In their Season Premiere the Mythbusters will take on the infamous projectile problem of a dropped vs shot bullet. While teaching projectiles, many teachers use an example of shooting a bullet horizontally and dropping one next to it at the same time. While students agree that this may hold true for slow projectiles, they often don’t believe that that gravity would act on something moving really fast, like a bullet. On their season premiere tonight, 9pm PST, the Mythbusters will be testing this out in “Knock Your Socks Off.”
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Reflections on the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo Program Thursday, October 8, 2009 • 7:30PM Flight Controller Sy Liebergot Sy Liebergot, a former NASA flight controller, was on the job for some of the most memorable moments in space exploration, including the Apollo 13 fuel cell explosion. Mr. Liebergot will be available for book signings before and after the talk. www.nasa.gov National Aeronautics and Space Administration San Mateo Performing Arts Center • San Mateo, CA 506 N. Delaware Street, San Mateo, CA 94401 • Phone (650) 400-9425 • email pablo@laserpablo.com Sponsored by the Northern California and Nevada American Association of…
Sat, Sep. 12 and Sun, Sep. 13, 2009 Westin SFO Hotel, Millbrae, California (near the San Francisco Airport) Part of the 120th Anniversary Meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific One unit of Academic Credit available through San Francisco State U. In this hands-on workshop, we will train educators to be “Galileo Ambassadors” for the International Year of Astronomy (2009). Teachers in grades 4 – 12 will learn how to do age-appropriate, inquiry-based activities in astronomy and physical science. After a brief introduction to Galileo’s life and work and the realms of astronomy, participants will explore: A Private Universe:…
We’re adding a new page to the NCNAAPT web site, “Becoming a physics teacher.” The goal of the site is to support people who are interested in becoming physics teachers, but have not yet enrolled in a credential program. We have a few links on it, but will be flushing it out over the next few weeks/months. If you have any suggestions of what should go on the page, please email them to web@ncnaapt.org and we’ll incorporate them You can find the page here: https://ncnaapt.org/index.php/links/becoming-a-physics-teacher/, or find it in the menu in the right column (in the “Links” sub menu).
By Robert Sanders, UCB Media Relations | 21 July 2009 Complete article here: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/07/21_bruise.shtml The scar from the probable impact appeared July 19 in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere, and has grown to a size greater than the extent of the Pacific Ocean. This infrared image taken with Keck II on July 20 shows the new feature observed on Jupiter and its relative size compared to Earth. (Paul Kalas ,UCB; Michael Fitzgerald, LLNL/UCLA; Franck Marchis, SETI Institute/UCB; James Graham, UCB) BERKELEY — Something slammed into Jupiter in the last few days, creating a dark bruise about the size of the Pacific Ocean.…