Meteor Shower

For those interested in astronomy:

The Orionids meteror shower is visible in the Philippines from October 17 - 25. The new moon would be favorable for those who wish to see it. The maximum rate of showers may reach 20 - 25 per hour which may be observed under favorable conditions.

The shower could be found at the direction of the star Betelgeuse, the brightest star of the Orion constellation.

happy viewing

for more astronomical events visible in the Philippines, check out the astronomical diary of the pagasa website.

To get a domain or not

I chatted with Alex Aguel (the BS Physics with Emphasis on Computer Applications alumnus who has put more emphasis on the computer side of the course) this morning. He's now somewhere in Europe doing some programming thing. Anyways, he has offered to set up a domain for us. Maybe something like www.suphysics.org. As an overview, he explained to me that some of the advantages of having such a domain over this blog are:

• we would have our own email addresses like eliel@suphysics.org.
• we could have our own forum
• etc. (I actually forgot the others that he mentioned. Maybe you can help me with this one, Lex. just post a comment.)

I want to know what your opinions are on this thing, so please post your comments now.

web.link: OCW Consortium

OCW Consortium seems to be a useful tool to increase our visibility with the goal of increasing awareness and interest in SU Physics curriculum.

To quote
"An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 100 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware."

Read more from here.

Sample physics curriculum using OCW
Free Online MIT Course Materials

Other institutions using OCW can be found here.