Milestones

Milestone 1

• Lay out program
  • Start with a LaTeX document, write up you understanding of the model
  • Spend some time planning each program module (integrator, particle data structures, subroutines to calculate physical quantities)

Milestone 2

• Build components
  • Assemble (and test) your integrator with two particles
  • Design a routine to assemble an FCC lattice with variable dimensions and spacing
  • Implement calculation of pair correlation

Milestone 3

• Implement/calculate two "advanced" quantites
  • Temperature, Verlet lists,
• Begin collecting data for a report

Milestone 4

• Finish data collection
• Finalize report
  • Write up results, abstract