Problem Set # 2 - Due Wednesday
January 22, 2003
This assignment will be
out of 10 possible points.
- Net surfing and searching
This assignment should be handed in on a piece of paper.
Find the results of each question.
Number your answers and turn them in by Wednesday, January 22 at the beginning of class.
You may
have to visit multiple links on the sites to find the answers
1. (1 point) visit http://www.womeninanimation.org/
- Susana Maria Halpine
does biological modeling
- visit her gallery
- What is the name of the protein on the shoe?
2. (1 point) visit http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/
- In the novel The Sea Wolf, where did Charley Furuseth have a summer cottage?
- Hint: It is in the first paragraph of Chapter
1.
3. (1 point)visit http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/
- You will want to enter the 'live cams' area
- Click on the Otter
- What time during the day is the Otter
- What time of the day can you watch them being
fed?
4. (1 point) visit http://www.benjerry.com
- Ben and Jerry's had their first store in what
type of building?
- What year did they start?
Extra Credit (1 point): - Who owns Ben and Jerry’s now?
5. (1 point) visit http://www.finaid.org
- What is the name of the web site that this one
says is "the best way to search for scholarships and
fellowships"?
6. (1 point) visit http://www.openoffice.org
- What is the stable version of OpenOffice a user should download?
7. (1 point) visit http://www.mapquest.com
- What is the name of the shopping plaza closest
to the following address:
8. (1 point) visit http://www.bart.gov
- What was the average fare per passenger on
BART?
- Hint: look under “About BART”
9. (2 points) visit http://www.goggle.com
- Click on “Advanced Search”
- Searching using OR
- Search for Sylvanus
Cox
- Enter 'sylvanus cox' in the Find Results section in the
"with at least one of the words"
- This searches for pages which contain any
of the words 'sylvanus' or 'cox' or any combination of those words.
- How many
web page hits (number of results)?
- Searching using AND
- Again search for sylvanus
cox
- Enter 'sylvanus cox' in the Find Results section in the
"with all of the words"
- This searches for pages which contain all
of the words in 'sylvanus cox'
- How many
web page hits (number of results)?
- Search using
QUOTES
- Go to the Google Home page (www.google.com)
- Enter “sylvanus cox” using the quotation marks
- This searches all
the pages for the exact phrase
- How many web page hits (number of results)?
10.
(1 point)
Visit the melvyl web site - http://www.melvyl.ucop.edu/
- Search in the "MELVYL Catalog"
database
- Find the following book "by title"
in Melvyl : "The Whale and the Reactor : A Search for Limits in an Age of High
Technology"
- Who wrote it?
- What is the call number at UCSC?
- Hint: look in
the print access area.
Extra Credit (1 point):
- Email your Melvyl results
- Email your Melvyl
results back to yourself at your CATS account --
- On the 'Mail' page select the 'long' format
and location UCSC
- Printout the email, and attach it to your
assignment
- NOTE:
A printout directly from Melyvyl or the screen
is not acceptable -- it must be an email from melvyl
to you for credit.
