Glenart College Physics Blog
A Physics Blog created for Glenart College students.
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Stephen Hawkins : Into the Universe series on the discovery channel
Professor Stephen Hawking asks some big questions about our universe --
How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone? -- and
discusses how we might go about answering them.
Into The Universe With Stephen Hawking - Time Travel
Saturday, August 25, 2012
This is a full-resolution version of the NASA Curiosity rover descent to
Mars, taken by the MARDI descent imager. As of August 20, all but a
dozen 1600x1200 frames have been uploaded from the rover, and those
missing were interpolated using thumbnail data. The result was applied a
heavy noise reduction, color balance, and sharpening for best
visibility.
The video plays at 15fps, or 3x realtime. The heat shield impacts in the lower left frame at 0:21, and is shown enlarged at the end of the video. Image source: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=0&camera=MARDI
Fun fact: The first mission to Mars, Mariner 4 in 1965, returned a total of 634 kb of data, including 22 photos.
The video plays at 15fps, or 3x realtime. The heat shield impacts in the lower left frame at 0:21, and is shown enlarged at the end of the video. Image source: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=0&camera=MARDI
Fun fact: The first mission to Mars, Mariner 4 in 1965, returned a total of 634 kb of data, including 22 photos.
Friday, August 17, 2012
Back Blogging after a Whole Year!
You may have been wondering why I haven't posted in the last year...well, last year I had no physics classes- but this year I will be teaching 5th Year Physics so I'm back!!!!...
Now that I've spent the last 4 months using EDMODO with my junior science classes and Biology classes, I am going to set up an Edmodo account with my physics class also. Its a great way of communicating with students and feeding forward and backward information on Physics to promote a greater understanding of topics covered on the leaving cert syllabus.
Arklow Community College students attend Chemistry Camp in York University
This Summer while most Junior Cert students will
have their heads out of the schoolbooks, two students from Arklow Community College
will be busy brushing up on their Chemistry at an academic camp in England.
(Niamh Cloran-Doyle and Rebecca Lyons)
Niamh Cloran-Doyle and Rebecca Lyons have both won
school scholarships to a 3 day residential Salters Chemistry Camp, held in the
University of York from 13th- 15th August. The girls are
really looking forward to spending three days and two nights at the University
of York, staying in the University Halls of Residence, and using the
laboratories.
They will carry out new, exciting experiments, and have the
chance to delve into areas of chemistry that are perhaps not covered at school.
In the evenings, practical work in the labs is put on the back burner, and
students will enjoy a variety of social activities like a fun quiz or tenpin
bowling.
This is not the first time Arklow Community College
students have taken part in Chemistry Camps. Previous scholarship winners for
Chemistry Camps in Swansea University and the University of Manchester include
Gary Long, Kyle Connolly-Carey and Brian Ormonde- Murphy.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
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