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Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog

PHY 277 - Computation for Physics and Astronomy


An introduction to computing on UNIX/Linux computers. Fundamentals of using UNIX/Linux to write computer programs for numerical algorithms to solve computational physics and astronomy problems. Assignments are carried out in a high-level compiled programming language such as modern Fortran or C++ and require extensive use of SINC site computers outside the classroom.

3 credits

Prerequisite(s): PHY 125 , PHY 126 , PHY 127  and PHY 133  &, PHY 134 ; or PHY 131 /PHY 133 , PHY 132 /PHY 134 ; or PHY 141 /PHY 133 , PHY 142 /PHY 134 ; AMS 151  or MAT 126  or MAT 131  or MAT 141

Advisory Preq: AMS 161  or MAT 127  or MAT 132  or MAT 142 or MAT 171

SBC: TECH