This book addresses students and young researchers who want to learn to use numerical modeling to solve problems in geodynamics. The second is an overview with several examples on classical Mechanics with examples taken from standard introductory physics books.
Bird’s eye view.- Visualization.- Fast Python: NumPy and Cython.- Mechanics I: Kinematics.- Mechanics II: Newtonian Dynamics.- Insights on the physics of Stokes Flow.- Lagrangian Transport.- Operator Formulation.- Laplacian Operator and Diffusion.- Beyond Linearity.- Trees, Particles and Boundaries.- Applications to Geodynamics.- The future.