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January 26, 2004

Welcome to the College Physics 2 homepage on Planet Psi. You should check in here every week.

Onsite you will find several classroom and study resources: a copy of the syllabus handed out the first day, problem assignments, lab info, and solution sets. Be sure to look at your Class Resources page for study tips and other valuable information. The Class Log will keep track of what was covered in class as well as a preview of coming attractions.

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Dr. Heather
Woolverton
Spring, 2004

WHAT DIS?

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Ready to Rove.

"America's Spirit rover has landed in an arid enclave of Mars that is tantalisingly out of reach of the region's most promising sediments and rocks, dismayed scientists have discovered," Science Editor Robin McKie reports for Guardian Unlimited.

Robot Scientist

A team of U.K. scientists has developed a robot scientist to do their job for them," Gillian Law reports from London. "The robot, and the computer system with which it works, have been developed to help generate hypotheses about the function of particular genes on baker's yeast, and then carry out experiments to test them."

How Cold Is It?

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have cooled a sodium gas to the lowest temperature ever recorded — only half-a-billionth of a degree above absolute zero.

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Antimatter Surprises

A solar flare can create up to a pound of antimater, the Astrophysical Journal Letters reports in an overview of a project drawing data from NASA's Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) spacecraft.