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Name: Ghulam
Status: Student
Age: 20s
Location: N/A
Country: N/A
Date: Around 1999
Question:
What are the applications of physics in computer sciences?


Replies:
There are two major applications of computers in physics. The first is data collection and manipulation for literally thousands of experiments from high energy physics to temperature determination in ultra low temperature experiments.

The second application which is also huge is the entire field of computational physics which includes electronic structure calcations, atomic theory, statistical physics, and computer simulation of various physical phenomena such as weather prediction, global climate change etc.

Harold Myron

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