Activities for Teaching Contemporary Physics
AAPT Winter Meeting 2020, W05 Sunday 19 January 2020, 09:00-12:00 ET Small URL for this page: https://bit.ly/2M668FF. Agenda 09:00 Greetings and Intro; Everyday Actions 09:15 Radioactive Decay Simulation with Dice 09:45 Muon Lifetime…
Friday Flyer - December 13, 2019
This is the last Friday Flyer of 2019. We will resume on January 3, 2020. Happy Holidays! Spotlight on 2019 A lot happened in physics in 2019. Our astrophysics friends took the world by storm by capturing an image of a black hole through clever use of gravitational lensing. The…
Virginia Center Workshop November 23, 2019
Agenda Time Description 9:00 Conversation, Coffee and Snacks 9:30 Josh talk Josh brought a set of Quantum Dots and explained why the CdSe vials fluoresce Why does a blue morpho moth fluoresce as blue? Diffraction! Report from HEP…
Friday Flyer - November 22, 2019
There will be no Friday Flyer next week (Thanksgiving break), nor the following week due to a QuarkNet staff meeting followed by our annual advisory board meeting. We'll pick it up again on December 13. Have a great Thanksgiving! Spotlight on the Kansas State University …
Ottawa High W2D2_19 Final Results
Eighteen Ottawa High School physics students participated in the World Wide Data Day data analysis event in collaboration with students at 43 schools in 21 different countries. The OHS involvement included two and a half days of data analysis and some time spent learning about particle…
Ottawa High W2D2_19 Final Results
Eighteen Ottawa High School physics students participated in the World Wide Data Day data analysis event in collaboration with students at 43 schools in 21 different countries. The OHS involvement included two and a half days of data analysis and some time spent learning about particle…
Ottawa High W2D2_19 Final Results
Eighteen Ottawa High School physics students participated in the World Wide Data Day data analysis event in collaboration with students at 43 schools in 21 different countries. The OHS involvement included two and a half days of data analysis and some time spent learning about particle…
Ottawa High W2D2_19 Final Results
Eighteen Ottawa High School physics students participated in the World Wide Data Day data analysis event in collaboration with students at 43 schools in 21 different countries. The OHS involvement included two and a half days of data analysis and some time spent learning about particle…
Friday Flyer - November 15, 2019
Spotlight on the Vanderbilt University QuarkNet Center The Vanderbilt center has been very active in the past year. Mentor Bill Gabella and the teachers are active in maintaining and using cosmic ray detectors; in fact, they did all the GPS updates from last spring right there at Vanderbilt…