Midterm Exam

Hi Physicists

Here is your Take-Home Midterm Exam Paper – due Monday, July 10th


Choose one aspect of Physics we have discussed in class.

Prepare a brief analysis based on both Eastern and Western world-views


Your maximum word count:  500

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

Chaos Theory - Assignments

Blog assignments for this week:

• “Ordered chaos” – does this sound familiar?
• Fractals as patterns of complex systems
• Consciousness out of chaos?
• Respond to each other’s blogs

Conduct one of these "cool experiments" and write up your conclusions in your blog

http://littleshop.physics.colostate.edu/onlineexperiments.htm

Cool experiments you can do with stuff you probably already have around the house...

Check out the following links on Classical Physics:

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 Vibrations

1. Blog Assignments required this week:

 Are all vibrations “good”?

 Resonance in my world

 Connections I can make between Energy and Qi?

 Respond to each others blogs


2. Check out the following links 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?

http://www.littlesputnik.net/trpearce/orderchaos.htm
Order Out of Chaos -- Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers

Symmetry, Supersymmetry and Sacred Geometry.

Hi there Physicists

Here is the link for the "Golden Rule" video.

And here are your 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?

 Post a comment to a classmate's blog


And check out the following links on Vibrations:

http://www.gmi.edu/~drussell/Demos.html
Acoustics and Vibration Animations

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/sound/U11L4b.html
Resonance and Standing Waves

http://www.plus2physics.com/vibrations/study_material.asp?chapter=2
Damped vibrations

http://exhibits.pacsci.org/music/MusicPhysics.html
Music Physics

Assignments for Energy, Matter and the Four Forces

1. Blog Assignments required 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!



2. Check out the following links on Symmetry and CP violation

http://www.thymos.com/tat/physics.html
The New Physics: The Ubiquitous Asymmetry
There are limits in our universe that did not exist in Newton's ideal universe.
(Excellent although extremely lengthy exposition)

http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/13/9/4/1
Magnetism points to molecular asymmetry

http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/html/cpviolationtoc.htm
Everything you ever wanted to know about CP violation and never dared to ask