CMST Summer Institute Interactive Physics Lab Guide

98 page Interactive Physics Lab Guide including labs on: TITLE EQUIPMENT Hooke\u27s Law springs Cons of Energy: IP Sim: stopping d vs V,m,g IP Range of a Projectile CPO: marble launchers Newton\u27s Second Law CPO: cars & ramps Atwood Machine Atwood Pulleys Circular Motion Dynamics Circular Motion Apparatus Conservation of Energy: Rollercoasters CPO: Rollercoaster Planetary Motion: Kepler\u27s 1st & 2nd Laws Computer Lab Planetary Motion: Kepler\u27s 3rd Law Computer Lab Ballistic Pendulum PowerAide Bottle Ballistic Pendulum Conservation of Momentum: 1D Collisions Air Track SHM Kinematics: Bunjie Jumper Spring - Mass System Electrostatics: Coulomb\u27s Law Coulomb\u27s Law Demo Electric Field Mapping Pasco E Field Map Apparatu

Centripetal Forces: Circular Motion

Goal: To test the factors which determine centripetal forces required for circular motio

The Quest for Ground Truth in Musical Artist Similarity

Describes work by the Laboratory for Recognition and Organization of Speech and Audio, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, on attempting to define a single matrix of similarities between 400 different pop music artists, including survey website (musicseer.com) which attracted over 20,000 similarity judgments

ISEP: A Joint SRAG/CCMC Collaboration to Improve Mitigation of Space Weather Effects on Crew Health in the Exo-LEO Era

The Space Radiation Analysis Group (SRAG) at Johnson Space Center (JSC) is tasked with monitoring changes to space weather and mitigating any resultant impacts to crew health and safety. As human spaceflight goals extend from Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) missions like the International Space Station (ISS) to the moon, Mars and beyond, SRAG will need to update their current approach for crew monitoring of and protection from radiation exposure due to energetic Solar Particle Events (ESPEs). Challenges faced in planning exo-LEO missions include the lack of protection from the Earths geomagnetic field employed by the ISS in addition to limited communication capability between the crew and the ground. In the event of an ESPE, the current ISS trajectory ensures that the vehicle is only traveling through fields of higher radiation exposure for a brief period of time; the Earths geomagnetic field prevents the penetration of the high-energy particles of concern throughout the majority of the orbit. Exo-LEO missions, on the other hand, require that the vehicle travel through free space, exposing vehicle and crew to the full impact of the ESPE. NASA has combined multiple approaches to resolve this radiation exposure issue. New vehicles are designed to take advantage of advances in particle transport modeling capabilities and shielding technology, allowing redistribution of mass throughout the vehicle to areas of thinner shielding when the energetic particle flux has increased to levels of concern. Although vehicle shielding is an important aspect of radiation exposure protection, there is a continued requirement to monitor and predict the space weather environment. To this end, SRAG maintains a console position in Mission Control with 24/7 mission support capability. In the event of increased solar activity, SRAG collaborates with the Flight Control Team (FCT) to determine if crew action (i.e., shelter) is required. During any increase in solar activity, the FCT needs three pieces of information to effectively decide the crew response in light of other required mission tasks: if an event (ESPE) will occur, how intense an observed event will be, and how long will an observed event will last. An ideal alert system limits false alarms, therefore causing the crew to take action unnecessarily, without ignoring events that pose a hazard to the crew. SRAGs current operational concept for ISS missions focuses on short-term forecasts, best described as now-casting. Console operators are in daily communication with the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) for situational awareness purposes. When conditions exist that may lead to increased solar activity, operators receive notifications from SWPC. In the case of a well-connected ESPE, the console operator may only have on the order of minutes to several hours to notify the FCT of the event and provide a recommendation for crew action. As NASA shifts to exo-LEO missions, the increased time in free space as well as the reduced ability to communicate with the crew will force a transition in crew protection strategy that emphasizes improvments to both the accuracy and the lead time in forecasting capabilities

Using an Atwood Machine to Determine the Acceleration Due to Gravity

Use An Atwood Machine To Determine The Acceleration Due To Gravit

Using Interactive Physics to Show Coulomb’s Law

Goals: To test the relationship between electrostatic force vs distance To test the relationship between electrostatic force vs charg

Inferring descriptions and similarity for music from community metadata

We propose methods for unsupervised learning of text profiles for music from unstructured text obtained from the web. The profiles can be used for classification, recommendation, and understanding, and may be used in conjunction with existing methods such as audio analysis and collaborative filtering to improve performance. A formal method for analyzing the quality of the learned profiles is given, and results indicate that they perform well when used to find similar artists.