​Recommended resources by the Department of Physics faculty at Grove City College include:

Physics Websites

MIT online courses: Free online courses from MIT, sometimes with video lectures

Recommended Readings (Career Choices)

Discovering Your Natural Talents - John Bradley (Available in the Buhl library)

What Color is Your Parachute? - Richard N. Bolles (Available in the Buhl library)

Physics Software (Freeware/Opensource)

Paint.NET: More sophisticated version of paint, good for making diagrams 

GNUPlot: Great plotting program

GNUPlot Resource: Good examples/documentation for GNUPlot

LyX: LaTex document processor (easier to use than LaTex)

JabRef: Program for managing BibTex references in LyX or LaTex (very helpful)

ExpressPCB and Express SCH: Free software for making schematics and printed circuit boards

Cywin: Unix environment for Windows

Crimson Editor: C++ code editor

Autodock: Protein docking software

Tinker: Molecular mechanics software

Sundials: Suite of Nonlinear and Differential/Algebraic equation Solvers

Octave: open source program compatible with MatLab

Audacity: Sound recording/editing software

Spekwin32: Spectra viewing software (can view most standard spectra formats)

Double Cad software: Free version of 2D Cad program that is relatively easy to use

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