Physics Final Paper - due Monday, 6th April

This is a reminder of your Final Paper in Physics, entitled "The Cultural Influence of Physics".

Your paper is due by Monday, April 6th, and may be emailed to me at laurence_spears@yahoo.com, or you may hand in a hard copy.

Word count for this paper is 500 - 1000 words.

Also - please feel free to post your paper to your blog if you wish.

Namaste

Assignments for Week Thirteen - Bionics and Our Biophysical Future

Final blog assignments for the term!

• Would you support the development of a “bionic” person?
• How would you rate “the control of artificial limbs by thought alone”?
• Respond to a classmate’s blog

Physics Field Trip - Monday, 23rd March at 10:00 - Aura Photography!

Our Physics field trip - to have your aura photographed - has been confirmed for Monday, March 23rd at 10:00 at:

Psychic Reality
1630 Webster St.
Oakland, Ca. 94612

Psychic Reality is located on the corner of 17th Street and Webster in downtown Oakland - close to both downtown Oakland BART stations. Street parking is generally available.

http://www.psychicreality.com/

Assignments for Week Eleven - Energy Medicine and Energy Fields

Blog assignments for this week:

• Acupuncture as effective energy medicine
• What conclusions can you draw from Kirlian photography?
• Human intent as it affects health
• Respond to another classmate’s blog

Check out the following links on the Institutes of Biophysics in China:

http://www.lifescientists.de/ib0100e_.htm
Institute of Biophysics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China

http://www.lifescientists.de/members/Shen.htm
The Research group in the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R.China

http://159.226.118.206/detailt.aspx?newsno=8094
Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

Physics Class Blog List

Here is the latest list of class blog addresses:

http://www.tao-of-quarks.blogspot.com/

http://chaosrainesphysicswinter09.blogspot.com

http://jeonheephysics.blogspot.com/

http://natiphysicswinter09.blogspot.com/

http://heidikphysics.blogspot.com/

http://bs040physicsbrent.blogspot.com/

http://pewwinter09morgynj.wordpress.com/

http://jules-aimcphysicseastwestwinter2009.blogspot.com/

http://gsphysicswinter09.blogspot.com/

http://katsuyukiphysics.blogspot.com/

http://www.melphysics.blogspot.com/

http://tadaimcphysicsw09.blogspot.com/

http://asha-physicseastwest.blogspot.com/

http://kiyophysics.blogspot.com/

http://e-w-phys.blogspot.com/

http://ctejchma.blogspot.com/

Assignments for Week Ten - Life and Living Systems

Blog assignments for this week:

• I know I’m a “living system” because…….
• Biophysics and Oriental Medicine
  
• Post a response to a classmate’s blog

Check out the following links:

http://www.crystalinks.com/kirlian.html
Aura Photography

http://members.tripod.com/RandyHiatt/Kirlianpage.html
Kirlian Photography

http://www.experiencefestival.com/kirlian_photography
A Wisdom Archive on Kirlian Photography


And here is the link to Sondra Barrett's website - inner space gallery
http://www.mysticmolecules.com/

Assignments for Week Nine - Synthesis

Blog assignments for this week:

• My E-Prime Day - describe your day, only using English Prime
  
• Can I synthesize East and West?
• Post a response to a classmate's blog

Check out the following links on Biophysics:

http://www.healthy.net/scr/article.asp?ID=991
Oxygen Metabolism

http://www.bionetonline.org/
New discoveries in life sciences - Explore the science and debate the issues

http://www.mountainman.com.au/chaos_02.htm
Order Out of Chaos by Ilya Prigogine & Isabelle Stengers

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://www.hinduism.co.za/hinduism.htm

Hinduism & Quantum Physics

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

Mid-Term Paper - due 23rd February

Mid-Term Paper - due 23rd February

• Choose one aspect of Physics discussed in class.
  
• Prepare a brief analysis based on Eastern and Western world-views
  
• Maximum word count is 500 words
  

(Please Note - Grade point penalties for exceeding word count!)

If you wish to submit your Mid-Term Paper electronically, please send it to my Yahoo account:
laurence_spears@yahoo.com

A Word document, a rich text file, or a pdf file are all acceptable formats.

Otherwise, please bring your paper with you to class

And let me know if you have any questions

Namaste

Larry

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

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

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 Consciousness
The 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

You are invited to attend this term's Chemistry Field Trip

This term's Chemistry Field Trip will be held on Saturday, January 24th from 1:00 - 5:00.

We will be visiting San Francisco's Recycling and Disposal's Art Studio for their "Art at the Dump" exhibition.

http://www.sunsetscavenger.com/AIR/nextshow.php?t=d

The exhibition is open from 1:00 - 5:00 on Saturday, January 24th.

Please let me know in class on Monday if you plan on attending - all guests welcome!

Assignments for Week Three - Synchronicity

Blog assignments for this week:

* What evidence can you find for synchronicity
* Based on what you know, how would you explain connectivity?
* Post a response to a classmate's blog entry


Check out the following links on Energy, Matter and the Four Forces:

www.c2i2.com/~seven/paradox/Docs/Paradox.PPT
Your Basic Crackpot Theory Of Everything

http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/E/e=mc2/
E=mc2

http://www.geocities.com/angolano/Astronomy/FundamentalForces.html
FOUR FUNDAMENTAL FORCES OF NATURE

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/forces/funfor.html
Fundamental Forces

Assignments for Week Two - Quantum Mechanics

Blog assignments for this week:

* Your reflections on Uncertainty
* Your comments on Causality
* Is the Universe weird?
* Respond to a classmate’s blog entry


Check out the following links on Synchronicity:

http://www.crystalinks.com/synchronicity.html
Synchronicities are meaningful coincidences
Examples, definitions and some background to Jung

http://www.flowpower.com/What%20is%20Synchronicity.htm
What is Synchronicity?
More examples and discussion

http://www.science-et-magie.com/archives01/moisset/jma02syn.htm
Synchronicity and Multiple Universes

http://www.deepspirit.com/sys-tmpl/challengeofsynchronicity/
Causality and Synchronicity

Assignments for Week One

Assignments for Week One

Start your blog – try www.blogger.com
- and send the url to laurence_spears@yahoo.com

Blog Assignments required this week:

• Post your answers to this week’s quiz
• Post your reflections on this week's class - "The Meaning of Time"
• Post a response to a classmate’s blog

Check out the following links on Quantum Mechanics:

http://phys.educ.ksu.edu/info/summaryOfVqm.html
The simulations under “Programs” are excellent

http://www.krysstal.com/quantum.html
A beginners' (non-mathematical) guide to the strange world of the atom

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/The_Quantum_age_begins.html
A decent history

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics
Definitions

Welcome!

Welcome to Physics East and West at AIMC Berkeley

My name is Larry Spears, and I'll be guiding you through your Physics Course here.

As you now know, your assignments will be carried out on your own blog
So, please email me as soon as you have set up your blog account
- my email address is laurence_spears@yahoo.com

The assignments for each week will be posted here on the Physics Class blog, as will a list of blog addresses for the class.

Namaste

Larry