The following is some reading material that reviews topics discussed in class.

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• Properties, units, dimensions, scaling
• Hard-sphere molecular dynamics
• Error analysis
• Object-oriented programming and the molecular simulation API
• A survey of statistical mechanics as it pertains to molecular simulation
• Monte Carlo integration and importance sampling (access via the web text as described below)
• Markov processes
• Monte Carlo simulation
• Simple biasing methods
• Basic molecular dynamics simulation
• Measuring dynamical properties (not yet prepared)
• Isothermal/isobaric MD (not yet prepared)
• Long-range forces and the Ewald sum
• Dielectrics (not yet prepared)
• Simulating molecules (not yet prepared)
• Free energy calculations (not yet prepared)

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