1. Computational Physics Lecture 2 - administration Dr. Guy Tel-Zur Old rustic barn. Picture by: by Peter Griffin, http://publicdomainpictures.net

2. Grades Check the course web site 4 home assignments (6% each) Final Projects, part 1: Presentation (10%) Final Projects, part 2: computer program and a report (66%)

3. Join the CS&E Meetup group http://www.meetup.com/ComputationalScience/

4. New Material Today Numerical Methods: – Numerical Differentiation Programming Languages: – C/C++/F90 examples Tools: – DevC++ IDE – Gnuplot – MayaVi – Condor – SciTE

5. Agenda Continue slides from lecture 1 MHJ Chapter 3, Numerical Differentiation Condor Mini-Course - part 2 – Condor user tutorial from “Condor Week 2010” Introduction to CERN’s root Mini Course (at the end of lecture 1 slides) If time permits: Introduction to HPC MHJ Chapter 7, Numerical Integration