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January/February 98 January/February 1998 Table of Contents

Volume 12, Number 1
 

TRENDS AND VIEWPOINT
3
FROM THE EDITOR
Moving Right Along
5

 
COMMENT
Instrumentation Joins the PC Revolution
James Truchard
6

 
INTERVIEW
Herbert Hauptmann
David I. Lewin
8

 
NEWS
Quantum Computing; SC97 Conference Review; CCP 1998 Announcement; Ten Years Ago: Jan/Feb 1988
15
FROM THE CIP JOURNAL SECTION   OJS entry page
104
INTERACTIVE READER SERVICE

GUIDE TO THE INTERNET
16

 
WEB MECHANICS
Creating and Displaying Animated GIFs for Physics Instruction
Martha Takats
20
CIP WEBSITE
CIP's Ninth Annual Educational Software Contest
20
INTERNET GOLDMINE
Virtual Laboratory (University of Oregon)

EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
22

 
ALGORITHMS & APPLICATIONS
Rayleigh Quotient Iteration, An Old Recipe for Solving Modern Large-Scale Eigenvalue Problems
J. Descloux, J.-L. Fattebert, and F. Gygi
28

 
COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION
Simulating the Spectra of Light Sources
N. Sanjay Rebello, Chandima Cumaranatunge, Lawrence T. Escalada, and Dean A. Zollman
34
COMPUTER SIMULATIONS
Long-Range Earthquake Fault Models
Charles D. Ferguson, W. Klein, and John B. Rundle
41

 
BOOK REVIEWS
A Physicist's Guide to Mathematica, Patrick Tam; Molecular Modeling, Basic Principles and Applications, H. D. Holtje and G. Folkers; HTML: The Definitive Guide (2nd ed.), Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy; JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (2nd ed.), Davad Flanagan
Charles A. Bennett, Alenka Luzar, and Gregor M. Novak

TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGY
45
 
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMING
Compiler Support for Java Parallelization
Aart J. C. Bik, Fabian Breg, and Dennis B. Gannon
53
PRACTICAL VISUALIZATION
Visualization '97 Brings New Technical Developments
Steve Bryson
60
PRODUCT REVIEW 
BBEdit 4.5 Adds More HTML Tools
Donald L. Shirer
62
NEW PRODUCTS

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL SECTION
Online Access
64
Guidelines for Submissions
65
Efficient visualization of a plasma spray simulation
G. A. Hansen and C. h. Chang
73
Using image processing and computer animation to analyze spatial and temporal dynamics in a pattern-forming system
K. A. Robbins and M. Gorman
82
Generalized nonstandard finite differences and physical applications
James B. Cole
88
ASECA: A cellular-automata simulation program for a silicon anisitropic super-micro-etching process in aqueous KOH
Kazue Nishidate, Mamoru Baba, and Richard J. Gaylord
94
Principal-value integrals by a simple and accurate finite-interval method
William J. Thompson
97
On the numerical integration of motion for rigid polyatomics: The modified quaternion approach
Igor P. Omelyan


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