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Some physicist (experimentalists) work in a laboratory and do a lot of measurements. Other physicist (theoreticians) do not need complicated devices and expensive equipment to do research: a piece of paper and a pencil is enough for them to do their calculations.
Computational physics is between the two: Computers can be used for modelling natural phenomena. The scientists can control every aspect of these computer models, so they have much tighter control than experimentalists. Moreover, they can model very complicated phenomena on computers, phenomena that cannot be studied with the purely mathematical tools of theoreticians. The disadvantages are that the results that can be obtained from these models are not as general and not as precise as the theoretician's formulae, and that the models do not correspond exactly to the real world that experimentalists study.
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