Teaching FORTRAN programming and computer simulation by diffusion in percolative lattices
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in European Journal of Physics
- Vol. 5 (1) , 6-8
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0807/5/1/002
Abstract
A group of high school students learned within two weeks to write and run a FORTRAN program simulating diffusion in a disordered medium, and to interpret some of the results. During that time a research paper appeared confirming their results.Keywords
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