Tuesday, June 30, 2015

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  


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

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

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

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

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?

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

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

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Assignments for Week Four - Energy Matter and the Four Forces

Blog assignments for this week:

  • How has e=mcaffected 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
"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