Boston QuarkNet Summer 2025 Workshop: Quantum!!!

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Published: Wed, 08/06/2025 - 10:45 | Group(s):

Boston Area QuarkNet Center

QuarkNet Quantum Workshop Agenda

Registration

All teachers (including lead teachers) should register using this link: https://forms.gle/XhK3JsRU7iCNpvUp8
Teachers may indicate on this form the need for a QuarkNet.org account.
If e-Lab accounts are needed, either email Ken (kcecire@nd.edu) and Shane (swood5@nd.edu), or contact e-labs@fnal.gov.
Note that accounts are manually created, so may take up to a day

7/29/2025 Roxbury Latin School August 06-07, 2025

Rick Dower

2025 August 6 (Day 1)

08:30 – 09:00 Gather for conversation and snacks

09:00 – 09:20 Participant Introductions

09:20 – 10:20 Adam LaMee – How are electron energy and color related for an LED?

Materials: Arduino (for 5VDC supply), R/G/Y/B/IR LEDs, 560 Ohm resistor, multimeter

Inspired by Planck's Constant on the Cheap from the AP Physics B Lab Guide

10:20 – 10:30 BREAK

10:30 – 12:00 Conclude Adam’s Activity - pedagogy connections for this style of investigation

Joe Redish's Implications of cognitive studies for teaching physics (1994)

Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP)

5E Learning Cycle (San Diego DoE page) or read the full report from the BSCS

12:00 – 13:00 LUNCH (Bring your own, or join us for a short walk to Deno’s for sub, or other, sandwiches.)

13:00 – 14:20 Mike Wadness – Wave Nature of Particles, Electron Diffraction

14:20 – 14:30 BREAK

14:30 – 15:45 Wave Nature of Particles continued

Watch Matter Waves with Alan Holden and Lester Germer Video

15:45 – 16:00 Continue discussion of quantum concepts in your courses.

Complete Teacher Survey or Teacher Survey Update (Required for all teachers.) Teachers must complete one of the following.
- If a teacher completed the Full Teacher Survey anytime in 2023 or 2024, then complete the UPDATE: 2025 Teacher Survey (once during 2025):
  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7F25FPN (Plan for ~6 minutes here.) Spanish version of Update: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/73LPW7S
- If a teacher did NOT complete the Full Teacher Survey in 2023 or 2024, then complete Full Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7NXRLK3 .
  An individual teacher completes this only once in 2025. (~15-20 minutes).
Update profile on QuarkNet.org
- Update personal profiles on the website with this guide - by everyone. (Tiny URL - http://tinyurl.com/qn15prfl.)
- Teachers with cosmic ray detector(s), enter or confirm DAQ number(s).
- All teachers and mentors must be members of the QuarkNet website and members of their center group on the site. They must keep their information on the site current and know how to find their group.

QuarkNet Quantum Workshop

Rick Dower

2025 August 7 (Day 2)

08:30 – 09:00 Gather for conversation and snacks

09:00 – 09:15              LHC TOTEM Experiment on Proton Size – Rick Dower
                                    Don Lincoln LHC overview video (5:49)
                                    TOTEM video (5:25)

Describe TOTEM Data Activity

09:15 – 10:20 Work through and discuss TOTEM Data Activity.

Gerry's proton distribution for the TOTEM activity

10:20– 10:30 BREAK

Adam's python notebook for analyzing Vernier sensor data

10:30 – 10:50 Moseley and Atomic Number (slides)– Rick Dower

10:50 – 12:00 Work through X-ray data exercise (student spreadsheet)

12:00 – 13:00 LUNCH and 25th Anniversary celebration

13:00 – 13:20 Neutron Discovery – Rick Dower (slides)

13:20 – 14:30 Monte Carlo Coin Area Exercise (student worksheet)

14:30 – 14:40 BREAK

14:40 – 15:30 Quantum Tunneling – Alpha Decay and Solar Fusion (student worksheet)