Scientific Python and Julia tutorials

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Concept Python Intermediate 35 min

Symplectic integrators: why leapfrog's energy error is bounded and RK4's drifts

Afterwards you can tell a symplectic integrator from a non-symplectic one, explain why its energy error stays bounded, and know when that matters.

Dynamical systems and chaosOrdinary differential equations Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics

Concept Python Intermediate 30 min

Afterwards you can recognize a stiff ODE by its time scales, say why an explicit solver crawls on it, and pick an implicit method that does not.

Ordinary differential equations Chemistry, Engineering