Friday Flyer - October 2, 2015

Spotlight on the international Presence of QuarkNet: International Cosmic Day is coming up on November 5! International Masterclasses and International Muon Week are coming up in late winter and early spring. QuarkNet groups are usually strong participants; please join in! Fellows Martin Shaffer and Joel Klammer joined Ken and to offer workshops on ILC, cosmic rays and masterclasses in Japan with our collaborators there. See Martin with Japanese teachers at the University of Tokyo. Meanwhile, Marge is making a difference as co-chair of the International Particle Physics Outreach Group.

News from QuarkNet Central: QuarkNet will hold a staff meeting this weekend in an undisclosed Midwest location, which is not a national lab but does have an iconic college football team. Watch this space in the weeks to come as we explain and implement results from the meeting.

Physics Experiment Roundup: Got a muon, got a magnet, look for new physics; the Fermilab g-2 experiment is cranking up. Read the article in symmetry or the other article in Popular Mechanics, then pop some popcorn and watch the video. Keep it popping for a video about the PXIE RFQ at Fermilab as part of the development of the PIP II accelerator.

Resources: Gotta love that Einstein. Here is a nice article by Brian Greene on GTR at 100* (in our reference frame) and another on how to derive the energy-mass-momentum relation. Particle physicists, please overlook the "relativistic mass" language. Another version of the derivation is in this Comment on the Z mass activity in the QuarkNet Data Portfolio.

Just for Fun: Take a look at the Lego video on the LHC (auf Deutsch!) by a teacher in the German Netzwerk Teilchenwelt program. (Give it a "like" to help it win the "fast forward science" video contest.)

Did you see that lunar eclipse? In case you did not or you just want some good images, take a look at the eclipse as photographed from the Fermilab Village. If you missed the eclipse due, don't be surprised; clouds appear at scheduled astro observations like expats would show up at Rick's.

QuarkNet Staff Teachers:
Ken Cecire: kcecire@nd.edu
Bob Peterson: rspete@fnal.gov
Shane Wood: swood5@nd.edu

*Or, as the dairy farmer succinctly remarked when Bessie the cow made an odd mooing noise, "Gee, myu, new." From then on, things around the pasture got tensor.