Modeling and Simulation in Python An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers

by Downey, Allen B.

• ISBN13: 9781718502161
• ISBN10: 1718502168
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-05-30
• Publisher: No Starch Press

Summary

Modeling and Simulation in Python teaches readers how to analyze real-world scenarios using the Python programming language, requiring no more than a background in high school math.

Modeling and Simulation in Python is a thorough but easy-to-follow introduction to physical modeling—that is, the art of describing and simulating real-world systems. Readers are guided through modeling things like world population growth, infectious disease, bungee jumping, baseball flight trajectories, celestial mechanics, and more while simultaneously developing a strong understanding of fundamental programming concepts like loops, vectors, and functions.

Clear and concise, with a focus on learning by doing, the author spares the reader abstract, theoretical complexities and gets right to hands-on examples that show how to produce useful models and simulations.

Author Biography

Allen B. Downey is a Boston-area professor of Computer Science at Olin College and the author of a series of open-source textbooks related to software and data science, including Think Python, Think Bayes, and Think Complexity. His blog, “Probably Overthinking It,” features articles on Bayesian probability and statistics. Downey holds a Ph.D in computer science from U.C. Berkeley, and M.S. and B.S. degrees from MIT. 

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Discrete Systems
Chapter 1: Modeling
Chapter 2 Bike Share System
Chapter 3: Iteration
Chapter 4: Sweeping Parameters
Chapter 5: World Population
Chapter 6: Proportional Growth
Chapter 7: Limits to Growth
Chapter 8: Projecting Population Growth
Chapter 9: Analysis of Population Growth
Chapter 10: Case Studies Part 1
Part II: First Order Systems
Chapter 11: Epidemiology
Chapter 12: Modeling Vaccination
Chapter 13: Sweeping Parameters
Chapter 14: Nondimensionalization
Chapter 15: Cooling Coffee
Chapter 16: Adding Milk
Chapter 17: Pharmacokinetics
Chapter 18: Glucose and Insulin
Chapter 19: Case Studies Part 2
Part III: Second Order Systems
Chapter 20: Pennies
Chapter 21: Drag
Chapter 22: Baseball
Chapter 23: Optimization
Chapter 24: Rotation
Chapter 25: Torque
Chapter 26: Case Studies Part 3
Appendix A Under the Hood