Physicists

Tools and Technology

Tools Include:

• Accelerometers
• Frequency analyzers (Analog frequency analyzers)
• Sound measuring apparatus or decibel meter (Analog sound level meters)
• Analytical balances
• Laboratory safety furnaces (Annealing furnaces)
• Signal generators (Arbitrary function generators)
• Lasers (Argon ion lasers)
• Atomic absorption AA spectrometers
• Chromatographic detectors (Atomic emission detectors AED)
• Scanning probe microscopes (Atomic force microscopes)
• Mobile or transportable medical linear accelerators (Betatrons)
• Laboratory balances (Big G torsion balances)
• Capacitance meters (Capacitance bridges)
• Laser filters (Cavity dumpers or drivers)
• Photo attachments for microscopes (Charge-coupled device CCD cameras)
• Medical computed tomography CT or CAT scanners or tubes (Computed tomography CT scanners)
• Amplifiers (Conditioning amplifiers)
• Cryostats
• Mobile or transportable medical linear accelerators (Cyclotrons)
• Desktop computers
• Laboratory vacuum pumps (Diffusion pumps)
• High vacuum equipment (Diffusion-pumped vacuum systems)
• Multimeters (Digital multimeters)
• Oscilloscopes (Digital oscilloscopes)
• Plotter printers (Digital plotters)
• Sound measuring apparatus or decibel meter (Digital sound level meters)
• Voltage or current meters (Digital voltmeters DVM)
• Lasers (Diode lasers)
• Monochromators (Double monochromators)
• Electron microscopes
• Infrared spectrometers (Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers)
• Scanning probe microscopes (Friction-force microscopes)
• Signal generators (Function generators)
• Galvanometers (Galvanostats)
• Spectrometers (Gamma ray spectrometers)
• Gas chromatographs (Gas chromatography equipment)
• Injectors (Gas chromatography GC injectors)
• Magnetometer geophysical instruments (Gaussmeters)
• Geiger counters (Geiger-Muller counters)
• Monochromators (Grating monochromators)
• Autosamplers (Headspace autosamplers)
• Lasers (Helium lasers)
• Cryogenic or liquid nitrogen freezers (Helium refrigerators)
• Ultraviolet UV lamps (High intensity UV sources)
• High vacuum equipment
• Mobile or transportable medical linear accelerators (High-energy accelerators)
• Photosensitive diodes (High-resolution semiconductor detectors)
• Spectrometers (High-resolution spectrometers)
• Digital camcorders or video cameras (High-speed video cameras)
• Interferometers
• Ionization chambers
• Mass spectrometers (Isotope ratio mass spectrometers)
• Laboratory box furnaces
• Laboratory centrifugal pumps
• Electromagnets (Laboratory electromagnets)
• Tube furnaces (Laboratory tube furnaces)
• Notebook computers (Laptop computers)
• Laser beam analyzers (Laser power meters)
• Leak testing equipment (Leak detection equipment)
• Light scattering equipment (Light scattering devices)
• Mobile or transportable medical linear accelerators (Linear accelerators)
• Single gas monitors (Liquid helium level sensors)
• Scanning probe microscopes (Magnetic force microscopes)
• Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners (Magnetic resonance imaging MRI systems)
• Mass spectrometers
• Binocular light compound microscopes (Measuring microscopes)
• Interferometers (Mickelson interferometers)
• Interferometers (Microwave interferometers)
• Monochromators
• Lasers (Multiple diode lasers)
• Voltage or current meters (Nanovoltmeters)
• Radiation detectors (Neutron detectors)
• Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers (Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes)
• Optical beamsplitters (Optical beamsplitting devices)
• Optical choppers
• Signal generators (Optical detectors)
• Optical breadboards (Optical tables)
• Tweezers (Optical tweezers)
• Electronic counters (Particle counters)
• Personal computers
• Chromatographic detectors (Photodetectors)
• Photometers
• Frequency counters or timer or dividers (Photon counting systems)
• Visual filters (Pinhole filters)
• Sound measuring apparatus or decibel meter (Pistonphones)
• Frequency analyzers (Portable fast Fourier transform FFT analyzers)
• Mobile or transportable medical linear accelerators (Positive ion accelerators)
• Signal conditioners (Power amplifiers)
• Spectrometers (Prism spectrometers)
• Polarizers (Programmable phase modulators)
• Lasers (Pulsed nitrogen lasers)
• Medical radiation films or badges (Radiation detecting film badges)
• Signal generators (Radiofrequency RF generators)
• Goggles (Safety goggles)
• Scanning electron microscopes (Scanning electron microscopes SEM)
• Monochromators (Scanning monochromators)
• Scanning probe microscopes (Scanning tunneling microscopes STM)
• Radiation detectors (Scintillation probes)
• Semiconductor testers (Semiconductor parameter analyzers)
• Signal generators
• Lasers (Single frequency dye lasers)
• Sound measuring apparatus or decibel meter (Sound intensity probes)
• Spectrophotometers
• Frequency analyzers (Spectrum analyzers)
• Pull spring balances (Spring scales)
• Roughness measuring instruments (Surface profilometers)
• Telescopes
• Radiation detectors (Thermoluminescent dosimeters)
• Transmission electron microscopes (Transmission electron microscopes TEM)
• High vacuum equipment (Turbo-pumped vacuum systems)
• Frequency calibrator or simulator (Two-channel dynamic signal analyzers)
• Frequency analyzers (Two-channel fast Fourier transform FFT analyzers)
• Network analyzers (Two-channel network analyzers)
• Pneumatic vacuum equipment (Vacuum stations)
• Force or torque sensors (Vernier force sensors)
• Magnetometers (Vibrating sample magnetometers)
• Laboratory vibrators (Vibration exciters)
• Spectrometers (Visible spectrometers)
• X ray diffraction equipment (X ray crystallography equipment)
• Spectrometers (X ray photoemission spectrometers)
• Lasers (Zeeman split lasers)

Technologies Include:

• Analytical or scientific software

• CERN Physics Analysis Workstation PAW
• Aptech Systems GAUSS software
• OriginLab Origin
• Radiation dose calculation software
• Systat Software SigmaPlot
• CERN ROOT
• COMSOL Multiphysics
• Criss Software XRF11
• Dose modeling software
• Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System EPICS
• SciLab
• SciGraphica
• GNU Octave
• Gnuplot
• RSI interactive data language IDL software
• Maplesoft Maple
• REDUCE
• Spectral Dynamics STAR
• Spectroscopy software
• Statistical software
• Synergy Software KaleidaGraph
• The MathWorks MATLAB
• Vector Fields OPERA-3d
• Video analysis software
• Wolfram Research Mathematica

• Computer aided design CAD software

• Autodesk AutoCAD software
• RibbonSoft QCad
• Mathsoft Mathcad

• Data base management system software

• SQLite

• Data base user interface and query software

• Microsoft Access
• MySQL software

• Desktop publishing software

• Scribus software

• Development environment software

• Microsoft Visual Basic
• Microsoft Visual J++
• Formula translation/translator FORTRAN
• National Instruments LabVIEW
• Pascal
• Assembler
• C

• Graphics or photo imaging software

• Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop software
• Ploticus
• GNU Image Manipulation Program GIMP
• Xfig
• XV

• Music or sound editing software

• Adobe Systems Adobe Audition

• Object or component oriented development software

• Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
• Sun Microsystems Java
• Microsoft Visual C++
• Python

• Presentation software

• Microsoft PowerPoint

• Spreadsheet software

• Microsoft Excel

• Video creation and editing software

• Lenox Softworks VideoPoint

• Web platform development software

• JavaScript

• Word processing software

• Microsoft Word

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