Computers in Physics: March/April 1997 Issue Contents



	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
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

189	Guidelines for Submissions
190	Transition arrays in atomic spectroscopy with a commercial spreadsheet program Joseph Reader http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.168597
194	Stabilizing the Richardson eigenvector algorithm by controlling chaos Song He http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.168602
199	Confronting students' alternative conceptions in mechanics with the Force and Motion Microworld Ping-Kee Tao http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.168603

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