Physics 410: Computational Physics: Online Course Resources


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Last updated September 2005

Note: ``PS'' indicates a Postscript document, ``PDF'' indicates Adobe portable document format.

Index


UNIX and General Information

  • UBC Physics & Astronomy Computer Labs: The site includes links to: an overview of the lab's facilities and policies, a list of available software, on-line registration, FAQs and more. In addition to the three lnx machines, you will be able to use the PCs configured as X-terminals to lts1, as well as the Windows NT PCs---all located in Hennings 205---for course work.
  • UT Austin Computation Center Unix Resources. An excellent collection of Unix resources and links including an Introduction to Unix for novices.
  • Introduction to Command Line Linux by Eric Nodwell, UBC Physics and Astronomy Dept.
  • vi Editor Tutorial. This is the first document returned on September 5 2004, by the google.ca search 'vi editor tutorial'; there are literally hundreds of such tutorials on the Web.

Emacs (Text Editing [and more!])

  • XEmacs.org: The home page for the XEmacs project, containing links to a wealth of information about XEmacs.
  • XEmacs User's Guide (local copy) (PDF). Note: This manual is nearly 400 pages in length, so you may want to think carefully before you print it!

Searching the Web

  • Google. Still the premier Web search-engine.

Creating HTML documents

1. Use your browser's compose facility

  • Mozilla users: cliok on Composer icon on the bottom toolbar of the browser. See HERE, for example, for documentation, should you need it.
  • Other browser users: Use Mozilla.

2. Doing it by hand

  • A Beginner's Guide to HTML (from NCSA)
  • A More Complete Guide to HTML (from UBC). An older (c 1994-1995) NCSA guide which I downloaded so that browsing would be snappier. Still a useful guide/reference for the "basics" of HTML.
  • Choose the Composing and editing Web pages option from Netscape's Help menu (you may have to first choose Help Contents from the main menu).
  • One of the easiest and most powerful ways of learning HTML is to use the Page Source feature from Netscape's View menu. Find a Web document with a layout or feature you wish to emulate, select Page Source from the View and then examine the source (which will appear in a separate window) to see how things are done.

Maple (Symbolic Manipulation)

  • Maple: Maple Home Page including links to various Maple Web sites.
    NOTE: The current version of maple is apparently Maple 9.5. In the course, however, we will be using an older version, Maple 6.
  • Maple 7 Programming Guide (PDF).

Graphing (XY plots)


FORTRAN 77 Programming


FORTRAN 90 Programming


C Programming


Numerical Algorithms


Scientific Visualization


Other Computational Physics/Science Courses & Programs


Fluid Dynamics Resources


General Physics Resources


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