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Major sources

The sources which I have consulted most frequently whilst developing course material are as follows:
C/C++ PROGRAMMING:
Software engineering in C, P.A. Darnell, and P.E. Margolis (Springer-Verlag, New York NY, 1988).
The C++ programming language, 2nd edition, B. Stroustrup (Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, 1991).
Schaum's outline: Programming with C, 2nd edition, B. Gottfried (McGraw-Hill, New York NY, 1996).
Schaum's outline: Programming with C++, 2nd edition, J.R. Hubbard (McGraw-Hill, New York NY, 2000).
NUMERICAL METHODS AND COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS:
Computational physics, D. Potter (Wiley, New York NY, 1973).
Numerical recipes in C: the art of scientific computing, W.H. Press, S.A. Teukolsky, W.T. Vettering, and B.R. Flannery (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 1992).
Computational physics, N.J. Giordano (Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River NJ, 1997).
Numerical methods for physics, 2nd edition, A.L. Garcia (Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River NJ, 2000).
PHYSICS OF BASEBALL:
The physics of baseball, R.K. Adair (Harper & Row, New York NY, 1990).
The physics of sports, A.A. Armenti, Jr., Ed. (American Institute of Physics, New York NY, 1992).
CHAOS:
Chaos in a computer-animated pendulum, R.L. Kautz, Am. J. Phys. 61, 407 (1993).
Nonlinear dynamics and chaos, S.H. Strogatz, (Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, 1994).
Chaos: An introduction to dynamical systems, K.T. Alligood, T.D. Sauer, and J.A. Yorke, (Springer-Verlag, New York NY, 1997).


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