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<h2>General Announcements</h2>
May 8, 2012
Final review materials are posted under the class assignments page in the final folder. Make sure you check your final schedule which is posted in my room.


March 25, 2012
Final Projects for all physics classes are due the week of May 21st. For more information, check out the final project section under your classes assignment tab


March 22, 2012
Ever want to charge your cell phone in 3 minutes? We are getting there with our capacitor technology. View an article about it by Clicking Here.


February 8, 2012
You want to get into college, read this. The following is an article on the importance of pushing yourself outside your comfort zone while in High School. What I find most interesting about this article is that Colleges Recognize when students are designing their resumes to look like they are perfect. Click Here to read more.


December 28, 2011
The following link is a great article for anyone going into science to read. It talks about some of the challanges you will face as college freshman. As you know, college is hard, but as you read you will discover that GPAs don't all mean the same thing. One of the most important pieces here is that a high GPA is one major may not gurantee the same job obertunities as a lower GPA is a harder major. Click Here to read more.


August 1, 2011
If anyone finds websites that should be added to the links section of www.croomphysics.com please e-mail me at jcroom@npsd.org


 


Thoughts to Ponder:  
            I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today then he was yesterday.
--- Abraham Lincoln


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Happy Birthday, Electron
05/21/2012 06:30 AM

Electrons rule our world, but not so long ago they were only an idea. This month marks the 120th anniversary of a profound and influential creation, the electron theory of Dutch physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz. His electron was not merely a hypothesized elementary particle; it was the linchpin of an ambitious theory of nature. Today physicists are accustomed to the notion that a complete description of nature can rise out of simple, beautiful equations, yet prior to Lorentz that was a mystic vision.

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Anxiety May Hinder Your Sense of Danger
05/21/2012 06:30 AM

Worrywarts, beware: all that fretting may be for naught. Anxiety has long been interpreted as a symptom of hyperawareness and sensitivity to danger, but a study published last December in Biological Psychology turns that logic on its head.

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Partial Solar Eclipse Sunset Seen In Colorado | Time-Lapse Video
05/21/2012 06:21 AM
The May 20, 2012 partial solar eclipse was captured by Alek O. Komarnitsky (www.komar.org) as it set behind the Rocky Mountains. The 'ring of fire' annular solar eclipse was seen in other parts of the United States and the world.




SpaceX Hopes to Launch Private Spacecraft to Space Station Tuesday
05/21/2012 06:08 AM

SpaceX Hopes to Launch Private Spacecraft to Space Station TuesdayCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The private rocket company SpaceX is hoping the second time's the charm for its planned launch of the Dragon capsule to the International Space Station.


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