I developed a new computational physics course for physics and biomedical physics majors.

This course is using a flipped classroom approach. Lectures are recorded and assessed via short quizzes. Classroom time is entirely devoted to doing exercises and projects.

I take the students from having no idea of programming to doing advanced projects in one semester using MATLAB.

Here are some of the projects the students do:

• Simulation of site percolation
• Monte Carlo simulation of single-molecule AFM force measurements
• Comparing bacterial motion to random walk
• Computational linguistics: Can a computer distinguish Shakespeare from Poe?
• Evolutionary game theory
• Biological pattern formation
• CT scan reconstruction
• Neural nets: Hopfield model
• Nonlinear data fitting
• Nonlinear differential equations, chaos, and nerve conduction