Final Paper - Biophysics and Physics - due December 2nd

A gentle reminder that your Final Paper in Physics and Biophysics is due on December 2nd.

Please note that only one paper is required!

For Physics students, the paper title is
"The Cultural Influence of Physics"

And for Biophysics students -
"Describe connections you can make between Biophysics and your TCM studies"

Your paper should be between 500 and 1000 words and can be submitted electronically to laurence_spears@yahoo.com in Word or pdf format.
Please include your name in your paper's filename.
Or simply bring in a hard copy to the school - my mailbox is in Reception.

Happy Holidays!

Larry Spears

Physics Field Trip - Aura Photography - December 2nd

I have made arrangements for our class - all Biophysics students are most welcome - to have our auras photographed on Thursday, December 2nd, between 5:00 and 6:30 pm at:

Psychic Reality
1630 Webster St.
Oakland, Ca. 94612

Tel: 510 251 6560

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

http://www.psychicreality.com/

The cost for your aura photography package is around $20.

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

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)

Class Blog List

Here is the latest list of class blog addresses:

http://poppyandtheuniverse.blogspot.com/

http://tcmamy.blogspot.com/

http://www.lavenderlady-acchsfall2010.blogspot.com/

http://hughes108.blogspot.com/

http://tentalces.blogspot.com/

http://www.elemental-annetteb.blogspot.com/

http://ethicsofmetta.wordpress.com/physics-concepts-in-motion/

http://msacchsphysics.blogspot.com/

http://uncertaintycertainly.blogspot.com/

http://acchsphysicsamanda.blogspot.com/

http://caroliniacchs.blogspot.com/

http://robbchemistry09.blogspot.com/

http://yellowhermit.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
  

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

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 Physicsa

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://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/577959/files/0208077.pdf
Time asymmetry as a consequence of the global properties of the universe.

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

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.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000068
E=mc2 - explain it in 60 seconds

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/cosmology/forces.html
FOUR FUNDAMENTAL FORCES OF NATURE

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

Mid-Term Paper - due 28th October

Mid-Term Paper:

• 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 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.awakeninthedream.com/artis/SYNCHRONICITY%205%20NOFN.htm
Catching the Bug of Synchronicity

Assignments for Week One - The Meaning of Time

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 at ACCHS

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