INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SIMULATION

Lecture notes for an undergraduate course
at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Copyright, Charles S. Peskin, 2020 & 2021 & 2023 & 2025

I: ORBITS OF PLANETS AND SPACECRAFT

II: EPIDEMIC AND ENDEMIC DISEASES

Notes on Deterministic and Stochastic Simulation Methods for Epidemic Modeling

The SIR Epidemic Model

An Endemic Disease Model and its Application to Malaria

III: COMPUTER SIMULATION OF STRINGED INSTRUMENTS

IV: TRAFFIC

Notes on traffic simulation are available in the lecture notes of the course
Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering, and Economics.

V: COMPUTER SIMULATION OF A COMPUTER