Phys 5090 Useful Links

• Plotting and graphing packages, moving past the Logger Pro you've used in the intro labs:

  • The gnuplot plotting program (quick-n-dirty general purpose)

  • The root package (heavy duty analysis framework)

  • Matlab is installed on departmental machines

  • The Xcircuit drawing program, for schematics

• UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) with the Physics Dept.

• Online journals available to us at UMD.

• LaTeX stuff.

• Two online journal indices and the e-print server arXiv.org:

  • The inSPIRE HEP Literature database.

  • The NASA ADS Astronomical Data System.

• Prof. Maps' Phys 5090 links page. A good roster of journal links, pointers to papers to be involved in the ethics discussion, and articles about the evils of Powerpoint. The Gettysburg Address item is particularly well done.