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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

 

This page last updated 12/6/10