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What's new this month?

Over the past few months, readers of WUWT that expressed everything from puzzlement to concern to outrage over adjustments of USHCN temperature records. I have read the documents behind these adjustments, and have prepared a draft summary of how these adjustments work. I also make comments about my concerns after reading these papers. Among other things I think these corrections are being made out of order. My report is found at here.

In November, 2009 certain physics students of mine needed to make up a laboratory session. So I gave them a crazy experiment to try from the pages of NOAA. The original experiment is no longer at NOAA, but the way-back machine has a copy archived. Read about our attempt at this experiment here. Go have a look at the way-back machine archived page here.

In November, 2005 I gave a talk at LCCC about Einstein's Miracle Year. This is a link to the PDF file I produced to accompany the talk. SAS members and anyone else who may be interested, here is Reflection on the Miracle Year.

Since I am on the task of fixing up old work, I offer the revised PDF document about Euler's disk. This is an expanded version of the older HTML files, but has better graphics and a complete explanation of how Euler's equations become a simple set of differential equations displaying a finite time singularity.

I am back once again, and offer you a revised document about steady-state tornado vortex models as a pdf file. I have also added a link on the appropriately modified HTML page in the sequence of pages on Tornadoes.. I hope to make this the first in a series of files exploring mathematical models on this topic.

I have placed the essense of a talk I gave, about viewing data as evidence, at the LCCC Star Club meeting on November 20, 2003, on this web site as a power point file. I have also added more detail on these topics in the accompanying PDF file.

As some of you may have noticed I have done a terrible job of updating the content of this web site for the past year (i.e. from June 2002 to June 2003). I apologize. I took on the task of teaching too many engineering courses at Washington State University, Vancouver during the past academic year, and this prevented my getting anything else done. I promise to be better in the future. Oh, by the way, Dr. Jekyll died.

Donald Simanek's museum of unworkable machines.

An example illustrating how to perform a regression analysis on spreadsheet programs having no data analysis tools except matrix multiply and inverse.

Mr. A.A. Stanislavsky pointed out a typographical error in my formula for spin-down time of the See the corrected version.

Mr. Richard Halter wrote to me recently about the short note I had written regarding hurricane-like storms which strike the Pacific Northwest Coast about once per decade. I made a closing remark in my note to the effect that the singular ferocity of the Columbus Day storm of 1962 may be a composite memory of two storms two weeks apart in October, 1962 and perhaps also one in October, 1964. My research of weather records indicated that the second storm in late October, 1962 had lower pressure and higher peak wind speed than the one on Columbus day. However, as Mr. Halter assures me, "The Columbus Day storm of 1962 was the single most powerful non-hurricane ever to hit the United States." I stand better advised now. Also, I have an addendum to the paper on Perpetual Motion which clears up some pesky issues on first law machines, including a surprising revision of how a Cavorite engine is meant to work. Thanks here to Dr. Donald E.Simanek for many interesting discussions.

A mystery regarding surface pressure. Can anyone supply additional information about this?

A presentation I made at LCCC in March regarding . Checkout a graph summarizing some experimental data on an Euler Disc, or in this case a .

Lately I have been remiss in my duties as webmaster; so, I promise at least two new topics in the next two weeks. One is a selective log of my recent . The other is a series of pages on .

Well, everyone else seems to have a photo of their cat on a web page, so here are my two. This older one is very intellegent, but lacks social skills. Despite his formal appearance, he bites guests. I named him The other is a very lovable cat, but he leads a secret life at night that involves fighting with large mammals, perhaps even raccoons. His name is

An edited correspondence between my chemist friend HD and me about a single Well I learned something from it at least.

A temporary link to class notes for , a junior level class in statistics for engineers at WSU, Vancouver.

Here is a note about . You'll need a basic familiarity with rigid body dynamics to understand it.

How about the musings of Bill Joy, who has brought us much of the technological present, but who has become afraid of the future?

Here are several old reviews of books on the state of the world. I wrote them mostly to point out that reviewers do not appear to read the books they review. There is also a document filled with links to examples of scientific analysis gone awry.

A link for the physics I class at LCCC to get to spreadsheets and other information for lab. This includes an updated sheet of errata -- in otherwords an erratum for errata.

An analysis of the list of strange circulating on the internet.

A Java Applet illustrating a binomial process named

Note: The Internet Explorer 3.x and earlier has trouble with this applet, reporting a SecurityException. Netscape 4.7 has some entertaining difficulty with the scrollbar--I do not know why, yet.

A new project concerning Tornadoes.

Photo of a

Another paper gone astray. The Cheap Instant Coffee Effect. My colleagues Peter Baum and Thomas Means have suggested changes that make this paper read better than the original, which will be published in the Society for Amateur Scientists (SAS) Newsletter.

I've done some editing to make this read better than the original version.

Skip the preamble and go straight to the Office.

Instructions

Check out objects on the page which serve as anchors to link other documents and graphics. Most of the material is technical, but you may also find pictures of the Buffalo Lodge, a short story, or a recipe for New Mexican Chili Verde that will make your eyelids sweat.

Technical Papers and Commentary

Go to the bookcase image and check the contents (links) on each graphic of a book or magazine. Clicking on any that are not HTML will begin download of a PDF file that includes text and graphics. You will need Adobe ® Acrobat Reader to print these. Most files are HTML that will display directly on a web browser. There may or may not be PDF equivalents of the HTML with better quality graphics.

Software in 'C'

Return to the image of a disk drive beside my bookcase and give it a mouse click. This will take you to a list of 'C' language functions, in source code form, which you may down load. I'm spending a little time porting useful code over to Linux. Don't look for rapid progress though. I'm getting old.

The Projects!

Go to the filing cabinet and check out its contents, or shuffle around the desktop. Lot's of these projects will get about 80% completed and hang there forever.

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Bookshelf || Project || Code || Capabilities || Instructions

Kilty's Office

What's new this month?

Instructions

Technical Papers and Commentary

Software in 'C'

The Projects!

@ My Office

Other Useful Links

Strange Stuff

Miscellaneous Reference

Geophysics and Geology Academic Sites

Portals

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Miscellaneous Science Sites

Kilty's Office

What's new this month?

Instructions

Technical Papers and Commentary

Software in 'C'

The Projects!

@ My Office

Other Useful Links

Strange Stuff

Miscellaneous Reference

Geophysics and Geology Academic Sites

Portals

More Portals! Matilda || NetSearch || EZSearches || 1UpInfo

Miscellaneous Science Sites

More Portals!
Matilda || NetSearch || EZSearches || 1UpInfo