Teaching: Qual Prep Notes
The following are scans of various notes I wrote in preparation for my qualifying exam. To exonerate any mistakes, let me remind you that these notes reflect my understanding as of the dates written on the top. For what it’s worth, I managed to pass my qualifying exam, so I must have understood some of it!
- Notes on a Symplectic Classical Integrator. This document cites a paper by Manolopoulos for this integration scheme. It really should cite Candy and Rozmus, J. Comput. Phys. 92 230 (1991).
- Adams-Bashforth-Moulton Predictor-Corrector Algorithms for Molecular Dynamics
- Applications of Correlation Functions
- Perturbation Theory
- Transition Path Sampling. Actually, these notes came much after my qualifying exam, but they’re also worth putting up.
- Units [PDF] A few useful unit conversions.