Jim Frankenfield - Science & Engineering Pages
These pages are part of my personal non-commercial website which goes back to the early 1990's. I infrequently try to update this site, mostly by checking links and most recently (10/2022) by making it at least marginally responsive (phone friendly). I have a number of other business and non-profit sites including an academic site for tutoring. I offer math tutoring, physics tutoring and engineering tutoring. I also offer complete courses.
The Science and Engineering Section of my Blog
A few science-related sites (all open in a new tab/window):
Rocket Science
I worked as a "rocket scientist" at Morton Thiokol in Utah in the 1980's, thus my interest in the subject. A bit more background on that experience can be found on the main Rocket Science page, which also some links.
MX Rocket Motor 2nd Stage Test (Thiokol, Utah)
Space Shuttle Blowing Up
Shuttle Launch as seen from the Space Station
Discover the Discovery - Assembling the Space Shuttle
Science (and Academic) Humor
A few comics, scanned cartoons and jokes collected from here and there.
Science and Engineering Related Photos (General Interest)
These are some images which have come my way at some point, usually via e-mail that was forwarded all over the place. I've saved them here because I feel they are of general interest but science related.
- The Great NorthEast Blackout (8/2003) - Satellite View
- Hurricane Isabell (9/2003) - Perimeter Viewed from a Ship
- Hurricane Ike (9/2008) - Viewed from Space Station
- Hurricane Irene (8/2011) - The perimeter just off the east coast of the US
(This was found many places online and attributed to Ray Calderon) - Earths City Lights - A composite of hundreds of pictures from DMSP satellites
- Shuttle Launch as seen from the Space Station
- Iceberg - This is a composite of 4 images an underwater photographer used to capture the nature of an iceberg in a way that a single photograph can not.
- 2018 Wildfires - View of the Medocino California wildfires in July 2018 from space
The Employment Situation and the State of Science
This page has a small collection of materials on the job situation from the 1990's. Some things have improved, some have gotten worse, and some have not really changed. On a broader scale the economy went through changes, particularly following 2000 and even more so in 2008. The pendulum may now (2022) be swinging back the other way and these issues from the 1990's may become more pronounced once again. Time will tell.
Some Fun Stuff
- Pascals (Tartaglias) Triangle - Generate as many rows as you want
Snow and Ice - Links and Articles
This is really my own primary area of interest within science. Sometimes people have e-mailed me links to technical articles on these subjects; this page serves as a shared bookmark list for these links.
