Physics and Scientific Sites

• American Physical Society Professional Guidebook
• NIST Periodic Table of Elements (This is a really nice periodic table.)
• NIST Physical Reference Data
• arXiv.org
• Physics news
• Physics World
• APS Research Journals
• The American Physical Society
• Welcome to the AAPT Homepage
• American Institute of Physics
• OSA Optics Net
• The Institute of Physics
• Complexity and Artificial Life/Alife Research, information and links compiled by CALResCo
• Welcome to the Planets
• National Science Foundation
• The Exploratorium
• Space radar
• Super Mario Physics (Click the link labeled “WATCH THIS MOVIE!” on the right side toward the the top of the page.  Thanks to Jon Shipman from Fall 2004 Physics 100 for bringing this to my attention.)
• Britney’s Guide to Semiconductor Physics (Yes, that would be Britney Spears. The web never ceases to amaze me!)
• Roller Coaster Applet  (“Design” your own simple roller coaster and see what works.  Thanks to the “3 girls and a dude” lab group from Fall 2005 Physics 100 for finding this.)

Computer Information

• Hardware
  •  Tom’s Hardware Guide
• Linux/Unix
  • Debian
  • Ubuntu
  • Mint
  • Fedora
  • Red Hat Software, Inc.
  • The Linux Documentation Project: Homepage
  • The Case for Linux in Universities (A bit out of date, the case is stronger now.)
• Language
  • Java Technology Home Page
  • Fortran Library
  • Python
• Gnuplot
  • Gnuplot Homepage
  • Gnuplot Tutorials and Guides
• Octave
  • Octave Homepage
  • Octave Introduction (pdf file)
  • Octave has similar syntax to Matlab. A nice introduction to Matlab is here.
  • See the Octave Homepage for download information. Note that Octave for linux should be available in your linux distribution’s repositories.
  • An online octave system is available here: https://www.verbosus.com/index.html

• Inkscape
  • Inkscape Home Page
  • Inkscape Tutorial Page
  • Decent Video Tutorial
• GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)
  • GIMP Homepage
• Miscellaneous Items of Interest
  • Electronic Privacy Information Center
  • Zotero – A tool for organizing and capturing online bibliographic info

News and Weather

• CNN Interactive
• BBC
• The Economist
• Ars Technica
• NOAA Weather Forcast for Kirksville
• Spaceweather.com

Books and Other Amusements

• Library of Congress World Wide Web Home Page
• Alan Sokal Articles on the “Social Text” Affair
• Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide!
• A Generator of Postmodern Text Can Be Found Here
• The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook by Marty Smith
• Swift – Modest Proposal
• Abbot – Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
• Pope – An Essay on Man
• The End of the Internet
• MCHawking (Check out Stephen Hawking as a gangsta rapper. WARNING: The songs contain language that some may find offensive.)
  

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