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Lawrence Turner
Ph.D.

Professor of Mathematics and Physics

Southwestern Adventist University
 

Saturday, 28 Jan 12   

julian day:   2455955
sun rise: 7:24a, set: 5:55p
moon: 5.3 days

 
  Charlemagne, king of the Franks, dies age 71, 814
Ranger 3 becomes first U.S. lunar flyby, 1962
Challenger explodes 73 sec after liftoff on what would have been her 10th mission–all seven astronauts perish, 1986
49ers beat the Broncos 55 to 10 in Superbowl XXIV—largest margin in superbowl history, 1990
 

H2O + NH3 + C2H5 + PDQ + U235 and a pinch of salt

Schedule

 Office Schedule
 Calendar


Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
Fred Allen      


 
Larry Turner and Cathy Turner (Lawrence Turner and Catherine Turner), 2006

Larry and Cathy



All powers, all laws, are but the fair
Embodied thoughts of God.
John Stuart Blackie      






Man occasionally stumbles on the truth, but then just picks himself up and hurries on regardless.





Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.



Don't Panic



The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria.
Richard Owen      

On-campus courses

 PHYS 112, Introductory Astronomy  (spring 2012) 
 PHYS 121, General Physics I  (fall 2011) 
 PHYS 122, General Physics II  (spring 2012) 
 PHYS 221, General Physics with Calculus I  (fall 2011) 
 PHYS 222, General Physics with Calculus II  (spring 2010) 
 MATH 241, Probability and Statistics  (spring 2012) 
 MATH 283, Calculus III  (spring 2012) 


In science there is only physics, all the rest is just stamp collecting.
Lord Kelvin      


Distance Education courses

       which Math course? 
       course text list 
 
 MATH 110, College Algebra 
 MATH 121, Precalculus 
 MATH 241, Probability and Statistics 
 MATH 181, Calculus I  
 MATH 282, Calculus II  
 MATH 283, Calculus III  
 MATH 361, Introduction to Linear Algebra  
 MATH 455, Probability Theory  
      Southwestern approved Distance Education course


Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.
Bertrand Russell      

Edmontosaurus annectins
 

Southwestern Adventist University

 Southwestern home
      Academic Calendar
 Cathy
 Mathematics/Physical Science
      Physics Lab
 Dominican Republic Mission Trips





It isn't enough just to learn—one must learn how to learn, how to learn without classrooms, without teachers, without textbooks. Learn, in short, how to think and analyze and decide and discover and create.
Michael Bassis      


Teaching Principle:
24.  Always let a student register for a class in which you know he does not have a chance of passing—just insist on the tuition in cash up front.


 

Summer Research

 Dinosaur Project
 
  abstracts
 GPS Techniques, GSA 2000
 Unusual Assemblage, GSA 2001
 Digital Modeling with GIS, SVP 2002
 Recreating Using GIS, SVP 2003
 Five Years Experience Using GIS, SVP 2004
 The Use of GPS, SVP 2004   html version
 Taphonomic Windows, GSA 2005
 Depositional Model, SVP 2006
 Ten Years Excavation, SVP 2010
 Tall Jalul, Jordan
 
  abstracts
 GPS Survey System at Tall Jalul, ASOR 2004


Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey      

 
Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak.

 
Hand over the chocolate, and no one gets hurt!





10 monologues ia a decalogue

 

Human (n): Useful domestic animal popular with cats.


A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click.

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Written Stuff

 A.L.I.C.E. Alice's Little Introduction to the Computer Enigma
 In the Beginning A story of God and the universe
 Parable of the Them A story of planetary exploration
 The Hadrosaur A morning in the life of a young hadrosaur
 Teaching Principles General Teaching Principles
 General Laws General Computer Laws and Other Laws
 God's Will What does God want for us?
 The Family Decision What is best?
 The Farm A teenager and her summer on her grandfather's farm
 Diary * Diary of a young woman


A computer is almost human—except that it does not blame its mistakes on another computer.




If you want three opinions, just ask two statisticians.
 

Useful Stuff

 Pi, pie and more π
 Truth Tables
 Prime Factors
 Roman Numeral Arithmetic
 Gaussian Elimination
 Periodic Table
 
web development
 Browser Safe Colors
 Predefined Colors
 Color Choices
 HTML named symbols
 imaginary




The 50-50-90 rule:  Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

pax et bonum
 
N   32°  23′  51.7″
W   97°  19′  41.0″
 
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
Max Frisch      

Department of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Southwestern Adventist University
Keene, TX   76059
phone:   (817) 202-6708
fax:         (817) 202-6744
e-mail:     turner@swau.edu

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