STEM Fall 2025: Assignments & Notes


Assignment Due Date Notes
STEM Fall 2025 Week 8 Assignments Nov 3

NASA's Tour of the ISS

Life on the ISS

Livestream from the ISS

NASA Overview of the ISS

Reference Guide to the ISS

Nested Triangles
STEM Fall 2025 Week 7 Assignments Oct 27

Refractor vs. Reflector Telescopes

How NASA Used Teamwork to Reach Saturn

NASA Celebrates MARS Rover Landing

Infinite Series Question
STEM Fall 2025 Week 6 Assignments Oct 20

Terence Tao discussing Aristarchus

NASA's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program

Vomit Comet used in NASA's Reduced Gravity Program

Microgravity tests done in parabolic flights

Venn Diagram Question
STEM Fall 2025 Week 5 Assignments Oct 13

Video of gyrosocopes spinning in zero-gravity space

Article on Gravity Probe B: Investigating Einstein’s Spacetime with Gyroscopes

Video of MEMS accelerometers used in smartphones

Babylonian Square Root Algorithm
STEM Fall 2025 Week 4 Assignments Oct 6

Video explaining how Dijkstra's Algorithm is used by Google Maps

Video of the replica Bleriot XI flight

Smithsonian description of the Bleriot XI

STEM Fall 2025 Week 3 Assignments Sep 29

Failure of the Mars Climate Orbiter

Drag Measurement

Shape Effects on Drag

Inclination Effects on Drag

Drag-Reducing Aerospikes

STEM Fall 2025 Week 2 Assignments Sep 22

Link with three bullet points explaining the role of Ailerons, Elevator & Rudder

USAFA Soaring Program Video

STEM Fall 2025 Week 1 Assignments Sep 15

Video explaining the physics behind curveballs

STEM Fall 2025 Pre-Class Assignments Sep 8
Weekly Gratitudes