-- Winston Churchill

• We are entering the home stretch of 251. The final exam will occur Wednesday of next week (5/2/01).
• Evaluate your Prof's! We will be doing the standard faculty evaluation forms according to this schedule:
  1. Tuesday, 4/24/01, Evaluation of Dr. Wassall
  2. Wednesday, 4/25/01, Evaluation of Dr. Gavrin
• A sample final exam is available. I will discuss the sample final on monday, 4/30/01.
• The final formula sheet is also ready.
• The results of the final exam and the course grades will be posted here and on the credit check page in the on Thursday, 5/3/01.
• Don't forget the post-251 pizza party in the lab at 12:30 on Thursday, 5/3/01.
• You can now check your credit, as of 3 PM 4/22/01.
• The last online assignments have been posted. There is a WarmUp due Wednesday (4/25/01) a Puzzle due Friday (4/27/01), and a Good For due next Monday (4/30/01).
• Here are a few hints for doing well in Physics 251.

• The Space Shuttle Endeavor is currently in orbit, docked with the International Space Station. Its primary mission is to install the Canadarm2 (AKA the "Space Station Remote Manipulator System," or SSRMS). A Canadian-built robot arm that will be an important piece of the space station's operations. The arm is an extraordinary piece of engineering, capable of relocating itself by crawling, inchworm style, over the outside of the station.
• April 23 is the birthday of Max Planck (1858-1947). Planck was a theoretical physicist who played a key role in the development of quantum theory (he originated the use of the term "quantum." Plank won the Nobel Prize in 1918.