Scott Walck has a PhD in Physics from Lehigh University and has been a professor of physics, including computational physics, to undergraduates for over 20 years at Lebanon Valley College. He has also written academic articles and given talks on the use of functional programming in teaching physics.

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• Acknowledgments IntroductionPart I: A Haskell Primer for PhysicistsChapter 1: Calculating with HaskellChapter 2: Writing Basic FunctionsChapter 3: Types and EntitiesChapter 4: Describing MotionChapter 5: Working with ListsChapter 6: Higher-Order FunctionsChapter 7: Graphing FunctionsChapter 8: Type ClassesChapter 9: Tuples and Type ConstructorsChapter 10: Describing Motion in Three DimensionsChapter 11: Creating GraphsChapter 12: Creating Stand-Alone ProgramsChapter 13: Creating 2D and 3D Animations Part II: Expressing Newtonian Mechanics and Solving ProblemsChapter 14: Newton’s Second Law and Differential EquationsChapter 15: Mechanics in One DimensionChapter 16: Mechanics in Three DimensionsChapter 17: Satellite, Projectile, and Proton MotionChapter 18: A Very Short Primer on Relativity Chapter 19: Interacting ParticlesChapter 20: Springs, Billiard Balls, and a Guitar StringPart III: Expressing Electromagnetic Theory and Solving ProblemsChapter 21: ElectricityChapter 22: Coordinate Systems and FieldsChapter 23: Curves, Surfaces, and VolumesChapter 24: Electric ChargeChapter 25: Electric FieldChapter 26: Electric CurrentChapter 27: Magnetic FieldChapter 28: The Lorentz Force LawChapter 29: The Maxwell EquationsAppendix: Installing HaskellBibliographyIndex