Password Protected Page for HONR228K, Fall 2010
Presentation of highlights of term papers: Table of dates, class members, and topics (updated Nov. 15)
Samples of good reaction papers (first assignment) in Fall 2008
Class List of Email Addresses (updated Sept. 13)
Table checking validity of generalizations about traits of great theoretical physicists
List of topics chosen by seminar members in 2008 2009
Sample final papers from 2009 (not overlapping with topics chosen in 2010):
----Global Perspectives on Development of Physics
----Copernican Revolution and Kuhn
----Physics in the Popular Culture
Washington Post article re Lerman Dance Performance and Review of Performance
Program notes for Lerman Dance Performance The Matter of Origins
Anne Roe, "A Psychological Study of Eminent Psychologists and Anthropologists, and a Comparison with Biological and Physical Scientists" (excerpt) full version (1953)
Shapere discusses Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Review of Sam Harris's Moral Landscape from New Republic
Chap. 1
Whitman poem: When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Griffiths review, in Physics Today, of 2 books on science and faith and letter to the editor and rejoinder
Nancy K. Frankenberry, Faith of Scientists in Their Own Words Part 1 Part 2
Chap. 2
Great Chain of Being: Synopsis and Graphic (Word doc)
Chap. 3
Discussion of tides at 3 gradations of difficulty: qualitative basic PHYS161/171 level
Malthusian economics, and critique
Chap. 5
Mach vs. Boltzmann on atoms (2pp per sheet version); also short comments on Boltzmann
Chap. 6
Einstein did not believe that his ideas had impact on other fields
Einstein's philosophy of science, from Isaacson
Moral Relativism (from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Note no mention of Einstein!
Rashomon effect (contradictory interpretations of the same event)
Chap. 7
Freudian psychology, synopsis, html link
Quantum Mechanics resource letters, first (pre-1971, of most interest for this seminar) and second (Bell's inequalities and onward to 1988) from American Journal of Physics
Friedman: Contemporary American Physics Fiction, from American Journal of Physics
Radiation and Health from 2002 EU meeting in Dublin
PowerPoint
Susan Saurwein's architecture presentation, with embedded links
Explicit links to internal 728-ton pendulum , shape memory/thermoresponsive alloys , and Ned Kahn wind creations