Hetrick's Homepage

This is the homepage of Dr. J.E. Hetrick:

• Office: 101-C Olson Hall (phone: 946-3128)
• Email: jhetrick@uop.edu
• Weekly Teaching Schedule

Teaching this semester:

• Scientific Computing Tutorial (PHYS 27)
• The Physics of Music (PHYS 39),

VLF Radio Waves/Whistlers

JHetrickVLF.mp3 Very Low Frequency magnetospheric radio waves (Whistlers) which I recorded while "wintering over" at the South Pole Station in Antarctica in the winter of 1982.

As heard on NPR's All Things Considered  SoundClip series on Sept. 10, 2007.

More on Whislers and VLF waves is below:

• NASA/Goddard's VLF Page
• Stanford's PARS Lab
• Stephen McGreevy's VLF Story
• Prof. Don Gurnett's Favorite Sounds from Space

The 1982/83 South Pole Winter Over crew

My life as a

Bulletin Board

For Jared

timeseq1135.mpg MPEG of Instantons in the QCD vacuum

LAT04 Slides

SSH
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NiftyTelnet

SWS

mesch12b.tar.gz

PhysLink_Wisdom1.exe

SymOC

Online Book and Periodical Interlibrary Loan Forms:

• Periodical Request
• Book Request

DOS versions of tar, gzip, and gunzip

• tar.exe
• gzip.exe
• gunzip.exe

Cliodhna?

Documentation

• octave
  • Windows executable: octave-windows.exe 7.54 Mb
  • Octave homepage
• elisp
• libc
• GSL: Gnu Scientific Library
• Gnuplot.org Site
  • Gnuplot Docs
• Numerical Recipes

Need Code?

• C/C++

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  • Full list of C/C++ code available on the Net. Compiled by Ajay Shah, ajayshah@cmie.ernet.in
  • Tutorials on C/C++
  • Optimization Software Guide by Jorge J. Moré and Stephen J. Wright
  • FAQ: Numerical Analysis & Associated Fields, Resource Guide by S. J. Sullivan
  • Searching the C/C++ Sources file: For example, svd, quadrature, etc. Search is case insensitive, and will return a list of packages (and links to these) containing the search string.
    Search String:

    Press to submit your query.

  Check out Ch, an incredibly powerful scipted C interpreter. Ch allows you to write in C, C++, and make calls to X/Motif, GTK+, and more. It has built in 2D and 3D plotting, and is scripted so you don't have to recompile constantly. Ch is ideal for teaching, research, and enterprise computing. It is embeddable, and allows very fast and easy project development.

  Try Ch at www.softintegration.com

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• Repositories:
• MathSource: The repository of Mathematica code at WRI.
  • Mathsource Index
• FreeHEP: Access to software and information for High Energy Physics
  • FreeHEP Index
• NetLib: a repository of mathematical software, data, documents, address lists, and other useful items.
  • NetLib Index
• Statlib Statistical software and databases.
• Perl Archive at U. Florida.
• Parallel Computing Archive at HENSA

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• Elisp for use with Emacs
  • ep-mode: A major mode for browsing the astro/math/physics abstract listings, which includes summary by title, etc. Notably, under Emacs 19, ep-mode + w3.el provides WWW access (ie. grabs the PS file and spawns a viewer) by clicking mouse button 2 in the abstract of choice. It just doesn't get any simpler...
  • The Atavachron: Preprint src processor; will try to unpack/chop off figures, untar, uudecode, etc. sane forms of preprint source files, returning something to tex in a (la)tex-mode buffer if possible.
  • math.el by David Jacobson: Emacs interface to Mathematica
  • Elisp archive at archive.cis.ohio-state.edu

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• Educational
• Pendula: Simulation of the coupled pendula problem (one pendulum hanging from another). Shows trace of pendula motion, exhibiting the complex behavior of this simple mechanical system.
• Kepler: An educational 'Orrery' (solar system model). Shows planets, comet Halley, and the moon on any date, animates orbits. For PC's with VGA.

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• ftp sites (DOS and Amiga):
  • DOS:
    • nic.funet.fi
    • wuarchive.wustl.edu
  • MAC:
    • ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mac
  • Amiga:
    • Amiga ftp archive

Handy Nodes:

• Preprints:
  • XXX Original Bulliten Board at Los Alamos.
  • Babbage Mirror at Trieste.
  • XYZ: Statistical, Chaos, and Non-linear Dynamics preprints
• Reference:
  • World Wide Web Virtual Library:
    • Physics
    • High-Energy Physics
  • Spires
  • Lattice Field Theory
  • Starting Points for Internet Exploration
  • The Whole Internet Catalog
  • Science and Mathematics Education Resources
  • WHO's Online

"Even logic must give way to physics"..........Spock of Vulcan

Mailing address:

James Hetrick
Physics Dept.
University of the Pacific
Stockton, CA 95211  USA

Phone: +1 209 946 3128