SMU Quarknet Workshop 4-8 August 2008

Maps and Directions

Participants

Mentors

• Simon Dalley
• Fred Olness
• Randy Scalise

Teachers

   Philip Anderson       Jim McConnell        
   Bruce Boehne          Mark McGaugh        
   John Bowen            Patsy Metters        
   Nathan Brown          Neil Milburn        
   Beverly Cannon        Rick Needham        
   Darren Carollo        John Pap        
   Farley Ferrante       Dirk Preble        
   Nancy Jane Hall       Gail Rothstein        
   Tom Lindsey           Rushe Statser        
   Richard Lines, Jr.    Jim Stinnett        

Students

SMU Physics

• John Cotton
• Azeddine Kasmi
• Ken Ueda

Presenters

• Jodi Hansen and Laurie Cleavinger (Teaching and Learning Fellows)
• Kris Whelan (Quarknet)

Pictures from the 2008 Workshop

Schedule

Demo construction - Chua's cicuit, chaos using an oscilloscope


Schedule
    Morning  (Room 158)                                                |   Afternoon  (Room 26)
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4 M  Welcome | Explanation  | Fermilab Boot Camp | Lab handouts/grading| Demo Construction Lab
             | of Quarknet  |  (Farley Ferrante) | (Rich Lines)        | (Cotton, Scalise, Ueda)
             | (Kris Whelan)|                                          |
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5 T      Intro to the Standard Model                                   | Demo Construction Lab
          (Trina Cannon, Rushe Statser, Phil Anderson)                 | (Cotton, Scalise, Ueda)
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6 W      Higgs                |           CRD Research                 | Demo Construction Lab
        (Azeddine Kasmi)      |            (Joe Reed)                  | (Cotton, Scalise, Ueda)
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7 R   Teaching and Learning Fellows                                    | Teaching and Learning Fellows
         (Boehne et al.)                                               | (Boehne et al.)
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8 F   Teaching and Learning Fellows
         (Boehne et al.)
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Resources

• SMU's Debunking Pseudoscience course
• The Particle Adventure - Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics
• History of the Standard Model and Standard Model by Rushe Statser
• The Cassiopeia Project - found by Farley Ferrante
• Cereal Box Spectrometer - found by Thomas Catanach
• Particle Physics texts:
  • The Ideas of Particle Physics: An Introduction for Scientists by G. D. Coughlan and J. E. Dodd
  • The Particle Century by Gordon Fraser (Editor)
  • Particle Physics in the Cosmos by Jr. Richard A. Carrigan and W. Peter Trower (Editors)
  • Particles and Forces: At the Heart of Matter by Jr. Richard A. Carrigan and W. Peter Trower (Editors)
  • The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics by Robert P. Crease and Charles C. Mann
• Teaching and Learning Fellows extended activities:
  • Marshmallow Bunnies
  • Twinkies
  • Peeps
• Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics (PPT) by Nathan Brown
  • Short version
• Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics (PPT) by Richard Lines
  • Other PPT Lectures by Richard Lines
• Particle Identification Lab
• Hunt for the Higgs
• Gridworks: the game online
  • from Amazon.com
• Torus Tic-Tac-Toe, another site
• Dell Logic Puzzles
• The shape of space: video and book
• Cantilevered Blocks demonstration
• Food Physics by Bruce Boehne
  • Video
• 71 Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena by Michael Bach
  • Optical Illusions from the Debunking Pseudoscience course
• www.glumbert.com/media/shift
• For large neodymiun magnets, go to Amazing Magnets - click on rods and scroll for 1 in dia X 1 in tall @13.75/ea. (Courtesy of Professor Thomas Coan)
• The most tightly bound nucleus is ... NOT iron-56!
  • The atomic nuclide with the highest mean binding energy - by M.P. Fewell, Am. J. Phys. 63 (7), July 1995
  
  
  

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• ATLAS videos
• QuarkNet
  • QuarkNet Blog
  • Cosmic Ray e-Lab
• Muons and Relativity (PPT) by Mark McGaugh
• The Golden Ratio (PPT) by Allen Morris
  • Golden Ratio Calipers (DOC) by Allen Morris
• Symmetry in Music (PDF) by Professor Fred Olness
• Choosing a Science Project by Bruce Boehne
• CERN (PPT) by Linda Treadaway
  • CERN - The world's largest particle physics laboratory
• The Ghost Particle - PBS NOVA Neutrino video
• Ask an expert site - The MAD Scientist Network - and Randy Scalise's contributions.
• THE POOLTABLE ANALOGY TO AXION PHYSICS (PDF) by Pierre Sikivie
• Great Popular Science Books
• SMU's Debunking Pseudoscience Course by Professors John Cotton and Randy Scalise
  Featuring
  • Syllabus, Topics, and Lecture Notes
  • Books on Critical Thinking
  • Fiveness of the Washington Monument by Martin Gardner
  • Hoaxes including the Vinland Map and the Shroud of Turin

2009