While I was administering a read aloud End of Course Test my thougths would wonder and gaze focus through the window to the dimly seen mountains in the distance while the student was considering and answering. This is a3 hour affair afterall: you, a student, a proctor, silence, no reading, no writing. One can understand random thoughts at a time like this- who’s worried about boredom, sanity is the point! One thing the student was doing tipped off a flow of consciousness similar to what follows (recorded later for posterity):
Punnet Squares and Nautilus fractals
Kepler’s Planetary Laws and Newton’s for gravitation and motion
Net forces yet balanced, accelerations
Precisely balanced interaction of fundamental forces
Fundamentals, harmonics, and resolutions
Ratios of mass and atoms, atomic numbers and stable isotopes proceeding from neutron/proton ratios
Golden means and symmetries of body parts for balance, function, and beauty
Concentrations and equilibrium constants
Le Chatier balance and population pressures and triple points
French curves and planer and solid geometric equations
Coefficients of friction and laminar flow
Inertias, momentums, forces, energies, powers, efficiencies
Optical magnification, indices of refraction, and chromatic aberrations
Ohm’s Law, Coulomb’s Law, Kirchoff’s Laws
Integrations, derivations, trignometric relationships
Bernoulli’s, Boyle’s, Charles’, Gay-Lussac’s, Archimedes’, Pascal’s, Universal Gas Laws and Principles
Kinetic Theory and Collision Theory
Conservation of Energy, Matter, Momentum, and, Charge
What do these few ideas have in common? The Mathmetician has written into the fabric, solved simultataneously, and applied universally the equations…. the Infinite Algorithm!
(P.S. I know some of you like-minded types can add to this list…. come on, you know you want to.)
The Mathmetician
January 18, 2008 by creatorworship
Waves
transverse . . . longitudinal
electromagnetic
Sound
intensity . . .
inverse square law
wavelength . . . frequency
pitch and tone
Light
particles . . . waves
Back where we started!
Going in a circle . . .
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