Physics 3730/6720 References

If you find a particularly useful resource, please let me know so I can pass it on to the class.

Getting started.

• how to get an account,
• how to log on,
• working in the X-windows environment,
• SunRay and Java Desktop applications, including how to edit Windows documents, and
• the basics of Unix, emacs, and compiling C and Fortran.
• much more

Some potentially useful links.

• Unix
  • A unix quick reference sheet
  • Unix: an introduction from the CS department
  • Unixhelp, a nice compilation of information about the operating system
  • Unix FAQ

• Emacs
  • An emacs quick-reference guide (in postscript) and PDF .
  • The Gnu emacs manual from the CS department
  • For the emacs FAQ, type C-h F within emacs!

• E-Mail
  • Introduction to Unix mail utilities, including attachments, RMAIL
  • A PINE tutorial from the University of South Dakota

• Plotting and histogramming utilities
  • Gnuplot information
  • Gnuplot User's Guide in postscript
  • Gnuplot tutorial
  • Gnuplot Manual
  • Gnuplot FAQ
  • axis and hist

• Document Preparation
  • Setting up a homepage from your class account.
  • A Beginner's Guide to HTML from NCSA
  • A putative Complete Guide to HTML from Emory University
  • Web-page-design fashion statements

  • An introduction to LaTeX based on the example given in lecture.
  • The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e by Tobias Oetiker Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna and Elisabeth Schlegl
  • A LaTex help page from Emory University
  • A LaTeX help page from Eckerd College (St.~Petersburg, Florida)

• Programming languages
  • C programming language: an introduction from the CS department
  • The manual for the gnu c compiler (gcc)
  • Searchable C++ reference
  • C++ FAQ

  • Fortran: an introduction from the CS department
  • Fortran FAQ
  • Fortran 90

  • Perl: a tutorial

• Make and makefiles
  • An introduction to make and makefiles
  • The manual for gnu make, by Richard M. Stallman and Roland McGrath.

• Scientific Computing
  • Differential equations
  • Numerical Recipes home page
  • Overview of numerical algebra

• Mathematical libraries
  • LAPACK (Netlib)
  • LAPACK Internet Interface and Search Engine (U. Colo.)
  • Cornell tutorial IMSL
  • Visual Numerics, Inc. IMSL Page

• Statistics
  • Stat-LIB

• Computational science
  • An intoduction to computational science

• Maple
  • Local Maple information
  • Maple homepage (product information)
  • YAHOO! category

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