Physics 370: Advanced Lab
- Course Links
- Syllabus
(pdf)
- Complete lab manual (pdf)
- Labs
- Unix Tutorial (pdf) Tutorial web site and files: science.txt and
units-174.tar
- Mathematica Tutorial (pdf) Ten Minute Tutorial
- Rocket Lab (pdf and
files for lab)
- Magnetopause Lab
(pdf,
files for lab,
and Space Physics links)
- Torsion Pendulum
(pdf)
- Speed of Sound
(pdf)
- Magnetopause Lab Links
- The Community Coordinated Modelling Center (CCMC) - Space physics computer simulation site.
- Space Physics Coordinate transformation
- BATRUS Manual
- Rocket Links
- Model Rocket Drag Analysis, NAR R&D Report
- NASA sites
- Beginner's Guide to Model Rockets
- Measured Altitude of a Model Rocket
- Perfect Flite
- St. John's Weather (instruments on Peter
Engel Science Center Roof
Linux/Unix links
- CSB/SJU Linux Web Site
- Basic Unix Commands
- UNIX Tutorial for Beginners
- Notes for a Short Course on Unix
- Knoppix - bootable, Live-CD
version of Linux that you can try out without installing
- Debian GNU/Linux - if you are ready
to take the Linux plunge, my personal favorite version
- Ubuntu Linux - a slightly more
user friendly version of Linux based on Debian
- KDE - the K Desktop Environment for Unix - the default desktop on CSB/SJU Linux machines
- FreeNX Instructions from CSB/SJU - a program that gives you access
to an entire Linux session from a Windows, Mac, or Linux computer.
- PuTTY: a free Win32 telnet/ssh client - a nice, free ssh client for when you have to login to a Linux box from anywhere
- Cygwin - Free Unix tools that run under MS-Windows