Roger Rollins

"It is with logic that one proves;
it is with intuition that one invents." ------- Henri Poincaré in Mathematical definitions in education (1904)

Physics courses and their associated web pages:

Graduate Course in Classical Mechanics (Phys 605).

Areas of Specialization and Research:

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos.

Condensed Matter Physics.
Using Computers in Physics Instruction.

Selected Publications

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Physics e-Print archives:

• Nonlinear Science: nlin-sys
• Trieste (Italy) Archives: babbage.sissa.it

One-Shot World-Wide Preprints Search

• Int. Ctr. for Theoretical Phys., Trieste, Italy

Interesting links:

• Athens weather forcast.
• Ohio Section/American Physical Society Fall 1996 Meeting at Ohio Univ.
• Virtual Universities
• Western governors start regional virtual university
• Professional Organizations:
• The Ohio Section of the American Physical Society
• The American Physical Society
• PINET The Physics Information Network
• The American Institute of Physics
• PACS95 The Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme
• The Materials Research Society
• The Acoustical Society of America
• AAAS The American Association for the Advancement of Science
• The National Science Foundation
• Physics Career Corner.
• The American Association of University Professors
• Journals:
• The Dilbert zone.
• Physical Review Letters Online (password required)
• The American Journal of Physics
• CIP online Computers in Physics Journal
• Physics Today Online
• Nonlinear Science Today
• Science Magazine Online
• American Scientist
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Mother Jones Magazine
• Wired Magazine
• BYTE Magazine
• PC Magazine
• JavaWorld Magazine
• The Nando Times Newspaper on WWW.
• National Public Radio
• General Information:
• Everything you want to know about the Internet (slightly dated perhaps).
• Colleges and Universities on the WWW.
• An encyclopedia on the internet
• The Library of Congress
• America's Job Bank (US Dept. of Labor)
• Find Names, Addresses, and Phone Nos. 
• Chaos and Nonlinear Systems:
• General reference list with comments (that I generally agree with)
• Chaos at U. Maryland
• Picture gallery of Chaos from U. Maryland
• The Center for Nonlinear Dynamics at Univ. of Texas at Austin
• The Fractal Microscope
• Fractint home page
• New Developments in Instructional Technology: Innovations in the Sciences (A brief presentation to Ohio Univ. Arts and Sciences Chairs retreat, Sept. 1996.)
• Instructional Computer Simulation Material:
• The CUPS project
• Intro. to Computer Simulation Methods by Jan Tobochnik and Harvey Gould
• Physics Resource Packet Projects directed by Michael Moloney
• The MUPPET and CUPLE projects at U. Maryland.
• General Instructional Material on the WWW:
• The Why Files for the science behind the news.
• WebPhysics curriculum development project
• The World Lecture Hall
• Physics Homework Service
• CyberProf
• Physics Education Resources
• Computational Science Educational Project
• Examples of Course notes online at U. Ill.
• Project Discovery at OSU.
• Microsoft Developer Curriculum Project.
• Global Math-Science Test.
• Books and Software:
• Sunsoft Press
• O'Reilly Associates
• Software Catalog
• Find it on the WWW:
• General web search site.
• General web search site.
• www Yellow Pages
• Open Text Index
• Lycos
• Infoseek
• World Wide Web Worm
• W3catalog
• WebCrawler
• Yahoo
• City.Net
• Commercial Services on the Net
• Shareware
• Washington University Data Archive
• UNIX
• Solaris FAQ
• SUNOS 4.1.3 Man pages (server: helios1)
• Solaris 2.4 (SUNOS 5.4) Man pages (server: plato)
• UNIX Reference Desk
• The X Consortium
• WWW sites devoted to TeX and Friends:
• Online help for Plain TeX, LaTeX, BibTeX, and MakeIndex
• The LaTeX Navigator
• PC TeX Homepage
• TeXhaX Hypertext version.
• CTAN Hypertext interface to the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
• HyperText Markup Language (HTML) information:
• HTML Station
• HTML Quick Reference
• Hands On HTML online tutorial.
• HTML Docs
• HTML Development Plans from World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• LaTeX to HTML Conversion
• Example LaTeX2HTML
• Scripts
• City.net Browser checkup
• Some colors and their Hex Equilivants
• Railroading:
• Models
• General Information
• Cyberspace World Railroad
• Interactive model railroad.
• Amateur Radio Ham Radio
• SUN microsystems
• SunWorld Magazine Online
• SunExpress
• SunSoft
• SPARC Technology
• SunSolve Online
• Solaris 2.x FAQ
• Java

Family, Colleagues, and other Influential Persons:

• An archive of family pictures.
• Neil Rollins
• Alan Rollins
• Sergio Ulloa
• David Drabold
• The White House
• The Congress
• Congressional Contact Web Site
• The Ohio Board of Regents