Physics 410 - Computational Physics - UBC - Fall 2005

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.

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.

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!

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.

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: 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).

gnuplot
- Gnuplot 4.2 - A Brief Manual and Tutorial
- There are many other tutorials/guides available on the web. Go to Google and search for gnuplot tutorial
sm (Supermongo). User's Manual (PS)
- Reference Manual
- Tutorial
xmgr
- User Guide

Numerical Recipes: Home Page and Online Books including: [Fortran PDF] and [C PDF]. Complete text of both Fortran and C editions of ``Numerical Recipes'' in PDF format.
Also available: Numerical Recipes in Fortran 90 [PDF] and Numerical Recipes in C++ [Information page]
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)

Annotated list of Scientific Visualization Sites from NASA.
IRIS Explorer Center. IRIS Explorer is a powerful scientific visualization system available on lnx[123]. Here are links to Postscript versions of the User's Guide with graphics and without graphics.

Carleton
Cornell (Physics 683, Spring 98)
Cornell (Physics 682, Spring 95)
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.

Modern Numerical Methods for Fluid Flow (Course Notes from Berkeley (Collella and Puckett))

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