Intro to Scientific Computing PHYS 27 Physics Department University of the Pacific

Introduction

• Welcome
• The Scientific Computing Environment
  • Homework 1

Cygwin

• Installation
• Test your installation

Introduction to the Unix world

• Moving around
• Copy, Move/Rename, and View at files
• I/O Flow and the Pipe

Editors

• Course Folder / Text Editor
• Playing with jEdit
  • Homework 2

Gnuplot

• Scientific Visualization/Gnuplot
• More fun with Gnuplot
  • Homework 3, HW 3 Solution
• 3-D plots
• Plotting Data from a File / Initializing Gnuplot
• User Defined Functions
• Fitting Functions to Data
• Fitting Data II / the Using Command
• Saving and Printing
  • Homework 4, HW 4 Solution
• An Example: Theory and Experiment in Freefall

Latex

• Get Latex and get started
• Deeper into Latex
  • Homework 5
• mathcheatsheet.pdf
• (not-so) Short Introduction to Latex

• The Latex Plugin for jEdit