manual for entering formulas into open office

http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/formula/Formula_HowTo_1_0.pdf

for example, to enter greek letters, type %name, like %mu, %MU  (lower case and capital mu, respectively)

Poster Advertising

http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/101/marketing-to-students-poster-advertising-101/

http://www.squidoo.com/poster-advertising

http://www.math.okstate.edu/~ullrich/PyPlug/

python tips. Note working with Matricies in particular

science writing tips

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.877,y.0,no.,content.true,page.1,css.print/issue.aspx

Latex guide

http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki/index.php/LaTeX:Symbols

Cool website with Elemental abundances

http://periodictable.com/Properties/A/UniverseAbundance.v.log.html

Black Holes, Warped Space, and Magnetic Fields- space.com

Author: Charles Q. Choi, Space.com contributor
 Date Written:  March 24, 2011
 Title: Famous black Hole Sheds New Light on Warped Space, Magnetic Fields
 Subject Area:   Black Holes, Astroph.
 Source Website: http://www.space.com/11222-black-holes-cygnus-warped-space.html
 ---Summary---

Polarized light reveals evidence of strong magnetic fields near black holes, which have been theorized but not seen.  Emission from the first discovered black hole, Cygnus X-1 includes thermal emisson from the 120 million degree C corona as well as another source, identified in this article as synchrotron radiation. Synchrotron radiation is produced by strong magnetic fields. Polarized light is light which vibrates in one direction...

 ---My Reaction---

This 'sheds some light' on how polarimetry is used, although I did not investigate closely why exactly polarimetry showed this vs. a CCD.




 ---Questions---

What does it mean for light ot vibrate in one direction?