Honors Projects

Daniel Miranian
Period-7
Journal 4-9

I. Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrodinger was born August 12, 1887. He was an Austrian-Irish physicist that is known for his work with quantum mechanics. He also worked a lot with color and color perception, but he is not well known in this field of science. He lived in Austria during World War II, but he and his family had to flee to Italy when Hitler occupied Austria. He went on to write a few books, but his most famous work is the Schrodinger Equation which uses a cat in a box example to represent quantum mechanics. He died at the age of 73 of Tuberculosis on January 4, 1961.

II. This past week in class we presented our honors projects. I presented mine on my work with carotenoid from sponge associated bacteria. I had already given a similar presentation at UR back in February, so it was interesting to revisit the presentation a few months later. I was surprised looking back on it by how much I had learned and at how much fun I had while doing it. I am extremely glad I had such a wonderful opportunity, and I think I would like to participate in the same program again next year. I was also surprised at some of the other honors projects. I thought Scott Brower’s project about vacuum forming was very cool. Not only was it interesting to see how plastic can be molded easily, but I thought the idea of making a how-to video on youtube was great. I also thought Vikki’s energy project was interesting.

III. This is the last journal entry so I do not know if I need a question. If I need one it will be what is the answer to the mirror question we talked about it class.