A worked example on scientific computing with Python

Hans Petter Langtangen [1, 2] (hpl at simula.no)

[1] Simula Research Laboratory [2] University of Oslo

Contents. This worked example

fetches a data file from a web site,
applies that file as input data for a differential equation modeling a vibrating system,
solves the equation by a finite difference method,
visualizes various properties of the solution and the input data.

The following programming topics are illustrated:

All files can be forked at https://github.com/hplgit/bumpy.