Resources

Resources with which physics network users should become familiar include:

• The Wolfram WWW site which has Mathematica packages and Notebooks free for the downloading, illustrating their use in a wide variety of disciplines. It is very frequently updated and has searchable indices. Unfortunately Wolfram Research appears to be more interested in helping develop commercial add-ons than in encouraging distribution of non-commercial user-developed tools.

• MathWorld is a general mathematics resource with good general articles and references. If you don't recognize a function that Mathematica uses as part of a solution, look up more at MathWorld. Make yourself a nerdy little ringtone here.

• The Mathematica Usenet newsgroup comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica, where thousands of Mathematica users have confronted and resolved difficulties since the early 1990s.
• Getting started with version 5.2
• Old but good tutorials
• DMW examples from physics courses