2015
Rochester Annual Report
ROCHESTER CENTER REPORT, August 2015 Mentor: Kevin McFarland Our 2015 meeting (July 27 – July 31) had a primary focus: to present to high school teachers classroom activities (developed in 2010 using MINERvA data) and the classroom website (developed in 2012 and revised/refined in 2014). Prof.…
Kansas State University QuarkNet Center, Annual Report 2014-2015
The K-State group held a workshop and a Master Class in the last fiscal year and 4 teachers visited SURF. The Master Class was held on March 27, 2015 and was attended by 7 teachers and 16 students. KSU Physics hosted a short program of demos and hands-on physics activities and we also toured the…
Rice University/University of Houston QuarkNet Center Annual Report
During the academic year 2014-2015 our QuarkNet center sponsored six “Saturday Physics” events. On September 27, 2014, Professor George Reiter of UH presented “Lunar Solar Power” to an audience of about 100 high school students and teachers on the UH campus. On October 15, 2014, Professor Frank…
Amount of Shower events vs. Time of day
By: Kevin Dietz(Grosse Pointe South) and Evan Croft(Fraser High School) Teacher: Mike Niedballa (Michigan Collegiate High School) Research mentor: Robert Harr (Wayne State University) Our purpose was to find if there is any pattern in the frequency of shower events per hour throughout…
Speed of a Muon
Lueda Shemitraku (Troy High School), Alexander Quinn (Greenhills School) Mike Niedballa ( Michigan Collegiate High School) Robert Harr (Wayne State University) The purpose of our research to measure any offset between the paddles to accurately measure the speed of a muon. To measure the…
Muon Directional and Angular Flux Study
Garrett Weidig (Grosse Pointe South HS), Kristopher Mortensen (Groves High School) Mike Niedballa (Michigan Collegiate High School) Robert Harr (Wayne State University) The purpose of the research was to find a pattern in the direction and angle of which muons enter and hit our atmosphere. To…