NSF grant funds are being matched with funds from non-federal sources.

这个项目是扩大奥伯林大学物理 新闻部现有的两个UNIX工作站网络 （目前仅用于研究）到九台机器。 这些 计算机被用于学生/教师的研究和 现有课程中的作业和项目，但大多数 重要的是，他们正在使一门新课程成为可能， 《计算物理学导论》本课程采用 在许多情况下，物理问题和 它的算法解决方案是紧密相连的，所以物理学 and the algorithm算法illuminate照亮each每other. 因为它利用了 为了充分利用这种联系，本课程只有一个先决条件 物理课程，因此学生早在他们的 大一的时候。 这门课程激发并吸引了学生， 在他们大学生涯的早期阶段，2）允许适当的 在整个物理课程中使用计算，以及3） 发展学生的物理洞察力。NSF的赠款基金是 与非联邦资金来源相匹配。