ZCE 111 Computational Physics Semester Project titles

1.     Title: Solving and visualising the Schroedinger equation for the Hydrogen atom.

        Description: Calculate the energy spectrum of the Hydrogen atom by solving the 3D radial Schroedinger equation. Obtain and plot the solutions to the radial equation which you obtained numerically. Also numerically solve the angular spherical Harmonic equation and visualise the polar plot of these angular solutions. 

Reference: Computational Physics, second edition, Giordano and Nakanishi, Prentice Hall; Computational Physics, second edition, J. M. Thijssen,     Cambridge University Press.


2.    Title: Solving the Schroedinger equation for the Helium Atom with Hatree-Fock method.

Description: Use the Hatree-Fock method to obtain the energy spectrum for the full Helium atom. Compare these energy levels with experimentally     measured results. Your code should take into account of the exchange interaction energy via the Slater determinant.

Reference: Computational Physics, second edition, J. M. Thijssen, Cambridge University Press.


3.    Title: Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation.

Description: Use MD simulation to calculate the solid-liquid phase diagrame of Argon (i.e., transition temperature and pressure). Your simulated result should be compared with experimental data. 

Reference: Computational Physics, second edition, Giordano and Nakanishi, Prentice Hall; Computational Physics, second edition, J. M. Thijssen, Cambridge University Press.


4.    Title: Satalite image processing.

Description: Use the image processing capability in Mathematica to manipulate a set of given satelite images to abstract useful information of geophysical interest.

Reference person: Mr. Tan Fuyi, (Satelit image data processing researcher of image processing research group, School of Physics, USM).
        Software and raw data from Fengyun 2 satelit data are downloadable from http://www2.fizik.usm.my/tlyoon/teaching/ZCE111/1112SEM2/project/fengyun2/.




Some reference material can be downloaded at http://www2.fizik.usm.my/tlyoon/teaching/ZCE111/computational_physics.zip. You would need a password to unzip these files.