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Course Announcements - Week of
December 12th:
Monday - Review for Final Exam. Warm Up Survey
is due by 9 AM. No other assignments (Homework, Good
For, Puzzles) are due this week.
Tuesday - STUDY FOR FINAL EXAM.
Wednesday - FINAL EXAM at 10:30 AM.
Thursday - PIZZA PARTY! 12:30 PM in LD011.
Friday - Happy Winter Break!
Grades:
Updated today (12/13)
- The date of the latest grade added is at the top
of each column.
- Click here for the latest
grades.
Ongoing:
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Other News
> Physics News:
Clues revealed by the recently sharpened view of the
Hubble Space Telescope have allowed a team of
researchers at Johns Hopkins to map the location of
invisible "dark matter" in unprecedented detail in two
very young galaxy clusters. The team's results lend
credence to the theory that the galaxies we can see form
at the densest regions of "cosmic webs" of invisible
dark matter, just as froth gathers on top of ocean
waves, said study co-author Myungkook James Jee.
Click for
more info.
> Science &
Technology History:
December 12th, 1927 - The co-inventor of the
integrated circuit, Robert
Noyce,
is born in Iowa.
December 16th, 1917 -
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, author of "2001:A Space Odyssey"
is born in Minehead, England. He was the first to
propose the idea of communication satellites.
December 17h, 1861 -
Electrical engineer Arthur E. Kennelly was born near
Bombay, India. His contributions to electrical
engineering were numerous; however his most significant
achievement was to discover the existence of the
ionosphere, the layer in the upper atmosphere that
reflects radio waves making transoceanic wireless
communication possible.
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Alan Shepard and the flag
during the
Apollo 14 mission, 1971, courtesy of
NASA. Please click the
image
for more
on the flag.
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