Your Final Physics Paper is due 7/7

A reminder that your Final Paper in Physics is due July 7th

You may turn in a hard copy in class next week, or email me a Word or pdf file to laurence_spears@yahoo.com

Here is a summary of the requirements:

• Choose an aspect of Physics discussed in class.
• Prepare a brief analysis based on two different world-views, for example, Eastern and Western viewpoints.
• Maximum word count:  500

Assignments for Week Eight - Classical Physics

Blog assignments for this week:

• Newton’s Three Laws and me
• Our “Energy Efficient” Culture
• Descartes has a lot to answer for!
• Post a response to a classmate’s blog

Check out the following links on Towards a New Synthesis:

http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/TKno/TKnoAlte.htm 
Arrow of Time: Towards a New Epistemology of Science  

http://physics.iupui.edu/~vasavada/ModernPhysicsandHinduPhilosophy.pdf

Modern Physics and Hindu Philosophy

http://www.doyletics.com/art/physicsa.htm 
Physics as Metaphor by Roger S. Jones
 A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Human Side of Science 

http://www.rawilson.com/quantum.html
Quantum Psychology - E and E-Prime 
Robert Anton Wilson

Assignments for Week Seven - Chaos Theory

Blog assignments for this week:

• “Ordered chaos” – does this sound familiar?
• Fractals as patterns of complex systems
• Consciousness out of chaos?
• Conduct one of these "cool experiments" and write up your conclusions in your blog
• Respond to each other’s blogs

Check out the following links on Classical Physics:

http://littleshop.physics.colostate.edu/onlineexperiments.htm
Cool experiments you can do with stuff you probably already have around the house...

http://www.mcasco.com/p1outln.html?CFID=3769081&CFTOKEN=69535836 
Physics 1 Online Course

http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/java/billiards/billiards.html?CFID
=3769081&CFTOKEN=69535836 
Billiards and Physics

http://monet.physik.unibas.ch/~elmer/pendulum/index.html?CFID
=3769081&CFTOKEN=69535836 
The Pendulum Lab

Assignments for Week Six - Vibrations

Blog assignments for this week:

• Are all vibrations “good”?
• Resonance in my world
• Connections I can make between Energy and Qi
• Post a comment to a classmate's blog

Check out the following links for next week on Chaos Theory:

http://www.isss.org/quotelvb.htm 
Ludwig von Bertalanffy 

http://www.ddewey.net/mandelbrot/ 
Introduction to the Mandelbrot Set 


A guide for people with little math experience. 
http://mathforum.org/alejandre/workshops/fractal/fractal3.html 
What is a fractal?

Assignments for Week Five - Symmetry and Sacred Geometry

1.   Blog assignments for this week:

• My (a)symmetrical world
• Just what does this "CP violation" really mean?
• Are there connections between Sacred Geometry and Physics?
• Remember to respond to each other’s blogs

2.   Check out the following links on Vibrations::

http://www.gmi.edu/~drussell/Demos.html
 Acoustics and Vibration Animations

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/microwaves/standing_wave1.html
Standing Waves

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibration 
Vibration - from Wikipedia
  
http://exhibits.pacsci.org/music/MusicPhysics.html
Music Physics

Assignments for Week Four - Energy Matter and the Four Forces

Blog assignments for this week:

• How has e=mc² affected you?
• How would you compare the four “forces”?
• What is the function of gravity?
• Keep up the blog dialogue!

Check out the following links on Symmetry and Sacred Geometry:

http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/symmetries-obeyed-and-broken 
Symmetries Obeyed and Broken

http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/13/9/4/1
Magnetism points to molecular asymmetry

http://lhcb-public-old.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public-old/html/cpviolationtoc.htm
Everything you ever wanted to know about CP violation and never dared to ask

http://www.scaruffi.com/nature/

"The Nature of ConsciousnessThe Structure of Life and the Meaning of Matter" (2006)by Piero Scaruffi

http://www.geometrycode.com/sg/index.shtml
Sacred Geometry Home Page by Bruce Rawles