American Journal of Physics®

For Readers - Computational Physics

The Computational Physics Section publishes articles that help students and instructors learn about the computational tools used in contemporary research. Interested authors are encouraged to send a proposal to the editors of the Section, Jan Tobochnik (jant@kzoo.edu) or Harvey Gould (hgould@clarku.edu). Summarize the physics and the algorithm you wish to discuss and how the material would be accessible to advanced undergraduates or beginning graduate students.

Computational Physics Section of the American Journal of Physics
Jan Tobochnik and Harvey Gould, editors

Information about the Computational Physics Section is available at Jan Tobochnik and Harvey Gould, “,” Am. J. Phys. 80, 1041 (2012). We welcome your submissions and suggestions.

  1. K. Binder, B. J. Block, P. Virnau, and A. Tröster, “,” Am. J. Phys. 80, 1099–1109 (2012).
  2. G. Volpe and G. Volpe, “,” Am. J. Phys. 81, 224–230 (2013).
  3. F. J. Vesely, “,” Am. J. Phys. 81, 537–544 (2013).
  4. M. Patriarca and A. Chakraborti, “,” Am. J. Phys. 81, 618–623 (2013).
  5. R. H. Swendsen, “,” Am. J. Phys. 81, 776–781 (2013).
  6. T. Price and R. H. Swendsen, “,” Am. J. Phys. 81, 866–872 (2013).
  7. Robert M. Dimeo, “,” Am. J. Phys. 82, 142–152 (2014).
  8. Milovan Suvakov and V. Dmitravsinovic, “,” Am. J. Phys. 82, 609–619 (2014).
  9. Tao Pang, “,” Am. J. Phys. 82, 980–988 (2014).
  10. Adriana Gomes Dickman and Ronald Dickman, “,” Am. J. Phys. 83, 468–474 (2015).
  11. Fernando M. S. Silva Fernandes, “,” Am. J. Phys. 83, 809–816 (2015).
  12. Larry Engelhardt, “,” Am. J. Phys. 83, 1051–1056 (2015).
  13. L. L. Iannini and Ronald Dickman, “,” Am. J. Phys. 84, 135–145 (2016).
  14. Christian G. Fink, “,” Am. J. Phys. 84, 467–473 (2016).
  15. Yanyan Claire Ji and Flavio H. Fenton, “,” Am. J. Phys. 84, 626–638 (2016).
  16. William Graham Hoover, Julien Clinton Sprott, and Carol Griswold Hoover, “,” Am. J. Phys. 84, 786–794 (2016).
  17. Marija Vucelja, “,” Am. J. Phys. 84, 958–968 (2016).
  18. Yu Liu, Chao Li, Huai-Yu Wang, and Yun-Song Zhou, “,” Am. J. Phys. 85, 146–150 (2017).
  19. Daniel V. Schroeder, “,” Am. J. Phys. 85, 698–704 (2017).
  20. J. Wang and Y. Hao, “,” Am. J. Phys. 85, 542–549 (2017.
  21. F. Esquembre, W. Christian, and M. Belloni, “,” Am. J. Phys. 86, 54–67 (2018).
  22. Marise J. E. Westbroek, Peter R. King, Dimitri D. Vvedensky, and Stephan Dürr, “,” Am. J. Phys. 86, 293–304 (2018).
  23. Alessandro Santini and Paolo Politi, “,” Am. J. Phys. 86, 616–621 (2018).
  24. Abigail H. Chown, Christopher J. Cook, and Nigel B. Wilding, “,” Am. J. Phys. 86, 701–708 (2018).
  25. Ge Zhang, “,” Am. J. Phys. 86, 772–776 (2018).
  26. Renato Pakter, and Yan Levin, “,” Am. J. Phys. 87, 69–74 (2019).
  27. Alfred C. K. Farris, Thomas Würst, and David P. Landau, “,” Am. J. Phys. 87, 310–316 (2019).
  28. Ruth Chabay and Bruce Sherwood, “,” Am. J. Phys. 87, 341–349 (2019).
  29. Genevieve Godec and Karen Livesey, “Computing the effective permittivity of composite materials using a finite difference method,” Am. J. Phys. 87, 465–470 (2019).
  30. Siu A. Chin and John Masse, “,” Am. J. Phys. 87, 682–686 (2019).
  31. István Donkó, Peter Hartmann, and Zoltán Donkó, “,” Am. J. Phys. 87, 986–993 (2019).
  32. Mark H. Holmes, “,” Am. J. Phys. 88, 60–69 (2020).
  33. Katharina Vollmayr-Lee, “,” Am. J. Phys. 88, 401–422 (2020).
  34. D. F. Rodriguez-Patiño, S. Ramirez, J. S. Salcedo-Gallo, J. H. Hoyos, and E. Restrepo-Parra, “,” Am. J. Phys. 88, 159–167 (2020).
  35. Isaac Bowser, Ken Kiers, Erica Mitchell, and Joshua Kiers, “,” Am. J. Phys. 88, 769–783 (2020).
  36. Swayamshree Patra, Swagata Dey, Krishanu Ray, and Debashish Chowdhury, “,” Am. J. Phys. 89, 437–442 (2021).
  37. Tiare Guerrero and Danielle McDermott, “,” Am. J. Phys. 89, 975–981 (2021).
  38. Daniel M. Zuckerman and John D. Russo, “A gentle introduction to the non-equilibrium physics of trajectories: Theory, algorithms, and biomolecular applications,” Am. J. Phys. 89, 1048–1061 (2021).
  39. Christian Scholz and Sandy Scholz, “,” Am. J. Phys. 90, 141–151 (2022).
  40. Frederico Campos Freitas, Sandra Byju, Asem Hassan, Ronaldo Junio de Oliveira, and Paul C. Whitford, “,” Am. J. Phys. 90, 225–238 (2022).
  41. Giorgio Mantica, “,” Am. J. Phys. 90, 380–393 (2022).
  42. Pablo Jensen, “ , “ Am. J. Phys. 90, 462–468 (2022).
  43. Emanuel A. Lazar, Jiayin Lu, and Chris H. Rycroft, “ Voronoi cell analysis: The shapes of particle systems,“ Am. J. Phys. 90, 469–480 (2022).
  44. Wenlong Wang, “ ,“ Am. J. Phys. 90, 921 (2022).
  45. Sara Gomez, Jaime Humberto Hoyos, and Juan Alejandro Valdivia, “,” Am. J. Phys. 91, 225 (2023).
  46. Niklas Mayr, Michael Haring, and Thomas Wallek, “,” Am. J. Phys. 91, 235 (2023).
  47. J. W. Powell, L. Caudill, and O. Young, “,” Am. J. Phys. 91, 478 (2023).
  48. David A. Faux and Peter Bassom, “,” Am. J. Phys. 91, 561 (2023).
  49. Wytse van Dijk, “,” Am. J. Phys. 91, 826 (2023).
  50. David Faux, Thesha Thavaraja, and Alana Croucher, “,” Am. J. Phys. 91, 1008 (2023).
  51. Gabriele Tartero and Werner Krauth, “,” Am. J. Phys. 92, 65 (2024).
  52. Emily Dong and Sarah Marzen, “,” 92, 801 (2024).
  53. Luca Di Carlo, “,” Am. J. Phys. 93, 193 (2025).

Updated 7 September 2023.