Videoconference Notes, 2 Dec 2015

Submitted by kcecire
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Present: Kevin Martz, Matthew Jacobs, Dan Walsh, Joel Klammer, Ken Cecire

Meeting Indico page: https://indico.cern.ch/event/465380/ 

 

Items discussed:

Activities used to meet Topic 7.3

  • Quark Puzzle (QN)
  • Z Mass Calc (QN)
  • Particle combinations puzzle

Ideas/needs for activities

  • Feyman diagrams
    • Give rules and look for errors in "flawed" diagrams
    • Animation - show particle interaction to go with a correct diagram
    • other ideas...thinking...
  • Range of bosons and relationship to mass for weak force vs, say, EM force (what about strong force?)
  • Things students can do offline - not depending on getting to a computer

Group 4 Project

  • Masterclass - prep plus MC day - as a complete G4P
  • Lock-in...all students work together on a project for 2x6hr days in one room (in school field trip)
  • Combine?

Actions

  • think more about what is needed and ideas - then send out e-mails to group
  • convene again when we have more to discuss

Addendum: Comments (one more topic)

It would be useful for the "IB group" to add comments to the QuarkNet website in two places:

  • This page and subsequent notes documents. You can always e-mail the group but if you have comments on our meetings notes or ideas generated as a result of the meeting, you can make a comment at the bottom of the notes doc. If we do this we'll have all of our comments and ideas in one handy place. With his permission, I've added a comment by Mike Madden that he originally sent me by e-mail.
  • The QuarkNet Data Portfolio. If you see an activity in the Data Portfolio that you've done, add a comment to the page for that activity to say how it might help with IB Physics and how effective it was in class. I've added a comment to TOTEM Data Express as an example; mine is a little long but yours does not have to be.

To add a Comment in the QuarkNet website, you must be logged in. If you are not sure how to do this or have trouble, contact Ken Cecire.