| Date | Text | Subject | Project | Lecture Notes |
| Jan 5 | | Overview of course | | Notes |
| Jan 7 | 1 | An example numerical problem | (1)
Radioactive Decay with Style | Notes |
| Jan 12 | | Testing programs, numerical error | |
| Jan 14 | 2.1 | Developing a realistic model | (2) Tour de France |
| Jan 19 | | **MLK Day** | |
| Jan 21 | 2.2 | 2 dimensional trajectory | (3) In the Navy |
| Jan 26 | 2.3-4 | Throwing a baseball | |
| Jan 28 | 3.1 | Simple harmonic motion | (4) Energy conservation |
| Feb 2 | 3.2 | Chaos in the driven pendulum | |
| Feb 4 | 3.3 | Chaos: Poincare sections, period doubling | |
| Feb 9 | 3.7,A2 | Power spectra and FFTs | |
| Feb 11 | 4.1 | Keplerian Orbits | (5) Chaos |
| Feb 16 | A1 | Improving numerical methods | |
| Feb 18 | 4.3,A3 | Perihelion of Mercury | |
| Feb 23 | 4.4 | 3-body problem | |
| Feb 25 | 5.1 | Electric fields, LaPlace's equation | (6) Three-body problem |
| Mar 2 | 5.2 | Poisson's equation | |
| Mar 4 | 5.3 | Numerical integration | |
| Mar 9-11 | | **Spring Break** | |
| Mar 16 | 6.1 | Linear wave equation | |
| Mar 18 | 6.2 | Waves in frequency domain | (7) Dispersion |
| Mar 23 | 6.3 | Realistic waves | |
| Mar 25 | 6.4 | Spectral methods | (8) Waves in Fourier space |
| Mar 30 | 7.1,2 | Random systems, distributions | |
| Apr 1 | 7.4,6 | Random walks and diffusion | (9) Supernova neutrino pulse |
| Apr 6 | 8 | Phase transitions | |
| Apr 8 | | **Easter Break** | |
| Apr 13 | 10.1 | Time independent Schroedinger equation | |
| Apr 15 | 10.2 | Eigenvalues and Eigenstates | |
| Apr 20 | 10.4 | Time dependent Schroedinger equation | |
| Apr 22 | 10.5 | More spectral methods | |
| Apr 27 | | Final Project Presentations | |
| Apr 28 | | Final Project Presentations | |