Roger Taylor Reflective Writing Physics 1010 Fall 2013 Physics 1010- Elementary Physics was the first

hard science class !"ve ta#en in nearly twenty-five years$ and was- for that reason- a %oy& While in many instances the class was a matter of re-learning things that !"d long forgotten$ it was also an o''ort(nity to d(st-off some forgotten s#ill sets and a chance to analy)e not only the what $ *(t the why of the (niverse& There is a great deal in Physics which seems almost int(itive to (s today$ *(t that itself is an a''lication of my grandmother"s dict(m +o( never #now how d(m* yo( are "till yo( get a little smarter& ,(ch of what seems int(itive today was not only co(nter-int(itive$ *(t often

indeci'hera*le to many of the greatest minds of man#ind& -s .ir !saac /ewton once wrote$ !f ! have seen f(rther$ it is *y standing on the sho(lders of 0iants& For my own '(r'oses$ ! chose to do a science 'ro%ect on Pro*a*ility and Entro'y$ and ! am gratified that it tested the limits of my com'(ter s#ills 1if not necessarily my inventive or creative sides2& 3eing almost ignorant on the to'ic$ ! had always envisioned Entro'y as something a#in to the /othing from The /ever Ending .tory4 a state of (tter chaos and dissol(tion& ! now (nderstand that it is closer in f(nction to regressing to the mean $ a state in which e5tremes of tem'erat(re 1or energy or movement2 move to the ma5im(m 'ossi*le (niformity or lowest energy state 'ossi*le& !n short 1and with rare e5ce'tions2$ hot things cool to the tem'erat(re of their environment$ fast things slow when interacting with others$ and all of nat(re decays with time& -ll in all$ ! very m(ch en%oyed my time in Physics 1010$ and loo# forward to more science classes in the f(t(re&