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March/April 97 March/April 1997 Table of Contents

Volume 11, Number 2
 

TRENDS AND VIEWPOINT
123
FROM THE EDITOR
125

 
COMMENT
Why Experimentalists Mistrust Computer Modeling--and Why They Rely on It
Judah Levine
126

 
INTERVIEW: Kim Molvig
Advising Fluid Dynamicists to Be Discrete
David I. Lewin
129

 
NEWS
ASCI Clocks Its 'Red' Computer at 1 Teraflops, 
Physics Teachers Warm Up to Computers in Phoenix
132
FROM THE CIP JOURNAL SECTION   OJS entry page
208
INTERACTIVE READER SERVICE

GUIDE TO THE INTERNET
133

 
WEB MECHANICS   PDF version of article (81 kbytes)
Posting Physics Documents on the Web (view the source code)
Kevin Zollman & Dean Zollman
139
CIP WEBSITE
Software Contest Deadline Approaches
139
INTERNET GOLDMINE
The Center for Polymer Studies

EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
140
LABORATORY APPLICATIONS
Moore's Law and the PC Revolution: Actual and Anticipated Effects on Instrumentation and Measurement Science
James R. Matey
145
ALGORITHMS & APPLICATIONS
Boundary-Element Method Yields External Vector Potentials in Complex Industrial Applications
J. Rappaz & M. Swierkosz
151

 
COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION
Interactive Multimedia Modules in Mathematics, Engineering, and Science
William E. Boyce, John B. Brunski, Michael M. Chen, Kevin Craig, James A. Fairweather, Joseph W. Haus Jr., Joseph Porter Jr., & William L. Siegmann
157

 
COMPUTER SIMULATIONS
Entropy-Driven Phase Transitions (view the source code)
Harvey Gould, Jan Tobochnik, & Louis Colonna-Romano
165

 
BOOK REVIEWS
Quantum Mechanics Using Maple; The Monte Carlo Method in Condensed Matter Physics: Second, Corrected and Updated Edition
Daniel Styer & Susan R. McKay

TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGY
168
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMING
The Future of Scientific Programming
Paul F. Dubois
174

 
PRACTICAL VISUALIZATION 
Visualization '96: Volume Rendering Shifts Into High Gear
Steve Bryson
181

 
PRODUCT REVIEW 
TK Solver 3.0 Organizes and Solves Physics Problems
Kirk A. Mathews
185
NEW PRODUCTS

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL SECTION
Online Access
189
Guidelines for Submissions
190
Transition arrays in atomic spectroscopy with a commercial spreadsheet program
Joseph Reader
194
Stabilizing the Richardson eigenvector algorithm by controlling chaos
Song He
199
Confronting students' alternative conceptions in mechanics with the Force and Motion Microworld
Ping-Kee Tao


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