Physics 410: Introduction to Computational Physics: Class Resources

Index

• Unix and General Information
• Emacs
• Searching the Web
• Creating HTML documents
• Maple
• Graphing (XY plots)
• Fortran 77
• C
• Numerical Algorithms
• Scientific Visualization
• Other Computational Physics/Science Courses
• Other Computational Physics/Science Web Resources
• General Physics Resources

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. You will be able to use the NCD colour X-terminals in Hennings 203 and Hennings 203B for course work.
• UT Austin Computation Center Unix Resources. An excellent collection of Unix resources and links including an Introduction to Unix for novices.
• Internet Unix & Tutorials from North Carolina AT. Various guides and Unix links. Use with caution as some material is specific to NCAT.
• vi Editor Tutorial. This is the first document returned on Sep 4 2000, by the AltaVista search '+vi +editor +tutorial'; there are literally hundreds of them out there.

• 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

• Netscape Collection. Good luck if you can't find it from here.
• AltaVista. Very comprehensive coverage. Spending a few minutes in help really pays off.

Creating HTML documents

• 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 Maple 6. In the course, however, we will be using the previous version, Maple V.

Graphing (XY plots)

• Gnuplot
• xmgr
• The SM (Supermongo) User's Manual (PS). Software available on Numerical Relativity SGI machines. Powerful, interactive and readily produces publication-quality scientific plots.

FORTRAN 77 Programming

• Professional Programmer's Guide to Fortran 77 (PS)
• SGI Fortran 77 Language Reference Manual (PS)
• SGI Fortran 77 Programmer's Guide (PS)

C Programming

• SGI C Language Reference Manual (PS)

Numerical Algorithms

• ``Numerical Recipes'': Home Page and Online Books including: [Fortran PS], [Fortran PDF], [C PS], [C PDF]. Complete text of both Fortran and C editions of ``Numerical Recipes'' in both Postscript and PDF formats.
• Netlib Repository: Large collections of mathematical software, papers, and databases. Browse or Search the Netlib libraries.
• LAPACK User's Guide (html)
• LAPACK Source Code (browse directory)

Scientific Visualization

• Annotated list of Scientific Visualization Sites from NASA.
• IRIS Explorer Center. IRIS Explorer is a powerful scientific visualization system available on the Relativity Center SGI machines, including einstein, and on the Phys. Dept. NT machines. Here are links to Postscript versions of the User's Guide with graphics and without graphics.

Other Computational Physics/Science Courses & Programs

• Buffalo
• Carleton
• Cornell (Physics 683, Spring 98)
• Cornell (Physics 682, Spring 95)
• Davidson College
• George Washington University (Computational Sciences)
• Imperial College
• NPAC (Syracuse) (High Performance Computing Course)
• Oregon State (Physics 465, 96?). A text has been developed from the course, and there's a paper describing the development.

Other Computational Physics/Science Resources

• Cornell Theory Center: Explorations in Computational Science
• Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering
• U Maryland Physics and Astronomy collection
• U Maryland Integrated Science and Mathematics collection
• Undergraduate Computational and Engineering Project
• The Virtual Laboratory at TIPTOP contains many physics-oriented Java Applets and VRML resources.

General Physics Resources

• American Physical Society (APS): Physics Internet Resources
• American Institute of Physics (AIP)
• American Astronomical Society (AAS)
• The Institute of Physics (IOP). Currently maintains The Internet Pilot to Physics (TIPTOP).
• Los Alamos E-print Archives