The Physics Software Review Project.


A call for assistance: This data base is a project in collaborative scholarship over the internet. Our goal is to create a searchable data base which collects technical information and user reviews of physics software. Please help by sending corrections, annotations, entries, relevant net sites, suggestions and any other helpful information you have to offer. Use the Response Box at the end of this page, or respond by e-mail to the editor, Kyle Forinash: forinas@indiana.edu.

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Response Box


Use the following to either add a software review to the data base or make corrections or additional comments to software already in the data base. Comments will be edited.

Reviewer information.

(NOTE: Anonymous reviews will not be posted in the data base.)

Software information.

  1. Name of the software you are reviewing or commenting on:

  2. Manufacturer:

  3. Phone number of manufacturer or distributor:

  4. Email adress and/or Http site of manufacurer or distributor:

  5. Catagory of software:
    1. Tutorial.
    2. Simulation.
    3. Utility (gradebook, spreadsheet, programing language)
    4. Data aquisition.

  6. Physics area or topic(s) covered by the software:

  7. Aproximate cost:
    1. Under $100.
    2. Between $100 and $500.
    3. Between $500 and $1000.
    4. More than $1000.

  8. Platform availability:
    1. Macintosh.
    2. UNIX.
    3. DOS.
    4. Windows.
    5. Other:

  9. Enter your comments. Be sure to include hardware requirements, suggestions on how to use the software, pointers to relevant information on the WWW and anything else you think might be useful to a potential user of this software:

  10. Overall rating:
    1. Excellent.
    2. Very good.
    3. Good.
    4. Weak.
    5. Don't waste your money.

    11. Maintained by Kyle Forinash: forinas@indiana.edu.