Wednesday Sep. 6, 2006
The Sample 1S1P Report link is now
working. An outline is included with the sample report. You
are encouraged to create a short outline when you are reading about one
of the 1S1P topics in the textbook. An outline will make it
easier to organize and write your report. You are not required to
turn in an outline with your report, however.
Kyle Whidden, a student that took this class in Spring 2006, has agreed
to act as a preceptor this semester (click here to read more about
the Teaching Teams program). He will be available during the
semester to read 1S1P reports and experiment reports, and to help with
optional assignments or studying for a quiz. He will be available
in the Science and Engineering Library (1st floor near the north
windows) on Monday 11:00am - 12:45pm and Tuesday 2:00pm - 3:15pm.
His email address is kylew1@email.arizona.edu. This is the first
time preceptors have been used in this class. Please send us any
suggestions you might have on how preceptors could be used most
effectively in this class.
Some of
the historical information on pps. 31 & 32 in the photocopied class
notes was mentioned briefly.
Between 1926 and 1936 several courageous teams of scientists and
adventurers competed to see who could travel the highest in the
atmosphere by balloon. In May 1926 Captain Hawthorne Charles Grey
reached 28,510 ft. altitude. He was in an open gondola; note the
many layers of clothing that he needed in order to survive the cold
temperatures found at those altitudes.
Capt. Grey reached 42, 249 ft. At those heights, the air is too
thin to support life and supplementary oxygen is required. Grey
made another trip in November, 1926, but was killed when he ran out of
oxygen during the descent.
A short video tape segment documenting Auguste Piccard's and Paul
Kipfer's trip to 51,775 ft altitude was shown in class.
One of the test descents in the Trieste (the bathyscaph designed and
built by Auguste Piccard) and a portion of Bertrand Piccard's
non-stop voyage around the globe by balloon will be shown in the next
week or two.
The Practice Quiz was administered during the last half of the class
period. We hope to have the quizzes graded in time to be returned
in class on Friday.