A note from the Russian club

The Russian Club will be hosting Dr. Anthony Vanchu, Director of the Johnson Space Center Language Education Center. He will be giving a lecture entitled "Teaching NASA Astronauts to Speak Russian, or How I Came to Love the FGB" on Thursday, October 22, at 6:30 pm in ten Hoor room 125. The Russian Club would like to invite you and your students to attend this lecture and encourages you to spread the word of this upcoming opportunity.

-Jonathan Williams
Vice President
UA Russian Club

Restoring old moon footage

Fascinating stuff. Apparently, incredibly high-resolution image data of the moon (taken by an orbiter in 1966 to survey possible Apollo landing sites) has been sitting in a barn in California for about three decades.

Related presentation by a project team member.

Homework 2 #10

Just for fun, here's a picture of the electric field surrounding the two rods for HW2.10. The lines correspond to contours of constant electric field. I guess you can figure out where I placed the rods ...


Yes, this is what I do when I have some free time.