Physical Science 103 information for Spring 08

• PSc 103 Course Description
  
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• Homework Assignments
  
  
• Answers for the Homework
  
  
• Suggested Tarbuck Review Questions and sometimes one or two Earth System Questions. Give these a try on your own and then look at the author's answers
  
  
• Answers for the Tarbuck Review Questions and Earth System questions
  
  
• Notes from The Beach, A River of Sand. The is the video we watched at the end of the first oceanography lab.
  
• A brief NPR report about the Crescent City Tsunami
  
  
• Links for Activities
  
  The Personal Field Trips listed below are the ones I used last year. I plan to review them within a few days and I may make some changes.
  
  
• The Cal Poly Observatory website gives the observing schedule and other information
  
  
• The SpaceWeather website gives daily information about the Sun and about auroras
  
  
• Astronomy Personal Field Trip descriptions.
  
  
• Star Charts from Sky and Telescope Magazine. You will need to register, but this is a free service. The charts will be for your exact location and date and time, and you can print a pdf version with black stars on a white background so it won't take much ink to print.
  
  
• Star Charts from skymaps. These charts will not be exactly for your location or for the exact date and time, just for the northern hemisphere in general and for a particular month.
  
  
• Geophysics Personal Field Trip descriptions.
  
  
• A very useful website for the Morros field trip.
  
  
• A very useful website for the Pillow Lava field trip.
  
  
• A map showing where the shell fossils are near Lopez Lake State Park for the Shell Fossils field trip.
  
  
• Oceanography Personal Field Trip descriptions.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Videos