SMU Quarknet Workshop 3-7 August 2009

Meet at 9:00am in room 26 Fondren Science Building on the SMU campus.

Park in Airline Garage. Take a pass at barrier - enter code on pass if barrier down - hang pass in car.

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Maps and Directions

Participants

Mentors

• Simon Dalley
• Fred Olness
• Randy Scalise
• Pavel Nadolsky
• John Cotton

Teachers

• Philip Anderson
• Bruce Boehne
• John Bowen
• Darren Carollo
• Kevin Carter
• Ron Esman
• Farley Ferrante
• Jerry Grizzle
• Richard Lines, Jr.
• Mark McGaugh
• Jon Papp
• Dirk Preble
• Gail Rothstein
• Rushe Statser
• Linda Treadaway

Students

• Thomas Catanach

SMU Physics

• Bob Kehoe
• Cas Milner

Pictures from the 2009 Workshop

Schedule

Demo construction - Measuring Planck's Constant with LEDs; Multipole magnets, field, and force patterns, dipole accelerator

         Morning  (Room 32)                                 |   Afternoon  (Room 26)
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3 M      Welcome | Cosmic Rays:GRAND |  Inq Based Part Phys | Demo Construction Lab: Measuring Planck's Constant with LEDs
                 | (Thomas Catanach) |   (Bruce Boehne)     | (Rich Lines)
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4 T      Introduction to the Standard Model                 | Demo Construction Lab: Magnetic Dipole Accelerator
                 (Farley Ferrante)                          | (Scalise, Dalley, Cotton)
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5 W      (Anti)Matter of the day       | Particle Detectors | Demo Construction Lab: Multipole Fields
         (Dr. Pavel Nadolsky)          | (Rushe Statser)    | (Scalise, Dalley, Cotton)
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6 R      Science Fair Workshop (joint event)                | Nuclear physics for the Masses | Truth and Beauty
              Room 133 Fondren Science                      |        (Dr. Cas Milner)        | (Dr. Bob Kehoe)     
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7 F      Intelligent Design  |       EPR Paradox            | Demo Construction Lab
          (Dr. Rich Lines)   |   (Dr. Randy Scalise)        | (Scalise, Dalley, Cotton)
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Each day will usually comprise two hours of lecture and three hours of lab. Laboratory will consist of lecture demonstration construction projects which you will take with you when completed.

Resources

• SMU's Debunking Pseudoscience course
• Dallas Regional Science & Engineering Fair
• Darwin Year 2009 @ SMU Events - Feel free to bring your class.
• Suppliers for the demo construction lab equipment
  • www.amazingmagnets.com - for the neodymium magnets
  • www.scientificsonline.com (Edmunds) - for the mini-compasses
  • RadioShack - for the Electronics for Rich Lines' LED lab
  • VXB.com - for the ball bearings
• Contact info for Quarknet@SMU teachers with a cosmic ray detector (CRD)
  • Rich Lines ralines@garlandisd.net
  • Ken Taylor KenTaylor@richardson.k12.tx.us
  • Gail Rothstein GRothstein@Dallasisd.org
• Happy birthday to charm!
• Giant Particle Collider Struggles
• The Universe Adventure
• Quantum Universe
• Benefits of Particle Physics
• Detector Lecture from Boot Camp
• 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

2010

Dirk Preble and Rushe Statser are preparing "Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics" lectures.

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