Useful stuff

In my web browsing I often accumulate useful websites in my tabs, which I list here in an effort to close tabs and browser windows. Mostly for my own reference, but perhaps you can find something useful too.

Useful useful stuff

Hard-to-find references

Kompaneets (1960): A Point Explosion in an Inhomogeneous Atmosphere
Leroy & Mangeney (1984): A theory of energization of solar wind electrons by the Earth's bow shock
Computer Science Plasma Physics: Simulation Techniques and Software (1993) eds. H. Matsumoto and Y. Omura (a manual duplicate of Wayback Machine's mirror)

Physics, Math, Stuff

Smerlak 2011, Eur. J. Phys. - A derivation of Planck's radiation law without using a box.
MSU Phy481 site - lecture notes for 1st half of Griffiths' Intro. Electrodynamics
Wieman and Perkins, Physics Today - physics education
Math 311 at Reed - lecture notes from a complex analysis course
Specifically, 3.3.2 Scattering Approach - scattering blah
Scattering, finite sq. well
Scattering, finite sq. well (again)
DOI, arXiv - Delamotte, A hint of renormalization
Scherr et al. 2001, Am. J. Phys. Student understanding of special relativity
Methods for hyperbolic conservation laws
JPL HORIZONS - ephemerides for solar system objects
Cross product operator as a matrix. Can rederive from \(\varepsilon_{ijk} a_{j} b_{k}\) (ignoring co/contra-variance, OK for orthonormal basis).
Mihalas and Mihalas (1984) foundations of radiation hydrodynamics
Blandford and Thorne
numpy einsum, thorough introduction
Levi-Civita identities (local mirror)
JETP (Zhurnal Eksperimental'noi Teoreticheskoi Fiziki)
JETP Letters english archive
Paper-and-pencil cosmological calculator (arXiv:1303.5961)
DLMF (succeeds Abramowitz/Stegun)
Old IAEA conference proceedings index (links dead)
IAEA 3rd Conf 1968 Novosibirsk Volume I
IAEA 3rd Conf 1968 Novosibirsk Volume II
IAEA 4th Conf 1971 Madison Volume I
IAEA 4th Conf 1971 Madison Volume II
Proc. Intl. Conf. on Plasma Confined in Open-Ended Geometry, AEC Conf-671127, held Nov. 1-4, 1967 in Gatlinburg, TN, USA

Notes

Mechanics

Short note on kinematic hardening - more stuff on plasticity at the course site.
Cornell CEE 6550 site - notes on fluids, transport in environmental settings
Yuhi and Mei 2004, J. Fluid. Mech. - slow spreading of mud over a conical surface
Soto et al. 2008, gallery of fluid motion
Hu, Chan, Bush 2003 - water strider locomotion

Equipment, Electronics

NI 435x user manual
NI TBX-68T terminal block install guide
NI 435x example VI - how to get a higher sampling rate
Omega's thermocouple reference
Photodiodes and opamp circuits

Science of science?

Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (support for OA publishing)
Open access through author fees - discussion
Error bars - std. dev. vs. CI vs. std. error; doi
Data curation and archiving using SDSS data as an example. Gray et al. 2002, Microsoft tech report
B. Barres on gender
Python project design and make for data scientists
"Why Academics Stink at Writing"
contractions and readability
The Science of Scientific Writing (Gopen & Swan) (mirror)
rm weasel words, passives, duplicates
Mathematical Writing (Knuth+)

Reseach process/workflow

Sumatra - data management for numerical simulations/analysis?
Software carpentry v4 essays (doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000424 for data management) (wayback machine archive) (github archive)
Software carpentry v4 on software engineering (wayback machine archive) (github archive)
P. Guo's burrito
IDSIA/sacred

Typesetting and figures and things

Detexify
Table typesetting, and this
Colors for figures
ColorBrewer 2.0 -- colors for maps and things
Rainbow color map (still) considered harmful
Table readability, from MILSTD 1472F
Zebra striping efficacy for tables
Chicago Manual Of Style Q&A on cf. vs. see
Hyphenation (useful physics examples)
AGU grammar/style
PR grammar/style
Eos on colormaps
Robert Simmon (previously NASA Earth Obs) on data visualization

Software

Food

Coffee... and cheap coffee
Chocolate chip cookies
How to brown butter
Egg properties
food books
- ingredients
- food safety
- desserts
- meat
garlic

???

Distributed random number generation

How do you select a random number (or, random seed) in a distributed, deterministic, publicly-verifiable way? In a group of N unknown parties, it should be possible for 1 "trustworthy" participant to help choose the random seed such that N-1 colluding parties cannot unduly bias the result. Here are a few links on this topic:

Aaron Tran