Boston Area QuarkNet Center

Our 25th year  of Boston Center activities has been as busy as always. We considered the Principle of Least Time in optics (fall) and the Principle of Least Action in mechanics (spring) in our…

QuarkNet Quantum Workshop Agenda Registration  All teachers (including lead teachers) should register using this link: https://forms.gle/XhK3JsRU7iCNpvUp8 Teachers may indicate on…

This portfolio provides a look at survey responses from the Teacher Survey to select questions, teacher work examples (e.g., presentations, in-workshop activities, experiments) and student work (e.g…

Rick Dower gave a presentation about Fermat's Least Time Principle for optics. With one rule it accounts for straight-line travel, mirror reflection, and refraction of light. Then we watched a…

With a meeting in December 2023, a Masterclass at Northeastern in March 2024, a meeting in June 2024, and our summer Workshop in August 2024, we had another good year at the Boston Center. At the…

Day 1 of Relativity Workshop focused on the historical development of the idea of relativity from Galileo to Einstein, the development of Lorentz transformations (following Taylor and Wheeler), and…

Darien Wood, our Mentor from Northeastern University, brought a new colleague from Northeastern to join ten teachers in person and two teachers on Zoom for our fall meeting. Rick Dower presented a…

Boston QuarkNet Workshop: Questions and Clues in Particle Physics August 9-10, 2023 Roxbury Latin School, 101 St. Theresa Avenue, West Roxbury, MA Small URL for this page: https://cern.ch/boston-…

Rick Dower gave a presentation with the accompanying Power Point slide set and invited the participants in person and on Zoom to work through calculations on the accompanying Word document …