A Recreational Physicist

This is a truely superb book about the different kinds of objects that get called vectors. What makes this extraoridinary is that there are intuitive geometical models for many of the abstract objects from tensor analysis that I struggled through. Jut having an intuitive way to picture the differences between covariant and contravariant vectors makes this book required reading for everyone studing vector calculus.

The writing is clear and concise, though it will still take a couple reads through the material before it really begins to sink in. This book ranks up there with the writings of I. M. Yagolm. It opens your eyes to a new way of viewing the world. Encouraging you to revaluate your understanding of many different subjects. I can't wait to go back through my statistical mechanics, gravity, tensor analysis and quantum mechanics books and apply this to the theory.

I also need to find a way to easily render these objects in flightpath. Rendering all the sheets and stacks will probably push most of the graphics cards to their limits, but that really isn't a bad thing.

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• There is nothing better then cranking up sxdx - social distortion up on a beautiful clear day rolling down the windows and hitting the open road. Instead I'm looking at houses today. Still, I love the few weeks of fall that Austin gets every year.

This is my second post of the month. I've uploaded some images from the calculator application I've been working on. I hope to get some more images uploaded soon once I get the differential equation solver working a little more flexable, and then hopefully some movies to go with it. I've also come up with a name Flightpath. It works for now, and it is where I've done my most inspired work.

I've been in Austin for about 3 weeks now and I'm loving my new job. Austin is just as great as I remember it, and it will be even better when Cindy and I move into a new house. I don't regret moving back one bit like I was afraid I would. I'm at a different point in my life and it doesn't feel like I've gone back with my tail between my legs at all. We looked at a lot of different places and Austin had the most to offer. I'm typing this at the Flightpath right now. Anyway, I've gotten some work done on the calculator application and I hope to get some screenshots up soon. In the meantime I found Pan#. It is very similar in principle to what I want to acomplish. It has the ease of use that I'm shooting for. It's a great way to test out the advantages and disadvantages of the approach I'm taking. I've been experimenting with a few Pan# programs. One to display some iterations of the logistical function, and another to show some one dimensional quantum mechanical wavefunctions.