FACULTY

Sridhar Chinnabhandar

Courses
Inquiry Physics & Scientific Programming I – Dynamics (2 high school credits)
This course integrates the fundamentals of structured and object-oriented programming (C/C++/UNIX) with the following areas in physics (non-calculus based) - Newtonian mechanics, thermodynamics, and fluid dynamics. Additional topics of atomic and nuclear physics will also be covered. A solid conceptual understanding of these topics will be developed. The following tools in programming will be presented – variable types, control structures, loops, arrays, structures, pointers, dynamic memory, classes, inheritance and polymorphism, queues and trees. The results of numerical problems and laboratory experiments in physics will be compared and contrasted with that of computer simulations written in C/C++. Hence, this course would provide an effective computational tool to explore the concepts in physics, resulting in both high school science and math credits.