Briefly, the primary aim of the project Strengthening Computation in Undergraduate Physics Programs is to produce flexible text materials that can be easily tailored for use in programs using a variety of different hardware platforms and software packages. To reflect the availability of a wide variety of software packages, this book can be assembled to include an arbitrarily chosen subset of the available components (IDL, MATLAB, OCTAVE, PYTHON, MAXIMA, MAPLE, Mathematica, FORTRAN, C, Numerical Recipes, LSODE, MUDPACK, LaTeX, and TGIF). With 14 components, each of which can be included or not, there are technically 2¹⁴ = 16,384 versions, though the vast majority of those versions makes no sense. Most commonly a version containing one numeric and graphical tool (IDL, MATLAB, OCTAVE, or PYTHON) and one computer algebra system (MAXIMA, MAPLE, or Mathematica) with Programming, and LaTeX will be specified. Within that spectrum, only 24 different versions survive, all of which are available for download from this site, both in a linked version convenient for viewing on a computer monitor and in a non-linked version that is better if a printed copy is wanted.

Unfortunately, the level of customization involved poses severe problems for the publishing systems of commercial publishers. Prior to making CPSUP available for direct download, the author had endeavored to self-publish this book by receiving orders for customized assemblages of the materials, producing the required number of bound copies, and shipping them to the end user. As he has approached actual (as opposed to nominal) retirement, he has decided to provide several different assemblages of these materials for direct download to anyone who wishes them.

A more detailed description of the history of this project and of the structure of CPSUP is contained in the 216 KB-8 page PDF document Description of the Second Edition of CPSUP.

The front matter in all assemblages of CPSUP contains

1. the Preface,
2. Acknowledgements,
3. a Disclaimer in which the tested platform and tested versions of the software packages are identified, and
4. the Table of Contents.

The first three items are the same in all assemblages of CPSUP. The fourth item in each version contains only those items relevant to the components of that assemblage. The first file below contains the Preface, Acknowledgements, and Disclaimer. The second file contains the full Table of Contents. To examine the Table of Contents as it is in a particular assemblage, visit the Download section, download whichever assemblage is of interest to you, open the file, and scroll to the Table of Contents.

The Table of Contents below includes all chapters and all sections within chapters. If only a subset of components is included in a particular assemblage, the chapters, sections and the occasional exercises related to omitted components will be omitted from the assemblage and also from the Table of Contents. Since chapter numbers, section numbers, subsection, and exercise numbers are preserved, there will then be gaps in those enumerations. Page numbers will, however, run continuously through each assemblage and equation, table, and figure numbers will run continuously through each chapter. References to different versions should be limited to chapter, section, and subsection numbers. References to pages, tables, equations, and figures will not translate accurately among assemblages.

Each link (the PDF icon next to each item) in the following table will access the indicated version of CPSUP, either for viewing on a computer screen or downloading to your local storage. The linked and print versions are textually identical. In the linked versions, each internal reference (including those in the Table of Contents and Index) is hot-linked to the item to which the reference points. The print version contains no hot-links. The print versions are the better ones to download if you wish to print some or all of the version. The linked versions are better for viewing on the screen. All files are in PDF format.

The two files labeled "Full version except for FORTRAN and C components" contain all components except those involving FORTRAN and C. Each version labeled with two software packages contains the generic components, the components identified in the label, and the LaTeX appendix. The two files labeled "LaTeX only" contain only the LaTeX appendix, the two files labeled "TGIF only" contain only the TGIF appendix, two files labeled "C components only" contain the generic components and the C components, and the two files labeled "FORTRAN components only" contain the generic and FORTRAN components. While the FORTRAN and C versions do not contain the chapters on IDL, MATLAB, OCTAVE, PYTHON, MAXIMA, MAPLE, or MATHEMATICA, those tools are nonetheless used occasionally in the FORTRAN and C versions.

Update Record

The cover page of each version includes the date on which the version was created.  That date is updated with each new printing, and the new printing incorporates all updates available on the date of its creation. The versions placed on this site and dated before 1 January 2021 were replaced in mid January 2021 with versions bearing dates in mid January 2021, the latter differing substantively from the former only in the addition of a section on animation to the OCTAVE chapter. The mid-January 2021 versions were themselves replaced on 22 February 2021 with versions dated 21 February 2021. On 20 February 2023, the February 2021 versions were themselves replaced with versions dated in the period 13-17 February 2023.  The February 2023 versions differ from the February 2021 versions by a number of small edits and by the addition of Chapter 15 treating Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) and Chapter 16 introducing the FORTRAN PDE package MUDPACK.

A dated summary of edits made after 31 January 2021 is compiled in the final item in the list below.

Through zipped files in two formats (.zip and .7z), this section provides access to all of the program and data files referred to at various points in CPSUP. Instructions for unzipping the files are laid out in the README file. When properly unzipped, the zipped files will install everything needed in the appropriate subdirectories of a newly created folder named CPSUP, which in turn is a subdirectory of a user-chosen and user-created directory somewhere in the user's system. The directory CPSUP will contain (a) a single EXCEL spreadsheet listing all of the files in the distribution, (b) the LaTeX source and PDF-formatted files for the README file, and (c) subdirectories named cc, data, fortran, idl, lsode, maple, mathematica, matlab, maxima, mudpack, octave, python, and tex. The resulting folder CPSUP will require about 41 MB of storage.

The downloadable README file below duplicates the one in the distribution and explains how to install the files in the local system. The downloadable EXCEL spreadsheet duplicates the spreadsheet in the zipped files.

Each link in the following table will access the available solutions for the indicated tool, either for viewing on a computer screen or downloading to your local storage. The linked and print versions are textually identical. In the linked versions, each internal reference (including those in the Table of Contents) is hot-linked to the item to which the reference points. The print version contains no hot-links. The print versions are the better ones to download if you wish to print some or all of the version. The linked versions are better for viewing on the screen. All files are in PDF format.

Clicking on the PDF icon next to an item brings up a box in which you can choose to open the identified version in an appropriate reader or to download the version.

Each pair of files below contains all available solutions for the tool identified in the title. The C files include solutions using Numerical Recipes; the FORTRAN files include solutions using LSODE, Numerical Recipes, and MUDPACK.

The files below were created in the period 17-19 February 2023 and uploaded to this site on 20 February 2023. The files below replaced differently structured files uploaded to this site on 26 May 2021.

This section provides links to the Local Guide used at Lawrence in the recent past as well as a link to a zipped file containing

• the source code for the Lawrence version of the Local Guide and
• a README file explaining how to use the source files to create a version appropriate for your site.

The described procedure assumes that you have a reasonably updated version of LaTeX installed in your system.

The linked and print versions are textually identical. In the linked versions, each internal reference (including those in the Table of Contents and Index) is hot-linked to the item to which the reference points. The print version contains no hot-links. The print versions are the better ones to download if you wish to print some or all of the version. The linked versions are better for viewing on the screen. All files are in PDF format.

Clicking on the icon next to an item brings up a box in which you can select either to open the file in an appropriate reader or download the file.