Authenticity of Scientific Anecdotes

Nature volume157, pages196–197 (16 February 1946)

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Monday 24 July  

9:00-10:00

Jeremy Smith, Hereford HS, JHU QuarkNet Co-lead Teacher: "Introduction to QuarkNet"

 

 

Objectives

Participating teachers will be able to use the LIGO e-Lab to:

Here is a Google Slides presentation about a 3-day lesson plan I did with my IB Physics seniors with the cosmic ray e-Lab. I have a muon detector in my classroom, so we use that, but you don't need a physical detector to do this lesson sequence -- you can just grab data from the e-Lab website from schools around the country.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ubi_3U_36B98KVyRrwm7UQXWlDrTmzrOn-Ck6mcm1Bw/edit?usp=sharing

This lesson was in conjunction with our unit on Special Relativity. The purpose of this lesson sequence was to illustrate one famous piece of experimental evidence which is in agreement with the very non-intuitive notions of time dilation & length contraction. In other words: how do we know this Special Relativity stuff is true?

 

This is the college or AP C (with calculus) version of the video series that Tim Durkin was talking to us about. The entire video series is available from Caltech on YouTube through here:  
http://www.caltech.edu/news/pioneering-physics-show-mechanical-universe-now-youtube-53331

"That situation is playing out now, as outlined in a recent review paper in Nature. The conundrum in question is the decay of a particle called a B-meson, and how many electrons, muons, and tau particles pop out after a collision. Physicists in a handful of experiments around the world have all observed a preponderance of tau particles—not what current theories would predict."

https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/particles-behaving-badly/

 

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Monday 24 July  

9:00-10:00

Jeremy Smith, Hereford HS, JHU QuarkNet Lead Teacher: "Introduction to QuarkNet"

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10:00-11:00

Dr. Morris Swartz, JHU Physics & QuarkNet  mentor: "A Crash Course in Quantum Mechanics"

Download his Lecture Notes for the chalk talk

     

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11:00-12:00

Dr. Toby Marriage, JHU Physics: "The JHU Student Radio Telescope"

Download slides in PDF, Keynote (links to Dropbox) or PowerPoint format.

 

     

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1:00-4:30

 

Choice of Activities:

--Using the Student Radio Telescope

--The Cosmic Ray e-lab

--Cosmic Ray Detector Workshop

--Classroom-ready Activities from the QuarkNet Data Portfolio

--The CMS e-lab

--Modeling Activity: The "Mystery Tube"  (moderate assembly required)

--Modeling Activity: What is the Fundamental "Widget" Mass? (mild assembly required)

--Emission Spectroscopy (Gas tubes, LEDs, Lasers, Incandescent bulbs)

 

Contacting QuarkNet to create a new elab and/or i2u2 account:

https://goo.gl/forms/8MQT7C42zHMzAhzA3

 

 

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Tuesday 25 July

 

9:00-10:00

Dr. Greg  Bowman, JHU Biophysics: "Regulation of a Nucleosome-Sliding Machine"

(link to slides in PDF)

                            

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10:00-11:00

Dr. Sabine Stanley, JHU Earth/Planetary Science: "Mars: A Magnetic History"

link to slides in PPT, PDF and here is a link to the (Quicktime) movie file she played.

     

  

 

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11:00-12:00 

 Dr. Bill Blair, JHU Physics: "How Eclipses Occur, and the Great American 2017 Solar Eclipse"

link to slides (PPT or PDF)

        

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Wednesday 26 July

9:00-10:00

Dr. Peter Gehring, NIST: "Using Neutrons to Study Quasi-particle Physics in Materials Science"

(link to slides as PDF)

     

 

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10:00-11:00 

Dr. Dave Clader, JHU APL: "Quantum Computing and Information Processing"

(slides will be available at a later date).

 

       

 

Fertilizer??  See this article about applications of quantum computing.

 

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11:00-12:00

Dr. Mark Foster, JHU Photonics Lab: "Compressive Imaging Systems for Space- and Time-Limited Applications"

​(link to slides pending)

      

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Thursday 27 July

9:00-10:00

Dr. Kevin Lewis, JHU Earth/Planetary Sciences: "Exploration of Gale Crater by the Curiosity Rover 

(slides unavailable due to unpublished content on them) 

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10:00-11:00

Dr. Elijah Roberts, JHU Biophysics: "The Physics Behind How Cells Make Decisions"

​(link to slides pending)

      

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11:00-12:00

Dr. Marc Kamionkowski, JHU Physics: "Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter Candidates"

link to slides in PPT  

Note 1: several movie files are embedded in the PPT, so click on the slide to play each one.

Note 2: for now, I had to post this on Google Drive because the file is too large to upload to quarknet.i2u2.org. If I can fix this later I will. When Google Drive gives you an error message, just click the "download" button to save it to your hard drive.

      

 

(link to paper on arXiv)

(link to primary author Simeon Bird's talk at STScI on 20 July 2016)

(youtube videos: laser interferometer basics; publicity video from original discovery; second discovery including "chirp" sound of the merger!)

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Friday 28 July

9:00-10:00

Summary of Research from JHU High School Interns

• Dietrich and Ryan:  The SRT, Rotation Curve, Analyzing Data w/ Python
• Jon and Abby: Quantum Mechanics Basics
• Jon: Muon Time-of-Flight
• Graham: Dark Matter
• Eddie: Black Holes
• Helena: Neutrino Oscillations

Here is a link to a short description of the difference between flavor states and mass states.

 

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10:00-11:00

Dr. Andrei Gritsan, JHU Physics: "A Study of the Higgs Field"

​(link to slides in PDF)

(also, see the "Outreach" section of Dr. Gritsan's home page for a list of talks he's given in the past.)

 

Andrei mentioned the "Particle Data Group" catalog. Check it out here!

Here is a good YouTube video showing ways to visualize the Higgs Field and how particles interact with it

    

 

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11:00-12:00

Dr. Sarah Woodson, JHU Biophysics: "Non-coding RNA: The Dark Matter of the Cell"

​(link to slides pending)

 

  

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Agenda:

--Clean up mystery tube station

--Complete 2 surveys (see links below)

--Events & Opportunities to look out for, during the school year

--Discuss status of QN program

 

 

Please complete the QuarkNet annual teacher survey by following this link.

 

Also, we have a short JHU-specific survey that we'd like you to fill out, so that we can improve your experience next year.

 

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We had another great summer at JHU. Thanks to all who participated!  Please take some time to look at the page listing all the talks and activities for the week, as well as the posters created by the summer students explaining their research projects.

If you do something interesting with your students related to your QuarkNet learning, or your cosmic ray detector, please let us know; we'd love to hear about the great science you're doing in your classroom.

Don't forget that there are several QuarkNet / JHU activities happening throughout the school year, beginning with International Cosmic Day (November), continuing with the LHC / CMS MasterClass and International Muon Week (late winter / early spring) and finally the JHU Physics Fair (April).  And I can't leave out the Central MD Physics Olympics, hosted by our very own Tim Durkin at Liberty HS (late February).  Hope to see you there!