Computer Tips and Cool Sites





Setting up a Saclink Account

http://www.csus.edu/uccs/saclink/

This link will help you get started with setting up your Saclink account.
 

Software Tips

For more indepth training on software available through the campus.  Try the following web page.  You can get computer based training courses to load and run directly from your computer.

http://www.csus.edu/uccs/train/cbt.htm

For putting equations into your word processing documents for Microsoft Word, try using the equation editor function.  Go to the Insert menu and select Object.  In a table that will come up next, select Equation #, where the pound sign is the version of equation editor that is used by Microsoft Word.  Other word processing programs will often also have an equation editor in them.  Some quick key strokes that may save you some time.
These commands may vary with the font that is used and the program for the commands at the bottom.

The command that require the Option key do not work on Windows machines.  Instead you have to use the Unicode codes with the alt key.

Macintosh Commands              WindowsCommands

° Option+K alt-0176  
° Option+Shift+8  alt-0176  
Greek letter mu Option+m alt-0181  
squareroot sign Option+v alt-0214 Symbol font
± Option+Shift+= alt-0177  
Greek letter delta Option+j D Symbol font
Subscript Command+= Control + =  
Superscript Command+Shift+= Control + +  

General Links and Information:

http://www.csus.edu/uccs/labs/

Campus computing web site.  Good for finding out what resources are available locally.

http://www.refdesk.com

Good starting point on the web.  Has links to lots of good information.

http://www.webelements.com

This is a great information source on the properties of the elements.  Lots of good, basic science data.
 
 

Lab 2: Crystallography
 

http://ostc.physics.uiowa.edu/~wkchan/SOLIDSTATE/CRYSTAL/

For when you get tired of cutting cheese and breaking toothpicks.  Great web page for visualizing crystal structures.
 

Lab 5: Plastic Deformation

http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/download.html

This web site has the free image processing software (NIH Image) for the Mac.  Good for particle size distributions. Does more advanced image calculations such as subtractions, Fourier transforms, and has other image processing routines.

http://www.scioncorp.com/

This web site has the beta version for a PC NIH Image.  Click on the "Download Scion Image Processing Software" button at the bottom of the page.

http://www.lemkesoft.com/us_gcdownload.html

or

http://www.cat.uc.edu/dave/mirror/GC.html

This web site is for GraphicConverter which is a great shareware program for converting between different picture file formats.  Again, it is for the Mac.