User:John Ben Buchanan

I am an undergraduate student in the Honours Integrated Science (iSci) Program, with studies concentrated in physics, at McMaster University. This is equivalent to an Honours Physics program but incorporates full courses in Earth Science, Life Science, Astronomy, Chemistry, and general Mathematics.

Outside my undergraduate studies, I have a fervent interest in philosophy. Much of my free time is spent reading early modern and ancient philosophical texts. The philosophy of Immanuel Kant especially interests me and I intend to create an article on the Citizendium for his magnum opus, the "Critique of Pure Reason". Having studied it independently for three years, I'm now in the midst of a course devoted entirely to the book and am excited to apply what I've been studying.

In addition to writing an article on the Critique, I would like to work on the physics and math pages on the Citizendium. For example, the articles on Force, Laws of Conservation, and Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization could use expansion while there should be a page for Lagrangian mechanics or the Lagrangian. These are among the topics I would like to work on in these two areas.