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Lawrence Turner
Ph.D.

Professor of Mathematics and Physics
Chair, Mathematics and Physical Sciences Department

Southwestern Adventist University
 

Friday, 3 Sep 10   

julian day:   2455443
sun rise: 7:03a, set: 7:49p
moon: 24.2 days

 
  Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, dies age 59, 1658
Malcolm Campbell is first to drive an automobile over 300 mph—at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, 1935
National Football League coach Vince Lombardi dies, age 57, 1970
Lawrence Turner is awarded the Ph.D. (astrophysics), 1971
Viking 2 lands on Mars, 1976
eBay launched, 1995
 

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

Schedule

 Office Schedule
 Calendar


He who laughs, lasts.
Mary Pettibone Poole  


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

Larry and Cathy



Do we have it backwards?  Perhaps God didn't create the Sabbath as a memorial to creation.  Perhaps the creation of the world is a memorial to the most central creative act—the Sabbath!
L. Turner  










High energy particle physics and cosmology—a marriage made in the heavens.









Don't Panic

On-campus courses

 PHYS 121, General Physics I  (fall 2010) 
 PHYS 122, General Physics II  (spring 2010) 
 PHYS 221, General Physics with Calculus I  (fall 2009) 
 PHYS 222, General Physics with Calculus II  (spring 2010) 
 PHYS 322, Classical Mechanics  (fall 2010) [in preparation]
 MATH 121, Precalculus  (fall 2010) 
 MATH 241, Probability and Statistics  (fall 2010) 


There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
Charles Sanders Pierce  


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


Science provides us with a wonderful narrative as to how [existence] may happen, but theology addresses the meaning of the narrative.
Denis Alexander  

Edmontosaurus annectins
 

Southwestern Adventist University

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





...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.
John Kemeny  


 

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
 Tall Jalul, Jordan
 
  abstracts
 GPS Survey System at Tall Jalul, ASOR 2004


Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
Ralph Gerard  


 
A balanced diet is chocolate in both hands.

 

In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.
Warren Eckstein  

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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


If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee...
that will do them in.
Bradley's Bromide  
 

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


A lottery is a tax for people who are math illiterate.

pax et bonum
 
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Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.

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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