Reflection On Physics

August 28, 2017, the first day of my fresh and scary journey. My first day as a Colorado Christian University student, English composition online is my first class. Part of me is ready; part of me is ready to throw in the towel. I hadn’t even had a chance to turn a paper in, and the first assignment, a 5-paragraph essay had me thinking “you’re a crazy person for going back to school, it’s been 11 years since you had to write a paper. What are you thinking?” I told myself its 5 weeks (later I would realize actually 6) you can make it 5 weeks! Although I knew writing wouldn’t be my easiest subject, I knew I had to try my hardest. This class was condensed and hard, but effective and informative; I’ve learned so much, felt all sorts of emotions and know I can apply what I’ve learned in classes to come.

Since Year 7, I have found myself to be naturally able and passionate towards mathematics and I maintained excellent grades throughout high school. Despite my enjoyment of mathematics and the satisfaction I get from solving problems, I always asked myself how these laws were helpful in the world and I found more answers when I turned to physics and saw my mathematical skills being used to practical effect. I realised just how immersed I was becoming in physics when whilst enjoying theme park rides, I started to examine the physics behind the rides and mentally solved calculations to figure out the force being used to meet the velocities in the record times they claimed. From this point I dived into physics and knew I wanted to study it

In addition to these multiple self studied courses, I chose to take Honors Engineering Physics. However, the teacher understood that I had completed a higher level physics course and allowed me to use his class as time to research and experiment whatever I want. At the moment, I am currently applying what I have learned about electricity and circuits to a broken down golf cart and noticing how real life application of physics works. I am realizing how numbers and equations work out nicely on paper, but real life application hardly ever work

I finally could answer my lifelong question that troubled me since I was a kid which was what do I want to do with my life? At that moment I was struck by an epiphany! The answer was finally right before my eyes and it was Public health, and from that day on I wanted start my journey in Public health, it changed the way I saw the world and in return I wanted to change

While implementing Primary Health Care models, identical to those in metropolitan areas, in a rural setting is not practical, I feel there is an obvious need to improve primary health care in remote areas. This is due to the significant health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, in rural and remote areas

Physics is the study of everything that matter and energy effect. Since all objects that take up space have energy, every object in the world is studied by physics. Physics deals a lot with forces, such as normal force, gravitational force, and frictional force. A simple example of these forces is a pen being dropped. The force acting on the pen is the gravitational force. There is no other object under the pen to keep it from falling, so the pen will keep falling until it hits the floor.

So much can be explained through basic postulates that have been constructed from physics. The classical mechanics that dictate the motion of the human body, the electrical systems that form the basis of impulses in nerves and cardiac tissue, and so much more, captured my attention. In addition, even the mind-bending concepts of physics, such as quantum mechanics, fascinated and perplexed me. Time and time again, I would find ideas from physics enchanting. Though potentially putting my grades on the line, I decided to pursue physics as my core field of study.

Physics has been both a challenging and deeply beneficial course. The reason this course has been difficult for me isn’t because it is an AP class. It also isn’t because I am only a sophomore, my age has no real impact in this instance. This class has been difficult for me because it presented several ideas in ways I had never challenged before. It has truly made me question my way of thinking and has opened up my eyes to the world around me. Some of the things I’ve learned in class I’ve already observed before but never knew why. Other things I’ve been blind to and finding out the truth gives me a whole new perspective. I have had to retrain my brain out of its misconception of reality. Learning something entirely new is easy. The real challenge occurs when you have to forget what you thought you knew and replace it with something entirely different.

As I progressed through my education, my habits slowly improved, eventually earning myself mediocre grades in mathematics and the sciences, which unbeknownst to past me, were heavily mathematically based. By the end of junior year I began to realize the true importance of everything I learned, despite it's perceived relevance at the time. The peak of my efforts culminated in a otherwise fairly average achievement -- a 3 on the AP Physics exam. To some, perhaps even a disappointment -- to me, the smart alec who's eyes were forced wide open to a world that is not forgiving to the lazy, it meant everything. The concepts and mathematics of Physics relied heavily on both knowledge and application of algebra, calculus, and geometrical ideas -- subjects I subjected myself to struggle in. In an attempt to prove to myself that I had the knowledge and mastery of these ideas, a course that was designed to incorporate them all was a true litmus test of my abilities and how far they had progressed to earn myself something only I may be proud

The knowledge then expanded in an Advanced Placement Chemistry class. In physics I did a project on nuclear fusion. The paper discussed concepts of nuclear physics never taught to me. I worked hard to grasp the difficult theories, and my grades exhibit dedication to furthering this competence.

In Journal 1, from The Alternative, Galen Leonhardy expounds what it was like during the first few months as a teacher in a brand new alternative school. Galen Leonhardy illuminates on how to be an effective teacher, and how to be a terrible teacher. Mr. Leonhardy also delivers insight into his students’ lives, along with their learning processes, and his role in it. Galen Leonhardy also justifies how using the textbooks provided is not always the best option, and how negotiation is a key principle in teaching. While reading the first journal, it brought me back to my own experiences throughout my thirteen years in public schooling. I am taken back to the days when I had Mr. Perkins, my Sophomore English teacher. He was intelligent,

It was as a sophomore I decided to enroll in AP Physics. It would be my first physics class, my first AP class, and my third class taught by Ms.Watroba. AP Physics 1 is a demanding class, covering a wide range of concepts previously unknown to me. In that way, science has always been a challenging class for me. From Environmental Science, to Biology, these classes look at parts of the world from a new perspective. Environmental Science took parts of our planet and looked at the processes behind them, explaining everything from erosion to the water cycle. Biology took life, and zoomed in: cells, bacteria, the microscopic world. And now Physics, where we look at the unseen forces governing our world: friction, gravity, etc. Science class has

This paper is my personal reflection on teaching and learning that is based on a model developed by Schӧn; reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action. An action based on reflection is beneficial for the progression of my career as a nursing educator and for the quality of my teaching. When I reflect in and on action, I engage in a reflection which is targeted not only at appreciating myself as a nurse educator, but also at refining my teaching skill (Serdenciuc, 2015). Schön (as cited in Molloy & Delany, 2009) described reflection-in-action as challenging my own inherent critical thinking, analysis and evaluation of an activity while maintaining a sense of inquisitiveness. Schön (1983, p. 280) also mentioned that reflection-in-action is a process where my thinking and action should harmonize. On the other hand, reflection-on-action is a process where I revisit the action with my retrospective thinking so as to acquire insights for the future (Wieringa, 2011). When reflecting-on-action, I should keep a reflective diary to record details of the action immediately after the action (Mulholland & Turnock, 2012, p. 74).

Being born in a family of physicists I was fond of science from my childhood. Even when I was a little girl, my favorite toys have all been mechanical. Their inside was always a tempting mystery for me. Later on, the questions I asked myself have progressed to more sophisticated ones, usually dealing with nature phenomena around me - like why the sky is blue, how clouds or rainbow form, what the lightning is and so on. Fortunately, my parents were able to help me with providing the answers to some of those questions, or in some cases providing me with references on how to manage myself. Since we had a pretty extensive library at home, soon I was reading books like Swarz �Unusual physics of usual

    What I have learned about physics is that this subject is the study of the physical properties that surround us. Physics is how things move and what makes them move. For example, measurements such as velocity and acceleration and how they are used in physics is a major piece of the class. Also, physicists study the forces of gravity, electrical currents, and other numerous forces that hold everything together. Physics is also the study of very large things and very small things. Scientists study the stars, planets, and all other galaxies made up of matter. They also study the smaller pieces of matter such as atoms and electrons. During this year, I have learned the study of sound, light, and waves. We also studied the energy, heat, and radioactivity amongst objects. Physics not only helps us understand how objects move, but also how they change form, go from hot to cold, and what they are made of. One example of what we learned this year is the motion of an object. Motion can be portrayed as using displacement, distance, velocity, acceleration, time, and speed. We had focused on the lesson of Newton's first law: an object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an outside force.