Open book examination to be completed and returned by noon Monday, December 13, 1993. You may use any available references or your notes, but do not collaborate with other students or staff regarding questions or answers.
1. Write an excellent question for this quarter's take-home Biophysics final examination and then answer it elegantly!
2. Define succinctly, in at most a few sentences, the key concepts that identify, characterize and distinguish between the two terms we used so frequently, “Biophysical Science and Technology” and “Biomimetic Science and Technology”.
3. There is a wealth of new and important ideas and research development in the many journals and books that I have made available to you in the classroom and office and I hope you have spent some hours studying them and exploring ideas suggested there and in class and will continue to do so. Select two topics, related or unrelated, that you have found impressively attractive, give the source reference, and then report on the source material itself and ideas inspired in you by the material. Consider the two reports to be essentially separate.
4. We have spent an unusually large amount of class time discussing the basic elements of physics and perceived Biophysical phenomena that are “reality” that need not be questioned, such as Cartesian three dimensional space, physics clock time, Newton's statics and dynamics and Maxwell's electric and magnetic phenomena. We have seen how these doctrinal concepts are comfortable until we run into relativistic time, gravitational force abberations and “biological time” that is very different from “tick-tock” physical time.
Write a few paragraphs sharing your new extended insights into these phenomena and the revisions we must make if we are to develop algorithmic field theory, including the still mysterious phenomena of conscious and superconscious conception and communication. Be aware that you are touching on material that is now forcing itself onto medical and quality of life problems.
5. You all did a few exercises on learning to mentally estimate time units such as a minute and to examine how quickly and accurately you could improve this ability and to learn whether it persists. Provide a little data on your own experiments and draw a few conclusions if possible.
6. Turn in your brief review of the Chemical Rubber Handbook and its counterparts as sources of mathematical tables, formulas, and Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical and Biological data, all of which are essential to Biophysical Science and Technology with a few favorable or critical comments, naming your favorites.
7. List a few conceptual or technical areas that you would like to explore during winter quarter.