Mike Goggin's Links

Physics and Scientific Sites

• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) website

• NIST Periodic Table of Elements (This is a really nice periodic table.)

• NIST Physical Reference Data

• PhysicsWeb

• APS Research Journals

• The American Physical Society

• Welcome to the AAPT Homepage

• American Institute of Physics - Physics Information NetSite

• OSA Optics Net

• The Institute of Physics Server Index

• Complexity and Artificial Life/Alife Research, information and links compiled by CALResCo

• Welcome to the Planets

• National Science Foundation World Wide Web Server

• The Exploratorium

• Space radar

• Cal Tech Numerical Routines Library

• Waubonsee Community College's Shortcuts to Departments of Physics, Engineering, and Mathematics

• Mathtools.net - Technical Computing Portal

• 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

  •  Adaptec Interface Guides

• Linux/Unix

  • Red Hat Software, Inc.

  • Ubuntu

  • Mint

  • [fm] welcome to freshmeat.net

  • Window Managers for X

  • The Linux Documentation Project: Homepage

  • Index of /pub/Linux

  • Linux Central

  • The Case for Linux in Universities (A bit out of date, the case is stronger now.)

• TeX and LaTex

  • A Nice LaTeX Tutorial

  • TeX

  • MikTeX; A TeX distribution for Windows

  • Using LaTeX to Create PDF Documents

  • Sources for TeX Freeware and Shareware

  • Effective Scientific Electronic Publishing

  • LaTeX Sample Document

  • Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX 2e (~2 MB)

  • General Information

  • A Beginner's Introduction to Typsetting with LaTeX

  • LaTable table-making utility

• Language

  • Java Technology Home Page

  • Fortran Market

  • Fortran Library

  • Fortran Information

• Gnuplot

  • Gnuplot Homepage

  • Gnuplot 4.2 Tutorial

  • Gnuplot Tips

• Octave

  • Octave Homepage

  • Octave Introduction

  • QtOctave Frontend for Octave

• Miscellaneous Items of Interest

  • Electronic Privacy Information Center

  • Mathtools.net - Technical Computing Portal

News and Weather

• CNN Interactive

• BBC

• The Economist

• NOAA Weather Forcast for Kirksville

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

• Books are our Friends

• Dilbert®

• The End of the Internet

• Learn Labanotation (If you think physics is hard take a look at the notation used in dance.)

• MCHawking (Check out Stephen Hawking as a gangsta rapper. WARNING: The songs contain language that some may find offensive.)
  

• Real Word Problems From My Physics Book - PH17
  

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School of Science and Math Home Page

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