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SCI 100 Computer Lab Visit

Welcome to the Internet to those who haven’t used it before and welcome back to experienced hands. Please follow the instructions of this exercise and provide your responses in the computer-written report that you must submit on the same day of the Laboratory/Discussion. Send your report as an email to your particular laboratory instructor. (See their addresses below.)

  1. If you do not have an email address, your first step is to establish one. Among the many options for free email service are www.hotmail.com and www.yahoo.com. (The University also supplies you with an email address.) Once established, you will paste information into an email message to your lab instructor as a lab submission.
  2. First, use the web browser of this computer to look up the SCI 100 home page at http://www.uvi.edu/Physics/SCI100/SCI100Home.html. Try accessing the html versions from the Lectures Table. Comment on whether or not the graphics and text look approximately correct or have suffered from the "ppt to html" conversion problem.
  3. In the Browser window (address box) at the top of the browser page, enter the URL, http://faculty.uvi.edu/users/mpeters/ppt100.htm This will take you to Power Point (ppt) presentations in the SCI 100 Web page of the St. Croix campus. (Dr. Michele Peters is the author.) Click on the presentation "The Scientific Method, Measurements; Metric System". You will be asked to either save or open the ppt document. Open it. (You may also save and then open it) Go to slide #3 and copy the five bulleted statements at the bottom of the slide and paste them into the email to your lab instructor.
  4. Each student team must use a world wide web search engine, such as www.google.com, to 1) find the definition of the following abbreviation: URL , and 2) get enough information to write a two-sentence description of any two of the following from their web sites: USGS, FEMA, the Seismic Research Unit, CDERA, NOAA
  5. Each team will conduct a web search to find and copy the mission statement of the National Hurricane Center. Be sure to record anMd report the URL web address.

    6. (NOTE: In all of your research on the web, remember to read each document to verify it is not illegal to make a copy, to download information or pictures, or to quote the web page. In addition, always give full credit to the web pages from which you gathered information. It is best to give the URL and the author’s name, if available, as well as the date on which you accessed the web page. Using anyone’s material without proper quotation and without crediting the originator is plagiarism.)

    Steps 2 through 5 above should be submitted by e-mail to your Discussion/Lab instructor by the end of this class.
  6. Students should re-assemble with the members of their team for the Measurement laboratory exercise, just completed,U and use the word processing program on the computer (WORD, WORD PERFECT, etc) to write a short conclusion to the Measurement Lab Report, which is due next week.. Note that this will be only a draft. Each student must send a copy of this draft as an attachment to her/his lab instructor before leaving the Computer Laboratory.

Alan Eberhart (alance53@yahoo.com) Dr. Robert Giacosie (rgiacosi@hotmail.com)

Dr. Donna Nemeth (dnemeth@uvi.edu) David Titley (djatitley@hotmail.com)

Louis Sylvester (lsylvester@senate.gov.vi)

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