AIMC Physics Summer 2008

Eve's Chocolate Chip Cookies!

2008-08-07T21:28:00.001-07:00

You will need:

One cup unsalted butter
One cup organic cane sugar
One free-range egg
One teaspoon vanilla essence
One and two-thirds cups of organic winter wheat pastry flour
One teaspoon baking powder
One pinch of turmeric
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 vanilla essence
Add the beaten egg mixture gradually to the saucepan, mixing with a wooden spatula

Sift the flour thoroughly with the baking powder and turmeric (cinnamon and ginger also work well)
Stir in the flour to the saucepan mixture, a scoop at a time

Finally 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

Enjoy!

Namaste

Larry

Assignments for Week Thirteen - Bionics and Our Biophysical Future

2008-07-31T19:44:00.000-07:00

Final blog assignments required:

Would you support the development of a “bionic” person?
How would you rate “the control of artificial limbs by thought alone”?
Respond to a classmate’s blog

Physics Field Trip - Thursday, July 24th at 11:00

2008-07-17T19:53:00.000-07:00

Our Physics field trip - to have your aura photographed - has been confirmed for Thursday, July 24th at 11:00 at:

Psychic Reality
1630 Webster St.
Oakland, Ca. 94612

Psychic Reality is located on the corner of 17th Street and Webster in downtown Oakland - close to both downtown Oakland BART stations. Street parking is generally available.

http://www.psychicreality.com/
Call 800 557 3233 or if local 510 251 6560

Please note - This will be in place of our regular Physics class that day.

Assignments for Week Eleven - Energy Medicine and Energy Fields

2008-07-17T19:50:00.000-07:00

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)

Assignments for Week Ten - Life and Living Systems

2008-07-11T09:19:00.000-07:00

Blog assignments for this week:

I know I’m a “living system” because…….
Biophysics and Oriental Medicine
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/

Physics Class Blog List

2008-07-02T07:24:00.000-07:00

Here is the latest list of class blog addresses:

http://bucketfulofstardust.blogspot.com/

www.lynxphysics.blogspot.com

http://carolhume.blogspot.com/

http://panamared84.blogspot.com

http://aimcsherry.blogspot.com/

http://acunpunctureandphysics.blogspot.com/

http://lauraphysicssummer08.blogspot.com/

http://katyphysics.blogspot.com

http://dlg268.blogspot.com/

http://ctejchma.blogspot.com/

www.smashphysics2008.blogspot.com

Assignments for Week Nine - Synthesis

2008-06-26T19:54:00.000-07:00

Blog assignments for this week:

My E-Prime Day - describe your day, only using English Prime
Can I synthesize East and West?
Post a response 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

Assignments for Week Eight - Classical Physics

2008-06-19T21:54:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-12T20:25:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-05T14:05:00.001-07:00

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

2008-05-28T22:01:00.001-07:00

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

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

2008-05-22T19:11:00.000-07:00

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://physicsworld.com/cws/article/indepth/2429
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-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

2008-05-13T19:58:00.000-07:00

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.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

Assignments for Week Two - Quantum Mechanics

2008-05-06T20:59:00.000-07:00

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

Use your blog to develop an understanding of synchronicity

Assignments for Week One - The Meaning of Time

2008-05-02T08:50:00.000-07:00

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:

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

Use your blog to record your impressions

Welcome!

2008-05-01T08:55:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Physics East and West 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 the Physics Class blog, as will a list of blog addresses for the class.

Namaste

Larry

AIMC Physics Summer 2008

Eve's Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Assignments for Week Thirteen - Bionics and Our Biophysical Future

Physics Field Trip - Thursday, July 24th at 11:00

Psychic Reality 1630 Webster St. Oakland, Ca. 94612

Assignments for Week Eleven - Energy Medicine and Energy Fields

Assignments for Week Ten - Life and Living Systems

Physics Class Blog List

Assignments for Week Nine - Synthesis

Assignments for Week Eight - Classical Physics

Assignments for Week Seven - Chaos Theory

Assignments for Week Six - Vibrations

Assignments for Week Five - Symmetry and Sacred Geometry

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

Assignments for Week Three - Synchronicity

Assignments for Week Two - Quantum Mechanics

Assignments for Week One - The Meaning of Time

Welcome!

Psychic Reality
1630 Webster St.
Oakland, Ca. 94612