TeX and LaTeX links

• Dataninja’s collection of LaTeX links – http://dataninja.wordpress.com/category/latex/
• LaTeX (WikiBooks) – http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX:
  • LaTeX/Useful Measurement Macros (Wikibooks) – http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Useful_Measurement_Macros
• TeX (WikiPedia) – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX
• LaTeX (WikiPedia) – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX
• TeXblog by Stefan Kottwitz – http://texblog.net/
• TeX & Friends (blog) – http://texandfriends.wordpress.com/ [in German]
• Some TeX Developments (blog) – http://www.texdev.net/
• comp.text.tex Usenet group at Google groups – http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/topics
• Getting to Grips with Latex – Tables – http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/latextutorial4.html
• The UK TeX Archive – http://www.tex.ac.uk/>. Contains many useful documents, including:
  • UK List of TeX FAQs on the Web – http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html
  • TeX Catalogue (Preface CTAN Edition) Graham Williams – http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/catalogue.html
• TeX Users Group – http://www.tug.org/
  • Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) – Search : http://www.tug.org/ctan.html; root directory – http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//li>
• UK-TUG – http://uk.tug.org/
• LaTex Community – http://latex-community.org/
• Go LaTeX – http://www.golatex.de/ [in German]
• LaTeX Project pages – http://www.latex-project.org/
• LaTeX to WordPress – http://lucatrevisan.wordpress.com/latex-to-wordpress/
• LaTeX Cookbook – http://www.personal.ceu.hu/tex/cookbook.html
• LaTeX:Commands – http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki/index.php/LaTeX:Commands
• LaTeX matters (blog) – http://texblog.wordpress.com/
• LaTeX for Humans (blog) – http://latexforhumans.wordpress.com/
• The Latex Array Command – http://www.seanet.com/~bradbell/omhelp/array.htm
• Matrices and other arrays in LaTeX – http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer/Matrices.html
• REVTeX 4 home page – https://authors.aps.org/revtex4/
• Making Your Own Lists in LaTeX and Ly – http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ownlists.htm
• “An extension to amsmath matrix environments” by Stefan Kottwitz (TeXblog; 2008.09.30) – http://texblog.net/latex-archive/maths/amsmath-matrix/
• “How to create a matrix in LaTeX” (SELINAP.COM; 2009.05.18) – http://selinap.com/2009/05/how-to-create-a-matrix-in-latex/
• “How to add a matrix in a LaTeX document?” – http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14132/latex-how-to-add-a-matrix-in-a-latex-document
• TeXample.net – http://www.texample.net/
• LaTeX symbols:
  • “The Great, Big List of LaTeX Symbols” – http://www.rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/LaTeX_symbols.pdf
  • “The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List” – http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf
  • “Astronomy Symbols in TeX” (at Jack Valmadre’s Blog) – http://jackvalmadre.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/astronomy-symbols-in-tex/

Tools

• Texmaker – free cross-platform LaTeX editor – http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/index.html

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(to be a) Cheatsheet

Lists

\begin{list}{label code}{body code} \item Item one \item Item two \item Item three \end{list}

Example:

\begin{list}{*}{} \item Item one \item Item two \item Item three \end{list}

Error: “extra alignment tab has been changed to \cr” in pmatrix environment

Trying to compile the matrix with 16 columns:

$$ \begin{pmatrix} 1&0&0&0& 0&0&0&0& 0&1&0&0& 0&0&0&0 \\ 0&0&0&0& 1&0&0&0& 0&0&0&0& 0&1&0&0 \\ 0&0&1&0& 0&0&0&0& 0&0&0&1& 0&0&0&0 \\ 0&0&0&0& 0&0&1&0& 0&0&0&0& 0&0&0&1 \end{pmatrix} $$

produced following error:

./document.tex:750: Extra alignment tab has been changed to \cr. \endtemplate l.750 1&0&0&0& 0&0&0&0& 0&1& 0&0& 0&0&0&0 \\

It appears that LaTeX has some internal limitation on default maximal number of columns. This can be changed (accoring to http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.text.tex/2006-06/msg01298.html) by setting

\setcounter{MaxMatrixCols}{16}

in the preamble of the document.

Physics books online

• Ph 136: APPLICATIONS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS by Kip Thorne – http://www.pma.caltech.edu/Courses/ph136/yr2004/
• PX436 notes – http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/teach/module_home/px436/notes
• General Relativity course notes by N.M.J. Woodhouse, MT 2003 – http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/nwoodh/gr/index.html
• Sean Carroll’s notes on General Relativity – http://preposterousuniverse.com/grnotes/ | http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March01/Carroll3/Carroll_contents.html
  • “Lecture Notes on General Relativity” at arXiv –http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/9712019
  • Spacetime and Geometry: Bibliography – http://preposterousuniverse.com/spacetimeandgeometry/bibliography.html | Additional Resources – http://preposterousuniverse.com/spacetimeandgeometry/resources.html
  • Cosmic Variance blog – http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/
• Warren Siegel (http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/plan.html) has several free online books:
  • Introduction to string field theory (1988, with corrections 2001): arXiv:hep-th/0107094 (http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0107094)
  • Superspace, or One thousand and one lessons in supersymmetry (1983, corrections 2001; with S. James Gates Jr., Marcus T. Grisaru, Martin Roček): arXiv:hep-th/0108200 (http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0108200)
  • Fields: http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/errata.html
• Mark Srednicki’s Quantum Field Theory textbook: http://www.lightandmatter.com/article/article.html
• Light and Matter – an open-source physics textbooks library: http://www.lightandmatter.com/
• The Online books in physics: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=lccn&key=QC
• Physics Formulary by Johan C.A.Wevers (Eindhoven University of Technology): xs4all.nl/~johanw/contents.html | nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March02/Phys/paper.ps | fisicanet.terra.com.br/fisicaavancada/physics_formulary.pdf | samizdat.mines.edu/formulary
• NRL Plasma Formulary by Dave Book, Todd Brun, and Robert Scott – wwwppd.nrl.navy.mil/nrlformulary/nrlformulary.html
• Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics by Martin V. Zombeck; Cambridge University Press; 1982, 1990 – ads.harvard.edu/books/hsaa – web presentation of the book
• A Heat Transfer Textbook by John H Lienhard V (MIT) and John H Lienhard IV (U Houston) – web.mit.edu/lienhard/www/ahtt.html
• Essential Physics 1 by Frank W. K. Firk , physicsforfree.com/essential.html
• phas.ucalgary.ca/phys323/fall/notes/optics.pdf
• Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics — A short introduction by Marek Rychlik – alamos.math.arizona.edu/~rychlik/557-dir/mechanics
• Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics by Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom – mitpress.mit.edu/SICM/
• The Slacker’s Guide to Physics – nusoy.com/slackersguide/slindex.php
• The Light and Matter series of introductory physics textbooks – lightandmatter.com/area1.html
• Courses taught by Richard Fitzpatrick at UT Austin:
  • PHY 380L: Plasma Physics – http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/plasma/plasma.html
  • PHY 389K: Quantum Mechanics – http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/qm/qm.html
  • PHY 387K: Classical Electromagnetism – http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/jk1/jk1.html
  • PHY 329: Computational Physics – http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/329/329.html
  • PHY 369: Thermodynamics And Statistical Mechanics – http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/sm1/sm1.html
  • PHY 373: Quantum Mechanics – http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/qmech/qmech.html
  • PHY 352K: Classical Electromagnetism – http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/em/em.html
  • PHY 336K: Newtonian Dynamics – http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/336k/336k.html
  • PHY 315: Oscillations and Waves – http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/315/315.html
  • PHY 316: Electromagnetism And Optics – http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/302l/302l.html
  • PHY 301: Classical Mechanics – http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/301/301.html
• “Free Physics Ebooks And Free Online Libraries That Specialize on Physics” (at Twitersong’s Blog; 2008.05.22) – http://twitersong.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/free-physics-ebooks-and-free-online-libraries-that-specialize-on-physics/
• Physics books at Bookyards – http://www.bookyards.com/categories.html?type=books&category_id=215
• Science & Engineering books for free download – http://www.techbooksforfree.com/science.shtml
• OSP (Open Source Physics) – http://www.compadre.org/osp/
  • “Science education prize goes to Open Source Physics” by John Timmer (Ars Technica; 2011.11.25) – http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/11/science-education-prize-goes-to-open-source-physics.ars

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Related at this blog: Physics sites – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/physics-sites/ | Books online – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/books-online/ | Mathematics sites (go to Books section)- https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/mathematics-sites/ | Expand your mind – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/expand-your-mind/

Energy Scales in Physics

The Physics Department at Princeton University has a nice map of energy scales currently known to physics: https://www.princeton.edu/physics/research/high-energy-theory/gubser-group/introduction-to-the-physi/energy-scales-in-physics/.

Physics sites

• ArXiv (phys+math preprints): arxiv.org | xxx.lanl.gov | front.math.ucdavis.edu – Cornell University
  • ViXra.org – http://vixra.org/ – Variety of scientific sounding papers that were denied publishing on arXiv. Out of 4 papers I have read (earlier today) from this archive, one sounds a completely legitimate (“A Very Brief Introduction to Clifford Algebra” by Stephen Crowley) of them and remaining three display various hallmarks of non-science (“pseudo-science”). Loking though the titles and abstracts of numerous other papers, I conclude that there could be some gems among these, but they are mainly coals.
    ViXra.org is an e-print archive set up as an alternative to the popular arXiv.org service owned by Cornell University. It has been founded by scientists who find they are unable to submit their articles to arXiv.org because of Cornell University’s policy of endorsements and moderation designed to filter out e-prints that they consider inappropriate.
    ViXra is an open repository for new scientific articles. It does not endorse e-prints accepted on its website, neither does it review them against criteria such as correctness or author’s credentials.
• PIRSA (Perimeter Institute Recorded Seminar Archive) – pirsa.org – a permanent, free, searchable, and citable archive of recorded seminars from relevant bodies in physics.
• WikiPedia > The Physics Portal – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Physics
• WikiPedia > WikiProject Physics – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Physics
• Physics Today online – physicstoday.org
• APS “Physics” blog – physics.aps.org
• Physical Review “Focus” – focus.aps.org [RSS]
• Inovations Report: Physics and Astronomy
• “The Review of Particle Physics” by C. Amsler et al. (Particle Data Group, Physics Letters B667, 1 (2008) and 2009 partial update for the 2010 edition) – http://pdg.lbl.gov/
• Physics forums – http://www.physicsforums.com/.
• “The Tangent Bundle Physics Project” (wiki) – http://www.physics.thetangentbundle.net/
• The Particle Adventure – http://particleadventure.org/
• Scholarpedia – http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Main_Page
  • “Encyclopedia of dynamical systems” – http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Encyclopedia_of_dynamical_systems
  • “Encyclopedia of Physics” – http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Encyclopedia_of_physics. Contains:
    • Encyclopedia of astrophysics – http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Encyclopedia_of_astrophysics
    • Encyclopedia of dynamical systems – http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Encyclopedia_of_dynamical_systems
    • Encyclopedia of condensed matter – http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Encyclopedia_of_condensed_matter
    • Encyclopedia of fluid dynamics – http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Encyclopedia_of_fluid_dynamics
    • Encyclopedia of nuclear physics – http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Encyclopedia_of_nuclear_physics
    • Encyclopedia of quantum and statistical field theory – http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Encyclopedia_of_quantum_and_statistical_field_theory
    • Encyclopedia of theoretical high energy physics – http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Encyclopedia_of_theoretical_high_energy_physics
    • Encyclopedia of space-time and gravitation – http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Encyclopedia_of_space-time_and_gravitation
    • Encyclopedia of statistical mechanics – http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Encyclopedia_of_statistical_mechanics

Physics seminars

• BU-Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar – http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html
• Boston Area Physics Calendar – http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/physics/events/bapc.html
• Brandeis University Theory Seminars – http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/physics/hegt/seminar.html
• Brown University Astrophysics Journal Club (a blog) – http://www.physics.brown.edu/physics/researchpages/cosmo/apjc/AstroClub/Blog/Blog.html
• Brown University Mathematics Seminars – http://riemann.math.brown.edu/ical/week.php
• Brown University Theoretical Physics Seminars – http://www.het.brown.edu/seminars/
• Brown University Theoretical Physics Seminars – http://www.physics.brown.edu/HET/seminars/
• Caltech PMA Seminar – http://www.pma.caltech.edu/PhysColl/pmacalendar.html
• Caltech Theory Seminars – http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/seminar/
• Chicago Theory Seminars – http://theory.uchicago.edu/theoryseminar
• David Deutsch – Quantum Computing – http://www.hpl.hp.com/breweb/quiprocone/Protected/DD_lectures.htm
• Fermilab Seminars – http://www.fnal.gov/faw/seminars.html
• Harvard Condensed Matter Physics Seminars – http://cmt.harvard.edu/cmpseminar.html
• Harvard High Energy Theory Seminars – http://hetg.physics.harvard.edu/seminars.shtml
• Harvard Mathematics Seminars (including the Gauge Theory and Topology Seminars) – http://www.math.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/showtalk.pl
• Harvard Theory Seminars – http://hetg.physics.harvard.edu/
• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Colloquium – http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia/
• ICHEP 2010 – http://webcast.in2p3.fr/2010/ichep/
• KITP Seminar Archive – http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/
• Lawrence-Berkeley National Lab Theoretical Physics Seminars – http://www-theory.lbl.gov/
• MIT Theoretical Physics Seminars – http://ctp.lns.mit.edu/seminars.html
• MIT Theory Seminars – http://ctp.lns.mit.edu/seminars.html
• Oxford Quantum Talks Archive – http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/quantum/content/events.html
• PSI Lectures 2010 – http://pirsa.org/C10017
• Perimeter Institute Recorded Seminar Archive (PIRSA) – http://pirsa.org/
• PiTP 2007 – IAS, Princeton – http://video.ias.edu/PiTP-2007
• PiTP 2008 – IAS, Princeton – http://video.ias.edu/PiTP2008
• PiTP 2010 – IAS, Princeton – http://video.ias.edu/pitp-2010
• Quantum Field Theory for Cosmology – http://pirsa.org/C10003
• Rutgers Theory Seminars – http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/het/video/het-video.html
• Sidney Coleman’s  lectures on Quantum Field Theory – http://www.physics.harvard.edu/about/Phys253.html
• Stanford Theory Seminars – http://www.stanford.edu/group/sitp/SITP%20Seminar%20Table.htm
• TASI 2007 – http://physicslearning2.colorado.edu/tasi/tasi_2007.htm
• TASI 2008 – http://physicslearning2.colorado.edu/tasi/tasi_2008/tasi_2008.htm
• TASI 2009 – http://physicslearning2.colorado.edu/tasi/tasi_2009/tasi_2009.htm
• TASI 2010 – http://physicslearning2.colorado.edu/tasi/tasi_2010/tasi_2010.htm
• TASI Lectures on the Holographic Principle – http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0002044
• The Standard Model: A Review [2011] – http://pirsa.org/C10036 – lectures with Michael Peskin
• UA Theory Seminars – http://www.bama.ua.edu/%7Ehep/seminars.html
• UMass Physics and Engineering Seminar Series – http://www.physics.umb.edu/seminar.htm
• University of Pennsylvania Condensed Matter Seminar Schedule – http://www.physics.upenn.edu/~cmsem/

Collections of historic papers

• “Physics Examples and other Pedagogic Diversions” by K. McDonald – http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/ (= http://puhep1.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/) – a nice collection of historic physics papers. Some areas of interest:
  • Electro-Magnetism: http://puhep1.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/EM/
• Collection of historic physics papers by Allan Murray (Auckland, New Zealand): theory – trivialanomaly.com | experiment – trivialanomaly.com/experiments.htm
• Collection of selected papers in physical chemistry: web.lemoyne.edu/~GIUNTA/papers.html
• Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry (and Some Physics too): dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Chem-History/Classic-Papers-Menu.html
• Herman Weyl archive – weylmann.com
• Einstein Archive Online – alberteinstein.info
• Einstein’s Annus Mirabilis 1905 – lorentz.phl.jhu.edu/AnnusMirabilis
• Historic Papers – home.tiscali.nl/physis/HistoricPaper/ | 2010.12.06: update – this archive is gone now 😦

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Physics blogs

• This Week’s Finds in Mathematical Physics (John Baez’s blog like series) – http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/TWF.html
• Not Even Wrong – http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/
• Free Won’t – http://laplacian.wordpress.com/
• Charm &c. – superweak.wordpress.com
• A Quantum Diaries Survivor (Tommaso Dorigo) – dorigo.wordpress.com
• Cocktail Party Physics (Jennifer Ouellette) – twistedphysics.typepad.com
• Collider Blog (Michael Schmitt) – muon.wordpress.com
• Cosmic Variance – cosmicvariance.com
• Deep Down Things (Travis Stewart) – hep.phys.sfu.ca/~tstewart/blog
• Gnostical Turpitude – gnosticalturpitude.org/wordpress
• Kiwi Particle Physicist (David Heffernan) – kiwiparticlephysicist.blogspot.com
• Life as a Physicist (Gordon Watts) – gordonwatts.wordpress.com
• Symmetry factor (Alexey Petrov) – apetrov.wordpress.com
• Angry Physics – angryphysics.blogspot.com
• Carl Brannen – carlbrannen.wordpress.com
• Island’s blog – evolutionarydesign.blogspot.com
• Life on the lattice – latticeqcd.blogspot.com
• collider blog – muon.wordpress.com
• Peter Woit’s blog – www.math.columbia.edu/
• three PhD students blogging about physics – particlephd.wordpress.com
• echoes from the theory division at CERN – resonaances.blogspot.com
• Dimitri Terryn’s blog – stringschool.blogspot.com
• Sujit Datta’s blog – metadatta.wordpress.com
• Superweak – superweak.wordpress.com
• Alexey Petrov – apetrov.wordpress.com
• kea’s blog – kea-monad.blogspot.com
• Marco Frasca’s blog – marcofrasca.wordpress.com
• Dave Bacon’s blog – dabacon.org/pontiff
• “Lab Notes for a Scientific Revolution (Physics)” by Jay R. Yablon – http://jayryablon.wordpress.com/ – sounds like a fringe to me

Physics wikis

• SklogWiki – sklogwiki.org – dedicated to the thermodynamics of simple liquids, complex fluids, and soft condensed matter
• Qwiki – qwiki.stanford.edu – a quantum physics wiki devoted to the collective creation of technical content for practicing scientists
• Quantiki – quantiki.org – dedicated to the quantum information science

Astronomy and Astrophysics

• Lists and Plots: Minor Planets – cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/MPLists.html
  • Minor Planet Names: Alphabetical List – cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/MPNames.html
• Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature – planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov
  • Planet and Satellite Names and Discoverers – planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/append7.html
• Timeline of natural satellites – book-of-thoth.com/thebook/index.php/Timeline_of_natural_satellites
• WikiSky – wikisky.org

Related here:

• Astronomy & Astrophysics – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/astronomy-astrophysics/
• Astronomic tables and calculators – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/astronomic-tables-and-calculators/
• Solar planetary system – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/solar-planetary-system/
• Inside black holes – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/inside-black-holes/

Complexity (Integrability, Exact Solvability, Chaos, Small Worlds, Networking, etc)

• JASSS (The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation) – jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html
• Complexity Digest – comdig.org, comdig.de

Various

• Neutrino unbound – nu.to.infn.it
  • Literature on neutrino models – nu.to.infn.it/Neutrino_Models
• Morphogenesis:
  • Phylotaxis – maven.smith.edu/~phyllo
• QM (Quantum Mechanics):
  • Carlos Stroud’s”Wave Packets and the Classical Limit of Quantum Mechanics” – optics.rochester.edu/~stroud
  • “Glauber States: Coherent states of Quantum Harmonic Oscillator” Java applet – http://web.ift.uib.no/AMOS/MOV/HO/
  • “HARMONICKÝ OSCILÁTOR” Java applet – http://vega.fjfi.cvut.cz/docs/pvok/aplety/kv_osc/index.html
• The Frank Wilczek Web Site: frankwilczek.com
  • Easy pieces – frankwilczek.com/Wilczek_Easy_Pieces
  • The Ligthness of Being (book) – lightnessofbeingbook.com
  • Nobel page – nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2004/wilczek-autobio.html
  • Faculty page at MIT – web.mit.edu/physics/facultyandstaff/faculty/frank_wilczek.html
• Relational Quantum Gravity – teleconnection.info/rqg – probably fringe

Related information on this blog

• Physics books online – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/physics-books-online/

Heat conduction equation

The problem is defined by following three elements:

• ODE: ,
• Domain: ,
• Initial condition: .

Using the Fourier transform one gets to the solution:

For example, for one gets .

Harmonic oscillator

Potential function:

Solutions of the Schr\”odinger equation:

• States:
• Energies: