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Anonymous The Beauty Of Fractals . . . . . . . . . 26
Jeff Hecht Optical Design Enters The Computer Age 34
Robert Slater Who Invented The Computer? . . . . . . . 44--49
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P. Seligmann and
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Howard C. Hayden Data smoothing routine . . . . . . . . . 74
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Susan J. Egan and
Anne Caraley Undergraduate cosmic ray muon decay
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Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Shoshana L. Hardt Man-Made Minds: The Promise of
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Robert R. Borchers Looking Back At Computers In Physics . . 94
Anonymous Iowa Simulation Center Goes from Real
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Jesse J. Leaf Databases Turn Computers into Science
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Joan M. Centrella Using the Computer as a Camera . . . . . 34
Tom Schwartz Expert Systems Prove Adept at Physics 40
Robert F. Tinker Computer-Aided Student Investigations 46
Genevieve M. Dazzo How to Maintain Large Scientific
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E. Gillman and
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R. E. Crandall Book Review: \booktitleThe Media Lab:
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Peter Batacan Can Physics Make Optics Compute? . . . . 9
Peter Batacan MIT Media Lab Close To Perfecting
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Brian S. Wherrett The Many Facets of Optical Computing . . 24
H. John Caulfield Computer-Generated Holograms Arrive . . 29
Richard A. Jenkins The Next Wave of Japanese Supercomputers 34
James Gleick The Dynamical Systems Collective . . . . 40
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Eric T. Lane Apple II Software Demonstrates Wave
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D. A. Resler and
S. M. Grimes The nuclear shell model code CRUNCHER 65
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Clifford A. Pickover A note on rendering chaotic ``repeller
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Anonymous Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
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Engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Patrick J. Cooney Book Review: Oleg D. Jefimenko,
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David Bellin and
Gary Chapman Computers in Battle: Will They Work? . . 100
Richard E. Crandall Notes on Simulation and Reality
[editorial] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
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Peter Batacan AT&T and IBM Multiprocessors Spur
Molecular Dynamics Research . . . . . . 9
Anonymous Supercomputer Centers Funding May
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Anonymous CEBAF Physicists Ready a
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William J. Thompson Introducing Computation to Physics
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Edward F. Redish and
Jack M. Wilson The M.U.P.P.E.T. Manifesto . . . . . . . 23
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Ralph Roskies Teaching Physicists How to Program . . . 32
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K. Dean Wampler and
Lawrence Wilets On the numerical solution of the
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Benjamin P. Miller and
Howard E. Dunn Orthogonal least-squares line fit with
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R. D. Peters Experimental computational physics using
an inexpensive microcomputer . . . . . . 68
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Kolmogorov--Smirnov Test for
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Charles Leming and
Joseph K. Daugherty Computer Problems for Classical
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F. A. Matsen and
T. Tajima and
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Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
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Anonymous JAVA Fits The Picture . . . . . . . . . 91
Anonymous Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
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Anonymous Motorola Unveils 88000 RISC
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Peter Batacan Argonne Launches ``Flagship'' Parallel
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Jack L. Lancaster and
Gary D. Fullerton Computers, Physics, and Medicine:
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Robert D. Jones and
James R. MacFall Computers in Magnetic Resonance Imaging 25
George C. Levy Computers in Magnetic Resonance
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Michael W. Vannier Computers in Computer Axial Tomography 39
David M. McKinstry $3$-D Amiga Images for the Physics
Classroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Richard A. Matzner Interaction of $ {\rm U}(1) $ cosmic
strings: Numerical intercommutation . . 51
L. C. Welch Programming style: an example . . . . . 65
R. H. Good Simulation programs . . . . . . . . . . 76
W. G. Delinger Use of a hand-held computer to calculate
Debye temperatures of cubic crystals
from elastic constants . . . . . . . . . 81
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Evaluating Continued Fractions and
Computing Exponential Integrals . . . . 88
Cheryl Greengrove Most Enjoyable . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
John W. Lightbody, Jr. Informative, Too . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Warren M. Washington Initial Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . 90
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Anonymous Software Processes NMR Data . . . . . . 98
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David DeGraff Image Restoration and Construction . . . 100
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into Fact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Anonymous Materials Science Online Database To
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Anonymous University of Colorado Pitches Parallel
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Anonymous Sandia SUPERNET Software Yields
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Anonymous MCNC Duilds Massively Parallel Processor
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Ben Bacon Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center To Get
Gallium Arsenide Cray 3 In 1990 . . . . 9
Mort La Brecque Retinex: Physics And The Theory Of Color
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Hassan Aref and
Scott W. Jones and
Oran M. Thomas Computing Particle Motions In Fluid
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Leon N. Cooper Brain Research: Theory and Experiment 29
Robert A. Malaney Supercomputers And Nuclear Astrophysics 40
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Marshall Luban and
Lawrence P. Staunton An efficient method for generating a
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L. Kirkup and
J. Sutherland Curve stripping and nonlinear fitting of
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Rahul R. Prasad The fractal dimension of cerebral
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Anthony E. Siegman Two-dimensional calculations using
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William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Search Algorithm For Weak Periodic
Signals In Unevenly Spaced Data . . . . 77
Robert A. Dory and
Jeffrey H. Harris Fourier Analysis Using A Spreadsheet . . 83
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Anonymous Stat Package Does ANOVA . . . . . . . . 97
Anonymous Titan Computer Gets Molecular Simulator 97
Anonymous I/O Processor Acquires Data For PCs . . 98
Anonymous Board Supplies IEEE-488 Interface . . . 98
Anonymous Aptec Adds Vector Processor . . . . . . 98
H. Haken and
Arthur Lee Computational Systems-Natural and
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Anonymous A Conference on Neural Networks . . . . 102
Anonymous DARPA to Build Fiber Network . . . . . . 104
Anonymous NSF Establishes Advanced Electronic
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Ben Bacon IBM Physicist Developing Software to
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Peter Batacan New Computer Architectures for Lattice
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Richard A. Jenkins New Approaches in Parallel Computing . . 24
Robert H. Ewald Perspectives from the Field: Cray
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Seymour E. Goodman and
William K. McHenry and
Peter Wolcott Scientific Computing in the Soviet Union 39
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scattering in two dimensions . . . . . . 49
Mario E. Inchiosa and
Steven A. Janowsky A parallel algorithm for determining the
ground state of some ferromagnetic spin
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
W. K. Hocking Performing Fourier transforms on
extremely long data streams . . . . . . 59
J. F. Ogilvie Computer algebra in modern physics . . . 66
C. L. Enloe Solving coupled, nonlinear differential
equations with commercial spreadsheets 75
Ronald E. Zammit and
Bahman Taheri A simple SCSI bus interface for 8 bit
data transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
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Concurrent Processors Vol. 1: General
Techniques and Regular Problems . . . . 83
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Anonymous Presentation Graphics . . . . . . . . . 90
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Computing Accurate Integrals with the
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Anonymous NeXT Unveils 68030-Based Workstation . . 96
Anonymous National Science Foundation To Boost
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Anonymous Cornell Breaks Ground For \$30 Million
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Ben Bacon Relativity Back in the Realm of the
Senses: The Null-Strut Calculus . . . . 9
Dana Z. Anderson Optical Systems That Imitate Human
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James R. Myron and
Larry R. Lines and
R. Philip Bording Computers in Seismic Tomography . . . . 26
David V. Anderson and
Alan R. Fry and
Ralf Gruber and
Alexandre Roy Gigaflop speed algorithm for the direct
solution of large block-tridiagonal
systems in $3$-D physics applications 33
P. B. Visscher Discrete formulation of Maxwell
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Arturo Morales-Acevedo and
Eduardo Herrera and
Heriberto Valencia Inexpensive microcomputer-based system
for solar cell I--V characterization . . 46
Viktor K. Decyk and
Joan E. Slottow Supercomputers in the classroom . . . . 50
S. L. Hardt and
G. Chen Semi-intuitive computations and
artificial intelligence: Dimensional
analysis as a case study . . . . . . . . 55
Clayborne D. Taylor and
David P. Nicolas An adaptive data-smoothing routine . . . 63
Richard A. Arndt and
L. David Roper Scattering in a spherical potential:
Motion of complex-plane poles and zeros 65
Norman D. Cook Computing nuclear properties in the fcc
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
John D. Beasley and
Randall D. Peters Practical Computing for Experimental
Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Michael Metcalf and
John Reid and
Jeanne T. Martin Fortran 8x Explained . . . . . . . . . . 82
George B. Rybicki Dawson's Integral and the Sampling
Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--87
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 89
Roger Smith In Memoriam: Don E. Harrison, Jr.
1927--1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
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Anonymous Space Plane Simulation At Los Alamos . . 96
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J. F. Ogilvie Notable Developments . . . . . . . . . . 9
Ben Bacon Using Small Computers to Control Big
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Edward H. Carlson Three Software Construction Methods . . 16
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Ellen M. Corey and
David A. Young Optimization of physical data tables by
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Peg L. Feibig and
Leslie I. Brown and
Delores M. Etter Digital waveform sampling rate converter 38
Richard L. Branham, Jr. A program for total (orthogonal) least
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K. J. S. Sawhney and
I. K. Kaul and
R. Koul and
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Kyle Forinash and
Ray Wisman Constructive interaction between
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Charlotte Froese Fischer and
Muhammad Idrees Spline algorithms for continuum
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S. C. Black and
A. D. Kennedy Gaussian random number generators on a
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T. K. Johnson and
R. L. Vessella On the application of parallel
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radionuclides . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Iain D. Boyd Monte Carlo simulation of an expanding
gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Erich W. Schmid and
Gerhard Spitz and
Wolfgang Losch and
A. H. Armstrong and
Roger P. Kohin Theoretical Physics on the Personal
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D. Stauffer and
F. W. Hehl and
V. Winkelmann and
J. G. Zabolitzky and
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Algebra: Lectures for Beginners . . . . 83
Robert A. Dory Matrices and Contour Plots . . . . . . . 84
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Integrating Stiff Ordinary Differential
Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 92
Robert R. Borchers A Quieter Revolution . . . . . . . . . . 96
Ben Bacon NCUBE 2 and Thinking Machines CM-2a
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John Middleditch Computer Detection of Pulsar 1987A . . . 14
John Middleditch Adventures in Fourier Space: Hunting the
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Jeff Hecht Physical Limits of Computing . . . . . . 34
R. Smith and
D. E. Harrison, Jr. Simulation of the dynamics of
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computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
J. N. Dahiya and
R. W. Freeman Computer interfacing of a microwave
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measurements during dielectric
relaxation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Lloyd A. Treinish An interactive, discipline-independent
data visualization system . . . . . . . 55
K. J. Gray and
B. G. Peterson and
L. V. Knight and
J. M. Thorne Simulated response of multilayer X-ray
reflectors to damaging fluxes . . . . . 65
Victor M. Castaño and
Adolfo Bribiesca Computer-aided design and analysis of
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W. T. Meyer and
M. S. Gorbics A simple microprocessor for FASTBUS
slave modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Clifford A. Pickover Markov aggregation on a sticky circle 79
Harvey Gould and
Jan Tobochnik Overcoming Critical Slowing Down . . . . 82
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Cyclic Redundancy Checks For Data
Integrity Or Identity . . . . . . . . . 88
Robert A. Dory Wing Z Spreadsheet Program . . . . . . . 93
D. G. Feitelson and
David Casasent Optical Computing . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Charles L. Mader and
Robert L. Street Numerical Modeling of Water Waves . . . 103
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 104
Barry Clark Viewing the World Through a Computer . . 112
Anonymous The \booktitleComputers in Physics
Education Software Awards . . . . . . . 8
Ben Bacon Visualization at SIGGRAPH . . . . . . . 11
Dennis Rapaport Visualizing Physics . . . . . . . . . . 18
Julian Noble Scientific Computation in FORTH . . . . 31
D. M. Butler and
M. H. Pendley The visualization management system
approach to visualization in scientific
computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
D. M. Butler and
M. H. Pendley A visualization model based on the
mathematics of fiber bundles . . . . . . 45
P. H. Kutt and
D. P. Balamuth Operating experience with a
multiple-processor system for data
acquisition and reduction in nuclear
physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Kashyap V. Vasavada and
Jack H. Freed Application of Lanczos and conjugate
gradient methods to a class of
computational problems in physics . . . 61
Mesgun Sebhatu and
W. Edward Gettys A least-squares method for extracting
phase shifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
R. Smith and
D. E. Harrison, Jr. Algorithms for molecular dynamics
simulations of keV particle bombardment 68
W. B. Westerveld Plotting of closed field lines with an
application to coherently excited atoms 74
H. S. Camarda Diagonalization of a complex Hermitian
matrix with a band structure . . . . . . 78
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Fourier Transforms of Real Data in Two
and Three Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . 84
Robert A. Dory Ordinary Differential Equations . . . . 88
R. K. Cralle What's NeXT? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Alan M. Ferrenberg and
Robert H. Swendsen Optimized Monte Carlo Data Analysis . . 101
Stanley Liu Book Review: Ronald L. Graham, Donald E.
Knuth, and Oren Patashnik,
\booktitleConcrete Mathematics: a
Foundation for Computer Science . . . . 106
Tamás Vicsek and
Harvey Gould Fractal Growth Phenomena . . . . . . . . 108
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 109
Ben Bacon The Last Positivist . . . . . . . . . . 112
A. H. Kalantar Ineffective Variance . . . . . . . . . . 10
Andreas Karpf Voyager Scientists Have a Field Day With
Neptune Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Simon R. Phillpot and
Sidney Yip and
Dieter Wolf How Do Crystals Melt? . . . . . . . . . 20
T. Mihalisin and
E. Gawlinski and
J. Timlin and
J. Schwegler Multidimensional Graphing in
Two-Dimensional Spaces . . . . . . . . . 32
Arnold H. Rots Special purpose image display devices
and techniques at the National Radio
Astronomy Observatory . . . . . . . . . 41
F. L. Chan and
K. M. Lau and
C. L. Li and
H. M. Mok and
D. J. Newman and
Betty Ng Least-squares fitting of parametrized
Hamiltonians to energy levels: an
investigation into alternative
strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Melvin P. Siedband and
Huilian Zhang and
James Gray Block truncation image compression with
bit-map compensation . . . . . . . . . . 52
S. Santucci and
P. Picozzi and
L. Lozzi and
R. Diamanti A simple and low-cost interface between
an apparatus for Auger spectroscopy and
a personal computer . . . . . . . . . . 57
J. K. Dickens Use of Monte Carlo techniques to derive
yields for $ n +^{12}{\rm C} $ multibody
breakup reactions: Programming the
computer to simulate collisions by fast
neutrons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Clifford A. Pickover A note on computer experiments with
chaotic shattering of level sets . . . . 69
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Quasi- (that is, Sub-) Random Numbers 76
M. Q. Syed and
M. A. Hastaoglu The Use of HYPERCARD in Physics . . . . 81
Jan Tobochnik and
Harvey Gould Quantifying Chaos . . . . . . . . . . . 86
R. K. Cralle What if Gauss Had a Mouse? . . . . . . . 92
Paul Thagard and
Peter Skiff Computational Philosophy of Science . . 96
Granville Sewell and
Harvey Gould The Numerical Solution of Ordinary and
Partial Differential Equations . . . . . 98
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 99
Denis Donnelly A Means to an End . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Andreas Karpf Large-Scale Mapping of the Universe with
IRAS Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Bruce M. Boghosian Computational Physics on the Connection
Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Benno L. Petrig and
Charles E. Riva Measurement and Simulation of the Human
Eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Fereydoon Family and
Tamás Vicsek Simulating Fractal Aggregation . . . . . 44
L. R. Ram-Mohan and
Sunil Saigal and
Don Dossa and
J. Shertzer The finite-element method for energy
eigenvalues of quantum mechanical
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
J. M. Aguirregabiria and
A. Hernández and
M. Rivas and
M. A. Valle On the equilibrium configuration of
point charges placed on an ellipse . . . 60
Joseph F. Dreitlein and
Jon R. Sauer Spinor software tools in C++ . . . . . . 64
T. T. Chia and
Y. K. Lai Microcomputer-generated holograms ---
The programming aspects . . . . . . . . 73
A. Snider and
T. R. Mackie Continuous antialiased $2$-D and $3$-D
transformations in discrete space . . . 78
John P. Boyd A Chebyshev/radiation function
pseudospectral method for wave
scattering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Paul Hertz An algorithm for the fast Fourier
transform on a Connection Machine . . . 86
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Elliptic Integrals . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Denis Donnelly Solving Differential Equations Using
MathCAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
William J. Orvis Fitting Data to Equations with
Spreadsheet Programs . . . . . . . . . . 99
Ian S. McLean and
Michal Simon Electronic and Computer-Aided Astronomy 104
Jim Tietz Icon-Oriented Data Acquisition . . . . . 106
Geoffrey Fox The Teraflop Supercomputer . . . . . . . 112
Andreas Karpf Plasma Simulations Used to Design New
Magnetic Fusion Devices . . . . . . . . 121
Richard E. Crandall The NeXT Computer as Physics Machine . . 132--141
Leslie Greengard The Numerical Solution of the $N$-Body
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--152
Frank A. Smith, Jr. Animating the physics lecture with Amiga
BASIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Kevin Cahill How to use MACSYMA to write long FORTRAN
codes for noncompact simulations of
gauge theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--165
J. Ross Mitchell and
Peter Dickof and
Alan G. Law A comparison of line integral algorithms 166
M. Yamazaki and
Y. Murai Simulation of an antiferromagnet by
microcomputer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
K. W. Yu Quantum transmission in periodic
potentials: a transfer matrix approach 176
Marvin Bishop and
Jordan D. Perel and
Victoria Swan Investigation of sorting algorithms on a
variety of computers . . . . . . . . . . 179
Jan Tobochnik Efficient random walk algorithm for
computing conductivity in continuum
percolation systems . . . . . . . . . . 181
Kelly A. Farrar and
Adrian L. Melott Gravity in twisted space . . . . . . . . 185
William H. Press and
Glennys R. Farrar Recursive Stratified Sampling for
Multidimensional Monte Carlo Integration 190
David M. Cook Introducing Computational Tools in the
Upper-Division Undergraduate Physics
Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Harvey Gould and
Jan Tobochnik More on Fractals and Chaos:
Multifractals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Robert S. Wolff Engineering Paradigm Shifts . . . . . . 208
W. L. Maier Derive --- a Mathematical Assistant . . 210
Daniel M. Nosenchuck Book Review: \booktitleNeural Computing
Architectures: The Design of Brain-Like
Machines, Igor Aleksander, 320pp., MIT
Press, 1989 \$45} . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 213
Ben Bacon In Defense of the Turing Test . . . . . 216
Glenn Sowell The NeXT Computer: Article or
Advertisement? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Russell J. Hamilton Turing Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Robert S. Wolff Report from NCGA Conference . . . . . . 225
Gregory J. McRae and
Armistead G. Russell Smog, Supercomputers and Society . . . . 227
Robert M. Chervin High Performance Computing and the Grand
Challenge of Climate Modeling . . . . . 234
Warren M. Washington and
Thomas W. Bettge Computer Simulation of the Greenhouse
Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Jeff Dozier Looking Ahead to EOS: The Earth
Observing System . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Robert S. Wolff Visualization 101: a Tour Guide of Basic
Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
R. Männer and
O. Stucky The Polyp multiprocessor: Architecture
and applications in nuclear physics . . 267
A. H. M. Saleh Time domain analysis of the impulse
response of physical systems using
optimization methods . . . . . . . . . . 275
M. F. Calitz and
A. G. du Toit and
W. Drijfhout Analysis of high-perveance electron guns 280
E. P. Esteban and
E. Ramos Algebraic computing and the
Newman--Penrose formalism . . . . . . . 285
Masud Mansuripur and
Roscoe Giles Simulation of the magnetization-reversal
dynamics on the Connection Machine . . . 291
Hamzeh H. Roomany A graph theoretic approach to the
brachistochrone problem . . . . . . . . 303
David M. Cook Computational Exercises for the
Upper-Division Undergraduate Physics
Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
R. Harris Demons at Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Hypergeometric Functions by Direct Path
Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Robert A. Dory Neural Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Siegmund Brandt and
Dieter Dahmen and
Roger P. Kohin Quantum Mechanics on the Personal
Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 332
Robert R. Borchers Computers, Physics and Our World . . . . 336
Crisan Strugaru Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
Louise Cothary Brown Paper Packages . . . . . . . . . . 344
Ben Bacon Government and Industry Jointly Fund
Gigabit Network Research . . . . . . . . 345
Robert S. Wolff The Macintosh Scientific Computing
Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
Richard A. Morrison Remote Monitoring of Electric Appliances
with an Intelligent Monitor . . . . . . 362
Robert F. Cahalan and
Henning Leidecker and
Gabriel D. Cahalan Chaotic Rhythms of a Dripping Faucet . . 368
K. Dean Wampler The object-oriented programming paradigm
(OOPP) and FORTRAN programs . . . . . . 385
J. Garner Numerical solution to the Schrödinger
equation by constrained optimization . . 395
L. A. Jacobson A fast data smoothing algorithm . . . . 400
William J. Lentz Continued fraction calculation of
spherical Bessel functions . . . . . . . 403--407
J. W. Aronson CHAOS: a SUN-based program for analyzing
chaotic systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
E. J. Horowitz A general field-line plotting algorithm 418
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Orthogonal Polynomials and Gaussian
Quadrature with Nonclassical Weight
Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
R. K. Sears and
B. G. Orr and
T. M. Sanders, Jr. A Scanning Tunneling Microscope for
Undergraduate Laboratories . . . . . . . 427
Jan Tobochnik and
Harvey Gould and
Kenneth Mulder An Introduction to Quantum Monte Carlo 431
Val Watson The Change in Critical Technologies for
Computational Physics . . . . . . . . . 436
Pieter B. Visscher and
Hilliard K. Macomber Fields and Electrodynamics A
Computer-Compatible Introduction . . . . 441
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 443
Ben Bacon The Electronic Journal? . . . . . . . . 448
C. F. Coats Friendly Amigas . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
Ben Bacon Micro to Macro Grand Challenges . . . . 457
Clifford A. Pickover The World of Chaos . . . . . . . . . . . 460
Mike Field and
Martin Golubitsky Symmetric Chaos . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
Mario Markus Chaos in Maps with Continuous and
Discontinuous Maxima . . . . . . . . . . 481
O. E. Rössler and
M. Klein and
G. Baier and
J. Parisi and
J. Peinke and
M. Krug and
J. L. Hudson Sierpinski Sponge in a Simple Generic
Diffeomorphism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
Michael Frame and
Lynne Erdman Coloring Schemes and the Dynamical
Structure of Iterated Function Systems 500
N. H. Wells and
C. S. Burrus and
G. E. Desobry and
A. L. Boyer Three-dimensional Fourier convolution
with an array processor . . . . . . . . 507
Clifford N. Arnold Methods for performance evaluation of
algorithms and computers . . . . . . . . 514
Louis A. DeAcetis and
Oron Schmidt and
Kumar Krishen Using ADA tasks to simulate operating
equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
James A. Blackburn and
H. J. T. Smith Modeling superconducting networks
containing Josephson junctions by means
of PC-based circuit simulation software 526
Xiaohui Ning Modeling saturable absorption using
$3$-D spreadsheets . . . . . . . . . . . 532
Robert S. Wolff Exploratory Visualization --- The
``War'' on Data Glut . . . . . . . . . . 536
Denis Donnelly CIP's First Annual Software Contest: The
Winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540
Niraj Srivastava and
Charles Kaufman and
Gerhard Müller Hamiltonian Chaos . . . . . . . . . . . 549
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Fredholm and Volterra Integral Equations
of the Second Kind . . . . . . . . . . . 554
Robert A. Dory Macros in a Spreadsheet . . . . . . . . 558
G. L. Baker and
J. P. Gollub and
Rick Turner Chaotic Dynamics --- an Introduction . . 562
J. M. T. Thompson and
H. B. Stewart and
Rick Turner Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos . . . . . . 562
Stephen Wiggins and
David S. Mazel Introduction to Applied Nonlinear
Dynamical Systems and Chaos . . . . . . 563
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 564
Clifford A. Pickover The Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of
Chaos Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568
Anonymous Physics Computing '91 to be Held June
10--14 at San Jose Convention Center . . 577
Brad Banko Monitor Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581
David B. Graves and
Richard A. Gottscho Computer Applications in Plasma
Materials Processing . . . . . . . . . . 584
J. L. Flanagan Computers in Speech Communications
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592
François J. Bitz and
Norman J. Zabusky David and ``Visiometrics'': Visualizing
and Quantifying Evolving Amorphous
Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603
Nicolas H. Younan and
William G. Frazier A statistic filter routine . . . . . . . 615
G. Leclerc and
L. Sanche Spreadsheets for computing
charged-particle trajectories in $3$-D
electrostatic fields . . . . . . . . . . 617
Franco Laeri Some comments on maximum entropy
spectral analysis of time series . . . . 627
Kenneth S. Sachar and
Barry Goldstein Optimization of the controlled
separation of biologically active
diagnostic magnetic probes . . . . . . . 637
Daniel W. Welch Imaging by convergent tiling . . . . . . 645
Robert S. Wolff Navigating Through Multi-Dimensional
Data Sets: Dynamical User Interface
Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650
Marko Horbatsch Teaching Calculus and Linear Algebra
with DERIVE\reg . . . . . . . . . . . . 656
Peter J. Reynolds and
Jan Tobochnik and
Harvey Gould Diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo . . . . . 662
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Savitzky-Golay Smoothing Filters . . . . 669
Philip B. Duffy Igor: Graphics and Data Analysis for the
Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673
Robert R. Borchers The Dog Ate the Manuscript . . . . . . . 680
Allen Zeyher Chaos in the Classroom . . . . . . . . . 9
Marvin L. De Jong Computers in Introductory Physics . . . 12
Cyrus Taylor Mathematica in the Classroom . . . . . . 16--21
Richard W. Cline Networking a Physics Department: a Case
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Eric Mazur Can We Teach Computers to Teach? . . . . 31
Mary C. Whitton Visualization for Sun Users . . . . . . 40
Marjorie McClain and
Albert Feldman and
David Kahaner and
Xuantong Ying An algorithm and computer program for
the calculation of envelope curves . . . 45
Jeffery J. Regan and
David R. Andersen Reflection and refraction of optical
beams at dielectric interfaces . . . . . 49
Dietrich Stauffer Programming Cellular Automata . . . . . 62
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Numerical Calculation of Derivatives . . 68
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 70
Anonymous 1991 Directory of Physics Courseware . . 71
Ben Bacon An Answer to Eric's Question . . . . . . 128
R. Bernstein Taking the generality out of general
relativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
Petri Mähönen Parallel signal processing workstation
environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611
Allen Zeyher Simulating the Very Early Universe . . . 135
Michael L. Norman and
David A. Clarke and
James M. Stone Computational Astrophysical Fluid
Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Claire E. Max Computer Simulation of Astrophysical
Plasmas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Edmund Bertschinger and
James M. Gelb Cosmological $N$-Body Simulations . . . 164
Larry L. Smarr and
William H. Press Astronomical Computing in the 1990s: The
Bahcall Committee Report . . . . . . . . 180
Michael Alex and
Jason Crain Mean-field analysis on the Macintosh . . 193--197
Michael Creutz Abelian sandpiles . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Roscoe Giles and
Masud Mansuripur Possible sources of coercivity in thin
films of amorphous rare earth-transition
metal alloys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Elisha Huggins and
Samuel Vélez and
Keith Dunleavy and
Anuj Gupta Use of the Macintosh Oscilloscope in
Undergraduate Science Education . . . . 220
Niraj Srivastava and
Charles Kaufman and
Gerhard Müller Hamiltonian Chaos II . . . . . . . . . . 239
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Bessel Functions of Fractional Order . . 244
R. D. Poshusta Spreadsheet Error Analysis Of
Least-Squares Fitted Models Using Monte
Carlo Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 253
Ben Bacon Physics Computing '91 . . . . . . . . . 256
Anonymous Physics Computing '91 Conference . . . . 263
Robert S. Wolff Visualization as a Tool for Physics
Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Clifford A. Pickover An Informal Survey of the Scientific and
Social Impact of a Soda Can-Sized
Super-Supercomputer . . . . . . . . . . 290
Richard F. Martin, Jr. and
George Skadron and
Robert D. Young Computers, Physics and the Undergraduate
Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Andrew I. Mel'\vcuk and
Roscoe C. Giles and
Harvey Gould Molecular dynamics simulation of liquids
on the Connection Machine . . . . . . . 311
F. J. Belinfante Computing Dirac's atomic hydrogen wave
functions of the continuum, using
summation of mathematically divergent
series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
B. D. Hall A general purpose interactive
programmable laboratory interface system
using the IEEE-488 Bus . . . . . . . . . 323
Dietrich Stauffer Book Review: \booktitleComplex System
Dynamics --- An Introduction to Automata
Networks, Gerard Welsbuch 208 pp.,
Addison-Wesley, 1991 . . . . . . . . . . 329
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Modified Bessel Functions of Fractional
Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Jean Potvin Computation of the Surface Tension . . . 333
Robert S. Wolff Visualization of Floating Point Data:
You Don't Always Get What You See . . . 339
Patrick Tam Physics and Mathematica\TM . . . . . . . 342--348
A. John Mallinckrodt Interactive Physics Version 1.2 . . . . 349
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 355
John S. Rigden Physics: Ideas and Devices? Or, Devices
and Ideas? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Julian V. Noble Highlights of the 1990 Rochester FORTH
Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Allen Zeyher Cray Constructs Powerful Chemistry . . . 369
Walter Gekelman and
James Maggs and
Lingyu Xu Real-Time Relativity . . . . . . . . . . 372
Julian V. Noble Avoid Decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Wolfgang Krueger The application of transport theory to
visualization of $3$-D scalar data
fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Héctor Jorge Sánchez A new peak search routine for fast
evaluation on small computers . . . . . 407
B. D. Hall and
R. Monot Calculating the Debye--Scherrer
diffraction pattern for large clusters 414
R. L. Shoemaker and
H. H. Barrett and
A. Landesman and
R. H. Seacat III and
B. B. Taylor The TRIMM parallel processor . . . . . . 418
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Simulated Annealing Optimization over
Continuous Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . 426
Per Bak Catastrophes and Self-Organized
Criticality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
Peter Hughes Building a Terrain Renderer . . . . . . 434
Patrick Tam Physics and Mathematica\TM . . . . . . . 438--442
John E. Gastineau Spacetime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 446
John S. Rigden Cold Fusion with Computers? . . . . . . 448
David Anderson and
Elaine Oran Highlights of Physics Computing '91 . . 455
Karl Gustafson Computational Physics . . . . . . . . . 457
Paul A. Carter Avoid Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . 458
Max Seel Modeling of Solid Rocket Fuel: From
Quantum Chemistry to Fluid Dynamics
Simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
William G. Harter Nothing Going Nowhere Fast: Computer
Graphics in Physics Courses . . . . . . 466
G. S. Pawley A simple model for the molecular
dynamics of condensed phases . . . . . . 479
N. O. Folland On accurate integration algorithms . . . 483
C. D. Spencer and
E. J. Herrmann Parallel I/O ports for the IBM
microchannel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488
Liam Healy and
Étienne Deprit Paint by number: Uncovering phase flows
of an integrable dynamical system . . . 491
H. J. Korsch and
A. Wagner Fractal mirror images and chaotic
scattering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
David Hon A new method for visualizing data on a
sphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Multigrid Methods for Boundary Value
Problems. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
Katherine J. Strandburg Quasicrystals and Aperiodic Tilings . . 520
Robert A. Dory Contour Plots for Spreadsheets . . . . . 529
G. W. Parker What is the Capacitance of Parallel
Plates? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
Ian R. Gatland The Daedalon Ultrasonic Measurement
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 550
Priscilla W. Laws The Role of Computers in Introductory
Physics Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . 552
Allen Zeyher Solar Simulations Point to Sonic Shock
Waves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
Lewis M. Holmes Exhibitors Target Physics Users . . . . 561
Larry Smarr Visualization Captures the Imagination
of Physicists . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564
Paul F. Dubois Object-Oriented Programming Creates a
``Software Revolution'' . . . . . . . . 568
David P. Grubb and
Robert R. Borchers Workstations Emerge as Major Scientific
Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571
Arthur Davidson Chaos Researchers Bring Diverse
Phenomena into Focus . . . . . . . . . . 574
Richard E. Crandall Symbolic Software Supports New
Adventures in Physics . . . . . . . . . 576--579
Jack M. Wilson Computer Software Has Begun to Change
Physics Education . . . . . . . . . . . 580
Michael R. Leuze and
Robert C. Ward Parallel Computers Take Lead in Complex
Problem Solving . . . . . . . . . . . . 582
Bruce M. Boghosian Lattice Gases Illustrate the Power of
Cellular Automata in Physics . . . . . . 585
A. N. Weiszmann Computer modeling in nonlinear optics:
4W-mixing theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 591
P. B. Visscher A fast explicit algorithm for the
time-dependent Schrödinger equation . . . 596
Michael Metcalf A derived-data type for data analysis 599
M. Migliore and
G. F. Ayala and
S. L. Fornili Concurrent simulation of neurons on
multi-Transputer systems . . . . . . . . 605
Dan Dill Implementing matrix mechanics in
Mathematica: Determination of
Clebsch--Gordan coefficients by matrix
diagonalization . . . . . . . . . . . . 616--625
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Multigrid Methods for Boundary Value
Problems. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626
Zoran Slanic and
Harvey Gould and
Jan Tobochnik Dynamics of the Classical Heisenberg
Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630
Denis Donnelly CIP Announces Winners of Second Annual
Software Contest . . . . . . . . . . . . 636
Kenneth R. Foster Mathematics\TM 2.0: An Updated Math
Program for MS-DOS Platforms . . . . . . 643--644
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 645
Robert R. Borchers Physicists Take Stock of Computing
Advances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648
Allen Zeyher Massive Parallelism Supports Lattice QCD
Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Robert R. Borchers Albuquerque Meeting Brings News of
Supercomputer Advances . . . . . . . . . 8
Barry G. DeBoer HCP Arrangements Give Identical
Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Ping-Kang Hsiung Researchers Should Get Credit . . . . . 10
Anonymous Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
George Bourianoff and
Richard Talman Accelerator Progress Relies on
Computational Simulations . . . . . . . 14
Howard Baer and
William F. Long Latest Software, Hardware Serve
High-Energy Phenomenology . . . . . . . 24
Khalil M. Bitar and
Urs M. Heller Lattice Field Simulations Press the
Limits of Computational Physics . . . . 33
M. J. Corden and
C. H. Georgiopoulos and
S. L. Linn and
S. Youssef Computers Manage Complexity of
High-Energy Experiments . . . . . . . . 41
R. Giles and
P. S. Alexopoulos and
M. Mansuripur Micromagnetics of thin film cobalt-based
media for magnetic recording . . . . . . 53
Seth A. Cameron Novel Fourier methods for boundary value
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
David H. Stone Pulsed laser codes for use as
instructional tools . . . . . . . . . . 77
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Padé Approximants . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Niraj Srivastava and
Charles Kaufman and
Gerhard Müller Hamiltonian Chaos III . . . . . . . . . 84
Robert Ehrlich and
Maria Dworzecka and
William M. MacDonald Software Consortium Develops Simulations
for Nine Physics Courses . . . . . . . . 90
Barton G. Lane X-arRAY: Accessing Extended Memory on
the Cheap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 99
Joseph E. Lannutti Computers Undergird High-Energy Physics
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Anonymous Orlando Exhibit Brings News of
Educational Software Advances . . . . . 111
A. H. Kalantar Effective Variance Doesn't Work . . . . 116
Edwin A. Karlow Decoder Uses Fewer ICs . . . . . . . . . 116
Anonymous Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Roscoe Giles and
Claudio Rebbi Computational Center Develops Practical
Experience in Parallel Computing . . . . 122
J. C. Sprott Simple Programs Create $3$-D Images . . 132
Eugene D. Brooks III Massive Parallelism Overcomes
Shared-Memory Limitations . . . . . . . 139
J. A. Zukas and
J. R. Furlong and
S. B. Segletes Hydrocodes Support Visualization of
Shock-Wave Phenomena . . . . . . . . . . 146
William G. Hoover and
Anthony J. De Groot and
Carol G. Hoover Massively parallel computer simulation
of plane-strain elastic--plastic flow
via nonequilibrium molecular dynamics
and Lagrangian continuum mechanics . . . 155
G. Liu and
S. Fuelling and
R. Bruch Versatile CAMAC--PC/AT system for data
acquisition and control in
high-resolution extreme-ultraviolet
(EUV) spectroscopy following ion--atom
and ion--molecule collisions . . . . . . 168
W. R. Somsky and
J. E. Gubernatis A massively parallel implementation of
the worldline quantum Monte Carlo method 178
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Adaptive Stepsize Runge--Kutta
Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Michael A. Lee and
Kevin E. Schmidt Green's Function Monte Carlo . . . . . . 192
Robert A. Dory Finite-Element Method in a Spreadsheet 198
Jack M. Wilson and
Edward F. Redish The Comprehensive Unified Physics
Learning Environment: Part I. Background
and System Operation . . . . . . . . . . 202
Stephen P. Renwick Plotting and Fitting Your Data:
SigmaPlot for the Mac . . . . . . . . . 210
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 213
David H. Bailey How Useful are Today's Parallel
Computers? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Allen Zeyher Minimal Principle Facilitates Structure
Determination of Large Molecule . . . . 223
Frederick Hecht Guidelines Should Cover Illustrations
Too . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Stephen Bowline and
James Utt and
Lowell F. Williams Article Omits Powerful Parallel Machine 226
Anonymous Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Christopher R. Johnson and
Robert S. MacLeod and
Mike A. Matheson Computer Simulations Reveal Complexity
of Electrical Activity in the Human
Thorax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
James M. Briggs and
J. Andrew McCammon Computation Unravels Mysteries of
Molecular Biophysics . . . . . . . . . . 238
Robert Jacob and
John Anderson Do-it-Yourself Massively Parallel
Supercomputer does useful Physics . . . 244
Alexander Hsieh and
Eran Yehudai HIP: Symbolic high-energy physics
calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--261
Stewart A. Brown PANACEA: a model for numerical
simulation codes . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Fitting Straight Line Data with Errors
in Both Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . 274
Amihai Silverman and
Joan Adler Animated Simulated Annealing . . . . . . 277
Jack M. Wilson and
Edward F. Redish and
Denis Donnelly The Comprehensive Unified Physics
Learning Environment: Part II. The Basis
for Integrated Studies . . . . . . . . . 282
Robert S. Wolff Sounding Out Images . . . . . . . . . . 287
Myron Mandell and
Margaret Gjertsen IRIS Indigo: High-Performance Low-End
Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 293
Peter G. Wolynes Will Computer Design Become a Matter of
Evolution? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Anonymous Physics Computing '92 Offers Varied
Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Anonymous Index of Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
K. C. Bowler and
L. K. Chantler and
D. C. Heggie and
R. D. Kenway and
D. J. Tildesley and
A. S. Trew and
D. J. Wallace Physics Leads the Way at Edinburgh HPC
Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Paul Mortensen Japanese Physicists Command Powerful
Supercomputer Resources . . . . . . . . 339--345
Steve Bryson Virtual Reality Takes on Real Physics
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Russell K. Hobbie MacDose: a simulation for understanding
radiological physics . . . . . . . . . . 355
J. P. Estrera and
W. M. Duncan and
S. R. Slaughter Lineshape analysis for optical
transitions in III-V semiconductors
using a sequential simplex procedure . . 360
C. Stoughton and
D. J. Summers Using multiple RISC CPUs in parallel to
study charm quarks . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Jack Kennedy A MATHCAD-based method for enhanced
system resolution studies . . . . . . . 377
William J. Thompson Algorithms for normalizing by least
squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Alan D. Stein and
Zhiyue Wang and
John S. Leigh, Jr. Computer-generated holograms: a
simplified ray-tracing approach . . . . 389
James S. Walker and
J. Gathright A transfer-matrix approach to
one-dimensional quantum mechanics using
Mathematica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--399
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Biconjugate Gradient Method for Sparse
Linear Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Dietrich Stauffer and
Ras B. Pandey Immunologically Motivated Simulations of
Cellular Automata . . . . . . . . . . . 404
David M. Cook and
Russell Dubisch and
Glenn Sowell and
Patrick Tam and
Denis Donnelly A Comparison of Several
Symbol-Manipulating Programs: Part I . . 411--420
Robert S. Wolff Volume Visualization I: Basic Concepts
and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Foster Morrison and
Susan McKay The Art of Modeling Dynamic Systems:
Forecasting for Chaos, Randomness, and
Determinism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
John Gastineau and
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Reviews: Foster Morrison,
\booktitleThe Art 01 Modeling Dynamic
Systems: Forecasting for Chaos,
Randomness, and Determinism. D. Stauffer
and H. E. Stanley, \booktitleFrom Newton
to Mandelbrot: a Primer in Theoretical
Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
L. David Roper and
Margaret Gjertsen EXP Formats Equations at Low Cost . . . 426
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 428
Robert de Groot Cost-Effective Computers Counter Threats
to Physics Research and Education . . . 432
Allen Zeyher Object-Oriented Modeling Guides SSC DAQ
Designers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
Anonymous Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Stephen M. Omohundro Sather Provides Nonproprietary Access to
Object-Oriented Programming . . . . . . 444
Scott W. Haney and
James A. Crotinger C++ Proves Useful in Writing a Tokamak
Systems Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
Hiroshi Nishimura Dynamic Accelerator Modeling Uses
Objects in Eiffel . . . . . . . . . . . 456
G. P. Cant The high-speed single-pass bin sort . . 469
D. A. Smith Parametric cubic spline-fitting programs
for open and closed curves . . . . . . . 472
P. Y. Tong and
K. W. Yu Multifractal scaling in a Sierpi\'nski
gasket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
Marshall Burns Visualizing nonlinear resonance in
classical and quantum mechanics . . . . 483
Sandor Kristyan and
Janos Szamosi Reaction kinetic surfaces and
isosurfaces of the catalytic
hydrogenolysis of ethane and its
self-poisoning over Ni and Pd catalysts 494
Keith Andrew and
Charles G. Fleming Space--time geometries characterized by
solutions to the geodesic equations . . 498--505
Roger W. Meredith Numeric precision in FORTRAN computing 506--512
C. M. Savage The quantum mechanics of a classically
chaotic dissipative system . . . . . . . 513
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Portable Random Number Generators . . . 522--524
Panos Argyrakis and
Harvey Gould and
Jan Tobochnik Simulation of Diffusion-Controlled
Chemical Reactions . . . . . . . . . . . 525
David M. Cook and
Russell Dubisch and
Glenn Sowell and
Patrick Tarn and
Denis Donnelly A Comparison of Several
Symbol-Manipulating Programs: Part II 530
Margaret Gjertsen Languages and Tools Let You Program Your
Microcomputer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 551
Dennis C. Rapaport and
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: D. W. Heermann and A. N.
Burkitt, \booktitleParallel Algorithms
in Computational Science . . . . . . . . 554
A. John Mallinckrodt Book Review: Charles A. Whitney,
\booktitleRandom Processes in Physical
Systems: An Introduction to
Probability-Based Computer Simulations 555
John W. Robson and
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: \booktitlePhysics: Cinema
Classics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556
Paul F. Dubois Try Something New: Object-Oriented
Thinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560
Allen Zeyher Software Deciphers Echoes of the Big
Bang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565
Dietrich Stauffer Computational Physicists Vie for the
Gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
Roscoe Giles SIGGRAPH Presents Insight Through Images 568
Denis Donnelly Science Educators Discuss Benefits of
Symbolic Computation . . . . . . . . . . 571
Param D. Bajwa AAPT Winter Meeting Accents Growth of
Computers in Physics . . . . . . . . . . 572
Param D. Bajwa Organizers Announce Plans for Physics
Computing '93 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
Anonymous Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574
David M. Butler and
Steve Bryson Vector-Bundle Classes form Powerful Tool
for Scientific Visualization . . . . . . 576
Uttam Ghoshal and
T. Van Duzer Superconductivity Researchers Seek to
Remove Computational Bottlenecks . . . . 585
Alastair D. McAulay Researchers Look to Optics to Move
Computer Technology Forward . . . . . . 594
P. W. Leung and
Paul E. Oppenheimer Implementation of the Lanczos algorithm
for the Hubbard model on the Connection
Machine system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603
Hong Fu and
R. Giles and
M. Mansuripur and
G. Patterson Investigation of the effects of
nanostructure on the observable behavior
of magnetic thin film using large-scale
computer simulation . . . . . . . . . . 610
J. J. Collins and
M. Fanciulli and
R. G. Hohlfeld and
D. C. Finch and
G. v. H. Sandri and
E. S. Shtatland A random number generator based on the
logit transform of the logistic variable 630
A. A. Al-Beteri and
D. E. Raeside A Monte Carlo electron transport code
for the desktop computer . . . . . . . . 633
Shiyi Chen and
Xiaowen Shan High-resolution turbulent simulations
using the Connection Machine-2 . . . . . 643
Joseph P. Cusumano and
Derchyan Lin and
Kevin Morooney and
Louis J. Pepe Global sensitivity analysis of a
nonlinear system using animated basins
of attraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
Richard W. Quine and
George Rinard and
Donald E. Rugg and
Gareth R. Eaton and
Sandra S. Eaton Design of magnetic-field gradient coils
for imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656
Bruno Fromont and
Pascale Beaufumé Learning dynamical behaviors with
explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Fresnel Integrals, Cosine and Sine
Integrals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670
Jan Tobochnik and
George Batrouni and
Harvey Gould Quantum Monte Carlo on a Lattice . . . . 673
Robert A. Dory and
Jeffrey H. Harris Wavelets Characterize Aperiodic Data . . 681
Denis Donnelly CIP's Third Annual Software Contest: The
Winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686
Robert S. Wolff Volume Visualization II: Ray-Tracing of
Volume Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692
Christopher Heil Book Review: Charles K. Chui,
\booktitleAn Introduction to Wavelets 697
Christopher Heil Book Reviews: Ingrid Daubechies,
\booktitleTen Lectures on Wavelets . . . 697--697
Matthew Lundberg Book Reviews: \booktitleWavelets: a
Tutorial in Theory and Applications
(Volume 2 in series `Wavelet Analysis
and its Applications') Charles K. Chui
Academic Press, Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, San Diego, CA, 1992; ISBN
0-12-174590-2, 736 pp., hardcover,
\$69.95. \booktitle{Wavelets and Their
Applications} Mary Beth Ruskai, Gregory
Beylkin, Ronald Coifman, Ingrid
Daubechies, Stephane Mallat, Yves Meyer
and Louise Raphael, editors Jones and
Bartlett, Boston, MA, 1992; ISBN
0-86720-225-4, 480 pp., hardcover,
\$59.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698
Gary Locklair Electronics Workbench Helps Students to
Learn About Circuits . . . . . . . . . . 700
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 706
Anonymous Index to Volume 6 . . . . . . . . . . . 709
Barry Whalen A Superconducting Optical Computer May
Appear in the Near Future . . . . . . . 712
Lewis M. Holmes Bringing you three new departments\ldots 3
Robert G. Fuller Multimedia --- Hype or No? . . . . . . . 5
Lewis M. Holmes Supercomputing specialists try out
clusters and networks . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
James R. Matey General Principles for Application of
Computers in Experimental Physics . . . 12
William J. Thompson Cutting Corners: Quick Square Roots and
Trig Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Fredy R. Zypman and
Denis Donnelly Symbolic Programming Helps to Teach
Debye--Scherrer Diffraction . . . . . . 22--26
Ken Elder and
Harvey Gould and
Jan Tobochnik Langevin Simulations of Nonequilibrium
Phenomena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Gordon J. Aubrecht II and
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Charles Misner and Patrick
Cooney, \booktitleSpreadsheet Physics 35
Gordon J. Aubrecht II and
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Robert G. Parks,
\booktitleQuattro Pro for Scientific and
Engineering Spreadsheets . . . . . . . . 35
Gordon J. Aubrecht II and
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Irvin H. Kral,
\booktitleThe Excel Spreadsheet for
Engineers and Scientists . . . . . . . . 35
A. F. Burr and
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Denis Donnelly,
\booktitleMathCAD for Introductory
Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
A. F. Burr and
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Sol Wieder,
\booktitleIntroduction to Mathcad for
Scientists and Engineers . . . . . . . . 36
Paul F. Dubois and
Lee Busby Portable, Powerful Fortran Programs . . 38--44
Margaret H. Gjertsen 1993 Directory of Physics Courseware . . 45
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 77
A. Brunini and
P. E. Zadunaisky Estimation of global errors in the
numerical solution of ordinary
differential equations . . . . . . . . . 81
G. Groisman and
J. R. Parker Computer-assisted photometry using
simulated annealing . . . . . . . . . . 87
G. N. Hassold and
Elizabeth A. Holm A fast serial algorithm for the finite
temperature quenched Potts model . . . . 97
Robert C. Pickett and
Gordon E. Lindgren and
Ronald K. Anderson Power series solution of linear and
nonlinear partial differential equations
via symbolic programming . . . . . . . . 108
Lewis M. Holmes Focusing on Clusters and network . . . . 115
Ravi Mirchandaney Cluster vs. Monolithic Parallel
Machines: You May Need Both . . . . . . 117
David I. Lewin HPCC grandly challenges physics
community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Anonymous Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
James R. Matey and
Phillip Stein Catching the Right Bus I: An Overview of
Architectures for Instrument Systems . . 130
Bruce Arne Sherwood and
David M. Andersen and
Denis Donnelly Ct Creates Prize-Winning Portable
Physics Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
John F. Shriner and
William J. Thompson Angular-Momentum Coupling Coefficients:
New and Improved Algorithms . . . . . . 144
Jean Potvin and
Harvey Gould and
Jan Tobochnik Computational Quantum-Field Theory . . . 149
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: William J. Thompson,
\booktitleComputing for Scientists and
Engineers: a Workbook of Analysis,
Numerics, and Applications . . . . . . . 155
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: K. Binder and D. Heermann
and Lyle Roelofs, \booktitleMonte Carlo
Simulation in Statistical Physics . . . 156
Robert S. Wolff Volume Visualization III: Polygonally
Based Volume Rendering . . . . . . . . . 158
Paul F. Dubois and
Lee Busby Portability and the Fortran Standard . . 162--165
Jack Dongarra and
G. A. Geist and
Robert Manchek and
V. S. Sunderam Integrated PVM Framework Supports
Heterogeneous Network Computing . . . . 166--174
Dennis W. Duke Cluster Computing Exploits Performance
and Cost Advantages . . . . . . . . . . 176
Frank Rinaldo and
Stephen Wolbers Loosely Coupled Parallel Processing at
Fermilab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Wolfgang Christian and
Margaret H. Gjertsen Pascal Utilities Provide Programming
Assistance: Comparison of M.U.P.P.E.T.
and Scientific Programmers Toolkit . . . 191
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 197
Arlette Noels and
Roland Papy and
François Remy Visualizing the evolution of a star on a
graphic workstation . . . . . . . . . . 202
Peter L. Jolivette Least-squares fits when there are errors
in $X$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
G. Bäckström Curve fitting by Lagrange interpolation 213
P. B. Visscher and
Judy Dye and
Jen-Ho Fang A hierarchical approach to stochastic
simulation of correlated systems . . . . 217
J. Pachner The nature of chaos in two systems of
ordinary nonlinear differential
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Lewis M. Holmes PC '93 convenes in Albuquerque . . . . . 251
John W. Negele In computational physics, change brings
opportunities and challenges . . . . . . 253
David I. Lewin NREN seen as forerunner of National
Information Infrastructure . . . . . . . 254
Allen Zeyher Numerical tokamaks illuminate plasma
physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Anonymous Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
William J. Thompson A bargain at twice the price . . . . . . 261
Berton H. Gunter and
James R. Matey How Statistical Design Concepts Can
Improve Experimentation in the Physical
Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Peter H. Ceperley and
Denis Donnelly Low-Cost System Plots Fields and Waves
in Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Ian R. Gatland and
William J. Thompson A Weight-Watcher's Guide to
Least-Squares Fitting . . . . . . . . . 280
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Simson L. Garfinkel and
Michael K. Mahoney and Richard R.
Silbar, \booktitleNeXTSTEP Programming,
Step One: Object-Oriented Applications 287
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay C. H. Chen and Seth Wolpert,
\booktitleNeural Networks in Pattern
Recognition and their Applications . . . 288
Pekka Janhunen and
Douglas Stein and
Robert S. Wolff MathHDF: MathLink-Based Distributed
Visualization between Mathematica and
HDF Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--294
R. H. Landau and
T. Mefford and
G. He and
Robert S. Wolff Visualizations in Few-Body Physics . . . 296
Stewart A. Brown and
Mike Folk and
Gregory Goucher and
Russ Rew and
Paul F. Dubois Software for Portable Scientific Data
Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Wolfgang Christian and
Margaret H. Gjertsen Nextstep Has Lived up to Its Promise in
an Educational Environment . . . . . . . 309
A. John Mallinckrodt Book Review: \booktitleInteractive
Physics II: a Physics Simulation
Laboratory for the Macintosh . . . . . . 312
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Anonymous Listing of sessions, speakers, and talks
at the 5th International Conference on
Computational Physics . . . . . . . . . 319
Anonymous What exhibitors will have on display in
Albuquerque . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Swati Roy and
W. L. (Nancy) Lee and
James W. Mentele and
Richard W. Nau A comparative study of temperature
extremes analysis by regression methods
and by an artificial neural network . . 330
Robert S. Caprari Least-squares orthogonal polynomial
approximation in several independent
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Arturo Morales-Acevedo and
Humberto Arizpe Simulating solar cells with a
microcomputer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Karl D. Brommer and
B. E. Larson and
M. Needels and
J. D. Joannopoulos Implementation of the Car--Parrinello
algorithm for ab initio total energy
calculations on a massively parallel
computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Chihwen ``Chris'' Li and
Chwan-Hwa ``John'' Wu A particle-in-cell fluid model for radio
frequency glow discharges . . . . . . . 363
Lewis M. Holmes Would you like to try some hands-on
animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Larry Irving, Jr. Why Physicists Should Care about the
National Information Infrastructure . . 381
Allen Zeyher Simulated materials reveal
microfractures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Anonymous Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Prabhakar P. Singh and
William J. Thompson Exploring the Complex Plane: Green's
Functions, Hilbert Transforms, and
Analytic Continuation . . . . . . . . . 388
Roman Dengler and
Karl Luchner and
Dean Zollman and
Denis Donnelly Computer-Video Method Evaluates Real
Motion Data in Real Time for Students 393
H. Q. Lin and
J. E. Gubernatis and
Harvey Gould and
Jan Tobochnik Exact Diagonalization Methods for
Quantum Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
James R. Matey and
M. J. Lauterbach How to Control Errors in
Analog-To-Digital Conversion . . . . . . 408
J. Morris Blair and
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Philip R. Bevington and D.
Keith Robinson, \booktitleData Reduction
and Error Analysis for the Physical
Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
Peter B. Siegel and
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Robert L. Devaney,
\booktitleA First Course in Chaotic
Dynamical Systems: Theory and Experiment 416
Viktor K. Decyk and
Paul F. Dubois How to Write (Nearly) Portable Fortran
Programs for Parallel Computers . . . . 418--425
Robert S. Wolff Multimedia in the Classroom and the
Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
David Bridges and
Terry J. Deveau and
Margaret H. Gjertsen Equation Editing with Ami Pro, Word, and
Wordperfect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
T. E. Simos A variable-step procedure for the
numerical integration of the
one-dimensional Schrödinger equation . . 460
M. G. Payne and
Mark Edwards Approximate atomic structure
calculations using a microcomputer . . . 465
Antonio Redondo and
Dipen N. Sinha Vibrational mode analysis using maximum
likelihood and maximum entropy . . . . . 476
Lewis M. Holmes Some good moves . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Roscoe Giles What does computation have to do with
``real'' physics? . . . . . . . . . . . 485
Allen Zeyher CFD tools expand flow analysis horizons 486
Param D. Bajwa First Rahman prize winner focuses on
educational reform . . . . . . . . . . . 488
Dietrich Stauffer Computers and dinosaurs on Route 66 . . 489
Param D. Bajwa Companies exhibit resources for
computational physicists . . . . . . . . 490
Robert R. Borchers SC'93 brings high-performance computing
to Portland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
David I. Lewin NIST gives America the time of day . . . 492
Anonymous Calender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
Steve Bryson Symposium Considers Applications of
Virtual Reality . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
James R. Matey UVR Mark II: The History of an Automated
Instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
Robert Ehrlich and
Maria Dworzecka and
William MacDonald and
Jaroslaw Tuszynski and
Denis Donnelly Text Materials to Accompany Simulations
for the CUPS Project . . . . . . . . . . 508
Ernest R. Davidson Monster Matrices: Their Eigenvalues and
Eigenvectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--522
Elaine S. Oran and
Jay P. Boris Computing Turbulent Shear Flows --- a
Convenient Conspiracy . . . . . . . . . 523
Lui Lam and
Rocco Pochy and
Harvey Gould and
Jan Tobochnik Active-Walker Models: Growth and form in
Nonequilibrium Systems . . . . . . . . . 534
Marc Bourzutschky and
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: John Wendt,
\booktitleComputational Fluid Dynamics:
An Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . 542
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Reviews: Ed Krol, \booktitleThe
Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog,
\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Jonathan Kochmer and
NorthWestNet, \booktitleThe Internet
Passport: NorthWestNet's Guide to Our
World Online (4th ed.) . . . . . . . . . 543
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: April Marine and Susan
Kirkpatrick and Vivian Neou and Carol
Ward, \booktitleInternet: Getting
Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Elizabeth Lane and Craig
Summerhill, \booktitleInternet Primer
for Information Professionals: a Basic
Guide to Internet Networking Technology 543
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Brendan P. Kehoe,
\booktitleZen and the Art of the
Internet: a Beginner's Guide (2nd ed.) 543
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Tracy LaQuey and Jeanne C.
Ryer, \booktitleThe Internet Companion:
a Beginner's Guide to Global Networking 543
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Roy Tennant and John Ober
and Anne G. Lipow, \booktitleCrossing
the Internet Threshold: An Instructional
Handbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
Paul F. Dubois Perl by Example . . . . . . . . . . . . 545
Bruce Balick and
Margaret H. Gjertsen Voyager II Takes Students on Joy Rides
through the Universe . . . . . . . . . . 551
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 555
K. J. M. Moriarty and
S. Sanielevici and
K. Sun and
T. Trappenberg Object-oriented programming applied to
lattice gauge theory . . . . . . . . . . 560
Robert W. Cunningham Comparison of three methods for
determining fit parameter uncertainties
for the Marquardt Compromise . . . . . . 570
G. A. Johansen and
J. E. Nordtvedt and
P. Vold ElPed: An interactive PC-based learning
program for basic electrical circuits 577
M. A. Johnson and
L. V. Meisel Quantifying symmetric chaos . . . . . . 585
Richard R. Silbar An interactive NeXTSTEP interface to a
Fortran code for solving coupled
differential equations . . . . . . . . . 592--598
D. Aaron Roberts An algorithm for finding spurious points
in turbulent signals . . . . . . . . . . 599
Lewis M. Holmes Awards honor software developers and
computational specialists . . . . . . . 611
Edward F. Redish Are computers appropriate for teaching
physics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613
David I. Lewin Supercomputing '93 Showcases Parallel
Computing Finalists . . . . . . . . . . 614
Param D. Bajwa Submission Deadline is Approaching for
PC '94 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616
Dennis W. Duke Computing Specialists Focus on Gigabit
Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618
Richard LeSar Cover photo needs additional credits . . 620
Anonymous Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Robert G. Parks,
\booktitleQuattro Pro\reg for Scientific
and Engineering Spreadsheets . . . . . . 624
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: J. M. Haile and Ian
Johnston, \booktitleMolecular Dynamics
Simulation: Elementary Methods . . . . . 625
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Samuel S. M. Wong and
Philip Gash, \booktitleComputational
Methods in Physics and Engineering . . . 625
William J. Thompson Numerous Neat Algorithms for the Voigt
Profile Function . . . . . . . . . . . . 627
Hudong Chen and
Harvey Gould and
Jan Tobochnik Discrete Boltzmann Systems and Fluid
Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632
Anonymous How to Get CIP Source Code Over the
Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637
P. C. van Haren and
F. Wijnoltz and
James R. Matey The Tramp Data-Acquisition System . . . 638
Denis Donnelly CIP's Fourth Annual Software Contest . . 647
Michael K. W. Wong and
Kent G. Budge and
James S. Peery and
Allen C. Robinson and
Paul F. Dubois Object-Oriented Numerics: a Paradigm for
Numerical Object-Oriented Programming 655
Robert S. Wolff Multiplexed Visualization: Terrain
Rendering and Magellan Data . . . . . . 664
W. R. Franta and
Joel Halpern and
James Hughes Mix and Match Technologies Boost
Communication Speed in Today's
Data-Networking Environment . . . . . . 666
Neal Tobochnik and
Jan Tobochnik and
Margaret H. Gjertsen Fortran Compilers for Personal Computers 672--677
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 678
T. Kaiser and
G. Schweiger Stable algorithm for the computation of
Mie coefficients for scattered and
transmitted fields of a coated sphere 682
Hong Q. Ding Monte Carlo simulations of quantum
systems on massively parallel
supercomputers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687
V. E. Esaulov and
R. Bartolo and
F. Penent Hardware and software for a
multiparametric concurrent data
acquisition system . . . . . . . . . . . 696
P. C. van Haren The DOM4 database system . . . . . . . . 701
L. V. Meisel and
P. J. Cote Exponents in lifetime and power spectral
density forms in self-organized critical
systems --- a Mathematica application 710--713
W. Wegener and
P. D'Hooghe and
W. De Boeck Data acquisition and control system for
the neutron time-of-flight spectrometer
MIBEMOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714
Lewis M. Holmes New in this issue . . . . . . . . . . . 3
William L. Duax Crystallography: Send in the Computers 5
David I. Lewin Fortran's Developer Receives Top
Engineering Award . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Lewis M. Holmes Supercomputing Conference Emphasizes
Scalable Computing and Networks . . . . 8
Allen Zeyher Pattern Formation Studies Combine
Computation and Experiment . . . . . . . 10
Param D. Bajwa What Commercializing the Internet Will
Mean for Physicists . . . . . . . . . . 12
Margaret Gjertsen Educom '93 Crafts New Communities . . . 14
Anonymous Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Lewis M. Holmes Introducing\ldots Internet Services . . 19
Glenn Ricart How to Transfer Files on the Internet 20
Anonymous How to Get CIP Source Code . . . . . . . 23
Peggy Judd and
Frank Perugini AIP's Online Information Service Helps
Physicists Stay up to Date . . . . . . . 24
L. L. Boyer Predicting New Materials . . . . . . . . 27
R. E. Cohen Electrons, Phonons, and Electron-Phonon
Interactions in High-Temperature
Superconductors . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Dhananjay V. Gadre and
Pramod K. Upadhyay and
Vijaya S. Varma and
James R. Matey Catching the Right Bus, Part 2: Using a
Parallel Printer Adapter as an
Inexpensive Interface . . . . . . . . . 45
R. R. Silbar and
H. T. Williams and
William J. Thompson Symbolic Solutions: Angular Momentum on
a PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
J. M. Aguirregabiria and
A. Hernández and
M. Rivas and
Denis Donnelly Are We Careful Enough when Using
Computer Algebra? . . . . . . . . . . . 56--61
Ying-Cheng Lai and
Harvey Gould and
Jan Tobochnik Controlling Chaos . . . . . . . . . . . 62
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Rubin H. Landau and Paul
Fink, Jr. and Geert Wenes, \booktitleA
Scientist's and Engineer's Guide to
Workstations and Supercomputers . . . . 68
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Francis Moon and Paul S.
Linsay, \booktitleChaotic and Fractal
Dynamics: An Introduction for Applied
Scientists and Engineers . . . . . . . . 69
Paul F. Dubois Making Applications Programmable . . . . 70
William E. Blass and
Stephen L. Mahan and
Margaret H. Gjertsen IDL for Windows Impresses as a
Computational System . . . . . . . . . . 74
Anonymous Listings Of The Latest Releases . . . . 77
Hong Fu and
R. Giles and
M. Mansuripur Coercivity mechanisms in magneto-optical
recording media . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Paul Horwitz and
Edwin F. Taylor and
William Barowy Teaching special relativity with a
computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
James Kent Blackburn GRPP, a scientific programming language
preprocessor designed using \tt lex and
\tt yacc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Padraig Houlahan Tracking artificial satellites with the
Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
George Marsaglia and
Arif Zaman Some portable very-long-period random
number generators . . . . . . . . . . . 117--121
Suzanne M. Lea and
Beth A. Thacker and
Eunsook Kim and
Kathleen M. Miller Computer-assisted assessment of student
understanding in physics . . . . . . . . 122
Lewis M. Holmes On global and not-so-global searches . . 131
Peter J. Haigh ICN equals NII here and now --- not
``if'' and ``when'' . . . . . . . . . . 133
David I. Lewin NSF Foresees Bright Future for Its
Supercomputing Centers . . . . . . . . . 134--136
Allen Zeyher Optical packages look for global minima 137
Geoffrey Parker and
Nalini Nadkarni Forest researchers seek $3$-D tools . . 140
Anonymous Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Glenn Ricart Speed Limits on the Internet . . . . . . 146
Lewis M. Holmes Expanded new-products section goes on
line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Stefan Zollner and
James R. Matey Selecting an Operating System, Part I:
OS/2 2.X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
William J. Thompson Chebyshev Polynomials: After the
Spelling the Rest is Easy . . . . . . . 161
Hilton Abbott and
Denis Donnelly Physics Homework Management: Using
Hypercard to Generate Individualized
Problem Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Jean Potvin and
Harvey Gould and
Jan Tobochnik Computational Quantum Field Theory. Part
II: Lattice Gauge Theory . . . . . . . . 170
James R. Matey and
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: H. M. Staudenmaier, editor,
\booktitlePhysics Experiments Using PCs 177
James R. Matey and
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: John C. Russ, \booktitleThe
Image Processing Handbook . . . . . . . 177
C. A. Silebi and
W. E. Schiesser and
Ras B. Pandey Dynamic Modeling of Transport Process
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Paul L. DeVries and
Robert P. Wolf A First Course in Computational Physics 178
Paul A. K. Amala and
Garry H. Rodrigue and
Paul F. Dubois Programming Models for Three-Dimensional
Hydrodynamics on the CM-5 (Part I) . . . 181
Gunnar Backstrom and
Margaret H. Gjertsen PDEase2 Solves Partial Differential
Equations Flexibly Using Finite Elements
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
David Shafer Global Optimization in Optical Design 188
Anonymous Listings Of The Latest Releases . . . . 196
Daniel H. Rothman and
Leo P. Kadanoff Bubble, bubble, boil, and trouble . . . 199
R. K. Hailstone Transputer-based simulations of image
recording in silver-halide materials . . 205
Geerd H. F. Diercksen and
George G. Hall Intelligent software: The OpenMol
program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
George M. Frichter and
J. Piekarewicz Quark-based description of nuclear
matter with simulated annealing . . . . 223
Lewis M. Holmes Are You Set up for Symbolics? . . . . . 235
Glenn A. Reitmeier Watch Out Computing Here Comes HDTV! . . 237
David I. Lewin Mathematica's Developer Asks, ``Can
Algorithms Replace Equations?'' . . . . 238
Rhonda Shearin Physics Computing '94 Explores
Innovations in Computational Physics . . 241
Anonymous Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Glenn Ricart The Mosaic Internet Browser . . . . . . 249
Lewis M. Holmes Find Hundreds of Physics Products Online 254
Christopher B. Hamlin and
Peggy Judd How AIP Handles Electronic Submissions
of Articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Richard Newrock and
James R. Matey Catching the Right Bus III: IEEE-488.1 259
William J. Thompson Mathematica and Maple: Has Champaign met
its Waterloo? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--278
Mark T. Ratajack and
D. O. VanOstenburg and
Denis Donnelly Computer Simulation Teaches Fourier
Transform NMR . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Joan Adler Series Expansions . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Scott Markel and
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Peter R. Keller and Mary M.
Keller, \booktitleVisual Cues: Practical
Data Visualization . . . . . . . . . . . 297
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: T. Berners-Lee and Dimitri
Dimitroyannis, \booktitleWorld Wide Web 298
Paul A. K. Amala and
Garry H. Rodrigue Programming Models for Three-Dimensional
Hydrodynamics on the CM-5 (Part II) . . 300
Steven M. Christensen Resources for Computer Algebra . . . . . 308
William E. Blass and
Wade D. Humbard and
Stephen L. Mahan and
Margaret H. Gjertsen After Rough Start, Lantastic Gives Good
Service in a Research Laboratory Network 317
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 321
A. F. Hasler and
K. Palaniappan and
M. Manyin and
J. Dodge A high performance Interactive Image
SpreadSheet (IISS) . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Barry G. Adams and
Gustavo A. Arteca Symbolic computation of energy
perturbation expansions for spherically
symmetric hydrogenic systems . . . . . . 343
Y. Onodera Numerov integration for radial wave
equations in cylindrical symmetry . . . 352
H. T. Williams and
Colin J. Wynne A new algorithm for computation of
SU$_3$ Clebsch--Gordon coefficients . . 355
P. Castellví and
X. Jaén and
E. Llanta TTC: Symbolic tensor and exterior
calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--367
Lewis M. Holmes Journal publishing: The online challenge 371
Ralf Gruber What Can We Learn from Physics Computing
'94? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
David I. Lewin Meeting future Internet needs . . . . . 374
Allen Zeyher Gravitational Chaos May Suggest Cosmic
Structure Formation . . . . . . . . . . 377
Ralf Gruber PC '94 Exhibition Features SwissHPC . . 379
Franklin J. Parisi A rose is a rose\ldots but a Cray's not
always a Cray . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Anonymous Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
William M. MacDonald and
Maria Dworzecka and
Robert Ehrlich and
Jaroslaw Tuszynski and
Glenn Ricart Authoring on the Internet --- the CUPS
Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Paul Ginsparg First Steps Towards Electronic Research
Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Dominique Alexis New This Issue: Advance Program, Author
Guidelines, and 100 More New Products 397
Tim Ingoldsby AIP's \booktitleApplied Physics Letters
Online: Coming In January . . . . . . . 398
K. S. Riedel and
A. Sidorenko and
James R. Matey Function Estimation Using Data-Adaptive
Kernel Smoothers --- How Much Smoothing? 402
J. C. Butcher Runge--Kutta Methods in Modern
Computation, Part I: Fundamental
Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Solomon Castillo Douglas and
David M. Harrison and
Theodore G. Shepherd and
Denis Donnelly The Physical Pendulum in an Advanced
Undergraduate Course in Mechanics . . . 416
Evelyn Sander and
Leonard M. Sander and
Robert M. Ziff Fractals and Fractal Correlations . . . 420
Wolfgang Christian and
G. Andrew Antonelli and
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: James M. Feagin,
\booktitleQuantum Methods with
Mathematica\reg . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
Dima E. Ulberg and
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Charles H. Koelbel, David
B. Loveman, Robert S. Schreiber, Guy L.
Steele, Jr., and Mary E. Zosel,
\booktitleThe High Performance Fortran
Handbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
Richard L. Peskin and
Sandra S. Walther and
Paul F. Dubois Scene --- a Computational Interface
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
William E. Blass and
Stephen L. Mahan and
Gordon Chin and
Margaret H. Gjertsen IDL Shines on the Macintosh . . . . . . 439
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 442
Tarun Biswas Nonlinear effects in a stretched string
--- a numerical computation . . . . . . 446
Gaspar Casados-Cruz and
Arturo Morales-Acevedo A computer program for the
characterization of solar cells . . . . 451
Victor Fairén and
Pablo Martin and
José Manuel Ferrándiz Numerical tracking of small deviations
from analytically known periodic orbits 455
J. Dudley Atkinson and
David D. Cleary A technique for modeling interference
patterns from two-beam interferometers 462
H. Houtman and
F. W. Jones and
C. J. Kost Laplace and Poisson equation solution by
relax3d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
Thomas A. Roman The inflating wormhole: a Mathematica
animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
Lewis M. Holmes Consider Metacomputing . . . . . . . . . 493
Lewis M. Holmes Let the Readers Be Heard! . . . . . . . 495
David I. Lewin NCSA's Director Champions Broad Access
to Supercomputers . . . . . . . . . . . 496
Chris Chinnock Here Come the LCD Panels and Projectors 499
Anonymous Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
Glenn Ricart Free the Internet! . . . . . . . . . . . 508
Dominique Alexis New this Issue: Web Link to CIP Online &
Reader Survey Report . . . . . . . . . . 511
J. C. Butcher Runge--Kutta Methods in Modern
Computation, Part II: Implicit Methods
and Related Applications . . . . . . . . 512
S. Raj Chaudhury and
Dean Zollman and
Denis Donnelly Image Processing Enhances the Value of
Digital Video in Physics Instruction . . 518
Yue Hu Simulations of the Motion of Colloidal
Particles in Alternating Electric Fields 524
Geert Wenes and
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Richard E. Crandall,
\booktitleProjects in Scientific
Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
Mark Friedman and
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Steven Strogatz,
\booktitleNonlinear Dynamics and Chaos:
With Applications to Physics, Biology,
Chemistry, and Engineering . . . . . . . 532
Charles H. Still and
Paul F. Dubois Portable Parallel Computing via the MPI1
Message-Passing Standard . . . . . . . . 533--536, 538--539
Ralph Roskies Metacomputing --- Pipedream or Practical
Reality? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 546
Wolfgang Renz and
Rüdiger Westermann and
Wolfgang Krüger Interactive visualization of
three-dimensional cellular automata . . 550
Sandor Kristyan Equipotential surfaces of the model
reaction H + H$_2$: Struggling with
three dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . 556
Frank M. Rijnders and
H. J. W. Spoelder and
F. C. A. Groen Distributed visual programming
environment: Possibilities and
limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576
Y. M. Chang and
C. Rudowicz and
Y. Y. Yeung Crystal field analysis of the $ 3 d^N $
ions at low symmetry sites including the
``imaginary'' terms . . . . . . . . . . 583
Peter Musgrave and
Kayll Lake Scalar invariants of the radiating
Kerr--Newman metric: a simple
application of GRTensor . . . . . . . . 589
Hans De Raedt and
Kristel Michielsen Algorithm to solve the time-dependent
Schrödinger equation for a charged
particle in an inhomogeneous magnetic
field: Application to the Aharonov--Bohm
effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600
J. Bajema and
K. Ashktorab and
F. D. Becchetti and
D. Hotz and
M. Shapiro A Macintosh\TM-based multiparameter
pulse height analyzer and multichannel
scaler system for advanced teaching
laboratories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608
Lewis M. Holmes Modeling the Blue Planet . . . . . . . . 621
Richard Petti Why Math-Software Development Counts . . 623
David I. Lewin Animator Chooses Physics over Movies . . 624
Dietrich Stauffer Landslides Towards Teraflops? A Review
of PC '94 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627
Allen Zeyher Weather Models Advance by Adding Physics 627
Lewis M. Holmes Exhibition Links Vendors with Research 628
Rhonda Shearin Government and Industry Get Together on
the Superhighway . . . . . . . . . . . . 630
Göran Ekström and
Glenn Ricart Rapid Earthquake Analysis Utilizes The
Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632
Dominique Alexis New Attractions: Spec Sheets For New
Products And Internet Goldmines . . . . 640
James R. Matey Good Housekeeping Part I: Remaining Sane
In The Face Of Inevitable Disasters . . 642
I. J. D. Craig and
A. M. Thompson and
William J. Thompson Practical Numerical Algorithms: Why
Laplace Transforms Are Difficult To
Invert Numerically . . . . . . . . . . . 648
Keith L. McLaughlin and
Steven M. Day $3$D Elastic Finite-Difference
Seismic-Wave Simulations . . . . . . . . 656
Lloyd A. Treinish Visualizations Illuminate Disparate Data
Sets in the Earth Sciences . . . . . . . 664
Denis Donnelly CIP'S Fifth Annual Software Contest: The
Winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672
R. Goloskie and
J. W. Kramer and
L. R. Ram-Mohan Quantum-mechanical tunneling and finite
elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679
Susan Coppersmith and
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Robert C. Hilborn,
\booktitleChaos and Nonlinear Dynamics:
An Introduction for Scientists and
Engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689
Scott W. Haney Is C++ fast enough for Scientific
Computing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690
Ladye Kathryn Wilkinson and
John S. Risley and
John E. Gastineau and
Paula V. Engelhardt and
Scott F. Schultz and
Margaret H. Giertsen Graphs & Tracks Impresses As A Kinematics
Teaching Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 701
Giovanni Punzo and
Federico Massaioli and
Sauro Succi High-resolution lattice--Boltzmann
computing on the IBM SP1 scalable
parallel computer . . . . . . . . . . . 705
Timothy C. Germann and
Dudley R. Herschbach and
Bruce M. Boghosian Dimensional perturbation theory on the
Connection Machine . . . . . . . . . . . 712
Yilmaz Akyildiz Parametric curve fitting: An alternative
to Lagrange interpolation and splines 722
James B. Cole A nearly exact second-order
finite-difference time-domain wave
propagation algorithm on a coarse grid 730
K. W. Yu Symbolic simulation of nonlinear random
resistor networks by Mathematica . . . . 735
Lewis M. Holmes Learning about Learning Software . . . . 5
Nora H. Sabelli For Our Children's Sake, Take Full
Advantage of Technology . . . . . . . . 7
David I. Lewin Math Professor Turns Classroom Program
into Successful Business . . . . . . . . 8
Lewis M. Holmes SC '94 Spotlights High-Performance
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Chris Chinnock Telemedicine Is Becoming a Reality . . . 13
Rhonda Shearin Forest Researchers Look for Computer
Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Stanislav V. Klimenko Russians Form Center of Computing for
Physics and Technology . . . . . . . . . 16
Rhonda Shearin Submission Deadline for PC '95 Nears . . 17
Glenn Ricart A Night at the Movies . . . . . . . . . 19
Dominique Alexis Calendar Section and Issue Previews Go
on Our Web Page . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous NASA Publications . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Eric D. Jones and
Bryan L. Preppernau and
P. G. Stein and
James R. Matey Catching the Right Bus, Part IV:
IEEE-488 Programming . . . . . . . . . . 24
Alan C. Hindmarsh and
Linda R. Petzold Algorithms and software for ordinary
differential equations and
differential-algebraic equations, Part
I: Euler methods and error estimation 34
P. J. Walker and
I. D. Johnston and
Denis Donnelly Computer Model Clarifies Spontaneous
Charge Redistribution in Conductors . . 42
M. A. Novotny A new approach to an old algorithm for
the Simulation of Ising-like Systems . . 46
C. R. A. Catlow and
A. M. Stonehas and
John Meurig Thomas and
Susan McKay New Methods for Modelling Processes
within Solids and at Their Surfaces . . 54
Norbert Köckler and
Susan McKay Numerical Methods and Scientific
Computing: Using Software Libraries for
Problem Solving . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
H. Gutfreund and
G. Toulouse and
Susan McKay Biology and Computation: a Physicist's
Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
A. John Mallinckrodt Book Review: Adam Gaffin,
\booktitleEverybody's Guide to the
Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
A. John Mallinckrodt Book Review: Stephen Wolfram,
\booktitleCellular Automata and
Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Susan McKay Book Review: Robert Alan Brown,
\booktitleMachines That Learn: Based on
the Principles of Empirical Control . . 55
A. John Mallinckrodt Book Review: Joseph O'Rourke,
\booktitleComputational Geometry in C 55
A. John Mallinckrodt Book Review: Alejandro L. Garcia,
\booktitleNumerical Methods for Physics 55
Susan McKay Book Review: F. B. Jensen, W. A.
Kuperman, M. B. Porter, and H. Schmidt,
\booktitleComputational Ocean Acoustics 55
Susan McKay Book Review: Allan R. Robinson and Ding
Lee, \booktitleOceanography and
Acoustics: Prediction and Propagation
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
David F. McAllister and
Susan McKay Stereo Computer Graphics and Other True
$3$D Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . 56
P. Alexander and
L. F. Gladden and
Paul F. Dubois How to Create an X-Window Interface to
Gnuplot and Fortran Programs Using the
Tcl/Tk Toolkit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Ladye K. Wilkinson and
Joseph Barnes and
Margaret H. Gjertsen and
John S. Risley and
Margaret H. Gjertsen 1995 Directory of Physics Courseware . . 65
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 81
Niaz Haider and
Souheil A. Khaddaj and
Mark R. Wilby and
Dimitri D. Vvedensky Parallel Monte Carlo simulations of
epitaxial growth . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
George D. J. Phillies and
Jonathan Stott Wavelet analysis of Ising model spin
dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Mei-Ling Yeh and
Jeongnim Kim and
Furrukh S. Khan Parallel decomposition of the
tight-binding fictitious Lagrangian
algorithm for molecular dynamics
simulations of semiconductors . . . . . 108
Lewis M. Holmes Visualize This: We Have a New Column! 125
Pekka K. Sinervo Remember That the Internet is a Science
Resource! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
David I. Lewin Mathematician Compiles Enviable Record
in Industrial R&D . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Lewis M. Holmes Teachers Learn about Computers in
Physics Education . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Rhonda Shearin Educational Programs Take Advantage of
Computing Techniques . . . . . . . . . . 133
Glenn Ricart What's in a Name? . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Dominique Alexis More Product Information by Telnet and
the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Eric D. Jones and
Bryan L. Preppernau and
James R. Matey Catching the Right Bus V: a Beginners'
Guide to Programming the IEEE-488 Bus 140
Alan C. Hindmarsh and
Linda R. Petzold Algorithms and software for ordinary
differential equations and
differential-algebraic equations, Part
II: Higher-order methods and software
packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Joseph M. Winograd and
James H. McClellan and
Denis Donnelly How to Use a Computer-Algebra System for
Reconstruction of Functions from
Parallel-Line Projections . . . . . . . 156
G. Grinstein and
C. Jayaprakash Simple Models of Self-Organized
Criticality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
H. Eugene Stanley and
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Alexander Yu. Grosberg and
Alexei R. Khokhlov,
\booktitleStatistical Physics of
Macromolecules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
David J. C. MacKay and
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Benjamin Kuipers,
\booktitleQualitative Reasoning:
Modeling and Simulation with Incomplete
Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Stewart A. Brown and
Paul F. Dubois and
David H. Munro Creating and Using PDB Files . . . . . . 173
Steve Bryson How Can We Make Visualization More
Useful to the Working Scientist? . . . . 178
Ladye K. Wilkinson and
John E. Gastineau and
Margaret H. Gjertsen and
Margaret H. Gjertsen and
John S. Risley A Buyers' Guide to Microcomputer-Based
Laboratory Equipment in Physics
Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 201
Hans-Peter Bunge and
John R. Baumgardner Mantle convection modeling on parallel
virtual machines . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
S. W. Haney and
J. P. Freidberg and
C. J. Solomon A fast, user-friendly code for
calculating magnetohydrodynamic
equilibria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
George D. J. Phillies and
Jonathan Stott Mori--Zwanzig--Daubechies decomposition
of Ising-model Monte Carlo dynamics . . 225
James B. Cole and
Rudolph A. Krutar and
Susan K. Numrich and
Dennis B. Creamer Finite-difference time-domain
simulations of wave propagation and
scattering as a research and educational
tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Lewis M. Holmes Be Careful with That Downloaded Program! 245
Michael Creutz How Computational Physics is Uniting
Science and Revolutionizing Society . . 247
David I. Lewin Computer Scientist Addresses Grand
Themes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Yvonne Carts-Powell Dealing with the Devil: SATAN is Loose
on the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Glenn Ricart Prevention and Prudent Precautions:
Computing Security on the Internet . . . 254
Dominique Alexis CIP's Web Site Now Lets You Search
Interactively . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Anonymous Internet Goldmine: Computational Science
Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
James M. Redman and
Richard R. Silbar and
James R. Matey Selecting an Operating System. Part II:
Nextstep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Satinder S. Sidhu Elliptic integrals and functions . . . . 268--276
John Byrne and
Eric Kincanon and
Denis Donnelly Undergraduates do Chaotic Research . . . 277
Stephen C. Bell A numerical solution of the relativistic
Kepler problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
James Matey and
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Ron Ledesma, \booktitlePC
Hardware Configuration Guide for DOS and
Solaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Anonymous Physics Computing '95 . . . . . . . . . 289
Hans-J. Boehm and
Paul F. Dubois Dynamic Memory Allocation and Garbage
Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Lambertus Hesselink and
Thierry Delmarcelle and
James L. Helman and
Steve Bryson Topology of Second-Order Tensor Fields 304
John E. Gastineau and
Margaret H. Gjertsen Quantum Mechanics Simulations Excels as
an Educational Tool . . . . . . . . . . 312
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 314
C. de Izarra and
O. Vallée and
J. Picart and
N. Tran Minh Computation of the Whittaker functions $
W_{k, \mu }(z) $ with series expansions
and Padé Approximants . . . . . . . . . . 318
John P. Boyd Multiple precision pseudospectral
computations of the radiation
coefficient for weakly nonlocal solitary
waves: Fifth-order Korteweg--de Vries
equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
P. Castellví and
X. Jaén and
E. Llanta Symbolic tensor calculus using index
notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
T. J. P. Penna Fitting curves by simulated annealing 341
Lewis M. Holmes What's new in scientific publishing? The
Web, of course! . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Glenn Ricart Scholarly Publishing Faces Cultural
Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
David I. Lewin Born-Again Internet Gadfly Takes on
Computational Physics . . . . . . . . . 352
Chris Chinnock Speech Recognition is Finding its Way
into Personal Computing . . . . . . . . 355
Glenn Ricart The Scholarly Information Web . . . . . 360
Yvonne Carts-Powell Software Products Enrich Web Options for
Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Peggy Judd and
F. Scott Johnson SGML Enables Full-Text Scientific
Publishing on the Web . . . . . . . . . 369--370
Dominique Alexis CIP's Home Page Gets Facelift . . . . . 371
Ronald N. Bracewell Computing with the Hartley transform . . 373
Raymond Ravaglia and
J. Acacio de Barros and
Patrick Suppes and
Denis Donnelly Computer-Based Instruction Brings
Advanced-Placement Physics to Gifted
Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Amy Kolan and
Barry Cipra and
Bill Titus Exploring Localization in Nonperiodic
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
A. John Mallinckrodt and
Susan McKay Book Review: Bruce Hannon and Matthias
Ruth, \booktitleDynamic Modeling . . . . 397
A. John Mallinckrodt Book Review: Klaus Mainzer,
\booktitleThinking in Complexity: The
Complex Dynamics of Matter, Mind, and
Mankind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
Alice E. Koniges and
Kevin R. Lind and
Paul Dubois Parallelizing Code for Real Applications
on the T3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Kristina D. Miceli and
Steve Bryson An Automated Approach to
Multidisciplinary Visualization . . . . 406
John M. Blondin and
Margaret H. Gjertsen CUPS Astrophysics Simulations Will Fit
Well in Upper-Level Courses . . . . . . 413
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 416
P. M. Lyster and
P. C. Liewer and
V. K. Decyk and
R. D. Ferraro Implementation and characterization of
three-dimensional particle-in-cell codes
on multiple-instruction-multiple-data
massively parallel supercomputers . . . 420
Yibin Zheng and
Peter C. Doerschuk Symbolic symmetry verification for
harmonic functions invariant under
polyhedral symmetries . . . . . . . . . 433
Athanasios N. Petridis and
Fred K. Wohn Implementation of PHENIX trigger
algorithms on massively parallel
computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438
W. Melendez and
C. J. Horowitz Semiclassical quark model of the nuclear
matter response . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
Rainer Hollerbach Fast dynamo action in spherical
geometry: Numerical calculations using
parallel virtual machines . . . . . . . 460
Lewis M. Holmes Weather makes waves\ldots . . . . . . . 469
Bryan L. Preppernau Keeping Our Scientific Voice in the
Computer Industry . . . . . . . . . . . 471
David I. Lewin Physicist Oversees Research for Software
Giant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472
Patricia Daukantas SC '95 Highlights Web, Applications . . 475
John Michael Williams Should we be collecting garbage? . . . . 479
Dominique Alexis More Offered from CIP's Home Page . . . 481
Anonymous More Offered from CIP's Home Page . . . 481
J. C. R. Hunt Developments in Forecasting the
Atmospheric Environment . . . . . . . . 483
Eugenia Kalnay Numerical Weather Prediction . . . . . . 488
Gary Forrest and
Scott McKinney and
James R. Matey Catching the Right Bus, Part VI: Some
Options for Real-Time Image Acquisition 496
I. Vattulainen and
T. Ala-Nissila Mission Impossible: Find a Random
Pseudorandom Number Generator . . . . . 500--504
Marina Caporaloni and
Roberto Ambrosini and
Denis Donnelly Student Project Checks Leonardo Da
Vinci's Map Work . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
Tolga Yalçinkaya and
Ying-Cheng Lai Chaotic Scattering . . . . . . . . . . . 511
David Stoutamire and
Matthew Kennel and
Paul F. Dubois Sather Revisited: a High-Performance
Free Alternative to C++ . . . . . . . . 519
Steve Bryson The Data Glut Revisited . . . . . . . . 525
John E. Gastineau and
Margaret H. Gjertsen Three Ray-Optics Programs Support Varied
Instructional Uses . . . . . . . . . . . 531
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 535
K. J. M. Moriarty and
C. Margio and
T. Trappenberg Object-oriented Monte Carlo simulations 540
J. Ross Macdonald Solution of an ``impossible''
diffusion--inversion problem . . . . . . 546
Ali Rouhi and
Jon Wright Spectral implementation of a new
operator splitting method for solving
partial differential equations . . . . . 554
Lewis M. Holmes Software contestants win cash prizes . . 569
Roger Sipson and
Ronald Thornton Computers Bring New Opportunity to
Science Education . . . . . . . . . . . 571
David I. Lewin Nobel Laureate Espouses Physics,
Education, and Breadth of Knowledge . . 572
Patricia Daukantas `Reversed Shear' Heats up Plasma
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
Peter K. Schoch Chemistry workshop helps physics
teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579
Glenn Ricart Using up the Internet . . . . . . . . . 581
Dominique Alexis Web Site Update . . . . . . . . . . . . 583
Anonymous Internet Goldmine: Virtual Trips to
Black Holes and Neutron Stars . . . . . 583
John A. Scales and
Martin L. Smith and
Karsten Ballüder and
James R. Matey Selecting an Operating System, Part III:
Unix in a Laboratory Environment . . . . 584
Alex Pang and
Chueng-Ryong Ji Symbolic Feynman-Diagram Calculation . . 589
Denis Donnelly CIP's Sixth Annual Software Contest: The
Winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594
Tao Pang A Numerical Method for Quantum tunneling 602
Mark Novotny and
Susan McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Al Geist, Adam Beguelin,
Jack Dongarra, Weicheng Jiang, Robert
Manchek, and Vaidy Sunderam,
\booktitlePVM --- Parallel Virtual
Machine: a Users' Guide and Tutorial for
Networked Parallel Computing . . . . . . 607
David H. Munro and
Paul F. Dubois Using the Yorick Interpreted Language 609
Steve Bryson Exploratory Visualization I: Real-Time
Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616
William J. Thompson MAC Clones: Power Computing for Frugal
Physicists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 625
Mark H. Holmes and
Yuklun Au and
J. W. Stayman Symbolic and numerical computing for
chemical kinetic reaction schemes . . . 629
Alistair C. H. Rowe and
Paul C. Abbott Daubechies wavelets and Mathematica . . 635--648
V. V. Zuev and
A. A. Mitsel' and
M. Yu. Kataev and
I. V. Ptashnik and
K. M. Firsov Computer code long path method for long
path differential-absorption predictions
using CO$_2$ laser lines . . . . . . . . 649
Lewis M. Holmes Linux makes waves . . . . . . . . . . . 3
J. C. Browne Is Traditional Science Obsolete as an
Undergraduate Major? . . . . . . . . . . 5
David I. Lewin How a Physicist Helped to Launch a
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Patricia Daukantas NSF Seeks Partnerships to Replace
Supercomputer Centers . . . . . . . . . 9
Patricia Daukantas Simulating the Next Great Crash-on Earth 10
Glenn Ricart The Internet Moves Out of its Corner . . 14
Dominique Alexis Here's What You Can Find on Our Web Page 16
Anonymous The WIS Plasma Laboratory . . . . . . . 16
Karsten Ballüder and
John A. Scales and
Claus Schroeter and
Martin L. Smith and
James R. Matey Selecting an Operating System, Part IV:
Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
William J. Thompson Recursive algorithms: a mixed blessing 25
Diane J. Grayson and
Denis Donnelly Using Education Research to Develop
Waves Courseware . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Nicolas Regez and
Wolfgang Breymann and
Stefan Weigert and
Charles Kaufman and
Gerhard Müller Hamiltonian Chaos IV . . . . . . . . . . 39
Forest Davenport and
Susan McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Franz J. Vesely,
\booktitleComputational Physics: An
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Raymond N. Enzweiler and
Susan McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Reviews: J. F. James, \booktitleA
Student's Guide to Fourier Transforms
with Applications in Physics and
Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Jeffrey A. Templon and
Paul F. Dubois Evaluation of PC/Linux Systems for Use
as Scientific Workstations . . . . . . . 49
Steve Bryson What's New at Visualization '95 . . . . 56
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 64
Jing B. Wang and
Paul C. Abbott and
Jim F. Williams Visualizing atomic orbitals . . . . . . 69--82
Julio F. Fernández and
Juan Rivero Fast algorithms for random numbers with
exponential and normal distributions . . 83--88
Min-Qi Bao and
Anthony F. Starace Using symbolic manipulation to evaluate
Feynman's path integral for an
interaction of the form $ F(t) \cdot r $ 89
Lewis M. Holmes Beyond InfiniteReality? . . . . . . . . 99
Joe F. Thompson The Experts Have Spoken. Who Will
Listen? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
David I. Lewin Computing the Glueball . . . . . . . . . 102
Patricia Daukantas Teachers Gambol on Computers in Reno . . 105
Glenn Ricart Plug-in, Tune-in, Sleep-in . . . . . . . 110
Anonymous Introducing Interactive Reader Service 113
Anonymous Chaos at Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . 113
John S. Wagner and
Michael W. Trahan and
William E. Nelson and
Gary C. Tisone and
Bryan L. Preppernau How Intelligent Chemical Recognition
Benefits from Multivariate Analysis and
Genetic Optimization . . . . . . . . . . 114
Bradley D. Keister Multidimensional Quadrature Algorithms 119
Susan L. Fischer and
Wolfgang Christian and
Denis Donnelly Molecular Dynamics Inside Ion Traps . . 123
David C. Samuels and
H. G. E. Hentschel and
Alan Fine Parallel Simulations of Neuron Growth 129
Alejandro Garcia and
Susan McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: W. S. Brainerd and C. H.
Goldberg and J. C. Adams,
\booktitleProgrammer's Guide to Fortran
90 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Alejandro Garcia and
Susan McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: I. Chivers and J.
Sleightholme, \booktitleIntroducing
Fortran 90 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Alejandro Garcia and
Susan McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: M. Metcalf and J. Reid,
\booktitleFortran 90 Explained . . . . . 135
Alejandro Garcia and
Susan McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: J. Kerrigan,
\booktitleMigrating to Fortran 90 . . . 135
Alejandro Garcia and
Susan McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: C. Redwine,
\booktitleUpgrading to Fortran 90 . . . 135
Alejandro Garcia and
Susan McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: W. Gehrke, Fortran 90
Language Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Nathan Intrator and
Susan McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Mohamad H. Hassoun,
\booktitleFundamentals of Artificial
Neural Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Scott D. Cohen and
Alan C. Hindmarsh and
Paul F. Dubois CVODE, A Stiff/Nonstiff ODE Solver in C 138
Steve Bryson If You Take Visualization for Granted,
it May Go Away . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Michael R. Riedel Origin 4.0 Delivers Graphing
Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 150
Shi-Yue Qiu and
Corbett R. Rowell and
Marko Vukobrat Jari\'c Visualization and analysis of
quasicrystal densities . . . . . . . . . 154
D. P. Heddle Hv: a graphical user interface library
for scientific and engineering
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
H. S. Camarda Determining the eigenvalues of a
quaternion matrix with a band structure 180
Jan P. Hessler and
David H. Current and
Paul J. Ogren A new scheme for calculating weights and
describing correlations in nonlinear
least-squares fits . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Lewis M. Holmes Computer Modeling that Could Make us
Healthier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
John S. Rigden The Disciplines Educate & Liberate . . . 205
David I. Lewin Balancing Her Roles in Engineering and
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Patricia Daukantas Olympic Athletes Hone Their Performance
with the Help of Computers . . . . . . . 209
Bruce Sherwood Clarifying Recursion . . . . . . . . . . 215
Peter B. Boyce Building a Peer-Reviewed Scientific
Journal on the Internet . . . . . . . . 216
Anonymous CIP Links Readers to Featured Web Sites 222
Anonymous Astrophysics at Santa Barbara . . . . . 222
Charles A. Taylor and
Thomas J. R. Hughes and
Christopher K. Zarins Computational Investigations in Vascular
Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
James R. Matey Software Designs and Architectures, Part
I: Introduction and User Input/Output 233
Albert Booten and
Henk van der Vorst Cracking large-scale eigenvalue
problems. Part I. Algorithms . . . . . . 239
George D. J. Phillies Wavelets: a New Alternative to Fourier
Transforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Malcolm Butler and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Roberta Bigelow, John
Philpott, and Joseph Rothberg,
\booktitleNuclear and Particle Physics
Simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Carolus Boekema and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: G. Andrew Antonelli,
Wolfgang Christian, Susan Fischer, Robin
Giles, and Brian James, \booktitleWaves
and Optics Simulations . . . . . . . . . 256
Daniel P. Snowman and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Douglas Brandt, John
Hiller, and Michael Moloney,
\booktitleModern Physics Simulations . . 256
Frances Hellman and
Pat Diamond and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Robert Ehrlich, Lyle
Roelofs, Ronald Stoner, and Jaroslaw
Tuszynski, \booktitleElectricity and
Magnetism Simulations . . . . . . . . . 257
Beate Schmittmann and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Harvey Gould, Lynna
Spomick, and Jan Tobochnik,
\booktitleThermal and Statistical
Physics Simulations . . . . . . . . . . 258
Richard A. Morrow and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Bruce Hawkins and Randall
S. Jones, \booktitleClassical Mechanics
Simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Dale Syphers and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: J. R. Hiller, I. D.
Johnston, and D. F. Styer,
\booktitleQuantum Mechanics Simulations 260
Christopher Levey and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Graham Keeler, Roger
Rollins, and Steven Spicklemire,
\booktitleSolid State Physics
Simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Paul F. Dubois and
Konrad Hinsen and
James Hugunin Numerical Python . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--267
Bernice E. Rogowitz and
Lloyd A. Treinish and
Steve Bryson How Not to Lie with Visualization . . . 268
Bryan L. Preppernau and
Isaac Shokair Fortran Powerstation 4.0 Ports Fortran
Code Smoothly to the PC . . . . . . . . 275
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 279
K. W. Yu Variational solution of electrostatic
boundary-value problems of nonlinear
media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Viktor K. Decyk and
Steve Roy Karmesin and
Aeint de Boer and
Paulett C. Liewer Optimization of particle-in-cell codes
on reduced instruction set computer
processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
David W. Tyler A Green's function for the calculation
of density response in rare-gas
volumetric thermal gratings . . . . . . 299
Lewis M. Holmes Why We Do Not Live Forever . . . . . . . 307
Jack Worlton Computational Physics Then and Now: a
Cautionary View . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
David I. Lewin Setting his Sights on Petaflops . . . . 310
Patricia Daukantas `Virtual Posters' Will Broaden Impact of
PC '96 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
William L. Duax World of Crystallography on the Web . . 315
Patricia Daukantas Sun Helps Astronomers' Search for
Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
G. D. Bothun and
S. D. Kevan Networked Physics in Undergraduate
Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--324
Jennifer Huergo The Reorganized CIP Home Page . . . . . 325
Anonymous The World Lecture Hall . . . . . . . . . 325
Tim Lister and
James R. Matey What is Software? . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Albert Booten and
Henk van der Vorst Cracking large-scale eigenvalue
problems, part II: Implementations . . . 331
G. Rawitscher and
I. Koltracht and
Hong Dai and
C. Ribetti and
Denis Donnelly and
George Rawitscher and
Israel Koltracht and
Hong Dai and
Christopher Ribetti The Vibrating String: a Fertile Topic
for Teaching Scientific Computing . . . 335
Dietrich Stauffer Getting older --- Monte Carlo
Simulations of Biological Aging . . . . 341
Dawn C. Meredith and
Bill Titus Book Reviews: Harvey Gould and Jan
Tobochnik, \booktitleAn Introduction to
Computer Simulation Methods:
Applications to Physical Systems, 2nd
Edition. Richard L. Gaylord and Paul R.
Wellin, \booktitleMathematica:
Explorations in Complex Physical and
Biological Systems, Springer-Verlag, New
York, 1995; ISBN 0-387-94274-2; 297 pp.
plus CD-ROM, cloth, \$54.95} . . . . . . 349
Bill Titus and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Richard J. Gaylord and Paul
R. Wellin, \booktitleComputer
Simulations with Mathematica:
Explorations in Complex Physical and
Biological Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Junichiro Makino and
Makoto Taiji Computational Astrophysics on a
Special-Purpose Machine . . . . . . . . 352
P. F. Dubois and
T.-Y. Yang Extending Python [Object-oriented
language] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--365
Trina Roy and
Steve Bryson Accurate Color Mapping Through Textures 366
William J. Thompson How to Make a PC Talk with a MAC . . . . 371
Anonymous Listing of the Latest Releases . . . . . 372
L. Bellomonte and
R. M. Sperandeo-Mineo Computer simulation of electric
conductivity in a solid using classical
mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
G. Allodi and
R. Co\"\isson Reflection and propagation of waves in
one-dimensional quasi-periodic
structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Donald C. O'Shea Generation of mask patterns for
diffractive optical elements using
Mathematica\TM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--399
J. B. Wang Time evolution and decay of an excited
atom in a weak electric field . . . . . 400--406
Lewis M. Holmes Fast Fourier Explication . . . . . . . . 411
Thomas G. West Playing with Images --- a Return to
Thinking in Pictures . . . . . . . . . . 413
David I. Lewin Building an Imaging Collaboratory . . . 414
Bruce D. Sinclair European Competition Boosts Physics
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Patricia Daukantas SC '96 Puts Computers to Work . . . . . 418
Dominique F. Thi\`ebaut and
Glenn Ricart Web Tracking and Graphing with Pgperl 420
Anonymous Internet Goldmine: CFD Online . . . . . 426
Jennifer Huergo Additions and Updates to the CIP Home
Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
Anonymous Physics Computing '96 . . . . . . . . . 427
P. B. Visscher The FFT: Fourier Transforming One Bit at
a Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438
Gunnar Backstrom and
Denis Donnelly Learning about Wave Mechanics by FEA on
a PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444
Ioan Andricioaei and
John E. Straub Finding the needle in the haystack:
Algorithms for conformational
optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
Robin L. Blumberg and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: D. C. Rapaport,
\booktitleThe Art of Molecular Dynamics
Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
David M. Cook and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: G. Silverman and H. Silver,
\booktitleModern Instrumentation: a
Computer Approach . . . . . . . . . . . 456
Arch D. Robison and
Paul F. Dubois C++ Gets Faster for Scientific Computing 458
Victor M. Fernandez and
Deborah Silver and
Norman J. Zabusky and
Steve Bryson Visiometrics of Complex Physical
Processes: Diagnosing Vortex-Dominated
Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
Richard Noel Fell Macsyma 2.1 Rebounds with Improved
Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 474
R. Goloskie and
T. Thio and
L. R. Ram-Mohan Boundary elements and surface plasmons 477
Ernst Joachim Weniger Computation of the Whittaker function of
the second kind by summing its divergent
asymptotic series with the help of
nonlinear sequence transformations . . . 496
Lewis M. Holmes Software-Contest Awards . . . . . . . . 507
Joe Pifer Are We Doing Our Students a Favor by
Making Them Learn Fortran? . . . . . . . 509
David I. Lewin Striking Pay Dirt in a Supercomputer . . 510
Patricia Daukantas Computer-Supported Education Gets
Spotlight in College Park . . . . . . . 513
Patricia Daukantas From the CIP Journal Section . . . . . . 519
Enrique Canessa and
Giorgio Pastore and
Glenn Ricart One-Shot Service Searches Preprint
Repositories at a Mouseclick . . . . . . 520
Jennifer Huergo Download Software-Contest Forms . . . . 524
Anonymous Space Physics at SWRI . . . . . . . . . 524
Usami Yoshiyuki and
Kano Yoshiki and
Kitaoka Masatoshi Solving the traveling-salesman problem
by a statistical-physics method . . . . 525
Denis Donnelly CIP's Seventh Annual Educational
Software Contest: The Winners . . . . . 532
Jan Tobochnik and
Harvey Gould Lattice simulations of biological
membranes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542
F. Marty Ytreberg Book Review: Herbert Schildt,
\booktitleC++: The Complete Reference,
Second Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
Scott W. Haney and
Paul F. Dubois Beating the Abstraction Penalty in C++
Using Expression Templates . . . . . . . 552
J. Pauschenwein and
B. Thaller Visualizing Quantum-Mechanical
Wavefunctions in Three Dimensions with
AVS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558
William J. Thompson Uninterruptible Power Supply Delivers 567
Anonymous Listings of the latest releases . . . . 569
A. J. C. Beliën and
S. Poedts and
H. J. W. Spoelder and
R. Leenders and
J. P. Goedbloed Visualization of resonant absorption in
solar coronal loops by simulation of
soft X-ray images . . . . . . . . . . . 573
M. M. Clark and
L. M. Raff and
H. L. Scott Hybrid Monte Carlo method for
off-lattice simulation of processes
involving steps with widely varying
rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584
Dean E. Dauger Simulation and study of Fresnel
diffraction for arbitrary
two-dimensional apertures . . . . . . . 591
Christian H. Bischof and
Gordon D. Pusch and
Ralf Knoesel Sensitivity analysis of the MM5 weather
model using automatic differentiation 605
Lewis M. Holmes Introducing Two New Departments . . . . 3
Lewis M. Holmes Celebrating CIP's Tenth Anniversary Year 5
David I. Lewin Growing a Tree of Knowledge in an
Object-Oriented Eden . . . . . . . . . . 6
Yvonne Carts-Powell Internet 2 to Implement Next-Generation
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Patricia Daukantas From the CIP Journal Section . . . . . . 16
Kevin Zollman and
Dean Zollman Interactive forms on the Web . . . . . . 17
Jennifer Huergo See Our 1997 Editorial Calendar . . . . 21
Anonymous Science for the Millennium . . . . . . . 21
James R. Matey Software Designs And Architectures, Part
II: Representing Observations . . . . . 22
Edgar Gerteisen and
Ralf Gruber and
Silvio Merazzi and
Jacques Rappaz Domain Decomposition: Theory and
Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
P. Martínez-Jiménez and
E. Casado and
J. M. Martínez-Jiménez and
M. Cuevas-Rubiño and
D. González-Caballero and
F. Zafra-López and
Denis Donnelly Interactive Physics Simulations Appeal
to First-Year Students . . . . . . . . . 31
Michael Karabach and
Gerhard Müller and
Harvey Gould and
Jan Tobochnik Introduction to the Bethe Ansatz. I . . 36
Dave Birnbaum and
Susan McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Forman S. Acton,
\booktitleReal Computing Made Real:
Preventing Errors in Scientific and
Engineering Calculations . . . . . . . . 45
Roger Sipson and
Susan McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: David Flanagan,
\booktitleJava in a Nutshell; Patrick
Niemeyer and Joshua Peck,
\booktitleExploring JAVA . . . . . . . . 46
Wolfgang Christian The CIP Anniversary Library of Classics:
a Call for Nominations . . . . . . . . . 48
Anonymous Tenth Anniversary CIP Educational
Software Directory . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Günter Dotzel and
Wojtek Skulski and
Paul F. Dubois Oberon-2, A High-Performance Alternative
To C++ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
R. Co\"\isson and
G. Allodi Matlab Compiler and C Math Library
Simplify Programming Chores . . . . . . 89
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 91
John Paul Barach Computational study of patterns in
simple nonequilibrium systems . . . . . 96
C. D. Spencer and
S. R. Paul Hardware and software for a pulse height
analyzer linked to a personal computer 101
Michael Lampton Damping--undamping strategies for the
Levenberg--Marquardt nonlinear
least-squares method . . . . . . . . . . 110
C. G. Stafford Baines and
Michael E. Bacon Note on using computer simulations in
teaching introductory digital
electronics courses . . . . . . . . . . 116
Lewis M. Holmes What Will the Future Bring? . . . . . . 123
Judah Levine Why Experimentalists Mistrust Computer
Modeling --- and Why they Rely on it . . 125
David I. Lewin Advising Fluid Dynamicists to be
Discrete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Patricia Daukantas ASCI Clocks its `Red' Computer at 1
Teraflops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Anonymous From the CIP Journal Section . . . . . . 132
Kevin Zollman and
Dean Zollman Posting Physics Documents on the Web . . 133
Jennifer Huergo Software Contest Deadline Approaches . . 139
Anonymous The Center for Polymer Studies . . . . . 139
James R. Matey Moore's Law and the PC Revolution:
Actual and Anticipated Effects on
Instrumentation and Measurement Science 140
J. Rappaz and
M. Swierkosz Boundary-element method yields external
vector potentials in complex industrial
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
William E. Boyce and
John B. Brunski and
Michael M. Chen and
Kevin Craig and
James A. Fairweather and
Joseph W. Haus, Jr. and
Joseph Porter, Jr. and
William L. Siegmann and
Denis Donnelly Interactive Multimedia Modules in
Mathematics, Engineering, and Science 151
Harvey Gould and
Jan Tobochnik and
Louis Colonna-Romano Entropy-driven phase transitions . . . . 157
Daniel Styer and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Marko Horbatsch,
\booktitleQuantum Mechanics Using Maple 165
Susan R. McKay Book Review: K. Binder, editor,
\booktitleThe Monte Carlo Method in
Condensed Matter Physics: Second,
Corrected and Updated Edition . . . . . 166
Paul F. Dubois The Future of Scientific Programming . . 168
Steve Bryson Visualization '96: Volume Rendering
Shifts Into High Gear . . . . . . . . . 174
Kirk A. Mathews TK Solver 3.0 Organizes and Solves
Physics Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 185
Joseph Reader Transition arrays in atomic spectroscopy
with a commercial spreadsheet program 190
Song He Stabilizing the Richardson eigenvector
algorithm by controlling chaos . . . . . 194
Ping-Kee Tao Confronting students' alternative
conceptions in mechanics with the Force
and Motion Microworld . . . . . . . . . 199
Lewis M. Holmes A Computational Model that Works . . . . 211
David J. Kuck Facing Up to Software's Greatest
Challenge: Practical Parallel Processing 213
David I. Lewin How to Be an Experimental Theorist . . . 214
Patricia Daukantas San Diego, Illinois Sites to Lead NSF's
New Supercomputing Partnerships . . . . 216
Patricia Daukantas ACM97 Forecasts the Next 50 Years of
`Paleotechnic Human' . . . . . . . . . . 217
Patricia Daukantas Dome Design Brings Numerical
Astrophysics Down to Earth . . . . . . . 220
Patricia Daukantas From the CIP Journal Section . . . . . . 224
Kevin Zollman and
Dean Zollman Creating A Simple, Searchable Database
on the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Jennifer Huergo New Secure Online Subscription form . . 229
Anonymous San Diego Supercomputer Center . . . . . 229
David M. Beazley and
Peter S. Lomdahl Controlling the Data Glut in Large-Scale
Molecular-Dynamics Simulations . . . . . 230
David M. Cook and
Denis Donnelly Computers in the Lawrence Physics
Curriculum --- Part I . . . . . . . . . 240
Daan Frenkel and
Berend Smit Simulation of phase coexistence for
complex molecules . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Daniel P. Snowman and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Martin Campbell-Kelly and
William Aspray, \booktitleComputer: A
History of the Information Machine . . . 256
Seth Wolpert and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Stan Franklin,
\booktitleArtificial Minds . . . . . . . 258
Gary S. Grest and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: David J. Kuck,
\booktitleHigh Performance Computing ---
Challenges for Future Systems . . . . . 259
Randal Harrington and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Nicholas Negroponte,
\booktitleBeing Digital . . . . . . . . 261
Geoffrey Furnish and
Paul F. Dubois Disambiguated Glommable Expression
Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Steve Bryson Time, Data-Time, and Real-Time
Interactive Visualization . . . . . . . 270
A. F. Burr Interactive Physics 3.0 Delights Windows
Users Also . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Anonymous Listings of the latest releases . . . . 278
Claudio R. Mirasso and
Martijn Mulder and
Hans J. W. Spoelder and
Daan Lenstra Visualization of the ``Sisyphus''
attractor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
James B. Cole High accuracy solution of Maxwell's
equations using nonstandard finite
differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
George C. John and
J. E. Hasbun and
Vijay A. Singh Simple scheme for the numerical
evaluation of nearly singular integrals 293
John P. Boyd Padé approximant algorithm for solving
nonlinear ordinary differential equation
boundary value problems on an unbounded
domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Lewis M. Holmes Visualizing the Future . . . . . . . . . 307
Barry M. Klein Computational and Industrial Physics at
PC '97: a Marriage Made in Heaven . . . 309
David I. Lewin Getting Students High on Quantum
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Patricia Daukantas PC '97 Meeting to Highlight Variety of
Applications and Methods . . . . . . . . 312
Patricia Daukantas From the CIP Journal Section . . . . . . 316
N. Sanjay Rebello and
Konstantin Sushenko and
Kevin Zollman and
Dean Zollman Designing Interactive Web Pages Using
ActiveX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Jennifer Huergo LogoLinks on the Rise . . . . . . . . . 323
Anonymous The Planet Earth Home Page . . . . . . . 323
Mireille Bossy and
Marco Picasso and
Denis Talay Probabilistic numerical methods for
physical and financial problems . . . . 325
David M. Cook and
Denis Donnelly Computers in the Lawrence Physics
Curriculum --- Part II . . . . . . . . . 331
Harvey Gould and
Jan Tobochnik Book Review: D. C. Rapaport,
\booktitleAn introduction to interactive
molecular-dynamics simulations . . . . . 337
Wolfgang Christian The CIP Library of Classics . . . . . . 348
Marvin L. De Jong and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Nicholas J. Giordano,
\booktitleComputational Physics . . . . 351
Jan Tobochnik and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Daan Frenkel and Berend
Smit, \booktitleUnderstanding Molecular
Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Paul F. Dubois Book Review: Mark G. Gray and Randy M.
Roberts, \booktitleObject-Based
Programming in Fortran 90 . . . . . . . 355
Steve Bryson The Next Ten Years of Visualization . . 362
William J. Thompson Three Fortran Systems for Desktop
Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Anonymous Listings of the latest releases . . . . 374
Steinn Sigurdsson and
Bohr He and
Rami Melhem and
Lars Hernquist Implementing an efficient collisionless
$N$-body code on the Cray T3D . . . . . 378
Allan J. MacLeod Accurate and efficient evaluation of the
Bose--Einstein functions $ g_{3 / 2} $
and $ g_{5 / 2} $ . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Alberto Villarreal and
John A. Scales Distributed three-dimensional
finite-difference modeling of wave
propagation in acoustic media . . . . . 388
Lewis M. Holmes Fine Fare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Ken Kennedy The Case for a Next Generation Internet 405
David I. Lewin Mr. GNU's Who . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
Patricia Daukantas SC97 to Examine Interdisciplinary
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
William DeHaven and
Rami Arieli and
Kevin Zollman and
Dean Zollman ``Laser Adventure'': Converting Print
Material to a Web Site . . . . . . . . . 411
Anonymous Online Journal Section Gets There First 415
Anonymous Calculus on the Web . . . . . . . . . . 415
William H. Press and
Saul A. Teukolsky Numerical Recipes: Does This Paradigm
Have a Future? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
A. K. Singh and
J. Panigrahi and
James R. Matey Catching the Right Bus, Part VII: a
CAMAC Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Oleg V. Vasilyev and
David A. Yuen and
Samuel Paolucci and
Ralf Gruber and
Jacques Rappaz Solving PDEs Using Wavelets . . . . . . 429
Wolfgang Christian and
Denis Donnelly Developing A Computer-Rich Physics
Curriculum at a Liberal-Arts College . . 436
P. M. C. de Oliveira and
Harvey Gould and
Jan Tobochnik Computer Simulations of Neural Networks 443
John L. Hubisz and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Ferdi Serim and Melissa
Koch, \booktitleNetLearning: Why
Teachers Use the Internet . . . . . . . 451
John L. Hubisz and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Edward J. Renehan, Jr.,
\booktitleScience on the Web: a
Connoisseur's Guide to Over 500 of the
Best Most Useful, and Most Fun Science
Websites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Ronald L. Greene Book Review: Richard H. Enns and George
C. McGuire, \booktitleNonlinear Physics
with Maple for Scientists and Engineers 451
Paul Messina High-Performance Computers: The Next
Generation (Part I) . . . . . . . . . . 454
M. M. Steiner and
W. Wenzel and
J. W. Wilkins and
K. G. Wilson and
Paul F. Dubois Object-Oriented Techniques in Large
Scientific Computing Projects:
Experience with C++ . . . . . . . . . . 467
Han-Wei Shen and
Steve Bryson Using Line-Integral Convolution to
Visualize Dense Vector Fields . . . . . 474
Anonymous Listings of the latest releases . . . . 480
J. F. de Ronde and
G. D. van Albada and
P. M. A. Sloot Simulation of gravitational wave
detectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
L. Mandrake and
W. Gekelman Large-scale Windows 95-based
data-acquisition system using LabVIEW 498
Stephen F. Takach and
Kirsten Nelson Design of the control software for the
muon readout system in NA48 . . . . . . 508
J. L. M. Quiroz González and
D. Thompson Getting started with Numerov's method 514
Syedah Fatima Ghaousia and
Nasir M. Mirza and
Sikander M. Mirza Development of PC-based nuclear
instruments for gamma-ray spectroscopy
using scintillation detectors . . . . . 516
Lewis M. Holmes Looking to the Future . . . . . . . . . 523
Marc H. Brodsky Ten Years of Computers and Physics . . . 525
David I. Lewin Still Pumping Heavy Iron . . . . . . . . 526
Lewis M. Holmes and
Patricia Daukantas Physics Computing Moves Out of the Ivory
Tower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528
Patricia Daukantas From the CIP Journal Section . . . . . . 535
Mark Becker Hyperimages Lead to Sample Articles . . 536
Anonymous LASSPTools: Graphical and Numerical
Extensions to Unix . . . . . . . . . . . 536
N. Sanjay Rebello and
Kevin Zollman and
Dean Zollman Using Demoshield to Create Interactive
Demos on the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . 537
Anonymous The Future of Scientific Computing . . . 542
Robert R. Borchers 1987, When the Computin' Was Easy: Some
Reflections on the State of the Art in
High-Speed Computation . . . . . . . . . 564
James R. Matey A World Without Barriers: Editor's
Report from Niweek '97 . . . . . . . . . 570
A. Papageorgiou and
J. F. Traub Faster Evaluation of Multidimensional
Integrals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574
Denis Donnelly CIP's Eighth Annual Educational Software
Contest: The Winners . . . . . . . . . . 579
Francis J. Alexander and
Alejandro L. Garcia The Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method 588
J. A. Templon and
W. M. Dennis and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Gisela Engeln-Müllges and
Frank Uhlig, \booktitleNumerical
Algorithms with Fortran. Numerical
Algorithms with C . . . . . . . . . . . 594
Lester M. Clendenning and
Patrick T. Tam and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Gerd Baumann,
\booktitleMathematica in Theoretical
Physics: Selected Examples from
Classical Mechanics to Fractals . . . . 595
Patricia Daukantas and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Peter J. Denning and Robert
M. Metcalfe, \booktitleBeyond
Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597
Paul Messina High-Performance Computers: The Next
Generation (Part II) . . . . . . . . . . 598
Paul F. Dubois Is Java for Scientific Programming? . . 611
Jeffrey R. Schmidt and
Steve Bryson Animation in the Unix Environment: a
Primer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618
Donald L. Shirer Symbolic I/O Leads List of New
Mathematica 3.0.1 Features . . . . . . . 624
Anonymous Signal-processing toolkit . . . . . . . 626
G. Danese and
I. De Lotto and
D. Dotti and
F. Leporati A parallel special-purpose computer
dedicated to the simulation of
interacting particle systems . . . . . . 630
W. Schweizer and
P. Fassbinder Discrete variable method for
nonintegrable quantum systems . . . . . 641
Stefan Schulz and
Regina de Vivie-Riedle A practical approach to multivariate
interpolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
Xin-Min Hua Monte Carlo simulation of Comptonization
in inhomogeneous media . . . . . . . . . 660
Lewis M. Holmes Moving Right Along . . . . . . . . . . . 3
James Truchard Instrumentation Joins the PC Revolution 5
David I. Lewin Making Molecular Structures Crystal
Clear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Nancy Forbes and
Seth Lloyd Quantum Computing: Stepping Closer to
Reality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Patricia Daukantas From the CIP Journal Section . . . . . . 15
Martha Takats and
Kevin Zollman and
Dean Zollman Creating and displaying animated GIFs
for physics instruction . . . . . . . . 16
Gregory Bothun and
Sean Russell and
Amy Hulse Virtual Laboratory (University of
Oregon) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Mark Becker CIP's Ninth Annual Educational Software
Contest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
J. Descloux and
J.-L. Fattebert and
F. Gygi and
Ralf Gruber and
Jacques Rappaz Rayleigh Quotient Iteration, an old
recipe for solving modern large-scale
eigenvalue problems . . . . . . . . . . 22
N. Sanjay Rebello and
Chandima Cumaranatunge and
Lawrence T. Escalada and
Dean A. Zollman and
Denis Donnelly Simulating the spectra of light sources 28
Charles D. Ferguson and
W. Klein and
John B. Rundle and
Harvey Gould and
Jan Tobochnik Long-range earthquake fault models . . . 34
Alenka Luzar Book Review: H. D. Holtje and G.
Folkers, \booktitleMolecular Modeling,
Basic Principles and Applications . . . 41
Gregor M. Novak Book Review: Chuck Musciano and Bill
Kennedy, \booktitleHTML: The Definitive
Guide, Second Edition . . . . . . . . . 41
Gregor M. Novak Book Review: David Flanagan,
\booktitleJava-Script: The Definitive
Guide, Second Edition . . . . . . . . . 41
Charles A. Bennett Book Review: Patrick Tam, \booktitleA
Physicist's Guide to Mathematica . . . . 41
Aart J. C. Bik and
Fabian Breg and
Dennis B. Gannon and
Paul F. Dubois Compiler support for Java
parallelization . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Steve Bryson Visualization '97 brings new technical
developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Donald L. Shirer BBEdit 4.5 adds more HTML tools . . . . 60
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
G. A. Hansen and
C. H. Chang Efficient visualization of a plasma
spray simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
K. A. Robbins and
M. Gorman Using image processing and computer
animation to analyze spatial and
temporal dynamics in a pattern-forming
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
James B. Cole Generalized nonstandard finite
differences and physical applications 82
Kazume Nishidate and
Mamoru Baba and
Richard J. Gaylord ASECA: a cellular-automata simulation
program for a silicon anisotropic
super-micro-etching process in aqueous
KOH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
William J. Thompson Principal-value integrals by a simple
and accurate finite-interval method . . 94
Igor P. Omelyan On the numerical integration of motion
for rigid polyatomics: The modified
quaternion approach . . . . . . . . . . 97
Lewis M. Holmes An Educational Focus . . . . . . . . . . 107
Ian Foster and
Carl Kesselman Computational grids: On-demand computing
in science and engineering . . . . . . . 109
David I. Lewin An interview with Roscoe Giles: From
theory to practice . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Denis Donnelly Educators Focus on the Web in New
Orleans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Patricia Daukantas Update: Asteroids make waves . . . . . . 114
Patricia Daukantas Update: Astronomers compute. New
E-journal surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Patricia Daukantas From the CIP Journal Section . . . . . . 116
Aaron P. Titus and
L. W. Martin and
Robert J. Beichner and
Kevin Zollman and
Dean Zollman Web-based testing in physics education:
Methods and opportunities . . . . . . . 117
Anonymous The Virtual Bookshelf: CIP reviews and
readers' opinions . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Anonymous Internet goldmine: Hypatia and the
collection of computer science
bibliographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Ernesto Bonomi and
Leesa Brieger and
Carlo Nardone and
Enrico Pieroni and
Ralf Gruber and
Jacques Rappaz Phase shift plus interpolation; A scheme
for high-performance echo-reconstructive
imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Ruwang Sung and
Willard Fadner and
Courtney Willis and
Kendall Mallory and
Denis Donnelly Computer-enhanced physics laboratories 133
Nicholas Giordano and
Harvey Gould and
Jan Tobochnik The physics of vibrating strings . . . . 138
James R. Matey and
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Edward R. Tufte,
\booktitleVisual Explanations: Images
and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative 146
Lakshmi Natarajan Book Review: M. Ya Amusia and L. V.
Chernysheva, \booktitleComputation of
Atomic Processes: a Handbook for the
ATOM Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Martin J. Stift and
Paul F. Dubois Scientific programming with Ada 95:
Object-oriented, parallel, and safe . . 150
Daryl Armstrong and
Ian Llanas and
Frank Russo and
Jeffrey R. Schmidt and
Steve Bryson (Editor) Visualization of electromagnetic fields
using Awk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Donald L. Shirer Fortran 90 subsets offer simplified
environment for first-time users . . . . 166
Anonymous Numerical software library . . . . . . . 169
V. V. Elisseev Parallelization of three-dimensional
spectral laser--plasma interaction code
using High Performance Fortran . . . . . 173
J. B. Cole Erratum: ``High accuracy solution of
Maxwell's equations using nonstandard
finite differences'' [Comput. Phys. \bf
11, 287 (1997)] . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Matthias Pruksch and
Frank Fleischmann Positive iterative deconvolution with
energy conservation . . . . . . . . . . 182
Edwin F. Taylor and
Stamatis Vokos and
John M. O'Meara and
Nora S. Thornber Teaching Feynman's sum-over-paths
quantum theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Pedro Córdoba-Torres and
Fernando Enriquez and
Víctor Fairén Optimal start of a Taylor integrator by
control of local error . . . . . . . . . 200
Lewis M. Holmes Using the Internet to Collaborate . . . 211
Murray Sargent III Comment: Making the switch from physics
to software: a first-order phase
transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Jeremiah Ostriker Computing the Universe . . . . . . . . . 214
Lewis M. Holmes Condensed Phases Crack Under
Computational Assault: a Report on the
APS March Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Anonymous Ten years ago: May/Jun 1988 . . . . . . 217
Anonymous Supercomputing partnerships move ahead;
Pittsburgh, Cornell find new projects 218
Patricia Daukantas From the CIP Journal Section . . . . . . 219
T. A. Casper and
B. Howard and
R. Hunt and
W. H. Meyer and
J. M. Moller and
B. McHarg and
P. Henline and
K. Keith and
K. Greene and
S. Davis and
D. Barnes and
T. Gibney and
P. Roney and
D. Greenwood Remote experimental environment:
Building a collaboratory for fusion
scientific research . . . . . . . . . . 220
Wolfgang Christian and
Aaron Titus Developing Web-based curricula using
Java physlets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Mark Becker CIP Website: Online version enhances
article on computational-physics course 233
Mark Becker PhysLINK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Stephen Paavola and
James R. Matey Catching the right bus, Part VIII:
Packet switching for
very-high-performance data-acquisition
and analysis systems . . . . . . . . . . 235
Rubin H. Landau and
Hans Kowallik and
Manuel J. Páez Web-enhanced undergraduate course and
book for computational physics . . . . . 240
Harvey Gould and
Jan Tobochnik Book Review: M. Di Ventra and C. J.
Fall, \booktitleGeneral solution scheme
for second-order differential equations:
application to quantum transport . . . . 248--249
Joseph L. Zachary Book Reviews: \booktitleAtlas for
computing mathematical functions, by
William J. Thompson . . . . . . . . . . 254
Geoffrey Furnish Container-free numerical algorithms in
C++ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Donald L. Shirer Maple V turns over a new leaf . . . . . 267
Anonymous Irix and Unicos networking technologies 269
Anonymous Numerical-analysis and plotting software 269
Anonymous Fluid-flow simulation software . . . . . 270
Anonymous Data-acquisition and virtual
instrumentation software . . . . . . . . 270
Anonymous Technical-plotting and data-processing
software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Anonymous Simulation software teaches kinematics 271
Anonymous Mathematical reference work on CD-ROM 271
Anonymous DAQ digitizer/averager board . . . . . . 271
Mark Burgess and
Hårek Haugerud and
Are Strandlie Object orientation and visualization of
physics in two dimensions . . . . . . . 274
A. Balfagón and
X. Jaén TTC: Symbolic tensor calculus with
indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
T. E. Simos Computer-algebra program for
constructing exponentially fitted
methods for solution of the Schrödinger
equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Lewis M. Holmes Scientific Computing on Your Desktop . . 299
MP. H. Borcherds and
J. Marro and
J. Nadrchalurray Granada hosts a world venture in
computational science . . . . . . . . . 301
Anonymous An interview with Sidney Karin . . . . . 302
Nancy A. Forbes and
Richard J. Lipton DNA Computing: a Possible Efficiency
Boost for Specialized Problems . . . . . 304
Anonymous Collective phenomena, educational
software top CCP 1198 program . . . . . 306
Anonymous XML structures data for the web . . . . 310
Anonymous Ten years ago: Jul/Aug 1988 . . . . . . 311
Marwin Rapkin Ada's Attractions . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Michelle Kunz Bravo on Ada 95 Coverage . . . . . . . . 312
Patricia Daukantas From the CIP Journal Section . . . . . . 313
John R. Cary and
David A. Alexander and
Kevin Zollman and
Dean Zollman Reusable Java components for physics
education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Mark Becker CIP Website Online version enhances
article on computational physics course 319
Mark Becker The structure, stability, and dynamics
of self-gravitating systems . . . . . . 320
John F. Wallin and
Denis Donnelly Distance learning and the World Wide Web 322
H. Larry Scott and
Eric Jakobsson and
Shankar Subramaniam and
Harvey Gould and
Jan Tobochnik Simulations of lipid membranes with
atomic resolution . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Susan R. McKay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Yaneer Bar-Yam,
\booktitleDynamics of Complex Systems
(Studies in Nonlinearity) . . . . . . . 335
Roger G. Newton and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Sadhan K. Adhikari,
\booktitleVariational Principles and the
Numerical Solution of Scattering
Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Steven H. Langer and
Paul F. Dubois A comparison of the floating-point
performance of current computers . . . . 338
Steve Bryson Three-dimensional visualization for
everyone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Donald L. Shirer Excel add-ons improve graphing and
statistical analyses . . . . . . . . . . 352
Anonymous Fortran 95 compiler . . . . . . . . . . 355
Anonymous ActiveX custom control for charting
real-time data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Anonymous Free-surface and bubble-dynamics
simulation code . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Anonymous Quantitative analysis for gamma-ray
spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Anonymous Scientific data analysis on Windows . . 356
Anonymous IDL 5.1 includes ActiveX support . . . . 356
Anonymous Input board for VMEbus computers . . . . 357
Anonymous Visualization tool for Mathematics . . . 357
Anonymous Single-system-image 128-processor
computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
David L. Windt IMD --- Software for modeling the
optical properties of multilayer films 360
Chris Mitchell and
Walter Gekelman Real-time physics data-visualization
system using Performer . . . . . . . . . 371
Dean Karlen Using projections and correlations to
approximate probability distributions 380
Robert M. Ziff Four-tap shift-register-sequence
random-number generators . . . . . . . . 385--392
Barend J. Thijsse and
Mark A. Hollanders and
Jan Hendrikse A practical algorithm for least-squares
spline approximation of data containing
noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Lewis M. Holmes New Magazine Will Replace Computers in
Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Dennis Duke Moore for your money at SC98 . . . . . . 405
David I. Lewin From Nanocomputers to the Earth's Core 406
Patricia Daukantas SC98 Conference Looks to the Future Back
in Disneytown . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Anonymous Ten years ago: Sep/Oct 1988 . . . . . . 410
Greg Neill Reader studies chaotic-pendulum problem 411
Patricia Daukantas From the CIP Journal Section . . . . . . 412
Chandima Cumaranatunge Creating interactive multimedia
simulations without programming . . . . 413
Anonymous Complete Online Index of CIP . . . . . . 422
Anonymous Parallel processing using Linux . . . . 423
Joel Koplik and
Jayanth R. Banavar Physics of Fluids at Low Reynolds
Numbers --- a molecular Approach . . . . 424
Richard A. Young and
Denis Donnelly Electric-Field Mapping Revisited . . . . 432
Jeffrey Billeter and
Robert Pelcovits Simulations of Liquid Crystals . . . . . 440
Robert W. Rollins and
Susan R. Mackay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Robert H. Silsbee and Jörg
Dräger, \booktitleSimulations for Solid
State Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
Daniel P. Snowman and
Susan R. Mackay and
Wolfgang Christian Book Review: Jerry Glynn and Theodore
Gray, \booktitleThe Beginner's Guide to
Mathematica Version 3 . . . . . . . . . 451
John V. W. Reynders III and
Julian Cummings and
Paul F. Dubois (Editor) The POOMA Framework . . . . . . . . . . 453
Luis Augusto Consularo and
Luciano da Fontoura Costa and
Donald L. Shirer MATCOM Integrates MATLAB Resources Into
Standalone Applications . . . . . . . . 460
Anonymous Listings of the Latest Releases . . . . 463
Jesús Vigo-Aguiar and
José M. Ferrándiz Higher-order variable-step algorithms
adapted to the accurate numerical
integration of perturbed oscillators . . 467
T. Kidan and
Joan Adler and
A. Ron Numerical simulations of an atomic beam
focused by an optical potential . . . . 471
Howland A. Fowler and
Judith E. Devaney and
John G. Hagedorn and
Francis E. Sullivan Dielectric breakdown in a simplified
parallel model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
Tarun Biswas Group theory (symmetries) in a computer
game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488
S. A. Williams and
M. L. Sawley and
D. Cobut Distributed run-time visualization and
solution steering of parallel flow
simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
M. G. Trefry and
L. R. Townley Laplace flow near an ellipsoidal
conductor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
Lewis M. Holmes Segue to the Future . . . . . . . . . . 515
Lewis M. Holmes and
George Cybenko New Magazine Expands AIP's
\booktitleComputers in Physics and
\booktitleIEEE Computational Science &
Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
Anonymous The Accidental Entrepreneur . . . . . . 518
Harold Abelson and
Nancy Forbes Amorphous-Computing Techniques May Lead
to Intelligent Materials . . . . . . . . 520
Anonymous Conference spotlights advanced
fluid-simulation techniques . . . . . . 522
Anonymous Talking computational shop in the
Penumbra of the Alhambra . . . . . . . . 525
Anonymous Ten Year Ago: Nov/Dec 1988 . . . . . . . 526
Bruce A. Sherwood Letter to the editor . . . . . . . . . . 528
Patricia Daukantas From the CIP Journal Section . . . . . . 529
E. P. Esteban and
F. J. Agosto and
Kevin Zollman Using Web technology in undergraduate
research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530
Anonymous CIP website supports CiSE subscribers 535
Mark Becker The Center for Research on Parallel
Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536
Farid F. Abraham and
Jeremy Q. Broughton and
Noam Bernstein and
Efthimios Kaxiras Spanning the length scales in dynamic
simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538
James R. Matey New directions and old: a farewell to
\booktitleComputers in Physics . . . . . 547
Stefan Goedecker and
Oleg Ivanov Solution of Multiscale Partial
Differential Equations Using Wavelets 548
Michael Karabach and
Kun Hu and
Gerhard Müller Introduction to the Bethe Ansatz. II . . 565
Steven H. Strogatz Book Review: Thomas P. Weissert,
\booktitleThe genesis of simulation in
dynamics: Pursuing the
Fermi--Pasta--Ulam problem . . . . . . . 574
Adam C. Powell IV Book Review: Daniel H. Rothman and
Stéphane Zaleski, \booktitleLattice-gas
cellular automata: Simple models of
complex hydrodynamics . . . . . . . . . 576
William Lichten and
Donald L. Shirer Scientific and graphing calculators . . 588
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591
Witold Alda and
Witold Dzwinel and
Jacek Kitowski and
Jacek Mo\'sci\'nski and
Marek Pogoda and
David A. Yuen Complex fluid-dynamical phenomena
modeled by large-scale
molecular-dynamics simulations . . . . . 595
Jared Martin and
Lyle N. Long and
Kevin M. Morooney Using Java for scientific programming
and electromagnetics . . . . . . . . . . 601
José Manuel Gutiérrez and
Andrés Iglesias Mathematica package for analysis and
control of chaos in nonlinear systems 608
H. G. Weller and
G. Tabor and
H. Jasak and
C. Fureby A tensorial approach to computational
continuum mechanics using
object-oriented techniques . . . . . . . 620
Liqiang Wei New formula for $9$--$j$ symbols and
their direct calculation . . . . . . . . 632
T. E. Simos Explicit sixth-order Bessel and Neumann
fitted method for the numerical solution
of the Schrödinger equation . . . . . . . 635
Jaydeep A. Kulkarni and
Antony N. Beris New approach for simulating chain
conformations in dense polymers using
fully populated lattice models . . . . . 641
C. S. Wallace Fast pseudorandom generators for normal
and exponential variates . . . . . . . . 119--127
Julio F. Fernández Algorithm for exponential random numbers 78--82
Richard P. Brent Some Comments on C. S. Wallace's Random
Number Generators . . . . . . . . . . . 579--584