aimcphysicsfall06

2006-12-18T15:44:00.000-08:00

Eve's Double Chocolate Chip Cookies!

You will need:

One cup butter
One cup sugar
One egg
Two tablespoons of milk
One teaspoon vanilla essence
One and a half cups of flour
One teaspoon baking powder
Two tablespoons cocoa powder
One or two pinches of turmeric, cinnamon, ginger, allspice
One 12 ounce bag of semisweet chocolate chips

Then:

Slowly melt the butter in a large saucepan
Add the sugar and stir into the melted butter
Remove the saucepan from the heat

Lightly beat the egg with the milk and vanilla essence
Add the beaten egg mixture gradually to the saucepan, mixing with a wooden spatula

Sift the flour with the baking powder, cocoa and spices
Stir in the flour to the saucepan mixture, a scoop at a time

Add the chocolate chips, stirring them in well

Place the saucepan in the fridge for at least an hour

Heat the oven to 350F

Place spoonfuls of cookie mixture spaced apart onto a greased baking sheet

Bake for 7 - 11 minutes - until cookies are browning

Remove cookies from baking sheet and cool on a wire tray

Remember to test a couple of cookies yourself!

Namaste

Larry

2006-12-07T22:02:00.000-08:00

Physics Final Paper - due Wednesday, 13th December.

"The Cultural Influence of Physics"

Your paper should be between 500 and 1000 words.

If it helps in your writing process to submit a draft for review and feedback, feel free to send it to laurence_spears@yahoo.com

Namaste

Larry

2006-12-05T09:33:00.000-08:00

Assignments for Week Thirteen - 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
Respond to another classmate’s blog

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://www.ibp.ac.cn/e/01/index.html
Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

and
http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/11063.html
Scientists Answer Key Enamel Question

2006-12-04T09:00:00.000-08:00

Class Blog List

Here is the list of blog addresses so far:

http://simplephysics.blogspot.com

http://ewphysics.blogspot.com

www.physicsforacup.blogspot.com

www.bronwynphysics.blogspot.com

http://toonephysics.blogspot.com/

http://www.nansphysics.blogspot.com/

2006-11-29T10:43:00.000-08:00

Assignments for Week Twelve - Life and Living Systems

Blog assignments for this week:

I know I’m a “living system” because…….
Biophysics and me
Post a response to a classmate’s blog

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/

2006-11-16T09:11:00.000-08:00

Assignments for Week Ten - Synthesis

Blog assignments for this week:

My E-Prime Day
Can I synthesize East and West?
Post a responce 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

....and.....Have a Happy Holiday!

2006-11-09T07:59:00.000-08:00

Assignments for Week Nine - Classical Physics

Blog assignments for this week:

Newton’s Three Laws and me
Our “Energy Efficient” Culture
Descartes has a lot to answer for!
Respond to another student’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

2006-10-25T22:46:00.000-07:00

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 the "cool experiments" below, 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

2006-10-19T09:21:00.000-07:00

Assignments for Week Six - Vibrations

**Extra Credit**

Here is one link to Stanford's CP violation experiment - BaBar:

http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/experiments/babar.html

Check out BaBar, and post your thoughts to your blog - an extra credit assignment!

Blog assignments for this week (Vibrations):

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?

2006-10-11T16:36:00.000-07:00

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.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

2006-10-04T22:16:00.000-07:00

Assignments for Week Four - Energy, Matter and the Four Forces

Blog assignments for this week:

How has e=mc²affected 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.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

http://www.intent.com/sg/
Sacred Geometry Home Page by Bruce Rawles

2006-09-27T10:42:00.000-07:00

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?
Respond to at least one other student’s blog

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.channel4.com/science/microsites/E/e=mc2/
E=mc²

http://www.geocities.com/angolano/Astronomy/FundamentalForces.html
FOUR FUNDAMENTAL FORCES OF NATURE

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

2006-09-20T11:17:00.000-07:00

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 at least one other student’s blog

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.deepspirit.com/sys-tmpl/challengeofsynchronicity/
Causality and Synchronicity

Use your blog to develop an understanding of synchronicity

2006-09-11T10:52:00.000-07:00

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:

Your answers to this week’s quiz
Your reflections on The Meaning of Time
Respond to at least one other student’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-theory.chem.washington.edu/~trstedl/quantum/quantum.html
Some theory for non-scientists

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

Use your blog to record your impressions

2006-09-04T11:33:00.000-07:00

Welcome!

Welcome to Physics at AIMC, Berkeley

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 my blog, as will a list of blog addresses for the class.

Namaste

Larry