Practical Numerical C Programming

Finance, Engineering, and Physics Applications
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4842-6127-9
Verlag: Apress

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 554 g

Master the C code appropriate for numerical methods and computational modeling, including syntax, loops, subroutines, and files. Then, this hands-on book dives into financial applications using regression models, product moment correlation coefficients, and asset pricing. 

Next, Practical Numerical C Programming covers applications for engineering/business such as supermarket stock reordering simulation as well as flight information boards at airports and controlling a power plant. Finally, the book concludes with some  physics including building simulation models for energy and pendulum motion. Along the way, you’ll learn center-of-mass calculations, Brownian motion, and more. 

After reading and using this book, you'll come away with pragmatic case studies of actual applications using C code at work. Source code is freely available and includes the latest C20 standard release.  

What You Will Learn

• Apply regression techniques to find the pattern for depreciation of the value of cars over a period of years
• Work with the product moment correlation coefficient technique to illustrate the accuracy (or otherwise) of regression techniques
• Use the past stock values of an asset to predict what its future values may be using Monte Carlo methods
• Simulate the buying of supermarket stock by shoppers and check the remaining stock: if it is too low print a message to reorder the stock
• Create a file of arrivals for an airport and send data to the airport’s display boards to show the current situation for the incoming flights
• Simulate the patterns of particles moving in gases or solids 

Who This Book Is For  

Programmers and computational modelers with at least some prior experience with programming in C as well as programming in general.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joyce, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Algorithmen & Datenstrukturen
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Programmier- und Skriptsprachen
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Numerische Mathematik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Prozedurale Programmierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART 1 – INTRODUCTION.- 1. Review of C.- PART 2 – FINANCIAL APPLICATIONS.- 2. Regression.- 3. Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PMCC).- 4. Asset Pricing.- PART 3 – ENGINEERING/INDUSTRIAL/COMMERCIAL  APPLICATIONS.-5. Supermarket Stock Reordering Simulation.- 6. Flight Information Boards at Airports.- 7. Power Plant Control.-PART 4 – PHYSICS APPLICATIONS.-8. Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy Simulation.- 9. Pendulum Simulation.- 10. Centre of Mass Calculation.- 11. Brownian Motion.- 12. Vacancy Model of Atoms Moving in Solids.-Appendix A.  Answers to exercises.

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Joyce has 28 years experience as a software engineer – working on control of steel production, control of oil refineries, communications software (pre-Internet), office products (server software), and computer control of airports. Programming in Assembler, COBOL, Coral66, C, and C++. Mentor to new graduates in the company. He also has a MSc in computational physics (including augmented matrix techniques and Monte Carlo techniques using Fortran) - Salford University 1996. Chartered scientist, chartered physicist, member of the Institute of Physics (member of the higher education group).