Monday, May 22, 2017

Week Three Assignments - 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

And your Synchronicity Quiz Questions:
1. How would you rephrase the meaning of unbroken wholeness?
2. How is the paradox of the Sphinx related to the concept of causality?
3. What evidence can you suggest for Synchronicity?

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

www.c2i2.com/~seven/paradox/Docs/Paradox.PPT
The Standard Model of Particle Physics - a Simplified Summary

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

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/fundamental-forces-of-nature.htm
FOUR FUNDAMENTAL FORCES OF NATURE

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

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Assignments for Week Two - Quantum Physics

1. Blog Assignments required this week:

Your reflections on Uncertainty

Your comments on Causality

Is the Universe weird?

Respond to at least one other student’s blog

2. 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.ayk.gov.tr/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/NIKOLOVA-Antoaneta-SYNCHRONICITY-AND-CAUSALITY-%E2%80%93-TWO-DIFFERENT-PHILOSOPHICAL-APPROACHES-TO-THE-WORLD.pdf
Synchronicity and Causality

Monday, May 8, 2017

Assignments for Week One - The Meaning of Time

Start your blog and send the url to laurence_spears@yahoo.com


1. Your blog assignments for this week:


Ø Post your bio

Ø Post your reflections on this week’s class - The Meaning of Time

Ø Post a response to another student’s blog



2. Check out the following links on Quantum Mechanics:


https://web.phys.ksu.edu/vqm/software/online/info/summaryOfVqm.html

The simulations under “Programs” are excellent

https://you.uark.edu/ahobson/wp-content/uploads/sites/383/2017/02/Writing-for-Non-scientists.pdf

Writing for Non-scientists about Physics

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

Sunday, May 7, 2017

Welcome!

Welcome to Physics at ACCHS!

My name is Larry Spears, and I'll be teaching your Physics Course this summer.

As you now know, your assignments will be posted to 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.

Take care

Larry