College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
12A10.05 - Fractals
- Charles Creffield, "Fractals on a Benchtop: Observing Fractal Dimension in a Resistor Network", TPT, Vol. 60, #6, Sept. 2022, p. 410.
- Front Cover, TPT, Vol. 56, #2, Feb 2018.
- Paul Knutson, E. Dan Dahlberg, "Fractals in the Classroom", TPT, Vol. 41, #7, Oct. 2003, p. 387.
- K. Zembrowska and M. Kuźma, "Some Exercises on Fractals for High School Students", TPT, Vol. 20, #8, Nov. 2002, p. 470.
- Michele Zanoni, "Measurement of the Fractal Dimension of a Cauliflower", TPT, Vol. 40, #1, Jan. 2002, p. 18.
- Dane Camp, Chris Chiaverina, and Tom Senior, "Festive Fractals", TPT, Vol. 37, #9, Dec. 1999, p. 532.
- Front Cover, TPT, Vol. 37, #9, Dec. 1999.
- Marcos Amaku, Lighia B. Horodynski-Matsushique, and Paulo R. Pascholati, "The Fractal Dimension of Breads", TPT, Vol. 37, #8, Nov. 1999, p. 480.
- W. K. Ching, M. Erickson, P. Garik, P. Hickman, J. Jordan, S. Schwarzer, and L, Shore, "Overcoming Resistance with Fractals—A New Way to Teach Elementary Circuits", TPT, Vol. 32, #9, Dec. 1994, p. 546.
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- Vicente Talanquer and Glinda Irazoque, "Fractals: To Know, To Do, To Simulate", TPT, Vol. 31, #2, Feb. 1993, p. 72.
- Donald H. Esbenshade Jr., "Fractal Bread", TPT, Vol. 29, #4, Apr. 1991, p. 236.
- Raphael H. Ko and Charles P. Bean, "A Simple Experiment that Demonstrates Fractal Behavior", TPT, Vol. 29, #2, Feb. 1991, p. 78.
- R. Igor Gamov, "Spirals in Nature", TPT, Vol. 17, #1, Jan. 1979, p. 14.
- Veronica P. Simonsen, Tathan Hale, Ingve Somonsen, "Eigenmodes of Fractal Drums: A Numerical Student Experiment", AJP, Vol. 92, #2, Feb. 2024, p. 115.
- Nicholas B. Tufillaro, "Generating a Fractal Using a Capacitor", AJP, Vol. 69, #6, June 2001, p. 721.
- Alan J. Hurd, "Resource Letter Fr-1: Fractals", AJP, Vol. 56, #11, Nov. 1988, p. 969.
- M. A. F. Gomes, "Fractal Geometry in Crumpled Paper Balls", AJP, Vol. 55, #7, July 1987, p. 649.
- Diego Krapf and Ralf Metzler, "Strange Interfacial Molecular Dynamics", Physics Today, Vol. 72, #9, Sept. 2019, p. 48.
- Johanna L. Miller, "Quantum Corral Herds Surface Electrons Into a Fractal Lattice", Physics Today, Vol. 72, #1, Jan. 2019, p. 14.
- Julien Clinton Sprott, "6.13. Fractals", Physics Demonstrations, ISBN 0-299-21580-6, p. 262 - 264.
- Don Rathjen and Paul Doherty, "Fractal Patterns", Square Wheels, 2002, p. 21 - 24.
- Isaac Asimov, "The Secret of the Universe", Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, p. 89.
- T. D. Rossing and C. J. Chiaverina, "Home and Classroom Demonstration", Light Science, Physics and Visual Arts, p. 262.
- T. D. Rossing and C. J. Chiaverina, "Fractals on the Web", Light Science, Physics and Visual Arts, p. 262.
- Stan Gibilisco, "Partial Dimensions, Fractals, and Mathephysics", More Puzzles, Paradoxes and Brain Teasers, p. 103.
- Stan Gibilisco, "The Mandelbrot Set", More Puzzles, Paradoxes and Brain Teasers, p. 122.
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