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