STEM Academy of Boyle Heights Visit - March 30, 2023

Thursday, March 30, 2023

STEM Academy of Boyle Heights

Small URL for this page: https://tinyurl.com/sabh23

General agenda for each physics class:

• Greetings and intros
• Physics: From the big to the small - Importance of water for life
• Activity: Shuffling the Particle Deck 
  • Standard Model
• How do we know these particle exists? - Technology and indirect evidence
  • Cloud chamber video

  • Activity: Rolling with Rutherford
    Slides
    Extension (if time): a simulation

  • CERN - Some slides
• Some CMS events - if time permits
  • "human tricks"
  • E=mc^2 connection
  • conservation of momentum and energy
• Q&A