Thursday, December 31, 2009

Directed Graph



From http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~simhaweb/cs151/lectures/module7/module7.html

Starting from the circle with a 1 in it, make as many different 4 digit numbers as you can.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Lake Alfred Water Elevation


From http://www.sflorida.er.usgs.gov/ddn-cgi/run.pl?sites=((281008081441801))&map=sfl&mapuse=A

Compare the daily maximum water elevation of this year and last year.

When was the water level lowest during the 2001 drought?

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Monday, December 28, 2009

Knowledge of Concepts



What happened to students' knowledge as the the number of modules the teachers used increased?

Sunday, December 27, 2009

NIH Trends



What type of project was most likey to get NIH funding in 2003?

In 2009?

In what year did the trend change?

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Thermal Radiation Curves

If you graph the intensity (that is, the amount) of thermal radiation given off by a star as a function of wavelength, you will get a graph like this:


Use this graph to fill in the blanks:

Stars with higher temperatures produce _____________ light.

Stars with lower temperatures have _____________ peak wavelengths.

Friday, December 25, 2009

Two Stars


 

You can use the x-axis from the top graph for the bottom graph as well.

Which graph shows peak wavelengths for a blue star?

Which graph shows peak wavelengths for a red star?