Physics, Astronomy and Engineering News
SPS Meeting - This Thursday
There will be a SPS meeing on February 8th at 5:00pm in room 318. The Stephen F. Austin State University Society of Physics Students has won another outstanding chapter award for the year 2005-2006. Our club and Ali Piran in particular deserve your congratulations.
Spring Career Day
Career Services Department wishes to extend an invitation to you and to your students to attend the upcoming Spring Career Day scheduled for Wednesday, March 7, 2007, from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom. Over 55 companies have already registered to attend! If you would like to view a list of the companies who have registered to attend the Spring Career Day, please follow the steps listed below:
Go to www.monstertrak.com
Enter Student/Alumni Username: careerdays (lower case)
Enter Student/Alumni Password: sfasu (lower case)
Click: Go Choose: Career Fairs
Select Event: Career Day/Teacher Job Fair
If you have any questions, please call 936-468-3305.
The Fun Stuff
Movie: Grape Plasma Microwave Fireball
http://www.break.com/index/grape_plasma_microwave_fireball.html
http://c3po.barnesos.net/homepage/lpl/grapeplasma/
Movie: Excellent Size Comparison of Planets
http://video.google.com:80/videoplay?docid=-3974466981713172831
Movie: Ship floats on nothing
http://www.glumbert.com:80/media/float
Movie: An Orbcomm communication satellite passes in front of the Moon
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/23jan_ltps.htm?list184210
Google Patents
http://www.google.com/patents
FLYING-MACHINE OLTVILLE WRIGHT
http://www.google.com/patents?id=h5NWAAAAEBAJ&pg=PP1#PPP1,M1
SFA: Omicron Delta Kappa Membership Form
http://www.osa.sfasu.edu/pdfs/ODK%20Application.pdf
It`s official: the Moon is on the metric system. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/08jan_metricmoon.htm?list184210
Rocket Movies at the Bottom
http://public.blueorigin.com:80/index.html
Apple Software
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/math_science/osxplanet.html
Multi-junction solar cells produce efficiency greater than 40%!! http://www.energy.gov/news/4503.htm
Bad Physics in on the Fedex Moon Commercialhttp://football.fedex.com
SIM PlanetQuest technology `in hand`
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov:80/index.cfm
North Korea at Night
http://satblog.methaz.org/images/nkor.png
A really neat daytime picture of the Moon and Venus
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061030.html
Fun with Ferrofluid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Ti6PeGdNQ&mode=related&search=
Floating magnet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8nCg0n0zXM&mode=related&search=
Scholarships and Fellowships
Women in Physics
http://www.womeninphysics.org
NSF REU Program
http://www.baylor.edu/casper/index.php?id=20535
DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
http://www.krellinst.org/csgf REU at UNT
http://www.phys.unt.edu/REU
Summer Undergraduate Research Focus
http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/surf/
http://www.mse.gatech.edu/surf.html
REU in Biostatistics
http://www.stat.ncsu.edu/sibs/SIBSbrochure_2007.pdf
Summer Research at Georgia Institute of Technology
http://www.sure.gatech.edu
REU in Las Vegas
http://www.physics.unlv.edu:80/reu/
Scholarships for Future Teachers
The American Association of Physics Teachers is offering two $2,000 scholarship for future high-school physics teachers. This scholarship, supported by an endowment funded by Barbara Lotze, is available only to U.S. citizens attending a U.S. school. Undergraduate students in, or planning to enter, physics teacher preparation curricula and high-school seniors planning to enter such curricula are eligible.
http://www.aapt.org/Grants/lotze.cfm
Wireless Texas
After having dug to a depth of 200 meters last year, Scottish scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 1000 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 1000 years ago. Not to be outdone by the Scots, in the weeks that followed, English scientist dug to a depth of 300 meters and shortly after headlines in the UK newspapers read: "English archaeologists have found traces of 2000 year old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a thousand years earlier than the Scots." One week later, Texas newspapers reported the following: "After digging as deep as 5000 feet in West Texas, scientists have found absolutely nothing. They have therefore concluded that 5000 years ago Texas inhabitants were already using wireless technology."
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Clear skies,
Dan Bruton
astro@sfasu.edu