- Irrotational flow in a
washbasin, or is it? See for yourself in these pictures.
- An introduction to the elements
of using LaTeX. This is a set of web documents shows how to transform
plain text into a beautifully typeset document in LaTeX. It introduces
what I consider are the most important fundamentals of LaTeX2e.
- onedcm.ps contents and preface of
my book "A One-Dimensional Introduction to Continuum Mechanics"
published by World Scientific Pub Co., Singapore, 1994.
I have also made available extra examples and exercises in this pdf document (190K).
- fractals.sea.hqx explains the
importance of beings fractal. This Macintosh Word source of my article
in the Australasian Science explains the occurrence of fractals in the
world around us. No abstract Mandelbrot sets here, just an introduction
to the application of fractals to coastlines, rivers, plant distributions,
architecture, music, turbulence, clouds and finally human beings.
- spreadsheet.sea.hqx is an
introduction to the use of spreadsheets for scientists, engineers and
mathematicians. It is suitable for an introductory computing course
and covers: Tables & charting; A little calculus; Statistics &
line fitting; Evolution in time; Iterative methods; Advanced applications.
It is a Hypercard stack for the Macintosh.
- hyperchaos.sit.hqx outlines
a course on chaos. Based on the structure of the book by Berge,
Pomeau and Vidal, and the pictures of Abraham and Shaw, this stack takes
the user from classical ordered dynamics through the principles of chaos
and the structure of strange attractors to the period doubling and intermittency
routes to chaos. It contains many interactive programs demonstrating the
ideas involved (these have been written for speed so that on modern computers
they are almost too fast). It is a Hypercard stack for the Macintosh.
Educational and other material
Tony Roberts
