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Assignments, Week Eight
For Monday, November 12:
Read Taking the Quantum Leap (chapters 3-7).
Read Quantum Questions (Schroedinger and Einstein), pp.77-113.
Written assignment: two paragraphs summarizing your week 10 presentation due at 11 a.m. MONDAY, November 12. Note that your process paper for this week is also due on Monday (to your seminar leader) at the start of class.
For Wednesday, November 14:
Meet with your buddy wherever and whenever you choose. (No sign-in is necessary.) Bring a detailed 2-page outline written by you (see the week 8 assignment below). For this typed draft outline, skip the Introduction and Conclusion. You may also bring a list of other topics that you want to discuss with your buddy for possible inclusion in the final draft. Compare your outline with your buddy’s outline. Synthesize the two outlines into a single two-page outline. You will need more than two hours, but when you part, you should be finished with your co-authored detailed outline. Read the assignment below before starting your draft outline for Wednesday.
For Thursday, November 15:
Read Taking the Quantum Leap (chapters 8 - 9).
Read Quantum Questions (DeBroglie, Jeans, Planck, and Pauli), pp. 117-175.
Written assignment: Two-page co-authored outline due at 11 a.m. Thursday, November 15 (see instructions below).
HOW TO DO THE ASSIGNMENT:
Submit a thorough outline of what you have learned in the two lectures and the reading through November 15th. This should be written in collaboration with your buddy. Only one co-authored outline will be submitted with both names on it. Single author outlines not accepted. For this assignment, it is not necessary to have it edited by your process group. (The seminars facilitated by Sean and Don each include one buddy group with 3 students. These two buddy groups should each submit one outline with all 3 names on it.) Staple the outlines that you wrote individually for your Wednesday meeting to the co-authored outline with the co-authored outline on top. Your evaluation will include comments on the completeness and clarity of your outline. Include an introduction and conclusion.
Keep a copy of your outline for your portfolio. The outline may also be helpful in studying for the closed-book portion of the quiz and it may be helpful on the open-book portion of the quiz. The outline that you submit will not be returned prior to the quiz on November 29th. (Your outline will not be accepted after 11 a.m., but if you complete it late, put the outline in your portfolio.)
Don will read whatever you can fit on two pages, but not more. Please use a font size of 11 or 12 point. Don is hoping that you’ve learned so much that two pages will be a severe limit on you. Thus, you’ll have to work very hard to be concise in your outline. Your outline should include evidence or examples for the points you make. For example (please ignore the way the formatting looks; you get the general idea of how an outline is supposed to look):
IV. Some ancient peoples believed that the world is flat, stationary (not spinning), and at the center of the universe.
A. It looks flat when we look around us.
B. We don’t fly off of the earth (as we would if it were spinning).
C. The clouds don’t always move in the same direction (as it would if we were spinning).
D. The sun, moon, stars, and planets clearly go around us in the sky – (almost) always the same way: east to west.
1. Ptolemy’s geocentric model proposed ca. 150 A.D. and lasted 1500 years
2. Geocentric model gave excellent predictions of the motion of planets – including retrograde motion
a. philosophically pleasing model due to (God-like) circular motion
b. required epicycles to explain retrograde motion
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