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Latest revision as of 03:26, 20 March 2016
Computational physics is the study and implementation of numerical analysis to solve problems in physics for which a quantitative theory already exists.
Description
Historically, computational physics was the first application of modern computers in science, and is now a subset of computational science.
Relationship to physics
It is sometimes regarded as a subdiscipline (or offshoot) of theoretical physics, but others consider it an intermediate branch between theoretical and experimental physics, a third way that supplements theory and experiment.
See also
- Collision detection
- Computation
- Computational science
- Computer program
- Computer science
- Computer simulation
- Dynamical simulation
- Physics
External links
- Computational physics @ Wikipedia