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2008 UA Physics Undergraduate Research Symposium

2008 UA Physics Undergraduate Research Symposium. Robert J. Rose, Esq. B.S., M.S., J.D. Answers are not as important as the questions you ask. How you frame your question determines the answer. 5. 6. 7. A simple candle. What is research?. Informed play Correlation observation

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2008 UA Physics Undergraduate Research Symposium

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  1. 2008 UA Physics Undergraduate Research Symposium Robert J. Rose, Esq. B.S., M.S., J.D.

  2. Answers are not as important as the questions you ask

  3. How you frame your question determines the answer.

  4. 5

  5. 6

  6. 7

  7. A simple candle

  8. What is research? • Informed play • Correlation observation • Hypothesis • Testing • Tool building • Causation confirmation

  9. Pattern or No Pattern? Watch closely . . .

  10. Pattern? Now?

  11. Pattern? Do you see it . . .

  12. Pattern? Clearer?

  13. Contact eBay! We are all toast.

  14. correlation is not causation

  15. Your experience is proportional to the equipment you ruin.

  16. Computer GUI for Segmentation of Nerves During Ultrasound Guided Anesthesia

  17. Play and Correlation observation

  18. Hypothesis the MCN can appear in a variety of forms, either as hyperechoic or hypoechoic regions, but in most instances it appears echoically distinct from the surrounding tissue. This suggests that segmentation techniques can assist in acquisition and visualization of these nerves.

  19. Testing: Tool Creation

  20. Confirmation

  21. New Hypothesis There will be an observable correlation between the isotropy of the spatial frequency spectrum of imaged nerves, and nerve injury.  So, the tool, modified to produce a spatial frequency spectrum, can be used as a  diagnostic tool to confirm nerve injury.

  22. Image Perspective • Issue: A method for correcting perspective so that viewer could see a scene in “virtual reality” with correct perspective, with viewer and projector at different locations. Affine Transformations

  23. One Way: Ray Tracing Affine Transformations

  24. Different Way:Affine Transformation Straight lines remain straight after warp Affine Transformations

  25. Simulated Rendering View From Camera Simulated Virtual Camera Affine Transformations

  26. Pre-distorted Image Being Sent to Projector to Compensate for Dome & Pilot POV

  27. Reference Line

  28. Lines straighter FOV close to correct Lines Straighter

  29. Lines curve left

  30. All lines straight FOV correct

  31. Read books

  32. Edward Tufte • Visual Explanations • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information • The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within

  33. Biographies of Scientists • Einstein, His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson • Anything about Richard Feynman

  34. Stories by Scientists • The Quark and the Jaguar, by Murray Gell-Mann • Anything by Richard Feynman

  35. Expand your horizons • Freakonomics, A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner • Prisoners, A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide, by Jeffrey Goldberg • Why People Believe Weird Things, by Michael Shermer and Stephen Jay Gould

  36. The “bookstore” test

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