All information exists in three formats: dvi, Postscript, and PDF. The dvi format is readable only on Unix. Postscript is readable with the free Ghostscript/Ghostview software, which is available for Unix and Macintosh/Windows, while PDF is readable with either Ghostscript or the Adobe Acrobat reader, which is also free and available for Unix and Macintosh/Windows.

WARNING: I have provided PDF for all the Postscript so that Windows users may also view these files. However, PDF produced on Unix is not compatible with PDF viewers on Windows, so the results may be unsatisfactory.

NOTE 5/06: To save room, I've deleted some of the Postscript files.

• blue syllabus, 25 August
• yellow handout on Matlab and Octave, 25 August
• tan handout on the user environment and logging in, 25 August
• Introduction to Unix (white), 25 August
• HW1 (orange), 25 August, due 2 September
• HW2, 3 September, due 7 September
• HW3, 5 September, due 14 September
• HW4, 15 September, due 21 September
• HW5, 22 September, due 28 September
• HW6, 29 September, due 12 October (note extended due date)
• HW9, 13 October, due 26 October
• HW11, 27 October, due 11 November (note extended due date)
• HW13, 10 November, due 30 November
• background reading on spins for HW13, problem 1
• HW15, 26 November, due 6 December
• introduction to C for Matlab programmers