The role of computational physics in the liberal arts curriculum

26th IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics

物理学;计算机科学

Dominguez, Rachele^1 ; Huff, Benjamin^2

Department of Physics, Randolph-Macon College, P.O. Box 5005, Ashland

VA

23005, United States^1

Department of Philosophy, Randolph-Macon College, P.O. Box 5005, Ashland

VA

23005, United States^2

关键词: Computational physics;    Computational Physics course;    Liberal arts;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/640/1/012061/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/640/1/012061

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The role of computational physics education varies dramatically from department to department. We will discuss a new computational physics course at Randolph-Macon College and our attempt to identify where it fits (or should fit) into the larger liberal arts curriculum and why. In doing so, we will describe the goals of the course, and how the liberal arts curriculum conditions the exploration of computational physics.