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