Activities for Teaching Contemporary Physics
AAPT Winter Meeting 2020, W05
Sunday 19 January 2020, 09:00-12:00 ET
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Agenda
09:00 Greetings and Intro; Everyday Actions
09:15 Radioactive Decay Simulation with Dice
09:45 Muon Lifetime from Cosmic Ray Data
10:00 Alphas, Betas, and Gammas
10:15 Break
10:30 Hands-on Gravitiational Wave Astronomy
11:00 Cosmic Ray Detector play time
11:15 Round-table: MUSE, a Long-term Contemporary Physics Research Project
12:00 End of workshop; distribution of materials