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Warren Weckesser

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
-- Henri Poincaré


Just a few links to web pages that caught my attention...

Rainbows
  • The physics of a rainbow
  • Interactive Application: Rainbow Lab
  • About Rainbows
  • Rainbow Activity
Snowflakes
  • Snow Crystals (Caltech)
  • Wilson A. Bentley, The Snowflake Man
  • How to Preserve a Snowflake
Sand Ripples
  • Sand Dune Ripples Photo
  • UNVR 195 A - Fall 1999
  • A nonlinear model for aeolian sand ripples
  • Grain segregation mechanism in aeolian sand ripples
  • Lee Altenberg's Web Home Page
Meandering Rivers
  • Meandering River Channels
  • THE MEANDERING RIVER YARE
  • The Brazos River -- Brazos Bend State Park
  • Meandering River Evolution
  • Modeling of Meandering and Braiding Rivers (a brief research summary of a group in Oslo)
Evolution
  • Evolution Entrance
  • Journal of Mathematical Biology, Vol. 34 Issue 5/6 (lots of articles about modeling evolution in this issue)
  • Prof. P. T. Saunders
Inverted Pendulum
  • The `Not Quite' Inverted Pendulum
  • Effect of Fast Excitation: Theory, Part 1
Chladni Patterns
  • Chladni patterns for violin plates
  • Chladni, Ernst Florens Friedrich
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