Practical Numerical C Programming: Finance, Engineering, and Physics Applications

by Philip Joyce

Overview

Master the C code appropriate for numerical methods and computational modeling, including syntax, loops, subroutines, and files. Then, this hands-on book dives into financial applications using regression models, product moment correlation coefficients, and asset pricing.

Next, Practical Numerical C Programming covers applications for engineering/business such as supermarket sk reordering simulation as well as flight information boards at airports and controlling a power plant. Finally, the book concludes with some physics including building simulation models for energy and pendulum motion. Along the way, you’ll learn center-of-mass calculations, Brownian motion, and more.

After reading and using this book, you'll come away with pragmatic case studies of actual applications using C code at work. Source code is freely available and includes the latest C20 standard release.

What You Will Learn

• Apply regression techniques to find the pattern for depreciation of the value of cars over a period of years
• Work with the product moment correlation coefficient technique to illustrate the accuracy (or otherwise) of regression techniques
• Use the past sk values of an asset to predict what its future values may be using Monte Carlo methods
• Simulate the buying of supermarket sk by shoppers and check the remaining sk: if it is too low print a message to reorder the sk
• Create a file of arrivals for an airport and send data to the airport’s display boards to show the current situation for the incoming flights
• Simulate the patterns of particles moving in gases or solids

Who This Book Is For

Programmers and computational modelers with at least some prior experience with programming in C as well as programming in general.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484261279
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	08/28/2020
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	277
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Philip Joyce has 28 years experience as a software engineer – working on control of steel production, control of oil refineries, communications software (pre-Internet), office products (server software), and computer control of airports. Programming in Assembler, COBOL, Coral66, C, and C++. Mentor to new graduates in the company. He also has a MSc in computational physics (including augmented matrix techniques and Monte Carlo techniques using Fortran) - Salford University 1996. Chartered scientist, chartered physicist, member of the Institute of Physics (member of the higher education group).

Table of Contents

PART 1 – INTRODUCTION.- 1. Review of C.- PART 2 – FINANCIAL APPLICATIONS.- 2. Regression.- 3. Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PMCC).- 4. Asset Pricing.- PART 3 – ENGINEERING/INDUSTRIAL/COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS.-5. Supermarket Sk Reordering Simulation.- 6. Flight Information Boards at Airports.- 7. Power Plant Control.-PART 4 – PHYSICS APPLICATIONS.-
8. Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy Simulation.- 9. Pendulum Simulation.- 10. Centre of Mass Calculation.- 11. Brownian Motion.- 12. Vacancy Model of Atoms Moving in Solids.-Appendix A. Answers to exercises.