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What am I supposed to know?
It is assumed that you:
- have an account on bohr, the central Physics server at Brock
and have successfully logged on to one of Physics workstations;
- know a little bit about Unix or Linux, its file and command structure, and
some editor like vi or gedit;
- you are familiar with the concepts of graphical user interfaces (GUIs), and
with the process of clicking and dragging to manipulate objects on the screen
(closing, resizing, etc.).
If you feel that the above does not apply to you, let your
instructor know now. Otherwise, you may want to start a separate
terminal window right away. In this window, you can then run physica
(i.e. type physica at the prompt, followed by the Enter key) and
try different commands as we go along.
Briefly about the notation used in this document:
this font is used to indicate a ``computer word'', i.e. a
prompt or a message from a program, while something
you need to type in shows up like this.
In the latter case, an Enter key is implied at the
end of every line of input.
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