PHYS 345
Advanced
Physics Lab
Spring 2009
Some interesting and possibly useful links related to this course:
www.sargentwelch.com: Includes information about apparatus obtained from Sargent-Welch/CENCO physics company
www.canberra.com and www.ortec-online.com:Have useful information about germanium photon detectors
Scanning Electron Microscopy basics from the Science Learning Network, Museum of Science, Boston
History of Electron Microscopes from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Chi-squared calculator from Vassar College
National Instruments (maker of LabVIEW)
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
Machining and Metalworking Resources: Tutorials, Projects, and Directories
American Physical Society Journals
American Journal of Undergraduate Research
Introduction to LaTeX by Harvey Gould (PDF file). This is a short document full of examples. Start your exploration into LaTeX with this. The LaTeX source file used to create it is here. By comparing the source file to the PDF file, you can quickly learn how to do a wide variety of things with LaTeX. A zip file that you can download and uncompress to your hard drive to obtain all the figures along with the PDF and source files is here. (Right click on the link to save it to your computer's hard drive.)
LaTeX2e Cheat Sheet is a two-page quick reference guide (PDF file).