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Survey Title: Homework VII - Coming Back Home. (even)
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Participant #1
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the A simple motor has six parts: armature or rotor,
steps in turning a motor's rotor.
commutator, brushes, axle, field magnet and DC power
supply of some sort. AN eletric motor is all about
magnets and magnetism: a motor uses magnets to
create motion. If you have ever played with magnets
you know about the fundamental law of all magnets:
opposites attract and likes repel. So if you have two bar
magnets with their ends marked "north" and "south,"
then the north end of one magnet will repel the north
end of the other (and similarly, south will repel south).
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a Moving charges create a magnetic field. Therefore, all
bar magnet?
electrical wires have a magnetic field around them (but
only when the current flows). The field lines are a
concentric circle pattern. The direction of the field lines
can be found using the right hand grip rule. You must
know this. Grip a pencil in your right hand so that your
thumb points in the same direction as the pencil tip and
your fingers curve around it. The pencil represents the
current and its tip the direction of the current arrow.
Your fingers curl round in the direction of the field lines.
3) A generator is different from a motor
a. a generator uses a reverse magnetic field.
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
b. a generator produces electricity.
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
d. a generator is smaller and less complicated.
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
f. a generator uses mechanical work to produce
because
electricity.
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
b. Top-down/Bottom-up methods
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
A speaker is essentially the final translation machine loudspeaker works.
the reverse of the microphone. It takes the electrical
signal and translates it back into physical vibrations to
create sound waves. When everything is working as it
should, the speaker produces nearly the same
vibrations that the microphone originally recorded on a
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tape, CD, LP, etc. Traditional speakers do this with one
or more drivers.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
The light bulb lit up because of electromagnetism.
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
Electromagnetism is a magnetism produced by an
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb electric current and the branch of physics concerned
light-up?
with electromagnetic phenomena. The basic ides behind
an electromagnet is extremely simple: by running
electric current through a wire, you can create a
magnetic field. By using this simple principle, you can
create all sorts of things including motors, solenoids,
read/write heads for hard disks and tape drivers,
speakers and so on.
7) A hologram is created
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
the interference of light concept.
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
The rules of John Conway's Game of Life are for a
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
space that is "populated": each cell with one or no
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
neighbors dies, as if by loneliness. Each cell with four or
being both natural and simple, why? Which
more neighbors dies, as if by overpopulation. Each cell
characters in the game of life lived the
with two or three neighbors survives. For a space that
longest?
is "empty" or "unpopulated" each cell with three
neighbors becomes populated.
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
An approach to the mind-body problem based on
Consciousness slide show.
physical laws had been advocated by several thinkers.
Quantum Theory has been particularly intriguing for
scientists eager to provide a physical explanation of
consciousness. Loosely speaking, the point is that
conciousness is unlikely to arise from classical
properties of matter (the more we understand the
structure and the fabric of the brain, the less we
understand how consciousness can occur at all), which
are well known and well testable.
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were It is a major undertaking to define consciousness for
the most fundamental aspect of
two reasons. First the term has been used in different
consciousness. After watching and reading the disciplines differently and secondly one readily creates a
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
vicious circle for the instance by stating that people are
conscious of their consciousness and therefore
consciousness exists. Rather than starting from
personal experience it is preferable to define properties
of consciousness beforehand and to judge thereafter if
it leads to a notion that may be recognized in the world
around us and in our personal experiences.
11) Your Name.
Nichole Givans
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Participant #2
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the The electric current is supplied externally through the
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steps in turning a motor's rotor.
commutator, then it will pass through the loop that is
located in a magnetic field. The two sides of the loop
will experience magnetic forces in opposite directions,
since the electrons are flowing in the opposite direction.
This produces a torque which turns the motor. The
commutator will change the direction of the current
every half cycle so the loop of wire will continue to
rotate, since this keeps the torque turning the loop in
the same diredtion.
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bar magnet?
wire will create a magnetic field around it. Thus they
become essentially the same thing.
3) A generator is different from a motor
b. a generator produces electricity.
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because
3) A generator is different from a motor
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
because
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
loudspeaker works.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb
light-up?
7) A hologram is created
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
being both natural and simple, why? Which
characters in the game of life lived the
longest?
e. the current goes in the opposite direction in a
generator.
f. a generator uses mechanical work to produce
electricity.
c. magnetic and holographic methods
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A speaker consists of a circular permanent magnet
surrounding a freely moving coil, which is attahed to a
cone shaped diapragm. There will be an alternating
current flowing through the coil, generated by the radio,
microphone, etc. This alternation will be the same
frequency as the sound waves that generated it. The
current will induce an alternating magnetic field in the
coil. This will repel and attract itself to the permanent
magnet, thus causing the coil to vibrate. The vibrating
coil causes the attached cone shaped diaphragm to
vibrate and reproduce the sounds generated by the
original source.
120 volts at 60 Hz will be sent to the coil of wire. Once
a current starts in the wire it will produce a magnetic
field. This magnetic field will be alternating 60 times per
second, which is standard for an AC plug at home. The
iron core will become magnetized, i.e. the magnetic
domains within the iron will align, from the current
carrying coil and it will also alternate 60 times every
second. This iron core is only there for effeciency
purposes, it will amplify the magnetic field produced by
the coil. Now if a second coil is attached to the iron
core a current will be induced in the wire, since
magnetic fields causes the electrons within the wire to
move. This second coil just so happens to be a bulb
that produces light when held close enough to the iron
core. All this is is a transformer which uses the
changing magnetic field produced by the current in one
coil to induce voltage into a second coil.
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
the interference of light concept.
The rules of the games for a space that is populated:
each cell with four or more neighbors dies, as if by
overpopulation; each cell with one or no neighbors dies,
as if by lonliness; each cell with two or three neighbors
survives. For a space that is empty or unpopulated:
each cell with three neighbors becomes populated. Life
seems evident because it looks as if it is a society of
organisms on the page that rise, fall, and alter like in
real life, but it is just a simulation. Bryson's mentioning
of complexity as being both natural and simple fits in
perfectly with this game. You can start with a simple
pattern that in turn does some of the craziest things
that don't make any sense when you're just looking at it,
but if you break it down slowly, that complexity is
following rules and guideline that are really very simple.
In all of the chaos there is order. It's amazing. The
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characters that move away from the pack that turn into
blocks, blinkers, beehives, etc., i.e. patterns that
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
There is a big problem with consciousness, we can't
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Consciousness slide show.
detect nor define it, but we know we have this
"emergent property", this "inner life". To figure out what
is creating this consciousness we look within the
neurons and into the cytoskeleton where there are
microtubules made up of hexagonal lattices of proteins,
known as tubulins. Normally we have known the
microtubules as being purely structural elements, but
now we know they have mechanical signaling and
communication functions also. We are starting to learn
that tubulins can exist in quantum superposition and be
switching between two or more or both conformational
states. They interact with their neighbors to create a
dynamic pattern, or automata, in the mirotubule which
can evolve, interact, and lead to the emergence of new
patterns. This microtubule automata computation could
support classical information processing, transmission,
and learning within neurons. We know that qubits can
interact by quantum entanglement, so that q
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were I disagree because there are many forms of motile
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the most fundamental aspect of
single-celled organisms lacking neurons or synapes that
consciousness. After watching and reading the are able to swim, find food, learn, and multiply through
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
the use of their internal cytoskeleton. Which means that
neurons can't be the most fundamental aspect of
consciousness.
11) Your Name.
Mike Magallanes
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Participant #3
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the A current is put through a loop of wire immersed in a
steps in turning a motor's rotor.
magnetic field. Each side of the loop of wire
experiences a different force. The force on one end
pushes the wire up and the force on the other pushes
the wire down, causing the whole thing to rotate. If the
current in the wire stayed the same, the motion would
stop. However, in the motor there is a communicator,
which makes the current alternate.
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a The current carrying coil is like the bar magnet because
bar magnet?
they both carry a magnetic field. Also, they are both
dipolar.
3) A generator is different from a motor
b. a generator produces electricity.
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
f. a generator uses mechanical work to produce
because
electricity.
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
b. Top-down/Bottom-up methods
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
The coil of wire on the base of the speaker alternates
loudspeaker works.
causing is to be attracted to and repelled by the
permanent magnet. The coil vibrates in the same
frequency as the sound. The vibration is transfered to
the paper cone, reproducing the sound.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
The Thomson ring is connected to the outlet in the wall.
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connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb
light-up?
The wall outlet produces alternating current. The
alternating current of the Thomson ring is transfered to
the copper wires in the long tubular thing. The current
in that is also alternating so when a coil is place on top
of it, a current will be created. This is the current that
lights the bulb.
7) A hologram is created
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
the interference of light concept.
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
The rules to the game of life are:
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
1. a cell with less than three neighbors will die.
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
2. a cell with more than three neighbors will die.
being both natural and simple, why? Which
3. a cell with exactly three neighbors will stay alive.
characters in the game of life lived the
4. a cell with three neighbors will produce life.
longest?
Life seems evident because it changes, reproduces,
dies, and almost evolves. Bryson refers to the
complexity of some non-living things. Complex entities,
such as crystals and snowflakes. These things appear
in nature, so they're natural. The characters in the
game that lived the longest are the ones that are able
to follow the rules to where they always have exactly
three neighbors.
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
The Quantum Consciousness slide show suggested that
Consciousness slide show.
consciousness did not come from the neurons. In the
Quantum Consciousness theory, the microtubules
experience entanglement.
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were I don't think that the neurons are the fundamental
the most fundamental aspect of
aspects of consciousness. They simply pass a charge
consciousness. After watching and reading the from one cell to the next. Also, other types of animals
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
have neurons but do not experience consciousness.
The Quantum consciousness theory seems to be a
creative solution to the question "what is
consciousness" I don't really believe in the theory. I
don't think that natural selection could make such a
change in the species. I think that consciousness has to
come from something else. There is so much of the
brain that we don't understand. Maybe consciousness
doesn't start with neurons but with a section of the brain
we don't have enough information about.
11) Your Name.
Brian Lewis
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Participant #4
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the When electric current passes through a coil in a
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steps in turning a motor's rotor.
magnetic field (magnetic fields are produced by electric
currents) the magnetic force makes a torque which
turns the motor. The commutator (electric current is
supplied externally through a commutator) reverses the
current each half revolution to keep the torque turning
the coil in the same direction. Magnetic force reacts
perpendicular to the both wires and magnetic field.
Steps: 1. A current flows through a loop of wire
immersed in a magnetic field. 2. Each end of the loop
of wire will experience a force due to the electrons
flowing in the loop of wire. 3. The commutaton will
change the direction of the current every half cycle. 4.
Each end of the loop of wire will experience an opposite
force due to the electrons flowing in the opposite
direction. 5. The loop of wire will continue to rotate due
to the changing direction of the current immersed in a
magnetic field.
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a A current-carrying coil of wire is like a magnetic bar
bar magnet?
because magnetic fields are produced by electric
currents, which can be macroscopic currents or
microscopic currents (associated with electrons in
atomic orbits) Magnetic field sources are essentially
dipolar in nature, having a north and a south magnetic
pole. A long straight coil of wire can be used to
generate a nearly uniform magnetic field similar to that
of a magnetic bar. the field can be greatly strengthened
by the addition of an iron core. Such cores are typical in
electromagnets.
3) A generator is different from a motor
b. a generator produces electricity.
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
f. a generator uses mechanical work to produce
because
electricity.
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
c. magnetic and holographic methods
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
Most loud speakers consist of a circular permanent
loudspeaker works.
magnet surrounding a freely moving coil- which is
attached to the diaphragm. The current, alternating at
the same frequency as the sound waves that generated
it, induces an alternating magnetic field in the coil. As
the polarity of the magnetic field of the coil alternates, it
is alternatively attracted to and repelled by the
permanent magnet. This is what causes the coil to
vibrate. The vibrating coil causes the attached
diaphragm to vibrate and reproduce the sounds
generated by the original source.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
The magnetic field alternates 60 times per second,
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
magnetic field induces a voltage in the coil which is
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb sufficient to light the bulb if it's close enough. When you
light-up?
bring the bulb close enough for it to produce light, it's
the action of a transformer(a transformer efficiently
raises or lowers AC voltages) which uses the changing
magnetic field produced by the current in one coil to
induce a voltage into a second coil.
7) A hologram is created
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
being both natural and simple, why? Which
characters in the game of life lived the
longest?
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NOTE: 120 volts at 60Hz is applied to the coil. Since it
has an iron core, a large alternating magnetic field is
produced.
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
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the interference of light concept.
Life is played on a grid of square cells; it expands
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infinately in every direction. A cell can be live or dead. A
live cell is shown by putting a marker in its square. A
dead cell is shown by leaving the square empty. Each
cell in the grid has a neighborhood consisting of the
eight cells in every direction, including diagonals. We
count the number of live neighborhoods for each cell.
What happens next depends on this number. Adead cell
with exactly three live neighbors becomes a live cell. A
live cell with two or three live neighbors stays alive. In
all other cases, a cell dies or remains dead.
Life seems to be evident because by each rule it seems
like if it were going through life stages. The first stage is
the stage of birth as we start out being young, then the
stage of survival, when we are growing and working for
our food and srtuggling through hard obstacles, and
finally crowding or loneliness, when we are old we feel
lonely and like if we are bothering.
The character in life
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
In the Quantum Consciousness slide show it start out
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Consciousness slide show.
explaining about nerves in the brain that are connected
by dendrites and then it goes to smaller things like
neurons then the neural nets and its entanglements,
then synapses that act like basic switches. Inside the
networks we also see microtubles and other filamentous
structures.
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were Neurons are not the most fundamental aspect of
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the most fundamental aspect of
consciousness because at the start of the pathway,
consciousness. After watching and reading the images from the retina at the back of each eye are
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
channeled first to a pair of small structures deep in the
brain called the lateral geniculate nuclei. Individual
neurons in the LGN can be activated by visual
stimulation from either one eye or the other but not
both. They respond to any change of brightness or color
in a specific region within an area of view known as the
receptive field, which varies amoung neurons. Neurons
help us discern shapes, help us identify moving in a
specific direction, and help us distinguish faces, but
many neurons in the visual pathways, still respond with
their characteristic selectivity to visual stimuli even in a
human that has been completely anesthetized.
11) Your Name.
Dana Palacios NS-100 @10:00am
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Participant #5
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the A mortor works because of the magnetic force that is
steps in turning a motor's rotor.
created within a coil and this produces a current that
allows for the motor to work.
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a They are similar because they are both magnetic field
bar magnet?
sources. They both create a current and are able to
produce electricity. They are both dipolar in nature thus
means they both have both a north and south magnetic
pole. These pole will not combine and will always stay
opposite.
3) A generator is different from a motor
b. a generator produces electricity.
because
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
b. Top-down/Bottom-up methods
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
A loudspeaker has coil wrapped round a cone which is
loudspeaker works.
in the back of the loud speaker this coil recognizes
sound and is able to reproduce it thanks to the
vibrations these vibrations produce sound waves and
we are able to hear them.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
The light bulb lit up because the coil carries a current
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
and has a magnetic current which is strong enough to
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb light up the bulb. This current goes up through the coil
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light-up?
7) A hologram is created
and light it at the speed of light.
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
the interference of light concept.
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
The game of life consists in being able to create life
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
and have it be able to survive. However this can only
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
happen if you folow the rule that are set by the creter of
being both natural and simple, why? Which
the game. rules are such as you must put two of the
characters in the game of life lived the
litle squares together and you must follow these rules if
longest?
you want to crete life. Bryson says complexity is both
natural and simple because that is how it is. This
means that complexity is something that can be hard to
understand however it is just the way nature makes it.
This means that when someday we understand how
ecxatly nature works we will actually think it is simple.
However to us it seems a lot more complex because it
is way beeyond what we can do, althogh I know modern
day technology is really advanced.But its things like,
how or brain works, that really amazes scientist.
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
In the slide show we are shown the way our brain racts
Consciousness slide show.
to different situations and it also talks about
microtubules which are what actually helps reactions
occur. It also teaches about sapce time and hat it
avctually reffers to not what we would suppose it reffers
to.This slide show along with what we talked about
inclass left me wondering what it really means to be
conscious. Be cause I am seriously beging to thing that
our body so programed to recat certain ways that I
begin to think of myself as some kind of robot, which
reacts and has a certain personality depending on the
life situations that I have lived. It is also perhaps why
Psychologist ahve been able to determine our behaviors
and the causes for those behaviors.
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were I actually believe that microtubules are the must
the most fundamental aspect of
fundamental becasue of the fact that they are what it all
consciousness. After watching and reading the goes back to and they are also where it all starts from.
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
Microtubules are what the cytoskeleton is manly
composed of. They are also very important in determinig
cell shape , function, movement and division.
11) Your Name.
Beatriz Manriquez Nat,. Sci. 100 (10-10:50)
Participant #6
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the A current flows through a wire which is in a magnetic
steps in turning a motor's rotor.
field. each opposite end of the wire will recieve a force
due to the incoming electrons. A device called a
comunicater will change the direction of the force every
half cycle. Now each end of the loop of wire is recieving
opposite forces and it will continue to turn because a
chaning direction of the electron force and the magnetic
field.
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a Because of the electric charge traveling through the
bar magnet?
wire a magnietic field is produced. this gives the wire
the same attractive properties of a bar magnet. The
magnetism is produced because of the moving charge
callled the Lorentz force.
3) A generator is different from a motor
a. a generator uses a reverse magnetic field.
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
b. a generator produces electricity.
because
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3) A generator is different from a motor
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
because
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
loudspeaker works.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb
light-up?
7) A hologram is created
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
being both natural and simple, why? Which
characters in the game of life lived the
longest?
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
Consciousness slide show.
e. the current goes in the opposite direction in a
generator.
f. a generator uses mechanical work to produce
electricity.
b. Top-down/Bottom-up methods
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A current which is alternating at the same frequencies
as the sound causes an alternating magnetic field in the
coil. because the coil is constantly alternating it is
subsequently pushed and repelled by the permanent
magnetic behind the cone. So the vibrating coil causes
the diaphram cone to vibrate and to reproduce the
original sound at a higher volume.
Because the electric field traveled through the coil it
produced and electric charge which subsequently
traveled through the tiny filaments in the bulb causing it
to light up.
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
the interference of light concept.
I had trouble getting the praogram to run.
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is. Our conciousness is not like any other persons on
the planet. this is becasue we draw our conclusions
based upon our own experiences and of course or
inevitalbe bias.
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were I would disagree because in the slide show i learned
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the most fundamental aspect of
about microtubles. these appear to be the most
consciousness. After watching and reading the fundamental aspects of conciousness. And these things
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
are smaller than neurons so this makes them the most
fundamental aspects of our conciousness
11) Your Name.
Peter Catalano
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Participant #7
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the There must be a wire loop placed between two
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steps in turning a motor's rotor.
opposing manetic poles creating a magnetic field. The
electrons flow through the wire which creates a greater
force when it is mixed with the magnetic field. This
greater force causes the wire loop to turn on a
commutator (this is where the electrons are supplied).
The wire loop will continue to turn because of the
changing directions of the electrons in the current within
the magnetic field.
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bar magnet?
magnetic domain. Like the bar magnet, if the magnetic
domain is in the same direction it is magnetized and if
something hits it and messes up the domain's direction
then it can be demagnetized.
3) A generator is different from a motor
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
because
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
loudspeaker works.
c. a generator produces mechanical work.
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e. the current goes in the opposite direction in a
generator.
f. a generator uses mechanical work to produce
electricity.
c. magnetic and holographic methods
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A loudspeaker produces sound by vibrating the air. An
electrical current causes the cone to vibrate, because
there is a wire inside of the cone that blocks the
electrons' path so the electrons bounce back and this is
how the air vibrates and the loudspeaker produces
sound.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
The alternating magnetic field in the iron core produced
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
enough power in the second coil to light up the lightbulb
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb when it came close enough due to the force created by
light-up?
the alternating magnetic field.
7) A hologram is created
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
the interference of light concept.
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
The rules are to put markers (live cells) in the squares
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
in such a way that the cells can remain alive and
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
maybe even reproduce. In order for a dead cell to come
being both natural and simple, why? Which
to life it must have exactly three live neighbors. Also, in
characters in the game of life lived the
order for live cells to stay alive it must have at least two
longest?
or three live neghbors. Anything more or less than 2-3
live neighbors will cause the cell to die. Life seems to
be evident, because in the game when I put 2-3 cells
together it usually produced an unpredictable reaction
where cells would die and some cells would reproduce
and become more complex than the 2-3 celled
organisms that they started out from. This is what
Bryson must have been talking about. All the cells
needed were the right conditions and they became
complex and that is evidence that complexity is both
natural and simple...The changes occured on their own
with the start of simple cells and a couple of small
conditions. The characters in the game of life that
survived the longest were the
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
The slideshow showed different slides of the
Consciousness slide show.
microscopic parts of neurons and talked about how the
small parts that make up these neurons change their
states and that is how consciousness occurs. Of course
what they said was more complicated than this,
however, the idea that they were presenting was that it
is the small structures in the neurons making up our
brain that change states and do unpredictable things to
create our consciousness. That's what I got out of it at
least.
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were The most fundamental aspect of consciousness would
the most fundamental aspect of
be the qubits that make up the microtubules in our
consciousness. After watching and reading the neurons. The neuron just houses the important
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
structures that work to create consciousness...without
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11) Your Name.
these inner structures in the neuron consciousness
probably wouldn't be the same...from the viewpoint of
the slideshow creators, of course, since no one actually
knows what consciousness is.
Crystalin Crinnion
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Participant #8
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the Motors use magnents to create motion by having
steps in turning a motor's rotor.
opposite poles attract. These repealing and atracting
forces are responsible for creating the rotational motion
that motors make. The coil that is composed of an
outer layer of insaltion and wires insides, transmitts the
electrcal current from one place to another. Once the
wire or coil becomes aligned with the magnet, it
becomes a mechanism that controls and transmitts the
current. The permant magnet, aka the rotor, and the
electromgnet on the stationary area surrounding the
motor, work together to complete one motion or
rotation. To move the rotor clockwise the upper
electromagnet is deactivated and the right side is
activiated. The magnets than repeat the process to
keep the motor running.
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a When a current flows through the wire it acts like a
bar magnet?
peramnet or bar magnet. As the current rotates the coil,
it points the magnet side North,attracting and repelling
the poles of other electro and permanent magnents.
Therefore, the magnetism that is being developed in a
current carrying coil is not simply restricted to being
defined as a bar magnet, but results from the current as
well as a strong bar amgnet that are made by putiing
iron inside the core coil of an electromagnet.
3) A generator is different from a motor
b. a generator produces electricity.
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
f. a generator uses mechanical work to produce
because
electricity.
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
b. Top-down/Bottom-up methods
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
Loudspeakers consits of a permant magnet that
loudspeaker works.
surrounds a moving coil. Once the electric current or
radiowaves are transmittd through the wire to the
speaker, the intensity of their frequency enables the coil
to produce a magnetic field. Like the motor, as the
magnet is moved back and forth from the changing of
the metal coil, its polarity changes. This process causes
the frequency that produces the loudness of the
speaker to vibrate the speaker.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
The light bulb was able to light up becasue of the
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
electrons that were still near the surface of the bulb. As
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb electrical current runs through a wire, it is controlled by
light-up?
a switch or some device to turn it on and off.
Immediately when the current begans again the
electrons push on one another to cause the bulb to
light. In class the current was going through the wires
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creating a magnetic field through the magnet. Therefore
the two worked together to complete the electrical
cycle.
7) A hologram is created
b. using any light, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
the interference of electrons concept
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
Bryson believes that complexity is a natural state that
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
all objects or elements can be described. Honestly, if
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
one thinks about it they will realize how true this
being both natural and simple, why? Which
statment is.Our bodies are made up of an intricate
characters in the game of life lived the
system that relays on one another to make us function.
longest?
Each piece is a vital asset in the procedure therefore its
complexity and specialization in its area allow life to
continue.
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
The Quatum Consciousness slide show goes through
Consciousness slide show.
the various functions of the brain and theories that
could possibly explain what consciousness is. In some
ways it tries to define the brain as a computer that
utlizes this function to create a "soul" or an emergent
property that makes us experenice a conscious state.
RAnd suggest that the more complex we are, the more
conscious we can obatin or experenice. Using the idea
of quantuam systems, these ideas have been able to
put into action, and by exploring such biological
elements as proteins, can help us get a closer to
understanding the brain and its consciousness.
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were Many scientist believe that the basic idea of
the most fundamental aspect of
consciousness is a computer, rather than a neuron.
consciousness. After watching and reading the Such evidence as glia cells, dendrites, electric gap
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
junctions, and the brain's linely state has proved this
idea wrong. But the most important aspect that does
not define a neuron as a basic unit of consciousness is
that it does not explain how it happens. Neurons cant
control how we learn to do things, what we say, like
other organism,rather they transmit these procedures
from one place to another. Like other organisms that do
not have neurns and still function similar to us proves
that there has to be something greater in control. I
believe this statment to be true. Neurons directly enable
the process to happen, but they dont aid us in our
understanding of consciouness. This is an idea that no
one will be able to explain because we can't even
define the word itself.
11) Your Name.
Leah Gwosdz
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Participant #9
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the An electric motor is caused by an AC ( alternating
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steps in turning a motor's rotor.
current) or DC ( direct current). it has 6 parts: rotor,
commutator, brushes, axle, field magnet, and a DC
power support of some sort. it mostly relies on magnets
that creates its motion and magnetism. there attracting
repelling motion creates rotational motion. the armature
is electromagnetic made by coiling thin wire around two
ro more poles of a metal core, and has an axle that is
attached to it. examples of things with motors: blemder,
washer, dryer, basically anything that moves using an
electric motor to accomplish its movement. Turninng a
motors rotor needs a torque which is normally produced
by magnetic forces that come from between magnetic
poles on the rotor. Then theres either a attractive or
repulsive pull and push on the outside of the rotor. this
produces the torque that makes the rotor spin faster
and faster until the friction reduces its net.
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a A current carrying coil is a production of magnetism by 5/2/2004
bar magnet?
electricity. As you coil the wire the magnetic field circles
and combine their effects, which then generates a total
magnetic field much like a bar magnet. One end
becomes a north seeking pole and the other end
becomes a south seeking pole.
3) A generator is different from a motor
b. a generator produces electricity.
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because
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
e. none of these
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methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
When a speech current is passed through the coil a
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loudspeaker works.
varying magnetic field is generated by the coil. then the
2 magnetic fields interact causing movement to the coil.
The movement of the coil causes a cone to move back
and forth. this compresses and decompresses the air so
then it generates the sound waves. the loudspeaker is a
transducer converting one form of energy to another.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
Electric current in a solid conductor and is the mass
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connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
movement of free electrons.
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb Bound electrons boost up to higher energy levels,and
light-up?
caused electricity to run through the coil and this
engergy caused the light bulb to light up.
7) A hologram is created
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
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the interference of light concept.
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
im sorry but i couldnt figure out how to 'play' it. it was
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What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
difficult to understand eventhough i tried many times.
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
being both natural and simple, why? Which
characters in the game of life lived the
longest?
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
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Consciousness slide show.
demonstrated anatomical location of activities that
correlate with the consciousness but may not be directly
responsible for it.
* neurons are fundamental units of information in the
brain.
*computer functioning brain
*Activities within cells ranging from single-celled
organisms to the brain's neurons
*mechanical signaling and communication functions also
exist:
Research indicates that microtubule automata
computation could support classical information
processing, transmission and learning within neurons.
*consciousness is a process of events occurring in a
wide, basic field of proto-conscious experience.
observation of quantum systems have shown that, at
least at small scales, particles (mass) can exist in two
or more states or locations simultaneously (quantum
superposition).
* A separation in underlying reality.
* As quantum superposition may only occur in isolation
from environment.
*An explanation for conscious e
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were Non-computability, or the notion that consciousness
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the most fundamental aspect of
involves a factor which is neither random, nor
consciousness. After watching and reading the algorithmic, and that consciousness cannot be
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
simulated. if neurons were the fundamental aspects of
consciousness the how would we explain our free will
and subjective time flow.
and another thing is that since many forms of motile
single-celled organisms lack neurons they are still able
to swim, find food, learn, and multiply through the use
of their internal cytoskeleton, if it was neurons were the
most fundamental aspect then they would'nt be able to
do any of these things. they would be a vegetable.
11) Your Name.
Grisel Sandoval
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Participant #10
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the First, the current flows through the loop of wire
steps in turning a motor's rotor.
immersed in a magnetic field, then each end of the loop
of wire will feel a force due to the electrons flowing.
The commutator will change the direction of the current
every half cycle. Each end of the loop of wire will
experience an opposite force due to the electrons
flowing in the opposite direction. Last, the loop of wire
will continue to rotate due to the changing direction of
the current immersed in a magnetic field. I liked when
you did this experimebt!
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a They are both dipolar and have a north and south pole.
bar magnet?
They both can create magnetic fields that are produced
by electrical currents.
3) A generator is different from a motor
a. a generator uses a reverse magnetic field.
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
e. the current goes in the opposite direction in a
because
generator.
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
c. magnetic and holographic methods
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
A coil vibrates when the polarity of the magnetic field
loudspeaker works.
alternates. The vibrating coil causes the cone shape to
vibrate and reproduce the sounds.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
Because the magnetic current traveled through the coil
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
to light the bulb. The field source was dipolar so the
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb electrical current was able to travel through the coil.
light-up?
7) A hologram is created
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
the interference of light concept.
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
Every living cell dies every generation, but most
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
patterns explode anyway. It's a challenge to build new
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
patterns that don't explode. Arguably the simplest
being both natural and simple, why? Which
challenging rule. Life is evident because the universe is
characters in the game of life lived the
1 million X 1 million. Complexity is natural and simple
longest?
because everything starts out small and grows bigger.
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9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
Consciousness slide show.
It discusses the problem of cosciousness and what
consciousness actually is. There are 11 slides, each
with a new topic that include quantum computing.
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were The Brain processes relevant to consciousness extend
the most fundamental aspect of
downward within neurons to the level of cytoskeletal
consciousness. After watching and reading the microtubules, so that is why I'd disagree.
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
11) Your Name.
Adam Cady
Participant #11
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the First there has to be an electric current that moves
steps in turning a motor's rotor.
along a wire. The wire must be at a magnetic field. The
electrons in the wire will cause each end of the wire to
carry a force. Then the commuter will change direction
every half cycle it completes because of this force.
Opposite forces will be at each end of the wire due to
the difference of the flowing electrons. Since the
electrons flow in opposite directions the wire will
continue to rotate. This is how the motor works.
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a A coil wire carries a current in a magnetic field (just like
bar magnet?
in question no. 1) Magnets also carry this current, but
only while it is in motion.
3) A generator is different from a motor
c. a generator produces mechanical work.
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
g. a generator uses electricity to produce mechanical
because
work.
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
c. magnetic and holographic methods
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
Loud Speakers work with vibrations. Inside there is a
loudspeaker works.
coil and it has a magnetic field. The north and south
poles are always changing back and forth. The magnet
is the reppeled and attracted at the same time to the
poles because they are alternating. what we get from
this is a vibrating coils that prudes sound.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
This esxperiment works like the speaker. The coil has a
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
magnetic fiel around it with alternating poles. A change
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb in direction of a current will light up the bulb.
light-up?
7) A hologram is created
d. using a laser, object, any film, and the
electromagnetic induction concept.
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
Unfortunately, I could not see this game in my computer
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
but I did notice that life can be veryu simple. Life that
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
was only like three squares big were lasting a long time
being both natural and simple, why? Which
alive. Other life froms that were very large, did no
characters in the game of life lived the
survive very long.
longest?
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
The conscious is very hard to determine. No one really
Consciousness slide show.
knows about it and there is no precise definition. We
DO know that concsiousness can realate to quantum
physics because both are very strange and unusual.
Consciousness holds true to the basic principles of
quantum physics.
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10) Some scientists thought that neurons were
the most fundamental aspect of
consciousness. After watching and reading the
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
11) Your Name.
The most funadamental part of concsiousness cannot
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be the neuron becasue these are very large and contain
smaller parts inside them, like proteins, molecules,
atoms, and even these have smaller particles inside!
Arlene Rodriguez
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Participant #12
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the Electric motors are everywhere even my house. Every
steps in turning a motor's rotor.
mechanical object in my house is either caused by an
AC (alternating current) or DC (direct current) electric
motor. Motors work in terms of energy transformation.
You can learn a lot about magnets, electromagnets and
electricity just by studying motors. An electric motor is
all about magnets and magnetism. A motor uses
magnets to create motion. Inside an electric motor,
attracting and repelling forces from a magnet can create
rotational motion. The rotor, which is the rotating part of
an AC motor, is an electromagnet made by coiling thin
wire around two or more poles of a metal core.
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a Because of magnetic induction. A current-carrying coil
bar magnet?
of wire has a magnetic field similar to that of a bar
magnet. When you move a magnet towards a current
carrying coil, the current moves to positive. When you
move the magnet away from the coil, the current is
negative. So moving magnet can make a current in a
coil of wire
3) A generator is different from a motor
a. a generator uses a reverse magnetic field.
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
f. a generator uses mechanical work to produce
because
electricity.
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
b. Top-down/Bottom-up methods
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
Sound travels in waves of air pressure fluctuation. We
loudspeaker works.
hear sounds differently depending on the frequency and
amplitude of these waves. Microphones translate sound
waves into electrical signals, which can be encoded
onto CDs and tapes. Those players convert the stored
information back into an electric current for use in the
stereo system. A speaker is essentially the final
translation machine. It takes the electrical signal and
translates it back into physical vibrations to create
sound waves. When everything is working, the speaker
produces the same vibrations that the microphone
originally recorded and encoded on a tape or CD.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
It works because when you turn on the switch, a current
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
starts moving inside the coil. The current creates a
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb magnetic field, which changes polarizations, north to
light-up?
south, constantly(change of field, change of current).
The magnetic field goes to the light bulb and turns it
on. The magnetic field is so strong that the light bulb
doesn’t even have to touch the coil of wire.
7) A hologram is created
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
the interference of light concept.
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8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
being both natural and simple, why? Which
characters in the game of life lived the
longest?
Bryson says complexity is both simple and natural
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because its whats supposed to happen. Because of the
unexpected chaos that results from lifes very simple
rules. Chemical reactions in life are very common and
natural. Life has chemical reactions on its own. Life
assembles, creates and reproduces to make more life,
just like in the game. This idea is complex to us
because we are used to the order of situations while
nature is spontaneous and inexplicable at times. The
rules are that 2 or 3 neighbors allow a cell to survive,
and exactly 3 neighbors around a dead cell cause it to
come alive for the next generation. Life uses the eight
cells surrounding each cell as its neighborhood
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
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Consciousness slide show.
todays issues of consciousness. The problem of
consciousness is the patterns of neural network
activities that correlate with mental states. Quantum
Consciousness is used for brain imaging. They found
that brain activity is associated with consciousness. Our
consciousness is innate. Just like how people in China
are born and learn Chinese automatically. Panexperiential is widespread attention. It is the
consciousness that the universe is quantum foam so we
are quantum foam as well. We are all space in the
universe because the presence of virtual photons in
space time has been verified
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were The most fundamental unit of information in the brain
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the most fundamental aspect of
are neurons and their chemical synapses. These neural
consciousness. After watching and reading the firings lead to thoughts and feelings
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
11) Your Name.
Diane Salvador
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Participant #13
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the A motor works with a magnet, some kind of current
steps in turning a motor's rotor.
(battery), and loop coil. the magnet is use to make a
magnetic field which turns the loop wire and the current
has somewhere to flow. a motor uses the the electric
current to make mechical work.
In turn the motor it must be step where there a magnet
with shape like a C and the wire is in a loop in between
the space of the magnet.In that space a magnetic field
is made. the wire is connected to the current which
moves the wire in the magnetic fild. the the wire is
turning it current flows throgh the wire from oppsite
direction. every half turn the current would reverse so
the current could run motor supplied by the battery. if
take out a section or unplugg the battery the motor will
stop. the motor is is like a cycle.
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a Current-carrying coil is like bar magnet because they
bar magnet?
both produce a magnetic field. A coil could be be
straight, loop , or coiled. The bar magnet and the
current-carrying coil both have a north and south poles.
they both repell when the north ends come close
together. They have the same effect of a compass. if
you put a current-carrying coil near a compass the
needle will go crazy.
3) A generator is different from a motor
b. a generator produces electricity.
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
e. the current goes in the opposite direction in a
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because
3) A generator is different from a motor
because
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
loudspeaker works.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb
light-up?
7) A hologram is created
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
being both natural and simple, why? Which
characters in the game of life lived the
longest?
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
Consciousness slide show.
generator.
f. a generator uses mechanical work to produce
electricity.
b. Top-down/Bottom-up methods
A loudspeaker has a magnet which surrounds the coil
and is attach to a cone. there is alternating currents
which flows through the coil. as the coil vibrates
between the magnet because is atractive and reppels
causing it move. the vibrastion of the cone attach to the
wire causing it to move to whiich bounces the noise
around. the noise it where it originated would be louder
then when it comes out of the cone.
The iron rod acts a the magnet creating a magnetic
field and the light has a coil which the current from the
electric connected with the rod would carry the current.
that current will go through the coil as long as the coil is
touching the rod. this much like a DC motor.
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
the interference of light concept.
I couldn't download onto my computer and when i
downloaded it would work and i could not figure it out
and the Help Button wasn't helpful.
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i could see the slide show so this is from the lecture.
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The Quantum Consciousness first talk about microtubles
and how they work. Then in the next slide talk about
they use quatum physics in the work. The next talks
about objective reaction (OR) and how it works in
quatum computing. then it mentions the Orch OR model
to show how the microtubles works in the brain. Then
on the last page brings up the questions when did the
consciousness first appear and will it appear in
computers.
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the most fundamental aspect of
human race we find things smaller or larger. in the
consciousness. After watching and reading the 1400's the people thought that we the only planet and
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
just in the last 30 years we thought that the atom is the
smallest thing but they discovered quarks. There is
always something smaller. i don't think in my life time
we are going to find the smallest thing possible. the
question which came first chicken or the egg comes up
to mind. We don't have a answer to that expect God.
Our concsciousness has thoughts and how do we
measure that. I hope we get five points for our name
because it is a numbered question.
11) Your Name.
Alvic Ventinilla
5/2/2004
Participant #14
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the A two-pole direct current motor has six parts: a rotor,
steps in turning a motor's rotor.
commutator, brushes, axle, field magnet and a DC
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power supply. A motor uses magnets to create motion.
The attracting and repelling forces from the north and
south poles create motion. A motor works when an
electromagnet is connected to a battery source and
placed in between or surrounded by a magnet (think
horseshoe magnet). If the south side of the
electromagnet matches up with the north side of teh
regular magnet and visa versa and the electromagnet is
connected to opposite poles of the battery, this causes
a slight half-turn to occur in the electromagnet. This
turn occurs because of the way that magnets naturally
repell and attract each other. At the very moment when
the half-turn completes, the electromagnettic field flips
causing a change in direction of the electrons. When
this flipping is done correctly, the motor freely spins.
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a A current carrying coil of wire is like a bar magnet
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bar magnet?
because its field pattern is like that of a bar magnet's. It
has both north and south poles ans its current flows in
that direction. The only difference beteween the two is
that you have to extend the magnetic field lines through
the center of the coil which in turn forms loops instead
of starting and ending on a pole. However, the field
lines are parallel through the center of the bar magnet.
3) A generator is different from a motor
b. a generator produces electricity.
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because
3) A generator is different from a motor
g. a generator uses electricity to produce mechanical
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because
work.
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
b. Top-down/Bottom-up methods
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methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
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loudspeaker works.
magnet which in turn is connected to the coil, which is
connected to the voice coreilthe top plates. The cone
looking part is actually called the basket and at the end
of the basket are terminals. Withing the basket is the
spider withing the cone and there is also the dust cap
along with the gasket. When an electircal current
passes through a wire coil (the voice coil) and this
produces a force. THe cone which is connected to the
voice coil moves in and out which creates waves of
high and low air pressure. The coil and magnet are
considered the "motor structure" of the loudspeaker.
THe loudspeaker's suspension is what controls the
movement. The surround and spider let the coil move
freely along the magnet core's axis without it touching
the sides of the magnetic gap.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
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connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
that runs through the coil going north, south, north,
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb south and this current around the coil changes
light-up?
directions working back and forth. This energy running
though the coil emmits enough energy to light the bulb.
7) A hologram is created
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
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the interference of light concept.
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
I couldn't download.
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What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
being both natural and simple, why? Which
characters in the game of life lived the
longest?
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
Consciousness slide show.
The human consciousness is often compared to a
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computer. Our brains have synapses and nerurons and
a computer has switches. Quantum superstition has
various levels and particles. There is also quantum
entanglement in which particles are estranged in
detactchment and may not have connections. Lastly
there is quantum mechanics which describes the
strange behavior of energy and matter at highly
microscopic scales. These three views of consciousness
are the patterns of neural network activities that go
along with mental states, binding information in the
thalamuns and cerebral cortex, and the emergence of
computational complexities among the neurons. The
cytoskeleton and microtubules are role players in
consciousness.
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were I would disagree and say that instead, tubulin is the
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the most fundamental aspect of
most fundamental aspect because it is what makes up
consciousness. After watching and reading the microtubules which make up the cytoskeleton, and as
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
mentioned in #9, the cytoskeleton plays a major role to
consciousness and it's all thanks to the little tubulin who
made it all possible.
11) Your Name.
Kellyn Thompson
5/2/2004
Participant #15
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steps in turning a motor's rotor.
South on each other,
create a magnetic field. A rectangular conductor loop is
placed in the magnetic
field, and current flows through the conductor loop.
2) When electric current (the flowing electrons) passes
through the conductor
loop in a magnetic field, the magnetic field produces a
torque. Torque is “a
measure of how much force is acting on an object
causes that object to rotate
(physics.uoguelph.ca),” and the “force” is the one
produced by the three finger
rule, and “object, in this case, is the direct current (DC)
motor. The three
finger rule is composed of the conventional direction of
current, magnetic
field, and the Lorentz force, and is also called the right
hand rule. Each
force is represented by a finger, and by the direction of
the fingers on right
hand, we can find the direction of the torque vector.
3) Electric current is supplied externally through a
commutator, which changes
the directio
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bar magnet?
way that they carry
their magnetic fields. A piece of wire holds its magnetic
fields around it like
a loop, but a coli of wire produces the North magnetic
pole and the South, just
3) A generator is different from a motor
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
because
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
loudspeaker works.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb
light-up?
7) A hologram is created
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
being both natural and simple, why? Which
characters in the game of life lived the
longest?
like a bar magnet does. The charge of a bar magnet
and that of a coil of wire
works flows the same way (North to South and
circulating), unlike the charge of
a piece of wire, which goes around the wire in a circular
motion.
b. a generator produces electricity.
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electricity.
b. Top-down/Bottom-up methods
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let a current run through the coil; this would allow an
alternating magnetic
field to occur in it. This magnetic field is either repelled
by or attracted to
the magnet, and the motion creates vibrations. The
vibration of the coil
triggers the vibrations of the diaphragm, which is
recognized as sound to
humans!
because of the magnetic field conducting the current.
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the interference of light concept.
rules - there are two kinds of cells; dead or alive. A
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dead cell is represented
by an empty square, and a live cell is represented by a
filled square. To keep
themselves alive, a live cell must keep 3 live neighbors
around it. A live cell
dies when there is less than 3 neighbors around them
(because it becomes
lonely), or the population becomes overcrowded.
However, a dead cell can become
alive again (rebirth!) when it surrounds itself with 3 live
cells.
This is a good model of life because life does go extinct
when the world gets
overcrowded and there is no room and food for
everyone, and regain population
once it goes down because there is more room for
them! However, a life cannot
reproduce by its own, so we need "neighbors."
Complexity is natural and simple, according to Bryson,
because all live species
are made for each other and are a part of the big life of
earth. Many of us
can't live without some other live species, like eagles
can't live wh
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
Neural firings are thoughts and conclusion.
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Consciousness slide show.
Consciousness happens as a critical
level of complexity is reached in the brain's neural
network, and synapses are
the fundamental units of information in the brain.
Emergence theory states that
consciousness just happens, but how does it "just
happen?" The mind
is the computer of the brain. Microtubules are the
synaptic connector helpers
that interact with membrane structures. According to a
philosopher of the name
of Alfred North Whitehead, consciousness may involve
quantum state reduction,
meaning consciousness can involve the very smallest
state that is known to exist
in science!
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were Neurons are not the most fundamental aspect of
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the most fundamental aspect of
consciousness, because neurons
consciousness. After watching and reading the are not the fundamental aspect of human body after all.
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
In a neuron, there is
nucleus, and in nucleus, there is nucleon. And even
these tiny nucleons are
made of atoms and atoms are made of neutrons,
protons and electrons. Each part
of a neuron plays individual roles in responding to
stimuli and consciousness is
not perceived by the neurons, but their individual parts.
So the neurons are
not the most fundamental aspect of consciousness.
11) Your Name.
Satoko Fujinami
5/3/2004
Participant #16
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the 1) First, current flows in a magnetic field through the
steps in turning a motor's rotor.
loop of a wire
2) electrons flow and produce force
3) every half cycle the cummutator will change direction
of current
4) electrons are moving in an opposite direction, so this
will produce an opposite force
5) Finally, the loop of wire will continue to rotate
because of the changing direction of the current in a
magnetic filed
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a It is like a magnet because it has a magnetic field that
bar magnet?
forces electons to move
3) A generator is different from a motor
b. a generator produces electricity.
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
f. a generator uses mechanical work to produce
because
electricity.
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
b. Top-down/Bottom-up methods
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
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5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
loudspeaker works.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb
light-up?
7) A hologram is created
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
being both natural and simple, why? Which
characters in the game of life lived the
longest?
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the back of speaker. The magnetic field of the coil is
attracted and repelled by a permanent magnet. The coil
vibrates and makes the cone shaped diaphragm vibrate
and reproduce sounds generated by the source.
It lit because there was a magnetic field involved
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the interference of light concept.
There are four rules
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Populated Space: Each cell with 1 or no neighbors dies.
Each cell with 4 or more neighbors dies. Each cell with
2-3 neighbors survives.
Unpopulated Space; Each cell with 3 neighbors
becomes populated
Life seems to be evident because some die and others
live or survive and multiply. They die because of
loneliness.
Complexity is natural and simple because it just
happens.
Most of the characters had a lot of generations.
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
Consciousness is a new property of computational
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Consciousness slide show.
among neurons. Consciousness is capable of
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the most fundamental aspect of
It extends within neurons to the level of cytoskeletal
consciousness. After watching and reading the mycrotubules.
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
11) Your Name.
Evelyn Barrientos
5/3/2004
Participant #17
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the Basically, you have a round case of an electrical motor.
steps in turning a motor's rotor.
Inside the case are two magnets attached to teh sides
of the case along with a rotor (armature) that sets in
the center. Two wires extend from the motor which
connect to stationary contacts attached to the rotor.
Current charges the electromagnets in the rotor. As the
rotor turns the magnetism of the rotor changes opposite
to the magnets inside the case, causing the motor to
turn. As long as current in supplied the motor will turn.
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a When you wrap a coil of wire around a piece of steel
bar magnet?
and apply current it magnatizes the steel this is called
an electromagnet.
3) A generator is different from a motor
b. a generator produces electricity.
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
f. a generator uses mechanical work to produce
because
electricity.
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
d. biomagnetic and electromagnetic methods
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
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5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
loudspeaker works.
Basically, a small paper tube with an electrical coil
within a magnet is a basic speaker. When you put
voltage, which creates impulses, on the electrical coil it
causes it to move quickly, or vibrate. As it moves the
paper is vebrated creating sound.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
As the current goes through the coil, the magnetic field
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
is changing; back and forth, north to south. The
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb magnetic field goes through the wire which creates and
light-up?
current and lights the light bulb.
7) A hologram is created
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
the interference of light concept.
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
The game of life is played on a grid that looks like
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
graph paper. There are live and dead cells all over the
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
grid. A live cell is one that is marked, dead cells are just
being both natural and simple, why? Which
plain. Depending on the number of "neighbors" you
characters in the game of life lived the
have, you either live or die. Life seems to be evident
longest?
because just like real life because we don't know when
a stable population will form, if we will go on forever, or
when everything will die out. Bryson says that
complexity is both natural and simple because there is
a reason for everything, everything is just there and it
happens around and goes on unconsciously even if it is
complex. For example cells, they just keep doing their
job decade after decade its just a natural thing to do
even though they are so complex, but because it is
unconscious to us it seems very simple.
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
The Quantum Consciousness slide show starts by
Consciousness slide show.
talking about the problem of consciousness which is
that how scientist view consciousness right now isn't
complete bacuse they are missing important aspects
like the "inner life", free will, and the subjective time
flow. The slideshow goes on to talk about how neurons
and microtubles work and objective reduction. Evolution
would be incapable of accelerating without
consciousness.
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were Neurons are not the most fundamental aspect of
the most fundamental aspect of
consciousness becasue although they relay messages
consciousness. After watching and reading the throughout our bodies and allow us to move and react
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
to a number of different things, they do not allow us to
show our free will and they cannot allow us to
understand time flow which in turn would throw off our
perception of reality.
11) Your Name.
Megan Stock
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Participant #18
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the A motor works very simply. First you send a current
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steps in turning a motor's rotor.
through the wire where part of it is immersed in a
magnetic field. This causes a force to be enacted on
the wire because of the flow of electrons. This flow
makes the wire move. Every half cycle the current in
the wire is changed by a commutator, this is a neutral
piece of something that allows the circuit to break
which allows for the change in current. The wire which
was rotating will keep rotating due to conservation of
momentum. Once the current is changed the wire then
spins in the other direction due to the opposite force
that is now enacted. So this causes the wire to keep
rotating in the same direction. The force that is enacted
on the wires causing them to leave the magnetic field
and rotate is called the Lorentz force
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a A current-carrying coil of water and a bar magnet are
bar magnet?
alike in an essential way. They both create the same
magnetic field. The way this is achieved is by the
electron flow through the coil of wires makes the coil
polar an inducing the magnetic field. The reason the
current carrying coil has a magnetic field is faraday’s
law. A magnetic filed is created looping around a wire
when there is a flow of current through it. When the
wire is in coils or loops it causes the magnetic field
lines become bunched and overlap causing them to
concentrate in the center of the loop. This is also the
cause of the similar magnetic field as the permanent
magnetic field of a bar magnet.
3) A generator is different from a motor
b. a generator produces electricity.
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
f. a generator uses mechanical work to produce
because
electricity.
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
b. Top-down/Bottom-up methods
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
Ok so first you put and alternating current flowing
loudspeaker works.
through coiled wire that is near a magnet and attached
to a cone. When the current is alternating at the same
frequency as the sound waves, like ever ½ second to
make a c note?, enables the cone to make the same
sound that was taken in. The alternating current in the
coil causes a magnetic field to be created. Once that
field is created it causes the coil to vibrate because of
the coil field being attracted to and repelled from the
permanent magnet. The vibration in the coil causes the
cone which is attached to it to vibrate as well. This
creates sound and taduh we have sound.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
The light bulb light up because of faradays law. This is
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
also known as electromagnetic induction. When the
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb contraption was plugged in it sent an alternating current
light-up?
through the coil of wires. This creates a magnetic field
in side the coil of wires that is very strong. When the
pipe of wires is then placed inside it creates a magnetic
field in that as well, a sort of electromagnet. When the
light bulb has its circle loop of wire brought near the bar
it lights up when there is a change in the magnetic
field. This is true because when there is space in which
the magnetic field is changing with time, an electric field
is induced. The induced electric field creates a current
in the wire causing the light bulb to light.
7) A hologram is created
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
the interference of light concept.
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
The rules are that there are three births and the
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
survival is 2 and 3. The new cell explodes every
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
generation. Life seems to be evident because I am
being both natural and simple, why? Which
making it. There are copious colors and movement. Life
characters in the game of life lived the
is so natural and simple. That is why it occurs so much
longest?
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barren and hostile environments. The characters that
live the longest life are those that can adapt. Adaptation
is the key to survival. This is true with all creatures.
Like the cockroach learned to live inside houses and
find food. It’s been around for years. Permanent
Species.
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
The quantum consciousness slide show begins by
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Consciousness slide show.
presenting the problem, that consciousness is very hard
to define. Next the physiology of consciousness is
discussed with microtubules. This is what gives us
consciousness? It then proceeds to discuss the
Philosophy and discusses empty space as well as
space-time and its similarity to our memory storage. The
plank scale is then discussed and used to talk about the
mathematical computing behind consciousness. For this
to occur it is necessary to get quibits to collapse or to
reduce. It then explains object reduction and the
equation for it E=h/T. Also questions if the brain utilizes
object reduction. Are proteins quibits, they might be but
it’s a stretch and if they are that means biological
protein structures could be quantum computers, this is
unlikely it most likely is the microtubules automata. Orch
model is then discussed and the idea is introduced that
consciousness arose from evolution. It seems logical
that consciousness h
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the most fundamental aspect of
disagree that the most fundamental aspect of
consciousness. After watching and reading the consciousness is not neurons. Because neurons can be
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
broken down even further into the microtubules. From
there protein quibits then aid in the idea of
consciousness. Mostly I would disagree because the
neuron can be broken down into so many smaller parts.
Its almost like saying the atom is the most fundamental
unit of matter. It kind of is but can be broken into
smaller parts. That’s why I disagree.
11) Your Name.
Justin Myers
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Participant #19
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the There are six main parts in a two-pole motor such as a 5/3/2004
steps in turning a motor's rotor.
commuter, rotor, axle, bruses, fixed magnet, and a DC
power supple. In order for motion to be created the
motor must use magnets. The rotation motion is then
created from the attracting and repelling forces from the
N and S poles. A motor works when an electromagnet
is connected to a battery source and placed in between
or surrounded by a magnet. Now if the north side of the
magnet paired up with the south side of the regular
magnet and visa versa and the electromagnet is
connected to opposite poles of the battery then this
causes a half-turn to occur in the electromagnet. This
occurs because of the natural repel and attraction of
the magnets. The electromagnetic field flips causing a
change in the direction of the electrons as soon as the
half-turn completes. This cause the motor to spin.
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a A currant carrying coil of wire is like a bar magnet
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bar magnet?
because it is field pattern is like that of a bar magnet. It
has both worth a south poles and its currant flow
follows in that direction. The only different between the
two is that you have to extend the magnetic field lines
3) A generator is different from a motor
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
because
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
loudspeaker works.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb
light-up?
7) A hologram is created
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
being both natural and simple, why? Which
characters in the game of life lived the
longest?
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
Consciousness slide show.
through the center of the coil which in turn forms loops
instead of starting and ending on a pole.
b. a generator produces electricity.
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work.
b. Top-down/Bottom-up methods
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A car stereo loudspeaker when broken down into parts,
from the end of the speaker there is the back plate that
is connected to the magnet then the core, to the voice
core, then to the top plates. then the part that looks like
a cone is called the basket and at the end of that is
terminals Inside the basket is the spider within the
cone, then the dust cap and the gasket. When an
electrical current passes through a wire coil which is the
voice coil, it then produces a force. The cone,
connected to the voice coil, moves in and out creating
waves of high and low air pressure.
The coil and magnet assembly are the "motor structure"
of the loudspeaker. The movement is controlled by the
loudspeaker's suspension which comprises the cone
surround and the "spider".
The surround and spider allow the coil to move freely
along the axis of the magnet's core without touching the
sides of the magnetic gap.
The light bulb lights up because there is a magnet
currents that runs through the coil going north, south
and this current around the coil changes directions
working back and forth. This energy running through the
coil gives off enough energy to light the light bulb.
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
the interference of light concept.
In 1970 the game Life was invented be a
mathematician named John Conway. The game was
carefully though out and the rules are that there are no
players or wining or losing. This game is played on a
grid with many squares. There are cells are live or they
are dead. The player has to create a neighborhood of
these cells. I downloaded the game and played a few
times. I did not really understand the game at first but
now I realize that we can see what we are living through
everyday as a game on the computer. The block players
are pretty strong the way that the four stick together
and can not be sweep away. The mention of complexity
from Bryson just means that having something be
complicated can defiantly be simple. And all problems
are natural.
Many people compare consciousness in the brain to a
computer. It has neurons and synapses acting like they
are switches. Quantum mechanics describes the odd
behavior of matter and energy at microscopic scales.
There are many levels, and particles, quantum
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time. Then there is quantum entanglement where the
particles are estranged in detachment , and might not
be connected. The three views that scientist have about
consciousness are the patterns of neural network
activities correlate with mental states, second,
synchronous network oscillations in thalamus and
cerebral cortex temporally bind information, and third
consciousness emerges as a novel property of
computational complexity among neurons. These views
are not valid all the time so that is the problem with
consciousness. The cytoskeleton plays a ,major role in
consciousness and microtubules are components of
those. Microtubules are cylindrical polymers of the
protein tubulin,
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were Neurons definatly play a major role within the
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the most fundamental aspect of
consciousness aspect but ut is not the most important.
consciousness. After watching and reading the An aspct that scientist are leaning more twords is the
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
cytoskeleton where microtubules are cimonents of that.
11) Your Name.
Esther Hilleli
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Participant #20
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the Electric motors are everywhere you can think of in your
steps in turning a motor's rotor.
house now a day. Washer, hair dryer, ice maker,
microwave oven, etc. Mechanical movements are cased
by an AC 'alternating current' or DC 'direct current'
electric motor. Axle holds the armature and the
commentator. Electric motors are all about magnets and
magnetism. A motor uses magnets opposites attract
and like to repel. So if you have two magnets with their
ends marked 'north' and 'south', then the north end will
attract the south end of the magnet. On the other hand
the north end of one magnet will repel the north end of
the other, and the south will repel south. Inside of the
electric motor these attracting and repelling forces
create rotational motion.
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a Both a current-carrying coil of wire and a bar magnet
bar magnet?
have a magnetic field. The also both have a north and
south pull to them. Since magnetic field lines are
continuous, that is never starting or ending anywhere,
the field lines inside the bar magnet must necessarily go
from the S to the N pole. (Electric fields begin and end
on electric charges. At this point we have yet to
discover any equivalent magnetic “charge.”) All the field
lines that are outside the magnet thus must be
concentrated on the inside. If this is confusing to you,
draw a simple diagram of a bar magnet, and then add
the field lines to your drawing indicating the direction
with arrows.
3) A generator is different from a motor
b. a generator produces electricity.
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
f. a generator uses mechanical work to produce
because
electricity.
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
b. Top-down/Bottom-up methods
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
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5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
loudspeaker works.
An electric signal, or the current coming from a source
is transmitted to the coil of a wire. The current causes a
magnetic field to be set up around the magnet. The
magnetic acts on the coil and makes it move back and
forth. The cone shaped diaphone vibrates and
reproduces the sound.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
The bulb lit up because there was an alternating current
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
in the coil of wire that was plunged up. That caused for
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb the current transfer to the group of copper wire
light-up?
therefore causing a magnetic field the current in the
wires connected in the light bulb, which caused for the
light-to-light up.
7) A hologram is created
b. using any light, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
the interference of electrons concept
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
Rules: the game of life is played on a grid of square
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
cells. A cell can be live or dead. Live cells (come to be
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
by putting a mark on its square), A dead cell is its
being both natural and simple, why? Which
opposite (empty square). Each grid has a neighborhood.
characters in the game of life lived the
-A dead cell with exactly three live neighbors becomes
longest?
a live cell (birth). -A live cell with two or three live
neighbors stays alive (survival). - In all other cases, a
cell dies or remains dead (overcrowding or loneliness).
Elaborate patterns and behaviors can emerge from very
simple rules. "Emergent complexity" or "self-organizing
system" - Helps us to understanding the diversity of life
that has evolved on earth. "Just like we can study
simple animals (like worms) to discover things about
more complex animals (like human), people can study
the game life to learn about patterns and behaviors in
more complex system.
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
Consciousness is a very complex process, within the
Consciousness slide show.
human mind. The brain process consciousness as if a
person uses a computer. The inner workings of the
brain included Quantum Mechanics, which encompass
all the atoms and sub-atomic particles. Neutrons are
also very highly complex. They control many elements
within the atoms. It is the neutron's job to organize
cellular activity, creating consciousness and making the
computer work.
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were . I would disagree with the scientists that believe that
the most fundamental aspect of
neurons are the most fundamental aspect of
consciousness. After watching and reading the consciousness, because there are certain parts and
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
systems to the body in which a human does not
control. We are aware of things and we see things
however, there is a certain level of consciousness that
the body has no control over.
11) Your Name.
Dalilia Stewart
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steps in turning a motor's rotor.
magnets. A motor creates motion using magnets. The
simple principal behind magnets is that opposites
attract and likes repel. So if you were to have two bar
magnets with each of their ends marked, the opposite
ends would attract while the same ends would repel.
Inside an electric motor, these magnetic repelling forces
create something called rotational motion. The rotor
itself is an electromagnet and is the secret behind the
motor. The magnetic field is constantly changing inside
of the motor and the electrons in the rotor keep
changing direction.
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a The current-carrying coil becomes a metal
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bar magnet?
electromagnet. If you were to run an axle through the
middle of it and suspend it in the middle of a horseshoe
magnet and then attach a battery to the electromagnet
so that the north end of the coil would be repelled from
the north end of the horseshoe magnet and attracted to
the south end of the horseshoe magnet. The south end
of the electromagnet would be repelled in a similar way.
The bar magnet acts the same way.
3) A generator is different from a motor
b. a generator produces electricity.
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3) A generator is different from a motor
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because
electricity.
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
b. Top-down/Bottom-up methods
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methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
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loudspeaker works.
from an audio source and converting it into a
mechanical motion. Sound comes from the loudspeaker
when the cone moves back and forth. The cone is
made of a paper or plastic material. There is also a
tweeter that produces the higher pitched tones that
contains a voice coil and a magnet. Both the tweeter
and the cone contain a magnet. The sound usually
comes from an electronic source called an amplifier.
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connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
magnetic poles from north to south made an
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb electromagnetic current that produced enough power to
light-up?
make the light bulb light-up.
7) A hologram is created
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
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What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
neighbors whose cells are full (contain a bit) is a birth
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
cell. A bit is placed in it for the next move. For deaths,
being both natural and simple, why? Which
each full cell (containing a bit) with 4 or more neighbors
characters in the game of life lived the
dies from overpopulation. Every full cell with 1 or no
longest?
neighbors dies from isolation. The bit is removed from it
for the next move. In other words, every bit with 2 or 3
neighbors survives (remains) for the next move. Life
seems to be evident because of the rules set forth for
the game. Bryson says complexity is both natural and
simple because of the way the earth is today. Even the
smallest things can be so completely complex, but it is
that way naturally, and everything about the
complexities is simple. Because that is the way it
occurred naturally on this earth.
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
The Quantum Consciousness slideshow basically
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Consciousness slide show.
showed how most of the brain acted when it was
computing conscious thought. It went on to show how
there was tubulins within microtubules that could switch
between two or more states like a computer processor
(i.e.: 0 or 1). But there was a quantum state in-between
that was a combination of the two states that could
produce transmission and learning within neurons. This
could further be explained as the thinking that is going
on in the background of your head. Like if you were to
look at a dinner menu, in your mind, these microtubules
are already making your decision. This in turn questions
free will. Scientists argue that these microtubules are
simply calculating a complex algorithm that decides your
each and every choice.
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scientists found very substantial evidence that the
consciousness. After watching and reading the tubulins inside the microtubules were influencing the
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
neurons via entanglement.
11) Your Name.
Alex Podgurski
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Participant #22
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the A motor has a couple of magnets, that face in the
steps in turning a motor's rotor.
opposite direction (one is facing the north, and the
other, the south side). This creates a magnetic field,
and when a conductor loop is inserted in this magnetic
field, the current flows through it, as well. The electric
current consists of flowing electrons, and once in the
magnetic field produces a torque (AKA-a measure of
how much force is acting on an object, causing it to
rotate). Then, it becomes evident that the electric
current is supplied through a commutator, which makes
the direction of the current, in each half cycle, change.
This allows the torque to turn the coil in the same
direction. This is because the electric current flows in
an opposite direction, and gives each end of loop the
opposite force. This will make the conductor loop rotate
continuously mainly because the electric current keeps
changing its direction (when it is flowing)...and that is
how motor's rotor is kept rotating!
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a It is like a bar magnet primarily in the way that they
bar magnet?
both carry their magnetic fields. Both the bar magnet
and the CC coil of wire produce the north magnetic
pole, and the south. They also both charge in the same
manner, both flowing from the North to the South,
circulating.
3) A generator is different from a motor
b. a generator produces electricity.
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
f. a generator uses mechanical work to produce
because
electricity.
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
b. Top-down/Bottom-up methods
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
In order for a loudspeaer to work, we would need a
loudspeaker works.
magnet that has a hole in it, to allow a loose (or free)
coil through it. This also would need to be attached to a
diaphragm. Then, an alternating current goes through
the coil of the speaker, via microphone, radio, etc. This
causes an alternating magnetic field in the coil and its
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"alternations' are attracted to or repelled by the magnet,
which causes vibrations. And when the coil vibrates the
diaphragm, this produces loud sounds!
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
This occurred because the magnetic field went back
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
and forth, and through the ring with the bulb. This made
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb the light bulb light up, when these currents went
light-up?
through (remember, the currents were changing!).
7) A hologram is created
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
the interference of light concept.
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
In the game of life, there are cells that can either live,
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
or die. These cells are represented by a square that are
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
darker than the surrounding areas. So, in other words, if
being both natural and simple, why? Which
a square is white, the cell is dead, or non-existent. A
characters in the game of life lived the
birth can occur, however, if the three neighboring cells
longest?
are all alive, which produces the birth (reproduction?).
Chances are, with 2 or 3 live cells around it, the cell will
also live.
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
The Slide Show had a lot of interesting parts in it. I
Consciousness slide show.
learned about neurons and chemical synapses, which
were simply fundamental units of information in the
brain. Consiousness, however, in the brain, occurs at a
critical level of complexity and it gets even more
intriguing, via Quantum Consciousness. Its kind of like
there is a computer within our brain. There was also the
mention of microtubules, which helped make synaptic
connections occur, etc.
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were After reading the 'Introduction: Quantum
the most fundamental aspect of
Consciousness", I believe that the neurons are not the
consciousness. After watching and reading the most fundamental aspect of our consciousness. Within
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
the neurons, there are highly ordered "networks" that
consist of microtubules and other filaments/structures
that organize the cells' activities. So, beyond just
neurons, there are many other smaller, more precise
quantum effects occurring in our consciousness.
11) Your Name.
Helen Yohannes
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steps in turning a motor's rotor.
a battery, goes through a brush that is touching a
commutator with a wire loop. The current goes through
the wire loop, which is within a magnetic field, and exits
the commutator through a brush on the other side, from
which the current returns to the battery (on the negative
side). When an electric current goes through the loop
within the magnetic field it produces a torque, which
turns the DC rotor. Because the commutator has a
rubber middle section to separate the positive and
negative ends, the current stops momentarily. But
because the electrons in the wire are still moving and it
is within a magnetic field, the wire will continue to turn
until the rubber part of the commutator no longer
touches the brushes, in other words, the current is no
longer disrupted. Since the commutator has both a
positive and a negative side, the current will reverse
every half turn to keep the torque turning the loop in
the same direction. Each
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a A current-carrying coil of wire is like a bar magnet
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bar magnet?
because it has a magnetic field around it when a
current is running through it.
f. a generator uses mechanical work to produce
electricity.
b. Top-down/Bottom-up methods
3) A generator is different from a motor
because
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
A cone-shaped diaphragm has a coil wrapped around
loudspeaker works.
its smallest end. This part is within a magnet’s magnetic
field. A microphone or other source makes noises,
which create an alternating current that moves through
the coil. This current is produced according to the
sound vibrations from its source. Currents produce a
magnetic field around their wires. Because it is an
alternating current and within a permanent magnetic
field it gets attracted and repelled at the same
frequency by the permanent magnet. This attraction and
repulsion causes the coil, which causes the diaphragm,
to vibrate. The vibrations of the diaphragm are the
same as that of the sound’s source, making it able to
recreate the source’s sound (generally at a higher
volume).
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
The light bulb lit up because the Thomson Ring demo
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
apparatus has a metal rod in the center of a container
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb with a metal coil. Although the coil does not touch the
light-up?
rod, when a current is produced and goes through the
coil, a magnetic field results. The rod, which is within
the magnetic field, is a conductor of electricity. A
magnetic field is created all along the metal rod. When
the coil of wire with the connected light bulb is placed
on the top of the rod, the magnetic field gets created
within the light bulb’s coil, which produces a current.
This current goes from within the coil into the light bulb,
lighting it up. So it is because of the magnetic
capabilities of metal that the light bulb was lit.
7) A hologram is created
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
the interference of light concept.
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
There are four rules. 1) A cell with 0 or 1 dies because
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
of loneliness. 2) A cell with four or more neighbors dies
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
because of overcrowding. 3) A cell with two or three
being both natural and simple, why? Which
neighbors survives because it is not too crowded or too
characters in the game of life lived the
empty. And 4) A cell with three neighbors is born
longest?
because of a thriving area. This seems to be evident
because it is the simplest example of a self-organizing
system. It explains how the simple cell system can
cause variations and changes in all living things and still
survive. Complexity is both natural and simple because
its very core is that of DNA. DNA is the combination of
only two pairs of nucleotides. Everyone is different from
everyone and every other living thing on this earth
because of the combination and replication of their
DNA. As far as characters go, I’m not sure as to what
you are referring to. I could not open the .zip file and
had to use another website’s program. It didn’t have the
same names, but I think it was called the shooter in the
.zip fil
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9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
Consciousness slide show.
The slide show went over the different ideas of
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consciousness. It talked about it at quantum levels
(microtubules) It gave the thoughts on consciousness
throughout time around the world. It talks about concept
of space-time, quantum foam, and their relations to
some theories, such as Planck’s scale and a Penrose
spin network. The relating of ideas between relativity
and biology is examined. It takes a look at quibits and
quantum computation (the quantum superpositioned
states and their related classic outcome states). Lastly,
it talks of Penrose’s Objective Reduction theory, which
when dealing with quantum gravity, can have some
features of consciousness within the brain. It talks of
the OR model, the possibility of proteins being quibits,
and the relationship between Orch OR and cognition.
Lastly, it talks of the evolution of consciousness.
Basically, it talks about how the idea of consciousness
came about, and looks into possible biological
foundations for it.
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were I would disagree because neurons are made up of
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the most fundamental aspect of
microtubules. It is these things that create and maintain
consciousness. After watching and reading the the synaptic connections. They speed up the process
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
and make patterns to help the brain compute
information. The patterns make me think of the game of
life; in which patterns determine the survival and
success of a system. Consciousness is complex, so
why can’t it be simple and natural, too?
11) Your Name.
Genessy Glory
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Participant #24
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the - Steps on how a motor works:
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steps in turning a motor's rotor.
1) A current flows through the loop of wire immersed in
a magnetic field as shown.
2) Each end of the loop of wire will experience a force
(right -hand rule) due to the electrons flowing in the loop
of wire.
3) The commutator will change the direction of the
current every half cycle.
4) Each end of the loop of wire will experience an
opposite force due to the electrons flowing in the
opposite direction.
5) The loop of wire will continue to rotate due to the
changing direction of the current immersed in a
magnetic field.
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a A magnetic field is created around a current-carrying
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bar magnet?
wire. They are produced by electrical currents, which
can be macroscopic currents in wires. The interaction of
magnetic field with charge leads to many practical
applications. Magnetic field sources are essentially
dipolar in nature, having a north and sound magnetic
pole.
The possibilities of producing a forces:
- a moving charge
3) A generator is different from a motor
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
because
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
loudspeaker works.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb
light-up?
7) A hologram is created
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
being both natural and simple, why? Which
characters in the game of life lived the
longest?
- a current in a wire
- and movie wire
- in a magnetic field.
c. a generator produces mechanical work.
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electricity.
b. Top-down/Bottom-up methods
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Theres a cone and voice coil that moves the cone up
and down. Also, theres a magnet that movies the voice
coil. When all three components work together thus the
cone vibrates creating sound.
The coil of wire with the connected light bulb created
current around the wire. When the Thomson Ring
apparatus light lit up, the direction of the magnetic field
changes. The glass was its insulator. Another example
of this is like the electric toothbrush.
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
the interference of light concept.
The game of life is played on a grid of square cells. A
cell can live or be dead. A live cell is shown by putting a
marker on its square. A dead cell is shown by leaving
the square empty.
Each cell in the grid has a neighborhood consisting of
the eight cells in every direction including diagonals.
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First, we count the number of live neighbors for each
cell. What happens next depends on this number.
A dead cell with exactly three live neighbors becomes a
live cell (birth).
A live cell with two or three live neighbors stays alive
(survival).
In all other cases, a cell dies or remains dead
(overcrowding or loneliness).
'Life' seem to be evident because as in nature, we
observe many fascinating phenomena. Nature, however,
is complicated and we aren't sure of all the rules.
The game of Life lets us observe a system where we
know all the rules. Just like we can study simple
animals (like worms) to discover things about more
comp
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
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Consciousness slide show.
contained in discrete packets called quantra.
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the most fundamental aspect of
the brain as a computer, with neurons and synapses
consciousness. After watching and reading the acting as basic switches, or "bits". In this approach,
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
consciousness is thought to "emerge" as a novel
property of complex computation.
11) Your Name.
However this approach fails to adequately deal with
enigmatic features of consciousness and more radical
approaches may be necessary.
Janice Macahilas
Participant #25
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the An electric current moves througha coil in a magentic
steps in turning a motor's rotor.
field and the force makes a "torque" which makes the
motor spin. The electric current needs to keep moving
in order for the magnetic force to keep going. The
electrical current also needs to turn on and off so that
the motor and the force of the magnets will keep the
motor spinning. The electric current that comes from the
commutator goes on and off so that the signs of the
magnetic field will flip from positive to negative and
back to positive.
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a the coil and the bar magnet's magnetic current both
bar magnet?
move the same way. The current goes throught the
middle of the coil or bar and then loops around on the
outside of the bar or coil and then continues back into
the bar or coil. It goes into a sort of "London Bridge is
falling down" path (the current travels under the bridge
and then goes in a circle, continuing to go under the
bride.)
3) A generator is different from a motor
a. a generator uses a reverse magnetic field.
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
b. a generator produces electricity.
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
c. a generator produces mechanical work.
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
g. a generator uses electricity to produce mechanical
because
work.
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
b. Top-down/Bottom-up methods
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
and alternating current goes through the coil and in the
loudspeaker works.
speaker. The current brings the changing fiel into the
coil in the speaker. As the poles change on the coil, the
magnet is attarcted to and repelled from the coil making
the coil vibrate. These vibrations on the cone of the
speaker replicate the sounds made by the source and
amplifies them.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
by moving a magnet through the rings, it created a
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
current. The current that was going around the the
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb apparatus and into the coil caused a current in the
light-up?
lightbulb, making it light up when it was touching. Tony
also did a demonstration where the lightbulb wasn't
touching the aparatus and the bulb still lit. This is
because the current is also around the apparatus.
7) A hologram is created
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
the interference of light concept.
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
The rules to the game of life is to keep going as long
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
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be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
being both natural and simple, why? Which
characters in the game of life lived the
longest?
movement of the life form, this means there's
complexity in the lifeform. Bryson states that complexity
is both natural and simple because it is proven through
evolution that as we evolve we become more complex.
Complexity is also simple because in order for one to
conitinue to be complex they need to stay alive, that's
it. In order to be complex and increase in complexity,
you need to survive. The character that lived the
longest for me was the character that I made when I
was playing around with the game. It lasted for a while,
but I can't remember what the exact layout was
because I was just clicking around.
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Consciousness slide show.
about their belief that neurons are most important in
conciousness. It also goes the jobs of cells and how
they're jobs are according to their size. Their size it
determined by their microtubles. Then the slides go on
to talk about the Casimir force, Quantum
electodynamics and Roger Penrose's spin network.
Mostly, however, the slides spend a lot of time
comparing the activity in a tubulin and a spacetime
curvature.
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were The neural aspects did not cover the explanations of
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the most fundamental aspect of
conciousness. It leaves out the nature of "subjective
consciousness. After watching and reading the experience" and it doesn't explain one's free will, and
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
subjective time flow. The slides point out a lot of holes
in the neural aspect. There were also images that show
that brain activity is going on without the individual
being concious of it. Things neurons aren't the only
compounds that are in the brain, there are Glial cells
and electronic gap junctions. It's not all neurons..
scientists are giving those neurons too much credit.
11) Your Name.
Audrey Lao
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Participant #26
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the One of the simplest versions of a motor consists of a
steps in turning a motor's rotor.
loop of wire positioned within a magnetic field. This field
is created by the placement of two magnets with
opposited poles on either side of the loop of wire. The
wire then has a current run through it, this produces a
Lorentz force due to the electrons moving through the
wire. This force moves either end of the loop of wire. To
produce continuous torque, which would be required in
a motor, the wire must have the current changed within
it once every half-cycle, that would cause the rotor to
be moving continuously.
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a Both a current-carrying coil of wire and a bar magnet
bar magnet?
produce magnetic fields. These fields are strikingly
similar to one another, they appear dipolar and can be
seen by sprinkling iron shavings around the two objects.
When seen side-by-side the two magnetic fields appear
to be identical, with bands radiating progressively more
outwards and connecting each pole.
3) A generator is different from a motor
b. a generator produces electricity.
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
f. a generator uses mechanical work to produce
because
electricity.
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
b. Top-down/Bottom-up methods
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methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
The construction of a simple loudspeaker includes a
loudspeaker works.
fixed magnet with a coil moving freely over it. An imput
source sends an alternating current through the coil.
This source could be a radio or microphone, this current
alternates at the same frequency as the original input.
The change in current moves a magnetic field through
the coil which reacts to the fixed magnet, causing the
coil to move in correlation with the change in frequency,
the coil is attatched to a cone-shaped diaphragm which
then reproduces and amplifies the original input.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
The light bulb lit up becuase when you touched the
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
button and allowed a current to run through the outer
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb coil a magentic field was produced. This was the same
light-up?
magnetic field which lifted the metal rings placed on the
coil to be tossed into the air. This field created enough
of a charge to light the bulb on top of the Thomson
Ring.
7) A hologram is created
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
the interference of light concept.
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
The game of life contains a grid of cells who have two
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
possible states, live cells and dead cells. The rules for
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
the game of life are that any dead cell with exactly
being both natural and simple, why? Which
three living cells as neighbors then become living cells,
characters in the game of life lived the
any living cells with two or three living neighbors stays
longest?
alive and in all other cases a cell dies or remains dead.
'Life' seems to be evident in that the rules are what
create the patterns and results, not the programmers
settings. Bryson is right to say that complexity is both
natural and simple, for it is with the few simple rules of
the game of life which an infinite amount of complex
patterns and series emerge. The characters in the
game of life which I saw to live the longest were the
blocks of four living cells, they would remain forever if
not interrupted by living cells moving across the grid.
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
It was once believed by nearly the entire field of
Consciousness slide show.
individuals who study consciousness that consciousness
was simply the result of classical computation in the
brain. This view however does not account for
numerous things, such as free will. We can see using
advanced imaging techniques today which areas of the
brain appear to correlate with consciousness but we
can't say for certain they are responsible. Neurons are
composed of microtubules which contain tubulins.
These tubulins can be in one of two states, however it
is now known that due to their incredibly tiny size and
the speed in which they change states that they can be
in both states at the same time. Objective Reduction
(OR) will occur at different times, collapsing these twostate tubulins. Using the Orch OR model was can
predict when consciousness emerged, during the
Cambrian explosion in urchins and worms.
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were I would have to disagree. Neurons hold the tubules
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which may indeed be the most fundamental aspect of
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consciousness. After watching and reading the consciousness, but it is not the neruon. The neuron
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
does not have nearly enough complexity to it, nor was
there enough evidence in the QC slideshow to make
me think that the neuron is the fundamental aspect.
11) Your Name.
Eric Olney
Participant #27
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the
steps in turning a motor's rotor.
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a
bar magnet?
3) A generator is different from a motor
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
because
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
loudspeaker works.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb
light-up?
7) A hologram is created
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
being both natural and simple, why? Which
characters in the game of life lived the
longest?
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
Consciousness slide show.
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were
the most fundamental aspect of
consciousness. After watching and reading the
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
11) Your Name.
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current carrying wire generates amagnetic feild. Like a
magnet, the magnetic feild flows from north to south
a. a generator uses a reverse magnetic field.
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b. a generator produces electricity.
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e. the current goes in the opposite direction in a
generator.
a. Input-Output methods
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when the sound wave frequency is fast, we hear a
higher pitch. And the air pressure level will determine
how loud the sound is, if the air wave is moving faster
the light bulb lighted up because there was a current
running through it.
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the interference of light concept.
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there are different parts of the brain that works for
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most fundamental aspect. Neurons have many other
ablilites, and for consciousness i feel it has to do with
more of the brain.
minhtam nguyen
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Participant #28
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the The elecdric current is supplied externally through a
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steps in turning a motor's rotor.
commutator. The communtatorreverses the current each
half reuduction to keep the torque, turning the coili in
the same direction. When an electric current passes
through a coil in a magnetic field, the magnetic force
produces a torque which turns the motor rotor. (Facts
from your website).
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a A current carrying coil of wire is like a bar magnet
bar magnet?
because like a bar magnet, a current carrying coil has a
magnetic field.
3) A generator is different from a motor
a. a generator uses a reverse magnetic field.
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
b. a generator produces electricity.
because
3) A generator is different from a motor
f. a generator uses mechanical work to produce
because
electricity.
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
a. Input-Output methods
methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
The current alternating at the same frequency as the
loudspeaker works.
sound waves that generated it, induces an alternating
magnetic field in the coil. As the polarity of the
magnetic field of the coil alternates, it is alternatively
attracted to and repelled by the permanent magnet.
This causes the coil to vibrate, the vibrating coil causes
the attached cone shaped diaphram to vibrate and
reproduce the sounds generated by the engine source.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
THe magnetic field altenates 60 times per second,
connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
being produced by an AC, iron core coil, the changing
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb magnetic field creates a voltage in the coil which lights
light-up?
the bulb.
7) A hologram is created
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
the interference of light concept.
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
THe rules are that a cell can be either alive or dead. a
What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
live squre is shown by a marker on it. a dead cell is
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
empty. each cell has a neighborhood of eight. a dead
being both natural and simple, why? Which
cell with three neighbors by him can become alive. a
characters in the game of life lived the
live cell with 2 or 3 neighors stays alive. any other
longest?
combination the cells die. "We must first find all of the
cells that change before changing any of them." (Web
source)
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
The slides attempted to explain what consciousness is
Consciousness slide show.
and how we could have possibly acquired it. the slides
begin explaining the problems of conscinousness, then
move on the microtubles, pan experientital philosophy,
quantum computing, roger penroses objective reduction,
qubits, orch OR model, cognition and free will and
finally how we evolved to our current consciousness
state
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were I would disagree because neurons seem to simply make
the most fundamental aspect of
up the wiring of our brain. from watching and reading
consciousness. After watching and reading the the QC slide show there are many more parts which
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
make up human consciouness. There are microtubles,
quibits, orch OR, etc.
11) Your Name.
Sarah Hutchinson
Participant #29
1) How does a motor work? Briefly explain the A motor works only if there is a current flowing through
steps in turning a motor's rotor.
a wire, which then passes through a magnetic field,
which changes the current flowing through that wire.
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The end of the loop of the wire will experience a force
and will change the flow of the current, which is found
within. The reason for the change in direction is
because the commutator will end up changing the
direction of the current every half cycle, which will force
the current to flow in the opposite direction. As a result
the motor will continue to work because of the changing
direction of the current, which is found within the
magnetic field.
2) How is a current-carrying coil of wire like a A current-carrying coil of wire is like a bar magnet
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bar magnet?
becase of its ability to carry a current. The current is not
necesarily found in the same place but has the same
aspect. In coil the current is found from within and the
current is changing directions. In a magnet the current
is found outside becuase it produces a magnetic field
and what the magnet does is intensify it. That why the
light bulb lit up in when the coil of wire was placed near
the apparatus.
3) A generator is different from a motor
b. a generator produces electricity.
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because
3) A generator is different from a motor
f. a generator uses mechanical work to produce
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because
electricity.
4) In Future Fanatastic, there were two
b. Top-down/Bottom-up methods
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methods used to develop memory and using
it. They showed the chasing mice to
demonstrate one method to develop memory.
The other method mentioned was the
computerized chess champion Big Blue. What
are these two methods.
5) In your own words, briefly explain how a
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loudspeaker works.
cone. When a current is passed into the speaker it
travels through the wire and it is constantly changing
dirrection due to the magnet that is surrounding it. The
coil is attached to the cone where the sound comes out
of. The reason there is sound is because of the
alternating currnet which cause sound waves to be
generated. Since there is a source which sends a
current into the speaker that travels inside the coil in
alternating its current which causes vibratins within the
cone is what cause sound to come out at differnt
frequencies.
6) In class, I placed the coil of wire with the
The reason why the light lit up was becasue of the
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connected light bulb on top of the Thomson
magnetic field that was being produced by the
Ring demo apparatus, why did the light bulb apperatus. Since a current was running through the
light-up?
apparatus it caused a magnetic field as result and the
rod just intensified the field arround it. Since the wire
was placed near the apparatus a current was produced
within the coil and as a result the light bulb lit up.
7) A hologram is created
c. using a laser, mirrors, object, holographic film, and
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the interference of light concept.
8) Download the game of life. Play with it.
did not have enough time to put in
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What are the rules? Why does 'life' seem to
be evident? Bryson mentions complexity as
being both natural and simple, why? Which
characters in the game of life lived the
longest?
9) Briefly, summarize the Quantum
did not have enough time to put in
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Consciousness slide show.
10) Some scientists thought that neurons were did not have enough time to put in
the most fundamental aspect of
consciousness. After watching and reading the
QC slide show, why would you disagree?
11) Your Name.
Alex Nunez
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