SMU Quarknet Workshop 4-8 August 2008

Maps and Directions

Participants

Mentors

• Simon Dalley
• Fred Olness
• Randy Scalise

Teachers

SMU Physics

Students

Pictures from the 2007 Workshop

Schedule

Demo construction - chaos using an oscilloscope
http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/~mcc/chaos_new/Chua.html

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)        |
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5 T      Intro to the Standard Model                                   | Demo Construction Lab
          (Trina Cannon, Rushe Statser, Phil Anderson)                 | 
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6 W      Higgs                |           CRD Research                 | Demo Construction Lab
        (Azeddine Kasmi)      |            (Joe Reed)                  |
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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

• The Particle Adventure - Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics
• 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

2008