Links to Assigned Web Sites

Through the semester we suggest or assign various web sites that have especially good or germane things to say about what we are discussing. The assignments and addresses are in the lecture notebook, but the links below are easier to access than typing in long, complicated addresses. New assignments will each time be placed at the top of the list.

Experiment: The Driven Pendulum: Attractors in Phase Space

• Link to My Physics Lab Pendulum Experiment
• Try the experiment in Netscape, and if it does not work there try Internet Explorer. Since the computer defaults to only one browser, if you want to try another browser open it from the desktop, and then cut and paste the address from the one browser to the other.

• Article
• Applets of social models

• The Purpose and Meaning of Computer Models - everything we do in Evolutionary Systems is about modeling. This short description by Dave Bice is very good. Required reading; there is a brief writing assignment beginning the next class.
• The Second Law of Thermodynamics - a nice discussion by Brig Klyce of some of the sources of confusion about entropy and the second law. Not required; just background reading if you want more information.