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Software for Physics, Engineering, & Astronomy

APSU has campus site licenses for the following commercial software packages that allow qualified students to install on a personal machine. See below for installation instructions.

APSU students needing Mathematica should click on the following link: https://user.wolfram.com/portal/requestAK/4a1f62d2964ab635a9b50a663ee24b156b197927.  This will first prompt you to create a Wolfram user account. USE YOUR APSU EMAIL ADDRESS WHEN CREATING YOUR ACCOUNT. Then you will be able to submit a request for a Wolfram Activation Key.  If you used your APSU email address, this request will be approved automatically; if you used some other email address when creating your Wolfram account, it will be denied.  After approval, you can then download and install Mathematica.

APSU students needing MATLAB should click on the following link:https://www.mathworks.com/academia/tah-portal/austin-peay-state-university-1065347.html.  Click on "Sign in to get started". This will first prompt you to create a Mathworks user account. USE YOUR APSU EMAIL ADDRESS WHEN CREATING YOUR ACCOUNT. Then you will be able to submit a request for a Mathworks activation key.  If you used your APSU email address, this request will be approved automatically; if you used some other email address when creating your Mathworks account, it will be denied.  After approval, you can then download and install MATLAB.

PARAV (v2.1) is a program for the calculation of optical constants using Swanepoel's method written by Dr. Roman Holovchak (Golovchak).  The link provides a .zip file containing the original reference from the Journal of Optoelectronic and Advanced Materials, a Windows .exe file of the software, and a list of improvements in version 2.  PARAV is released under the GPLv3 license.