David Haase is one of nine co-authors of the new edition of "Physics: Principles and Problems" from Glencoe McGraw-Hill. The lead author is Paul Zitzewitz of the University of Michigan-Dearborn. The textbook has been through a number of editions which have held a large share of the market for the traditional high school course.

In the Fall 2004 semester the PMTC is tentatively scheduled to open Monday, August 23^rd. The hours are tentatively scheduled as Monday through Thursday, 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., and Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

As a result of the change is supervision, some services will change or no longer be available at the PMTC, specifically:

Proctoring of make-up tests - will take place only once per week at a pre-set day/time. Time will be announced as soon as the schedule is set. Faculty wishing to give a make-up test at any other time will need to find another room and arrange for a proctor themselves.

Homework and test solutions - will no longer be kept or be available to students at the PMTC. Faculty may put these materials on paper or electronic reserve at the Reserve Room in DH Hill Library.

Textbooks - will no longer be kept or be available to students at the PMTC. Faculty may also put these materials on reserve at the Reserve Room in DH Hill Library.

New virus filtering software installed on NC State e-mail servers:

To help protect your computers, the campus IT department is installing virus filtering software on the campus imap email servers. The software will remove any virus identified on incoming imap email and replace the virus with a notification message. Although this is a great step forward in protecting the campus network, it does not replace the need for anti virus software.

It is still possible for computer viruses and malware to enter your computer through campus POP email servers, through messaging software, through your web browser, through shared drives and resources on the net, and through worms that take advantage of security holes in operating systems.

Please call Steve Jenkins at 515-8707 (voice) or 507-9629 (pager) if your computer is having problems with virus infected email or other security problems.

Papers published?

Conferences attended?

Awards received?

Let us know! Send information to Robert Egler at robert_egler@ncsu.edu for inclusion in the NC State Physics Newsletter.

Fall Physics Faculty Meeting Schedule:

Reminder: All faculty and EPA personnel are invited to the general physics faculty meeting. Due to some conflicts, the schedule for the Fall is shifted to the last Wednesday of each month rather than the first (except for the week of Thanksgiving.)

August 25

September 29

October 27

December 1

Food for thought. In cleaning out a distinguished faculty member's office recently, the following Rules to Live By were discovered, and are reprinted here for your consideration.

No one will ever get out of this world alive. Resolve therefore to maintain a reasonable sense of values.

Take care of yourself. Good health is everyone's major source of wealth.

Resolve to be cheerful and happy. People will repay you in kind.

Try not to be an angry or abrasive person. They are usually vengeful.

Try not to be a zealot. They are generally humorless.

Resolve to listen more and talk less. No one ever learns anything by talking.

Be wary of giving advice. Wise men don't need it, and fools won't heed it.

Resolve to be tender with the young,

compassionate with the aged,

sympathetic with the striving,

tolerant of the weak, and the wrong.

Sometime in life you will have been all of these.

Do not equate money with success. There are many successful moneymakers who are miserable failures as human beings.