Portal for Preparatory Documents
Integrative Computing
Education and Research (ICER)
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The Early Careers of Physics BachelorsAIP Pub. Number R-433This report contains data comparing the work demands of this cohort to the educational preparation they received as undergraduate physics majors. These data suggest a significant discrepancy between what they are asked to do at work and what they were prepared to do by their physics education. The information in this report is one of the primary drivers behind the process leading to our workshop. |
Physics Bachelors with Master’s DegreesAIP Pub. Number R-433.02This report indicates the wide range of fields in which physics bachelors get masters degrees. A majority do not go on in physics - engineering and computer science together equal the number staying with physics @ 40% - and 20% are distributed in many other areas. The employment responsibilities of this cohort show increasing demand to "computer programming" work as compared with the bachelors only cohort. |
High Performance Computing In Physics EducationThis is an abstract submitted to the TeraGrid 2007 conference on high performance scientific computing by some members of the partnership. This lays out a context for some educational objectives of integrating computing into physics education. |
A Guidebook for the Creation of Computational Science ModulesThese are typical sample guidelines for module development producted by Capital University as part of its project for developing computational science across the curriculum. |
The Finite Difference Time Domain method for solving Maxwell's EquationsThis is a compact description of the FDTD method for solving Maxwell's equations for time-dependent electromagnetic fields, including its advantages and limitations. |
An Excel Spreadsheet Implementation of the FDTD method for solving Maxwell's EquationsThis fairly recent paper describes how to implement the FDTD method in a spreadsheet, thus making it suitable for use in introductory courses. |
Keck Undergraduate Computational Science Education ConsortiumCapital University is the lead institution of a collaborative project supported by the W. M. Keck Foundation. The project consisted of a ten-school consortium to develop and implement educational materials for an undergraduate curriculum in computational science. This links to the consortium Web site containing all of the modules. However, documents from two examples are in the following two references. |
ABLATION, AEROBRAKING AND AIRBURSTING OF A HYPERSONIC PROJECTILE IN EARTH'S ATMOSPHEREPAUL J. THOMAS, MARC GOULET, ANDREW T. PHILLIPS, ALEX SMITH |
COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF ORBITAL MOTION
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