This repository contains material for the class PHYS4606 - Mathematical and Computational Methods for Physics. We will use Python and Mathematica in this class. Python is free and there is a free Mathematica license for Northeastern students.
To access Mathematica follow these instructions.
1.) Open a terminal:
On Linux press: Ctrl + Alt + T
On Mac press: command+space, type terminal, press enter
2.) Create a virtual environment: execute the command
python3 -m venv ~/venv-phys4606
3.) Activate the environment (needs to be done every time):
source ~/venv-phys4606/bin/activate
4.) Update the package manager (needs to be done only once):
pip install --upgrade pip
5.) Install some packages (needs to be done only once):
pip install numpy matplotlib jupyter notebook pandas joblib scipy sympy
7.) To open jupyter in your default browser execute:
jupyter notebook
1.) Open a terminal: Press: Windows key + x, select Windows Terminal (Admin)
2.) Download python (skip if you already have python)
winget install python.python.3.9
3.) Update the package manager (needs to be done only once):
pip install --upgrade pip
4.) Install package for virtual environment (needs to be done only once):
pip install virtualenv
5.) Create a virtual environment: execute the command (replace C:\Path\To\Python\ with the path into which you installed Python)
virtualenv --python C:\Path\To\Python\python.exe venv-phys4606
6.) Activate the environment (needs to be done every time):
.\venv-phys4606\Scripts\activate
7.) Install the required packages (needs to be done only once):
pip install numpy matplotlib jupyter notebook pandas joblib scipy sympy
8.) Open jupyter in your default browser:
jupyter notebook
This option requires a google account. Once you have one setup, follow the steps at https://colab.research.google.com/.