Featured Statistical and Thermal Physics Materials

STP Ising 1D Program

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 EST

The STP 1D Ising program is a Monte Carlo simulation of a one-dimensional Ising model in equilibrium with a heat bath at temperature T using the Metropolis algorithm.

Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:00:00 EST

Molecular Workbench (MW) provides visual, interactive computational experiments for teaching and learning science at many different levels (middle school students to university).

STP Eclipse Workspace

Sun, 22 May 2011 00:00:00 EST

The STP Eclipse Workspace contains a ready to use Eclipse workspace with source code for Statistical and Thermal Physics (STP) programs by Jan Tobochnik and Harvey Gould. Unzip this workspace and open it from within Eclipse to compile and run these programs.

Teaching Statistical Physics by Thinking about Models and Algorithms

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EST

This article discusses several ways of illustrating fundamental concepts in statistical and thermal physics by considering various models and algorithms. It emphasizes the importance of replacing students' incomplete mental images by models that are physically accurate.

Easy Java Simulations Modeling and Authoring Tool

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EST

Easy Java Simulations (EJS) is a Java program that enables both programmers and novices to quickly and easily build simulations.

STP Textbook: Table of Contents

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST

The foundational resources of the STP Collection are open source simulations with curricular material linked to this textbook: Thermal and Statistical Physics by Harvey Gould and Jan Tobochnik. The text will be published by Princeton University Press, but will remain freely available in the STP Collection.