Computers in Physics Annual Index: Volume 3, 1989

Index to Volume 3, 1989

BOOK REVIEWS
COMPUTERS IN PHYSICS EDUCATION
COMPUTER SIMULATIONS
ESSAYS
NEWS

NUMERICAL RECIPES
PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS
PRODUCT REVIEWS
SPECIAL FEATURES
SPREADSHEETS

BOOK REVIEWS

Casasent, David

Optical Computing, by D.G. Feitelson: 3 (4), 102

Gould, Harvey

Fractal Growth Phenomena, by Tamas Vicsek: 3 (5), 108

The Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, by Granville Sewell:

3 (6), 98

Kohin, Roger P.

Theoretical Physics on the Personal Computer, by E.W. Schmid, G. Spitz, and W. Losch: 3 (3), 81

Martin, Jeanne T.

Fortran 8x Explained, by Michael Metcalf and John Reid: 3 (2), 82

Peters, Randall D.

Practical Computing for Experimental Scientists, by John D. Beasley. : 3 (2), 81

Skiff, Peter

Computational Philosophy of Science, by Paul Thagard: 3 (6), 96

Street, Robert L.

Numerical Modeling of Water Waves, by Charles L. Mader: 3 (4), 103

Thompson, W. J.

Computer Simulation and Computer Algebra: Lectures for Beginners, by D. Stauffer, F. W. Hehl,

V. Winkelmann, and J. G. Zabolitzky: 3 (3), 83

White, Richard L.

Solving Problems on Concurrent Processors Vol. 1: General Techniques and Regular Problems,

by G. Fox, M. Johnson, G. Lyzenga, S. Otto, J. Salmon, and D. Walker: 3 (1), 83

Wu-Wei Liu, Stanley

Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, by Ronald L. Graham,

Donald E. Knuth, and Oren Patashnik: 3 (5), 106

COMPUTERS IN PHYSICS EDUCATION

Syed, M.Q., and M.A. Hastaoglu

The Use of HYPERCARD in Physics: 3 (6), 81

Hastaoglu, M. A.

See Syed, M. Q.

COMPUTER SIMULATIONS

Ferrenberg, Alan, and Robert Swendsen

Optimized Monte Carlo Data Analysis: 3 (5), 101

Gould, Harvey, and Jan Tobochnik

Overcoming Critical Slowing Down: 3 (4), 82

Swendsen, Robert

See Ferrenberg, Alan

Tobochnik, Jan, and Harvey Gould

Quantifying Chaos: 3 (6), 86

Gould, Harvey

See Tobochnik, Jan

Tobochnik, Jan

See Gould, Harvey

ESSAYS

Bacon, Ben

The Last Positivist: 3 (5), 112

Borchers, Robert R.

A Quieter Revolution: 3 (3), 96

Clark, Barry

Viewing the World Through a Computer: 3 (4), 112

Donnelly, Denis

A Means to an End: 3 (6), 112

SPECIAL FEATURES

Anderson, Dana Z.

Optical Systems That Imitate Human Memory: 3 (2), 19

Batican, Peter

New Computer Architectures For Lattice QCD: 3 (1), 17

Bording, R. Philip

See Myron, James R.

Campbell, William J., Nicholas M. Short, and Lloyd A. Treinish

Adding Intelligence to Scientific Data Management: 3 (3), 26

Carlson, Edward H.

Three Software Construction Methods: 3 (3), 17

Ewald, Robert H.

Perspectives From The Field: Cray Research: 3 (1), 33

Gawlinski, Edward

See Mihalisin, Ted

Goodman, Seymour E., William K. McHenry, and Peter Wolcott

Scientific Computing In The Soviet Union: 3 (1), 39

Hecht, Jeff

Physical Limits of Computing: 3 (4), 34

Jenkins, Richard A.

New Approaches In Parallel Computing: 3 (1), 24

Lines, Larry R.

See Myron, James R.

McHenry, William K.

See Goodman, Seymour E.

Middleditch, John

Adventures in Fourier Space: Hunting the Millisecond Pulsar: 3 (4), 19

Computer Detection of Pulsar 1987A: 3 (4), 14

Mihalisin, Ted, Edward Gawlinski, John Timlin, and John Schwegler

Multidimensional Graphing in Two-Dimensional Spaces: 3 (6), 33

Myron, James R., Larry R. Lines, and R. Philip Bording

Computers in Seismic Tomography: 3 (2), 26

Noble, Julian

Scientific Computation in Forth: 3 (5), 31

Phillpot, S., Sidney Yip, and Dieter Wolf

How Do Crystals Melt?: 3 (6), 20

Rapaport, Dennis

Visualizing Physics: 3 (5), 19

Schwegler, John

See Mihalisin, Ted

Short, Nicholas M.

See Campbell, William J.

Timlin, John

See Mihalisin, Ted

Treinish, Lloyd A.

See Campbell, William J.

Wolcott, Peter

See Goodman, Seymour E.

Wolf, Dieter

See Phillpot, S.

Yip, Sidney

See Phillpot, S.

PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS

Anderson, David V., Alan R. Fry, Ralf Gruber, and Alexandre Roy

Gigaflop speed algorithm for the direct solution of large block-tridiagonal systems in 3-D physics

applications: 3 (2), 33

Arndt, Richard A., and L. David Roper

Scattering in a spherical potential: Motion of complex-plane poles and zeros: 3 (2), 65

Balamuth, D. P.

See Kutt, P. H.

Bhat, C. L.

See Sawhney, K. J. S.

Black, S. C. and A. D. Kennedy

Gaussian random number generators on a CYBER-205: 3 (3), 59

Boyd, Iain D.

Monte Carlo simulation of an expanding gas: 3 (3), 73

Branham, Richard L. Jr.

A program for total (orthogonal) least squares in compact storage mode: 3 (3), 42

Bribiesca, Adolfo

See Castano, Victor M.

Brown, Leslie I.

See Feibig, Peg L.

Butler, D. M., and M. H. Pendley

The visualization management system approach to visualization in scientific computing: 3 (5), 40

A visualization model based on the mathematics of fiber bundles: 3 (5), 45

Camarda, H. S.

Diagonalization of a complex Hermitian matrix with a band structure: 3 (5), 78

Castano, Victor M., and Adolfo Bribiesca

Computer-aided design and analysis of electronic circuits for instrumentation and control:

3 (4), 69

Chan, F. L., K. M. Lau, C. L. Li, H. M. Mok, D. J. Newman, and Betty Ng

Least-squares fitting of parametrized Hamiltonians to energy levels: An investigation into

alternative strategies: 3 (6), 47

Chen, G.

See Hardt, S. L.

Cook, Norman D.

Computing nuclear properties in the fcc model: 3 (2), 73

Corey, Ellen M., and David A. Young

Optimization of physical data tables by simulated annealing: 3 (3), 33

Dahiya, J. N., and R. W. Freeman

Computer interfacing of a microwave resonant cavity for temperature measurements during

dielectric relaxation: 3 (4), 49

Decyk, Viktor K., and Joan E. Slottow

Supercomputers in the classroom: 3 (2), 50

DeVries, Paul L.

See Sweeney, Christopher J.

Diamanti, R.

See Santucci, S.

Dickens, J. K.

Use of Monte Carlo techniques to derive yields for n + '2C multibody breakup reactions:

Programming the computer to simulate collisions by fast neutrons: 3 (6), 62

Enloe, C. L.

Solving coupled, nonlinear differential equations with commercial spreadsheets: 3 (1), 75

Etter, Delores M.

See Feibig, Peg L.

Feibig, Peg L., Leslie I. Brown, and Delores M. Etter

Digital waveform sampling rate converter: 3 (3), 38

Forinash, Kyle, and Ray Wisman

Constructive interaction between computer science and physics programs: 3 (3), 50

Freed, J. H.

See Vasavada, K. V.

Freeman, R. W.

See Dahiya, J. N.

Froese Fischer, Charlotte, and Muhammad Idrees

Spline algorithms for continuum functions: 3 (3), 53

Fry, Alan R.

See Anderson, David V.

Gettys, W. Edward

See Sebhatu, Mesgun

Gorbics, M. S.

See Meyer, W. T.

Gray, James

See Siedband, Melvin P.

Gray, K. J., B. G. Peterson, L. V. Knight, and J. M. Thorne

Simulated response of multilayer x-ray reflectors to damaging fluxes: 3 (4), 65

Gruber, Ralf

See Anderson, David V.

Hardt, S. L., and G. Chen

Semi-intuitive computations and artificial intelligence: Dimensional analysis as a case study:

3 (2), 55

Harrison, D. E. Jr.

See Smith, R.

Herrera, Eduardo

See Morales-Acevedo, Arturo

Hocking, W. K.

Performing Fourier transforms on extremely long data streams: 3 (1), 59

Kaul, I. K.

See Sawhney, K. J. S.

Kaul, S. K.

See Sawhney, K. J. S.

Koul, R.

See Sawhney, K. J. S.

Knight, L. V.

See Gray, K. J.

Idrees, Muhammad

See Froese Fischer, Charlotte

Inchiosa, Mario E., and Steven A. Janowsky

A parallel algorithm for determining the ground state of some ferromagnetic spin systems:

3 (1), 55

Janowsky, Steven A.

See Inchiosa, Mario E.

Johnson, T.K., and R. L. Vessella

On the application of parallel processing to the computation of dose arising from the internal

deposition of radionuclides: 3 (3), 69

Kennedy, A. D.

See Black, S. C.

Kutt, P. H., and D. P. Balamuth

Operating experience with a multiple-processor system for data acquisition and reduction

in nuclearphysics: 3 (5), 52

Lau, K. M.

See Chan, F. L.

Li, C. L.

See Chan, F. L.

Lozzi, L.

See Santucci, S.

Meyer, W. T., and M. S. Gorbics

A simple microprocessor for FASTBUS slave modules: 3 (4), 73

Mok, H. M.

See Chan, F. L.

Morales-Acevedo, Arturo, Eduardo Herrera, and Heriberto Valencia

Inexpensive microcomputerbased system for solar cell I-V characterization: 3 (2), 46

Newman, D. J.

See Chan, F. L.

Ng, Betty

See Chan, F. L.

Nicolas, David P.

See Taylor, Clayborne D.

Ogilvie, J. F.

Computer algebra in modern physics: 3 (1), 66

Pendley, M. H.

See Butler, D. M.

Peterson, B. G.

See Gray, K. J.

Pickover, Clifford A.

A note on computer experiments with chaotic shattering of level sets: 3 (6), 69

Markov aggregation on a sticky circle: 3 (4), 79

Picozzi, P.

See Santucci, S.

Rawat, H. S.

See Sawhney, K. J. S.

Roper, L. David

See Arndt, Richard A.

Rots, Arnold H.

Special purpose image display devices and techniques at the National Radio Astronomy

Observatory: 3 (6), 41

Roy, Alexandre

See Anderson, David V.

Santucci, S., P. Picozzi, L. Lozzi, and R. Diamanti

A simple and low-cost interface between an apparatus for Auger spectroscopy and a personal

computer: 3 (6), 57

Sawhney, K. J. S., I. K. Kaul, R. Koul, C. L. Bhat, H. S. Rawat, and S. K. Kaul

PC-based data acquisition system for the Gulmarg gamma-ray telescope: 3 (3), 47

Sebhatu, Mesgun, and W. Edward Gettys

A least-squares method for extracting phase shifts: 3 (5), 65

Siedband, Melvin P., Huilian Zhang, and James Gray

Block truncation image compression with bit-map compensation: 3 (6), 52

Slottow, Joan E.

See Decyk, Viktor K.

Smith, R., and D. E. Harrison Jr.

Algorithms for molecular dynamics simulations of keV particle bombardment: 3 (5), 68

Simulation of the dynamics of ion-bombarded surfaces on a desktop computer: 3 (4), 41

Sweeney, Christopher J., and Paul L. DeVries

Time-dependent quantum-mechanical scattering in two dimensions: 3 (1), 49

Taheri, Bahman

See Zammit, Ronald E.

Taylor, Clayborne D., and David P. Nicolas

An adaptive data-smoothing routine: 3 (2), 63

Thorne, J. M.

See Gray, K. J.

Treinish, Lloyd A.

An interactive, discipline-independent data visualization system: 3 (4), 55

Valencia, Heriberto

See Morales-Acevedo, Arturo

Vasavada, K. V., and J. H. Freed

Application of Lanczos and conjugate gradient methods to a class of computational problems

in physics: 3 (5), 61

Vessella, R. L.

See Johnson, T.K.

Visscher, P. B.

Discrete formulation of Maxwell equations: 3 (2), 42

Westerveld, W. B.

Plotting of closed field lines with an application to coherently excited atoms: 3 (5), 74

Wisman, Ray

See Forinash, Kyle

Young, David A.

See Corey, Ellen M.

Zhang, Huilian

See Siedband, Melvin P.

Zammit, Ronald E., and Bahman Taheri

A simple SCSI bus interface for 8 bit data transfers: 3 (1), 77

NEWS

Bacon, Ben

A More Efficient Monte Carlo: 3 (2), 14

Alaska Satellite Imaging Center To Study Polar Ice Cap: 3 (1), 13

CERN Physicists Prepare To Handle L3 Data In Parallel: 3 (1), 15

IBM Physicist Developing Software To Generate 3-D Atomic-Level Holograms: 3 (1), 9

NCUBE 2 and Thinking Machines CM-2a Aimed at University Market: 3 (4), 9

NOAA Pits Expert Systems Against Weathermen: 3 (1), 11

Neural Network Scheduling for Hubble Space Telescope: 3 (3), 14

Relativity Back in the Realm of the Senses: The Null-Strut Calculus: 3 (2), 9

Trollius + Transputers = Processing Power: 3 (2), 12

Using Small Computers to Control Big Experiments: MTL and CEBAF: 3 (3), 11

Visualization at SIGGRAPH: 3 (5), 11

Karpf, Andreas

AIP Launches Academic Software Project: 3 (6), 81

SUPERNODE 2: 3 (6), 16

Voyager Scientists Have a Field Day With Neptune Data: 3 (6), 13

PRODUCT REVIEWS

Cralle, R. K.

What if Gauss Had Had a Mouse? Mathematica 1.2: 3 (6), 92

NeXT Computer, NeXT Inc: 3 (5), 93

Dory, Robert A.

WingZ Spreadsheet Program, Informix Software Inc: 3 (4), 93

MacDonald, Joe

Where to Buy Scientific Programming Languages: 3 (1), 85

NUMERICAL RECIPES

Press, William H., and Saul A. Teukolsky

Cyclic Redundancy Checks for Data Integrity or Identity: 3 (4), 88

Integrating Stiff Ordinary Differential Equations: 3 (3), 88

Quasi- (that is, Sub-) Random Numbers: 3 (6), 76

Computing Accurate Integrals With the FFT: 3 (1), 91

Fourier transforms of real data in two and three dimensions: 3 (5), 84

Rybicki, George B.

Dawson's Integral and The Sampling Theorem: 3 (2), 85

Teukolsky, Saul A.

See Press, William H.

SPREADSHEETS

Dory, Robert A.

Matrices and Contour Plots: 3 (3), 84

Ordinary differential equations: 3 (5), 88