Research Sources

Researched Sources for Scientific Mapping

Hayden Library/Noble Science & Engineering Library:

Book-Physics (Noble Science & Engineering Library)

Scholarly Article-Physics: a journal of general and applied physics conducted by the American Physical Society (Noble Science & Engineering Library)

Other (Book)- Archives furma records files 380,381,383,384 (Hayden Library)

·         What is your proposed topic?   

My proposed topic is not a place or thing, rather a concept. A concept of the sciences across the campus, and how everything is connected to a specific idea that flows not just in one place but all over. Through the construction and the funding to the student body that studies, plays/watches sports, and lives a life outside of school. There is a very broad scope over my project and the topic in general is: the aspects that make life, life.

·         Why do you want to explore this topic in this assignment/class?

The effects that having an interconnected idea can have over a campus population, while still having individuality and a sense of self. Also how the surrounding environment affect the people who are in it.

·         How will you evaluate your topic?  

I will determine this by finding works of theories, projects, and analysis that have occurred on the ASU campus and then putting them into a complete point by point map. This map will depict the quest to find science from one place to another. As well as the cost that this campus has evoked over the years and the time it took to build this place of learning.

The first two sources that I have are merely examples of physics and how they act in our lives as well as what science means for us as a whole. There is a broad over view of what physics includes and how the laws and theories are realized and brought into fruition. They were very helpful in the fact that they showed the big picture and that I can then simplify and shrink this into what I need for the project. The first is a book titled: Physics by: Tippens, Paul E, this book describes physics at its core using an algebraic method rather than calculus. This in its own right is very nice in that it takes something very complicated and daunting and makes it simplistic. The second source is a journal by the American Institute of Physics; American Physical Society; Society of Rheology (U.S.). To speak briefly and simplistically this is about how to apply the physics that exist everywhere. And, finally my third source has no specific author but is merely a stack of files in the archives. They show the construct of ASU from its earliest state. All of these sources give insight into the complexities of ASU and the connections that the individual has with the school and with each other. Also they show how and why the school was built as it was, some parts for capacity, others for style, and all for a function.