Open book examination to be completed and returned by noon Wednesday, December 12, 1990. You may use any available reference or your notes, ~ut do not collaborate with other students or staff regarding questions or answers.
1. Turn in the completed graphic exercises handed out a week ago.
2. With Biophysical illustrations and applications in mind, elaborate to the extent of a paragraph or two on each of the following concepts:
a) Precision versus Accuracy
b) Kinematic degrees of freedom
c) Probabilistic and/or stochastic processes
d) The concept and application of phase-space analysis
e) Biophysical Plausibility as contrasted to Probability
3. Find a published article in the scientific, technical, medical or popular literature that you find intriguing, valuable, controversial or creative, provide a copy of the article if it is short enough to copy, reference it, and then compactly summarize it in your own words, critique it, especially where you find it in error or especially contributive.
This task can be accomplished well in two to ten pages of text.
4. Our first quarter discussions have been unusually wide in range; often including fundamental philosophical, ethical and technical problems. You have individually to various degrees contributed to these explorations from your expertise and investigation.
Develop one of these themes that intrigues you and offers guidance to the direction that Biophysical and Biomimetic Science should go, and include one to three specific projects in support of your proposal. These can be at personal, local, national or global scale.
5. To emphasize the contrast between the major constituents of Biophysical Sciences, list in simple compact statement form: a) five major physical science principles that are firmly accepted to the extent of being considered “Laws” and then; b) a corresponding set of five “Biological Laws”.