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The Internet contains a vast array of useful resources. Its like having a hard disk with ten million gigabytes in your computer. The following is a small selection of cool URLs. Each one has links to many other sites. For your convenience, this Appendix is also on the CD inside the back cover of this book, in Microsoft WORD 7 format (Appendix-2.doc.) and HTML format. Use your web browser to open the HTML file. After you bring up this Appendix on your computer, you can click on a URL (underlined, in blue on your monitor) and you will be connected to the selected site on the Internet, if your modem is working. The Internet is constantly changing, so some of these URLs may no longer be available. This Appendix is also available in ASCII format on the disk, in the file named apdx-2.txt. Alternative connection to the Internet sites: Dial up your Internet connection and have your web browser running. Type in the URL of the desired site and press Enter. Instead of typing, you can use the Copy operation. Copy an address from the list below and click on your browser Edit to Paste it in the address line in your web browser. Then press Enter. http://www.microsoft.com/Office/archive/xl97brch/default.htm Keep informed with the latest information, and archives, about EXCEL. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp Free downloads for enhancing Microsoft products. http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/downloadCatalog/dldExcel.htm Lots of free downloads specifically for EXCEL. Included are the EXCEL Internet Assistant (instantly convert spreadsheets to HTML), EXCEL Viewer (share spreadsheets with people who dont have EXCEL), add new spreadsheet functions, and so on.
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http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/default.asp Microsoft Press home page. This has books about Microsoft products and some free downloads. http://www.spreadsheetworld.com/ Home page of Spreadsheet World. Lots of links to spreadsheet information. On July 27, 1999, Microsoft became aware of a security issue involving the ODBC database driver that is installed as a part of EXCEL 97. It is possible that a malicious coder could create an EXCEL 97 spreadsheet that exploits a vulnerability in this database driver to delete files and perform other malicious acts. A user could encounter this problem by opening a spreadsheet attached to an e-mail message or linked from a Web site. In the course of producing the solution to this security issue, Microsoft testing became aware of a separate vulnerability in the ODBC database driver that may affect Excel 2000 users. This vulnerability is related to the IISAM component of the ODBC database driver and could be exploited using an EXCEL 2000 query to perform malicious acts similar to those described in EXCEL 97 ODBC Driver Vulnerability. Microsoft has produced a solution to this specific vulnerability and incorporated it into an update. Now available for download, the following update addresses the EXCEL ODBC Driver Vulnerability: http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/Articles/mdac_typ.htm At this URL you will see your download options in the Table of Contents area of the page. http://www.dataq.com/windaq.htm Free download of WINDAQ playback and analysis software that reads spreadsheet files, among others. WINDAQ is quite powerful (see Chapter 10). This software originally sold for $795. Dataq Instruments also provides a very inexpensive RS-232 serial data acquisition device. http://www.senn.com/ Science and Engineering Network News. A great site with many links and an excellent guide to Internet resources for engineers and scientists. http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html This is the home page of the Library of Congress. Use its search engine to access the vast information resources of this Library. http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/MathSciGateway/ The Cornell Theory Center Math and Science Gateway. Links to almost everything.

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http://archives.math.utk.edu/calculus/crol.html Calculus resources on-line. http://euclid.math.fsu.edu/Science/math.html The Florida State University Mathematics Department's links to math resources on the net. http://www.maa.org/ This is the home page of the Mathematical Association of America. http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/Ref.html Engineering Center, Science Tables & Databases, Bioscience Center, Chemistry Center, Mathematics Center, Physics Center, Space & Astrophysics Center, and more. http://www.ieee.org/ This is the home page of IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. http://www.ieee.org/society/index.html This home page has links to the following IEEE technical societies. IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society IEEE Broadcast Technology Society IEEE Circuits and Systems Society IEEE Communications Society IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Society IEEE Computer Society IEEE Consumer Electronics Society IEEE Control Systems Society IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society IEEE Education Society IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society IEEE Electron Devices Society IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society IEEE Engineering Management Society IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society IEEE Industrial Electronics Society IEEE Industry Applications Society IEEE Information Theory Society IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society IEEE Magnetics Society

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IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society IEEE Neural Networks Council IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society IEEE Power Electronics Society IEEE Power Engineering Society IEEE Professional Communication Society IEEE Reliability Society IEEE Robotics and Automation Society IEEE Signal Processing Society IEEE Social Implications of Technology Society IEEE Solid-State Circuits Council/Society IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society IEEE Vehicular Technology Society http://www.asme.org The home page of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Check out the student page at http://www.asme.org/students/ http://www.asce.org/ This is the home page of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) http://www.acs.org/ This is the home page of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Check out the student page at http://www.acs.org/edugen2/education/stu_aff/sa.htm http://clogp.pomona.edu/medchem/chem/index.html Chemistry resources on the Internet http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/links.html Huge collection of chemistry links from the University of Liverpool. http://www.aibs.org This is the home page of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. It has links to all of the member societies. http://www.orst.edu/~ahernk/biochemlinks.html Biotechnology Software and Internet Journal. http://www.mpae.gwdg.de/EGS/EGS.html Home page of the European Geophysical Society.

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http://www.agu.org/ Home page of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). It has more than 35,000 members in 115 countries. http://physicsweb.org/TIPTOP/ The Internet Pilot To Physics (TIPTOP). Check out the worldwide collection of cool Java applets in the Virtual Laboratory. You could learn a lot here. http://www.psrc-online.org/ Physical Science Resource Center at American Association of Physics Teachers. http://www.phys.washington.edu/groups/peg/ Center for Physics Education at University of Washington. http://www.physics.umd.edu/deptinfo/facilities/lecdem/ Physics Demonstration Lab at University of Maryland. http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/pams/physics/Physics_Ed/ Physics Education Research and Development at North Carolina State University http://mazur-www.harvard.edu/Education/EducationMenu.html Science Education Research at Harvard, Eric Mazur Group. http://www.me.umn.edu/ Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus http://www.unl.edu/physics/Education.html Physics Education Research at University of Nebraska at Lincoln. http://www.nsf.gov/home/ehr/start.htm Undergraduate MSE&T Education Program, National Science Foundation. http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfp/ Physics Department at the U. S. Air Force Academy. http://webphysics.iupui.edu/152_251_mainpage.html Just-in-Time Teaching of Physics at IUPUI.

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http://www.aip.org/pt/ This is the home page of PHYSICS TODAY. Check this out for the latest news, interesting articles, and Web Watch. http://www.aas.org/ American Astronomical Society (AAS). http://earth.agu.org/ American Geophysical Union (AGU). http://www.aapt.org/ American Association of Physics Teachers AAPT. The web site for the American Journal of Physics is http://www.kzoo.edu/ajp .You can search by author, title, and subject in the database at http://ojps.aip.org/ajp/ http://www.aip.org/ American Institute of Physics (AIP). http://aps.org/ American Physical Society (APS). http://www.anl.gov/ Argonne National Laboratory. http://www.bnl.gov/bnl.html Brookhaven National Laboratory. http://www.cebaf.gov/ The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, or Jefferson Lab, is a basic research laboratory built to probe the nucleus of the atom the quark structure of matter. http://www.fnal.gov/ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. http://www.llnl.gov/ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). LLNL is operated by the University of California under a contract with the US Department of Energy. http://www-phys.llnl.gov/ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Physics and Space Technology.

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http://www.lanl.gov/external/ Los Alamos National Laboratory. http://www.nas.edu/ National Academy of Sciences. This home page also links to the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and their principal operating agency, the National Research Council. http://www.nasa.gov/ The home page of NASA. Prepare to spend a day at this web site. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/GSFC_orgpage.html NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/ NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics. http://www.ornl.gov/home.html Oak Ridge National Laboratory. http://www.pnl.gov:2080/ Pacific Northwest Laboratory. http://www.sandia.gov/ Sandia National Laboratories. http://www.slac.stanford.edu/ Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. http://www.ioppublishing.com/ The Institute of Physics (United Kingdom). http://nobelprizes.com/ The Nobel Prizes. This has a searchable database. Women have won Nobel Prizes in all fields except economics. This web site discusses several theories about the lack of a Nobel Prize in mathematics. http://www.ibm.com/ The home page of IBM.

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http://www.intel.com/ The home page of Intel. http://telerobot.mech.uwa.edu.au/ Australian telerobot site. Operate a telerobot on the web. Links to other telerobots, including a cute little robot in the EE Department at Mississippi State University: http://spaceghost.ece.msstate.edu/telerobot.html http://www.usno.navy.mil The U.S. Naval Observatory performs an essential scientific role for the Navy, for the Department of Defense and for the United States. Its mission is to determine the positions and motions of celestial objects, to provide astronomical data, to measure the Earth's rotation and to maintain the Master Clock. http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ The Time Service Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory is the official source of time used in the United States. This web site has several fascinating sections, including the Global Positioning System and a way to set your PCs clock to the Master Atomic Clock. http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/time.html The National Institute of Standards and Technology presents A Walk Through Time. http://http.ee.queensu.ca:8000/www/dept/courses/elec331/eleclink.htm Electrical Engineering Software and Reference Materials at Queen's University, Canada. http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/gps.html The Global Positioning System (GPS). http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/fs-1037/ Glossary of Telecommunication Terms, U.S. Federal Standard 1037C. http://www.bldrdoc.gov/ Home page of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, Colorado Laboratories. http://bul.eecs.umich.edu/uffc/uffc_fc.html Clocks and time The comprehensive listing of horological sites on the internet Glossary of Time and Frequency Control Terms GPS Internet Connections NIST Time and Frequency activities

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Time signals and frequency standards emissions, List of ITU-R Recommendations UFFC Sensors and Actuators Section http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/nobel.html Nobel Prize winners related to frequency control and timekeeping: Rabi, Ramsey, Dehmelt, Paul, Chu, Cohen-Tannoudji and Phillips. http://www.patent-inf.tu-ilmenau.de/links/patinfo-eng.html Patent Information. See the IBM site for all U. S. patents since 1971. http://www.patents.ibm.com/ The IBM site for U. S. patents since 1971. This is a free searchable database. http://physics.nist.gov/funcon.html Fundamental Physical Constants, courtesy of National Institute of Standards and Technology Physics Laboratory. http://bul.eecs.umich.edu/uffc/uffc_fc.html Frequency control, University of Michigan. http://bul.eecs.umich.edu/uffc/quartz/vig/vigtoc.htm So, you think you know all about crystal oscillators? (Fort Monmouth) http://www.npl.co.uk/ National Physical Laboratory, Queens Road, Teddington, Middlesex, United Kingdom. http://www.Colorado.EDU/physics/2000/ University of Colorado at Boulder; excellent interactive Java applets. http://www.wiley.com/ Western hemisphere home page of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. publishers since 1807. For Europe, go to http://www.wiley.co.uk/ for faster operation. For Australia and the western Pacific area, go to http://www.jacwiley.com.au. http://www.aaii.org/dloads/sprsheets/ http://home.gvi.net/~cpearson/excel/pivots.htm PivotTable tutorial http://home.gvi.net/~cpearson/excel/topic.htm EXCEL topic index