| Plasma_Simulation_Projects Projects on numerical plasma simulation, including HPEM code, Monte Carlo Module, and Feature Profile Model, developed at the Computational Optical and Discharge Physics Group, University of Illinois. |
| Plasma_TV_Science Guide to plasma science used within the plasma television technology. Includes educational resources and links to related information. |
| Theoretical_Principles_of_Plasma_Physics_and_Atomic_Physics Essential facts and formulae. |
| Who_is_Who_in_Atomic_and_Plasma_Physics_(WWAPP) Database from Plasma Laboratory at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. |
| AP_Statistics_at_the_College_Board The College Board's official AP Statistics page. Course description, sample exam questions, teacher resources and contact information. |
| Business_Statistics Covers averages, normal distribution, best curve fit and skewness. Includes resource links. |
| Center_for_Statistics_Education The American Statistical Association sponsors educational resources for K-12 and above. ASA's LearnStat program provides continuing education for professional statisticians and educators. |
| Computer-Assisted_Statistics_Teaching_(CAST) A complete web-based course in introductory statistics. Registration required. |
| Curve_Fit Beginner's guide to nonlinear regression. Emphasizes how to interpret results. |
| The_Data_and_Story_Library Online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods. The goal is to provide data from a wide variety of topics so that statistics teachers can find interesting, |
| DISCUS Discovering Important Statistical Concepts Using Spreadsheets. Uses Excel spreadsheets to investigate statistical concepts. |
| Intro_Stat__EPR_Approach This site contains information about the Entity-Property-Relationship (EPR) approach to the introductory statistics course by Donald Macnaughton. |
| Introduction_to_Mathematical_Statistics Lecture notes from a year-long course in mathematical statistics. |
| Introductory_Statistics___Concepts,_Models,_and_Applications_by_David_Stockburger An online, searchable introductory statistics text. By David Stockburger of Southwest Missouri State University. |
| Intuitive_Biostatistics Harvey Motulsky, OUP (1995). Site for the book, with online extracts (PDF). |
| K-12_Statistics_Education Resources in statistics including lessons and useful data sets. |
| Number_Watch Monitors the media in search of misleading numbers in news, politics and science. |
| Numeracy_in_the_News Features sections on data collection and sampling, creating graphs, probability and inference. Also, includes special topic articles and teacher spreadsheet programs. |
| Primer_in_Statistics Covers mean, mode, median, standard deviation, area approximation, charts and testing for normality. |
| Resources_in_Statistics,_Quantitative_Methods_and_Experimental_Design Statistics-related exercises and humour, for courses from high school to graduate level. |
| Rice_Virtual_Lab_in_Statistics This resource for teaching statistics includes java simulations, case studies, an online text, and an analysis lab. |
| SAS_JMP Tutorials for SAS's JMP Statistical Analysis Software. |
| Seeing_Statistics Tutorial using graphs to illustrate concepts. Includes glossary of terms. Online purchase. |
| StatiBot An on-line expert system for finding statistical tests appropriate to a dataset. |
| Statistica Book, with worked examples and courses are specially designed for the non-mathematicians. Includes excerpts and ordering information. |
| Statistical_Data_Analysis Tutorial describes time series analysis, popular distributions, and other topics. |
| Statistical_Home_Page_(David_Howell) This site contains a variety of pages related to the teaching of parametric and nonparametric statistics. It includes examples, content, lecture notes, and ideas on teaching. |
| Statistical_Java An interactive environment for teaching undergraduate statistics. Java applets demonstrate properties and concepts of statistics. Requires Java enabled browser. |
| Statistics_Education Links related to statistics education: online teaching material, courses , handouts, exercises, articles, datasets, and other useful links. Collected by Juha Puranen from the Department of Statistics |
| Statistics_In_A_Day A short course in data analysis. A 70 page book designed for a one-day workshop/course in data analysis. A number of versions are available, suitable for different groups of people. Ideas explained i |
| StatNotes__Online_Textbook_in_Statistics Graduate-level text by David Garson of North Carolina State University. Especially well suited for social sciences. |
| STEPS__STatisical_Education_through_Problem_Solving A program for teaching statistics through problem so students will recognize its applications. Free CBL software with modules in pyschology, biology, geography and business. Glossary of statistical te |
| SurfStat_australia Online, introductory statistics course notes. Includes an extensive glossary, interactive exercises, javascript probability tables and some java applet animations. |
| Teach/Me_-_Data_Analysis HTML-based textbook with integrated statistical package and embedded interactive examples allowing the user to experiment with various models and methods. On-line purchase. |
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MATLAB modules for introductory plasma physics 
Purpose. This application integrates the ordinary differentialequations of motion (Newton's equation) for a charged particle in prescribedelectric and magnetic fields (resulting in a Lorentz force modifying thetrajectory). Relying on a powerful user interface from Matlab with buttonsand sliders, the script is written so as to make it easy for the student to prescribe any field configuration and plot the resulting particle trajectory.A number of configurations of practical interest are already preset, suchas constant, dipole and toroidal magnetic fields with or without rotationaltransform. In the simple cases, the student can for example directly observe and measure the Larmor radius, ExB, Grad(B), the curvature and the polarization drifts. More complicated examples illustrate the principle of magnetic confinement in a tokamak and show how charged particles get trapped in the earth's magnetic field.Code. In Matlab command language (version 5.2-7.0), including the graphics interface spm.m (271 lines), the equations of motioneqMotion.m (119 lines) and the input data data.m (23 lines). The application has been tested 1998-2001 in the classroom: here is an example showing the trajectory of a fast electron trapped in the dipole field of the earth and viewed from the equator.Distribution. Register to immediately download the source file(s) and pay a small fee (USD 29.00) using a secured paypal credit-card payment. Dispersion relation of a cold plasma (DSPRL)
Purpose.The propagation of electromagnetic waves is an importantand very rich subject in plasma physics. Applications include many diverse subjects such as reflection of light by a mirror, the propagationof perturbations in the ionosphere or interstellar space, interferometry,and heating schemes used in fusion devices. In a straightforward, but veryuseful approximation, the entire subject can be studied starting from thesame quadratic dispersion relation for an index of refraction. This is very tedious to solve analytically, but extremely easy to handle numerically in Matlab, for example, for a varying frequency or inhomogeneous plasma parameters. A number of scenarii of physical interest are already preset, such as short waves in the ionosphere, waves in the upper and lower hybrid range, ion-ion mode conversion current drive and fast or Alfven wave heating in tokamaks. The wave branches can directly be plotted and the input parameters modified, prescribing the profiles in an interactive command window and changing parameter with a slider. Code. In Matlab command language (version 5.2-7) for the entire script dsprl.m (593 lines). The application has been tested 1999-2001 in the classroom: here is an example of the wavelengths calculated for a DIII-D tokamak ion-ion hybrid heating scenario.Distribution.Register to immediately download the source file(s) and pay a small fee (USD 29.00) using a secured paypal credit-card payment. Particle in cell simulation (PIC)
Purpose.A self-consistent evolution of the Newton-Poisson equations is computed in 1D using the particle-in-cell method. Applications include non-linear plasma oscillations, the instability of counter-propagating electron beams in a periodic plasma and the behaviour of a Bohm sheath in a radio-frequency heated bounded plasma device. The plasma evolution is diagnosed by selecting plots for the phase-space,the charge density, the electric field / potential in configuration orFourier space. Code. In Matlab command language (version 5.2-7.0) for the entire script pic.m (690 lines) and a small driver for quiet start initialization revers.m. The application has been tested 2000-2001 in the classroom: here is an example of a calculation showing the formationof a Bohm sheath in an industrial plasma used for ion-implantation.Distribution. Register to immediately download the source file(s) and pay a small fee (USD 29.00) using a secured paypal credit-card payment. Ray-tracing in a tokamak (RAY)
Purpose.Currently under development in collaboration with A.Kaufman (UC Berkeley) and E.Tracy (William & Mary), the code solves for the trajectories of electromagnetic waves assimilated to rays in toroidal geometry. Applications include the radio-frequency heating and current drive in fusion energy devices. This set of modules may be useful at a graduate level to familiarize the students with the toroidal geometry of tokamaks.Code. In Matlab command language (version 5.2-7.0) for the entire script.This application has not been tested yet for teaching purposes: here is an example of a pencil of magnetosonic rays reflected at the evanescent layer in front of the ion-ion hybrid resonance.Distribution. The code is under development to tackle mode-conversion in 2D and is not at present openly distributed. You may however inquire about a possible collaboration by contacting André Jaun. Our experience in the classroom (CTH/Gothenburg, Sweden).For all these projects, it is the initial educational motivation that led to the analytic formulation and the design of an application; this ensures that all the functionalities are really useful and what is needed is also available.The choice of the Matlab command language is motivated by the simplicity of the language which is also very familiar to the engineering students in Sweden. Advanced functions in the programming environment considerably reduced the development time for the graphical user interface. Because of the large number of preset cases, debugging and testing the scripts were particularly important.Certainly, the Matlab programmes have simplified teaching an otherwisedifficult subject. One big advantage is that many principles canbe very concretely illustrated. We have been able to cut down onalgebra, which has made it possible to focus more on applications and thisis appreciated by the students. 
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