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