Syllabus
Syllabus – Standard University Policies
Useful Links
Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures
MIT Junior – Lab Notebook Guidelines This is a short guide to keeping a lab notebook for the MIT equivalent to our Advanced Lab. It has some useful advice.
Copy edit marks This is a short list of handwritten copy edit marks that I may use when grading your lab reports.
How to Calculate Local Acceleration of Gravity
NOAA Surface Gravity Prediction Site
NWS Local Forecast Page for Kirksville, MO
Octave Information
Octave is a system for efficiently writing programs to do mathematical calculations. It is very good at manipulating columns of data. Its syntax is very similar to the commerical software, Matlab, which is used in many research and development organizations. More information can be found at the links below.
Main Octave webpage: https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
Octave Tutorial Page (This also has directions for installing Octave on a Mac but is kind of old so it may not work anymore. I don’t have a Mac.)
Octave has similar syntax to Matlab. You can download a nice introduction to Matlab here: https://github.com/NelsonUpenn/PMLS-MATLAB-Guide/blob/master/MLguide1-3.pdf.
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
Note, verbosus also has an online LaTeX system.