Partial Differential Equations in Advanced Undergraduate Physics

几年来，许多中级课程， 劳伦斯大学的物理专业本科生 包括培养技能的组件， 创造性地和独立地使用计算资源。 在这 项目我们采取的下一步自然的步骤，增加 计算组件到两个高级课程（数学 物理学方法和高级电磁理论）， 从而拓宽了可行的高级 独立研究和引入工具， 对实践科学家和工程师来说更重要。 具体来说，我们将2D的数值处理 以及波传播，流体动力学， 弹性、量子力学和电磁理论。 到 为了支持这一课程的发展，我们增加了两个3D 图形工作站和彩色打印机到我们现有的本地 局域网 这种硬件允许快速、全面、图形化 检查由数值计算产生的大型数据文件 模拟在本地进行，或者更经常地，通过 一个国家超级计算机中心的网络接入

For several years, many of the intermediate courses for undergraduate physics majors at Lawrence University have included components that nurture skills to use sophisticated computational resources creatively and independently. In this project we are take thing the next natural step by adding computational components to two advanced courses (Mathematical Methods of Physics and Advanced Electromagnetic Theory), thereby broadening the spectrum of feasible senior-level independent studies and introducing tools that become daily more crucial to the practicing scientist and engineer. Specifically, we are incorporating numerical treatment of 2D and 3D problems in wave propagation, fluid dynamics, elasticity, quantum mechanics, and electromagnetic theory. To support this curricular development, we have added two 3D graphics workstations and a color printer to our existing local area network. This hardware allows fast, thorough, graphical examination of large data files resulting from numerical simulations carried out locally or, more often, remotely via network access to one of the national supercomputer centers.