Physics 374
Sample Files and Handouts

Math Summaries

• Complex Numbers
• Linear Spaces
• Dirac Notation
• Where the (2π)^1/2 in the Fourier Transform Comes From
• Geometrical interpretations of dot and cross products (from Oregon State)

Tutorials

• Fourier series

Mathematica

• Power Series

• Mathematica in a Nutshell (handout)
• Workbook from Mathematica overview class

• Mathematica Lists and Tables (handout)
• Workbook from Mathematica lists and tables class

Spreadsheets

• Power Series
• Solving the SHO with Euler and RK-2
• Fourier series for a square wave
• Fourier series for a Gaussian

Simulations

These programs are old -- written in Pascal to run in DOS! -- but they should still word on PC machines running MS-Windows. In addition to the executible file, you need to download the video driver "egavga.bgi" and put it in the same directory as the executible. To run it on a Mac you need a DOS simulator such as DOSBOX.

• Pulses (Video driver)
  (For more information about this program, go to its info page.)
• Standing Wave (Video driver)
  (For more information about this program, go to its info page.)
  

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  Edward F. Redish
  Department of Physics
  University of Maryland
  College Park, MD 20742
  Phone: (301) 405-6120
  Email: redish@umd.edu

  Last revision 13. December, 2005.