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Plus Magazine
September 1998
Computer games and cinema special effects owe much of their realism to the study of fractals. Martin Turner takes you on a journey from the motion of a microscopic particle to the creation of imaginary moonscapes.
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Modelling nature with fractals
September 1998
Computer games and cinema special effects owe much of their realism to the study of fractals. Martin Turner takes you on a journey from the motion of a microscopic particle to the creation of imaginary moonscapes.
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Computer games and cinema special effects owe much of their realism to the study of fractals. Martin Turner takes you on a journey from the motion of a microscopic particle to the creation of imaginary moonscapes.
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Letters
September 1998
Why stop?
The PASS Maths "magazine" is great! Why did publishing stop with the May '98 issue?
Jon Revelos
It didn't, PASS Maths is still going strong. We publish once per term: January, May and September. A new editorial team will be publishing the January 1999 issue, see "Time to change" in the issue 7 Editorial.
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Editorial
- Roll-over malevolence
- Time to change
- Understanding science
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Geometer's corner
September 1998
In the first instalment of a series of articles on the use of Geometry software at A-level, Paul Blythin of Peter Symonds' College takes us through his experiences with Geometer's Sketchpad.
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Mathematical mysteries: the three body problem
On June 25th 1998 the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory known as SOHO, a small spacecraft that monitors the sun, went missing. An error in the instructions given to it from ground control left it spinning out of control. However, there is a glimmer of hope.
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Puzzle No. 6
Can you collect the whole set?
Career
Career interview - Electronic engineer
Geraldine Paxton, an electronics engineer, is a member of the Ford Motor Company Limited's graduate trainee scheme. Geraldine tells us about her work there, from driving cars on the German autobahns to ensuring production lines keep working.
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Pilgrims, planes and postage stamps
Practical problems often have no exact mathematical solution, and we have to resort to using unusual techniques to solve them. From navigation in the 17th century to postage stamps, see how this principle applies to a variety of real-life problems - and also learn how to use a piece of string to locate a German bomber!
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The origins of fractals
The term fractal, introduced in the mid 1970's by Benoit Mandelbrot, is now commonly used to describe this family of non-differentiable functions that are infinite in length. Find out more about their origins and history.
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Modelling nature with fractals
Computer games and cinema special effects owe much of their realism to the study of fractals. Martin Turner takes you on a journey from the motion of a microscopic particle to the creation of imaginary moonscapes.