The goal of the reflective paper assignment is to help you to think about physics, and how it relates to your major or an area of interest and to promote a deeper understanding of both.
Writing prompt: Select a topic from your major or an area of interest (MICROBIOLOGY). The topic could be a concept, application, or phenomenon. Describe your topic to a reader outside your field, then use physics covered in this course PHYSICS 2 to further describe your chosen topic. This should be a qualitative discussion and not an equation. Requirements: Clearly and concisely address the writing prompt: Describe/define your chosen topic, Correctly apply the physics to your chosen topic. The physics must be from this course PHYSICS 2 and of general knowledge to students enrolled in this course PHYSICS 2.
400-600 words.
This is not a research paper. The material you choose to write about should be considered general knowledge to a person interested in your specific topic, but not necessarily to a student enrolled in this course. The physics applied to help in your reflections should be general physics knowledge to a student enrolled in this course PHYSICS 2; with this in mind, citations and references are not required. To emphasize, the words you use must be your own words.
TOPICS COVERED IN PHYSICS 2:
electric force, electric fields, electric potential and capacitance, current and resistance, magnetism, electromagnetic induction, geometric optics, wave optics, atomic and nuclear physics.
Discuss a GENERAL concept, application, or phenomenon in MICROBIOLOGY and further explain. Then use one or more of these GENERAL topics from physics to connect the two and further explain.