Announcements/deadlines
Apr 28, 2006
The deadline for all remaining lab reports is May 10 2006.
April 27, 2006
We have moved to a web-based lab report submission process, see
Report Submission. Students that wish to see their Physics 499 projects online may submit them here as well (provided that they are not published elsewhere).
April 26, 2006
Re-organization (or re-disorganization) of the course website.
May 1-4 2006
Crash course on
transistors and op-amps. Demonstration labs.
More detailed information.
Links
All graphics for lab reports should be publication quality, so use graph (from libplot) or gri. The WIN32 versions of these programs (see "Misc. Tools" link) run best from a DOS command shell, and produce postscript readable with the lastest versions of
Ghostscript 8.53 and
gsview-4.8. Updates will be found at
the ghostscript website.
Graphs produced by
gnuplot will be acceptable only for your first lab report.
Maxima is a useful (free) Mathematica replacement that you may find helpful for some types of data analysis.
This course accepts lab reports in LaTeX only. You can obtain
fptex, a free TeX/LaTeX installation for Windows. All Linux distributions contain TeX/LaTeX.
Miktex is another (free) TeX/LaTeX installation for Windows.
All Linux installations have C/C++/Fortran/Perl/Java/Python compilers or interpreters. For Windows you can obtain
Mingw32, a UNIX shell and development environment with C/C++/Fortran compilers.
I prefer to be contacted by email. Direct all questions to jeff@rustam.uwp.edu.
