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Over the spring 2006 semester, members of the Institute for
Mature Learning at Drury University in Missouri were lucky to be able
to take four classes with a professor of physics from the school. Here’s
an overview of those classes.
Titan: The New Riviera – The European Space
Agency’s triumphant Huygens Probe now sits on the shore of a cryogenic
ocean, nearly a billion miles from home.
Falling Cats and Satellites: A Unique Robot Called the Orientation
Ratchet – How can you turn without pushing or pulling
on something? Cats do it to always land on their feet. Learn about the
development of a unique robot that turns without any angular momentum.
The Little Man Inside Your Head and the Mathematics of Monkey
Brains and Mechanical Arms – What does physics tell us
about how the brain controls arm motion? The answer is sought using
data from monkeys that play video games while their brain cell activities
are recorded, and by the addition of computer-activated synthetic muscles
to a human skeleton model.
From Saturn to the South Pacific: Volcanoes of Ice and Fire!
– Learn the causes and widely varying characteristics of spectacular
volcanoes throughout our solar system.
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August 29, 2008
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