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{{Short description|Numerical simulations of physical problems via computers}} {{About|computational science applied in physics|theories comparing the universe to a computer|Digital physics|the study of the fundamental physical limits of computers|Physics of computation}} {{Use American English|date=January 2019}} {{Computational physics}} '''Computational physics''' is the study and implementation of [[numerical analysis]] to solve problems in [[physics]].<ref name=ThijssenBook/> Historically, computational physics was the first application of modern computers in science, and is now a subset of [[computational science]]. It is sometimes regarded as a subdiscipline (or offshoot) of [[theoretical physics]], but others consider it an intermediate branch between theoretical and [[experimental physics]] β an area of study which supplements both theory and experiment.<ref name="ComPhysPy" />
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