Intro Solitons The KdV Equation The Morning Glory Cloud Sources

Bibliography

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Pictures (in order shown)

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090824.html
http://diamondinvestingnews.com/454-the-ripple-effect-of-the-us-recession-the-equivalent-of-throwing-a-boulder-into-a-pond.html
http://www.education.com/study-help/article/transverse-longitudinal-waves/
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/insects/butterfly-colors1.htm
http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~chris/scott_russell.html
http://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/2011-80-274/S0025-5718-2010-02402-0/home.html
http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~jones/solitons/pdf/025.pdf
*Pig picture my own
http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/mg1

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEbYELtGZwI&feature=related
http://www.aerialvideo.com.au/gloryfootage.html

Thanks to...

Dr. Rybkin and Odile Bastille, UAF Math Department
Cho-cho, the guinea pig