Links
GCC Websites of interest
GCC Physics Department Website
GCC Chemistry Department Website
GCC Biology Department Website
GCC ACM Chapter
Physics Websites
Society of Physics Students (SPS)
The Society of Physics Students is a national professional association for students interested in physics.
It's stated purpose is "to help students transform themselves into contributing members of the professional
community."
American
Physical Society
APS publishes great journals, and hosts many
good physics conferences each year.
Particle Adventure
Cool website describing the standard model
in a straight forward way.
XKCD
Great nerdy comic strip!
PhD Comics
Another funny comic strip.
ThinkGeek
First stop for (geek) Christmas shopping.
MIT online courses: Free online courses
from MIT, sometimes with video lectures
Recommended Readings (Career
Choices)
Discovering Your Natural Talents
- John Bradley (Available in the Buhl library)
What Color is Your Parachute?
- Richard N. Bolles (Available in the Buhl library)
Physics
Software (Freeware/Opensource)
Software for
Writing Papers:
Paint.NET: More sophisticated version of
paint, good for making diagrams
GNUPlot:
Great plotting program
GNUPlot Resource: Good
examples/documentation for GNUPlot
LyX: LaTex
document processor (easier to use than LaTex)
JabRef: Program for managing
BibTex references in LyX or LaTex (very
helpful)
ExpressPCB and Express SCH: Free
software for making schematics and printed
circuit boards
Computation
Software:
Cywin:
Unix environment for Windows
Crimson Editor: C++ code editor
Autodock: Protein docking software
Tinker: Molecular mechanics software
Sundials: SUite of Nonlinear and
DIfferential/ALgebraic equation Solvers
Octave: open source program compatible
with MatLab
Misc:
Audacity: Sound recording/editing
software
Spekwin32: Spectra viewing software (can
view most standard spectra formats)
Double
Cad software: Free version of 2D Cad
program that is relatively easy to use
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