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Tools

Desktop

Currently I use a variety of pencils, pens and paper products.

Machines

• Casio fx-3600p calculator and manual (some 20 years old now);
• Casio FX790P and manuals (some 10-15 years old now);
• Custom 3.5GHz i7, 32Gb running Slackware 14.0 (i.e. Linux/GNU);
• Dell dual-PIII 550MHz (1GB) running a patched Slackware 10.2 (i.e. Linux/GNU); (lasted 13 years uptime, now in shed)
• Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 for note-taking etc; also I've copied chunks of the TCAEP site onto it as a useful database of constants and equations.
• Fujitsu-Seimens P7010 Lifebook as my laptop.
• Stapler ;
• Citizen CBM 777 portable CD player (some 19 years old now, and dying);

Programs

• Axe for text editing (as per the (Debian patched version 6.1.2-15), (or try ftp);
• Xfig for drawing figures (try ftp);
• Mutt for email, this has now replaced Elm;
• fvwm2 as my computer window manager under X;
• Tin for USENET news; with Leafnode for downloading it from newservers;
• PGPLOT as a graphics library (compilation notes), and Xmgr for quick plots (try ftp) (actually I don't use this any more);
• Scilab for equation plotting and data analysis (compilation notes).
• Xv (mostly) to view images;
• Ghostview to view postscript and pdf;
• Konqueror , firefox or Lynx to browse the web.
• LaTeX (teTeX) for calculations, complex notes, and occaisional word processing. Mostly I view the documents with xdvi because it understands hyperlinks;
• OpenSCAD and OpenFOAM (my slackware install hints here)
• DataSight, fortran code for handling and manipulating data up to 3D (written by me);
• AnimSight, a simple fortran library for animating data (written by me);
• Surface, code for producing very elegant looking surface plots written by Stephen Carter.
• XT_BASE, PGXD_BASE, PS_BASE, basic libraries for writing graphics to X, PGPLOT, or postscript (written by me).
• There is also a collection of maths routines, mostly based on ones from books that produce random numbers, do integrals, fourier transforms, curve fitting (regression, stochastic, and evolutionary), cubic splines of up to three dimensions, and so on.
• gnupg, encryption and signing tool.

Simulation Code

• cow, code for optical pulse propagation
• dmc2, Monte Carlo code for hole transport in semiconductors
• sb-monte, Monte Carlo code for electron transport in semiconductors, including ee scattering
• thzo, code for calculating electron scattering rates in III-V semiconductors
• propag, code for optical pulse propagation in fibres (mostly SJC)
• oscim, SDE solver for coupled quantum modes
• dpo-th, number-state basis solver for coupled quantum modes

Coding

• fortran (often g77): for number crunching and quick programs;
• C (gcc): when it happens to be convenient;
• Bash shell scripts: to process data, run simulation sets, make command-line short-cuts, and so on.

Bookshelf

Just because a book is in this list doesn't mean I use it very much (if at all), or that I like it. I may have got it cheap, it might have been a set text for one of my courses. Some of them, however, are useful.

• Bradley, A primer of linear algebra, (Prentice-Hall)
• Eisberg, Resnik, Quantum mechanics (of atoms, molecules, solids, nuclei and particles), (Wiley)
• French, Taylor, An introduction to quantum physics, (Chapman-Hall)
• Gardiner, Quantum Noise, (Springer-Verlag)
• Grossman, Calculus, (Academic Press)
• Harrison, Quantum wells, wires and dots, (Wiley)
• Kelly, Pohl, C by dissection, (Benjamin-Cummings)
• Kittel, Solid state physics, (Wiley)
• Klingshirm, Semiconductor Optics, (Springer-Verlag)
• Louden, Quantum theory of light, (Oxford)
• Perina, Coherence of light, (VNR)
• Rainville, Bedient, Elementary differential equations, (Macmillan)
• Reitz, Milford, Christy, Foundations of electromagnetic theory, (Addison-Wesley)
• Spiegel, Advanced Calculus, (Schaum/McGraw-Hill)
• Spiegel, Theoretical Mechanics, (Schaum/McGraw-Hill)
• Schutz, A first course in general relativity, (Cambridge)
• Temblay, Sorenson, An introduction to data structures with applications, (McGraw-Hill)
• Walls, Milburn, Quantum Optics, (Springer-Verlag)
• Wenckebach, Quantum physics of semiconductors, (preprint)
• Eton statistical and math tables, (Heinemann 1980)
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