Computational physics

This article is about computational science applied in physics. For theories comparing the universe to a computer, see digital physics. For the study of the fundamental physical limits of computers, see physics of computation.
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Computational physics is the study and implementation of numerical analysis to solve problems in physics.[1] Historically, computational physics was the first application of modern computers in science, and is now a subset of computational science. It is sometimes regarded as a subdiscipline (or offshoot) of theoretical physics, but others consider it an intermediate branch between theoretical and experimental physics — an area of study which supplements both theory and experiment.[2]

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