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Dr. Rhett Herman rherman@radford.edu Professor of Physics and Adjunct Professor of Geology Director, Radford University Planetarium Office: 135 Curie Hall (540) 831-5441 (office phone) (540) 831-5652 (department) (540) 831-5732 (fax) Department of Physics PO Box 6983 Radford University Radford, Virginia 24142 Class Information, Solutions page, etc. The PHYS 307 class information sheet that I handed out the first day of class. The instructions for installing Mathematica on your computer are here: http://www.radford.edu/content/it/home/it-support/software/general-software/mathematica.html. A number of assignments for this class will involve Mathematica, which is industry- and grad-school-standard mathematical software. The example Mathematica notebook that I continually update from class. If you click on this you will get a big text barf that's not useful. You need to simply right-click on this, save it somewhere, and then open it with Mathematica. The PHYS 307 Maple worksheet with the examples I show you in class. Right-click the link and save it to your computer before opening it. If you're on an RU computer then save it to your H: drive and open it with RU's Maple. The Maple webpage specifically for this class is http://www.maplesoft.com/academic/adoptioncenter/adoptioncenter_coursedetail.aspx?EID=5921 Everything you need to do to get your discounted version of Maple is available on this page. This includes their promotional code for buying Maple at a discount (it appears to be $75) if you want to do so for yourself. The class will have Maple assignments but you can use Maple on RU's computers for this. Link Instruments (www.linkinstruments.com) lets you download the software for the DSO-8500 digital oscilloscopes that we have. You can download/install the software to run the DSO-8500 at http://www.linkinstruments.com/doupdate.htm You need the file 'wdso8_2k.exe.' Here are two nice little programs that lets you turn your sound card into a simple oscilloscope: Zelscope, available at www.zelscope.com and soundcard Oscilloscope at http://www.zeitnitz.de/Christian/scope_en. Note: These have problems with Windows7 notebooks--you might have to run the sound through an "aux" input if your notebook doesn't have a true stereo hardware microphone input. Or you'll have to get a usb-to-stereo input adapter. Homework: homework #1: Due Friday January 27 by 5:00:00pm (remember, Late Homework: No.) homework #2: Due Saturday February 4 by 12:00:00 noon. homework #3: Do not turn this in since there is a test this week (Tuesday February 7 during the lab times). homework #4: Due Friday February 17 by 5:00pm. homework #5: Do not turn these in since there is a test next week (Tuesday February 28 during the lab times). homework #6: Due Friday March 23 by 5:00pm. homework #7: Due Friday March 30 by 5:00pm. homework #8: Due Saturday April 14 by 12noon. homework #9: Do not turn these in since there is a test next week (Tuesday April 24 during the lab times). homework #10: Do not turn these in since the final exam is next week (Wednesday May starting at 2:45pm).