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PC from User Perspective - Physics

Class at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
NPRF034

Syllabus

1. Common operation systems - Windows, Unix, Linux For Windows - advanced use, shareware utilities.

2. Text processors - LaTeX, Word, Word Perfect Efficient works with text processors. Writing of typical scientific - title, authors, addresses, abstract, chapters, text with indeces and special characters. Text formatting, section numbering. Footnotes. Maths, figures, tables and their numbering. References. Bibliographic databases. Dictionaries.

3. Worksheets - Excel Efficient work with worksheets. Functions, tables with entry, graphs. Solution of mathematical problems - examples (regression, interpolation, derivations, integrals, non-linear equations, system of equations).

4. Special programs for scientific calculations and graphs - Professional graphs - commercial programs - Axum, Origin. Shareware - Mathcad - variables, functions, matrices, graphs, symbolic calculations, programming. Examples - Mathematica - numeric and symbolic calculations - Matlab - Shareware ###WWW http://krystal.karlov.mff.cuni.cz/pc

Annotation

Review of typical features, possibilities, advantages and drawbacks of individual programs. On-line presentation.

Operation systems. Text processors. Spreadsheets. Mathematical programs. Pictures, photos.