Physics - Prof. Ilkka Koskelo

Contact Info:

Office: 7312
Email: koskelo {at} smccd {dot} edu
Phone: 650.738.4136

Spring 2019+:
I am no longer working at Skyline College.
If you need to reach me, please look me up at American River College.

General:
• Academic Calendar & Deadlines
• Skyline main website
• Student Email Accounts

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Science Lecture series @Skyline - Mondays 4:30pm (Fall-Spring)

Other Jobs / Internships / Scholarships / Events:

Physics news/articles:
• Physics is creative, not plug-and-chug!
• Mysterious lights after earthquakes
• Scientist studies electric eels by letting them shock him
• Honoring a pioneering woman in physics
• Here's every eclipse happening in your lifetime
• Eclipse hunters
• Negative mass??
• Physics trick to keep your shoes from coming untied
• Cartoon: how physics fits together
• Why college students choose physics
• The 'Hamilton' of Physics
• Consciousness may be tied to entropy
• The black hole collision that reshaped physics
• First ever observation of gravitational waves in black hole merger
• Lots of fun physics demos
• The physics of brain folding
• Computer modeling predicts existence of new planet in our solar system
• This Millenial might be the new Einstein
• Perception of time video
• Einstein's ideas explained with only the thousand most common words
• Unsolvable problems in quantum mechanics?
• Pi in quantum mechanics
• Cartoon: circuits (make sure to mouseover image)
• Sound wave tractor beam (w/ video x2)
• Star-Shaped Droplet Levitated By Sound
• Curving basketball dam drop
• Top 11 physics discoveries of 2014
• Photo catches light as both particle and wave / video
• Quadruple image of supernova in "Einstein Cross"
• Cartoon: Four fundamental forces
• Electric eels
• Guide to dimensions
• Some of Earth's water predates Earth itself-- implications on alien life?
• Physics experiment to determine if we're living in a 2D hologram
• Cartoon: Label your axes
• Cartoon: Abusing dimensional analysis
• Electric energy - windmills in Malawi: TED talk / Daily Show interview

Student Organizations:
• Society for Women Engineers (SWE)
• Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
• Skyline Research Club
• Honors club