1.

Compressional or P (for primary) 

Transverse or S (for secondary)

Love

Rayleigh

P and S are called body waves because they travel or propagate throught the body of Earth.  The latter two are called surface waves they travel along the Earth's surface and amplitude decreases with depth into the Earth.

2. 

First two, P and S are within the earth as compressions (longitudinal waves) and transverse waves.

Second two, Love and Rayleigh are surface wave.  

Love waves are transverse waves that vibrate the ground in the horizontal direction perpendicular to the direction that the waves are traveling They are formed by the interaction of S waves with Earth's surface and shallow structure and are dispersive waves.  Only can be measured on seismomaters that measure the horizontal ground motion.

Rayleigh waves are the slowest of all the seismic waves and the most complicated.  The are dispersive so the particular speed at which they travel depends on the wave period and the near-surface geologic structure.  Particle movement is eliptical and decreases with depth.

3. 

The LIGO interferometer mirrors can be affected by seismic waves and must be separated out.  All the different earth shaking...hurricanes, earth quakes, etc. are background information that needs to be filtered out.

Hi all,  

Great conference last Sunday night.  Danielle, you are the bravest driver I know!  I spoke with Kathy after our conference.  She is doing well.  Wadness, you were on the road, so I couldn't talk BB with you.  I hope BRS spring training is going well, honest!

With permission from Ken and Dan, I have conferenced with and invited Allen Daniels, a physics teacher in the Parkway system in St. Louis regarding joining our group.  I used his school email and sent an invite.  He should be expecting this since I conferenced with him in person in StL.  He was previously a virtual member when he was working at Crossroads school in St. Louis, but I don't know what his level of participation was back then.  His email is

adaniels@parkwayschools.net

Enjoy break if you are on one.  I had cervical disc surgery the Monday after our conference and am convalenscing at home.  

And hey, everyone who does not have a pic of themselves in the drupal, get a pic in there.   I like the pictures.

Debbie G.

December 12, 2015

Tiny URL for this page: http://tinyurl.com/j99vx5s.

Pre-workshop

• Read ahead: Cosmic Extremes
• CRMD users download EQUIP and USB-UART driver onto laptop you will use in the workshop
• Explore Cosmic Ray e-Lab on your own
• Check Cosmic Ray e-Lab account; if you need one, contact Ken Cecire
• Consult punch list: be sure we have all we need

• Parkway North High School detector construction, Friday 11 Decemember, 09:00 CT
• Fort Zumwalt North High School detector construction, Friday 11 December, 13:30 CT

Agenda

09:00     Greetings and Registration

09:15     Set up detectors, connect to computers using EQUIP, set voltages and rates, calibrate

10:45     Break

11:00     Start taking data; explore Cosmic Ray e-Lab (studen group registration, milestones)

12:00     Lunch

13:00     Upload Data; BLESSING and PERF in CR e-Lab

14:00     Explore posters in e-Lab; design an investigation

14:45     Break

15:00     Investigation and poster creation

17:00     Discussion of longer-term investigations; use of detector in school; planning

18:00     end of workshop

Resources

Most resources you need are found in the Cosmic Ray e-Lab uunder Student Home > Library > Resources. Here are a few addtional resources:

• User Agreement
• MINOS Live Event Display
• Video by QN mentor Veronica Bindi: How cosmic rays help us understand the universe
• Classic video: Time dilation; an experiment with mu-mesons

Addenda

How to download and install EQUIP:

1. Go to Cosmic Ray e-Lab
2. Go to Student Home; log with your credentials or as a guest
3. Go to Library and then Resources
4. Find link under CRMD Data Collection and follow
5. Download EQUiP and uncompress
6. Read README

How to download and install USB-UART adapter software:

1. Go to Silicon Labs CP-210x page
2. Find OS for youir computer and choose download link
3. Install

Virtual QuarkNet is a group of far flung, often isolated American high school science teachers from Boston and Atlanta, to the northwest coast of Washington, and Shanghai.  Mentors Antonio Delgado and Dan Karmgard are assisted by lead teachers Mike Wadness and Dave Trapp.  In the 2014-15 school year they held 10 monthly meetings via Sunday evening (Monday morning in Asia) video conference.  Attendance varied from 6 to 8 with most meetings attended by 7 participants.  Sessions typically lasted from an hour to 90 minutes.  Several sessions had guest speakers and nearly all of them included discussions of the latest physics discoveries or theories.

Many of the group members have and use cosmic ray detectors at their school and most of the group also had high school students participate in the Masterclass.

The group also typically gathers for a couple days each summer at a site which offers new insights into physics.  In early August 2015 the group gathered in Albuquerque and Los Alamos New Mexico with the crucial assistance of physicist Danielle McDermott.  In New Mexico the group had the opportunity to visit and tour the Very Large Array (VLA) which has been detecting the faintest radio signals from near the time of the Big Bang.  At Los Alamos, the group enjoyed a variety of talks that featured the history of Los Alamos, the use of bacteria to do work on a system, a connection between Faraday and the Higgs, and the Mars Curiosity Rover.  In addition the group took advantage of the clear, high desert sky to do some spectacular star gazing facilitated by our resident astronomer Jim Small.  The group ended its workshop with a visit to Bandelier National Monument to hike through the ancient pueblos.  Thank you to our mentors and especially to Danielle McDermott for arranging a valuable summer workshop.

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=18079

Virtual QuarkNet is a group of far flung, often isolated American high school science teachers from Boston and Atlanta, to the northwest coast of Washington, Taiwan and Shanghai.  Mentors Antonio Delgado and Dan Karmgard are assisted by lead teachers Mike Wadness and Dave Trapp.  In the 2013-14 school year they held 10 monthly meetings via Sunday evening (Monday morning in Asia) video conference.  Attendance varied from 5 to 10 with an average of 8.2 participants.  Sessions typically lasted from an hour to 90 minutes.  Several sessions had guest speakers and nearly all of them included discussions of the latest physics discoveries or theories.

Many of the group members have cosmic ray detectors at their school and many also had high school students participate in Masterclass.

The group also typically gathers for a couple days each summer at a site which offers new insights into physics.  In 2014 the group gathered in Spearfish SD with the assistance of members of the Spearfish QuarkNet group.  They learned of the new EQUIP Java cosmic ray detector interface, the new detector data blessing protocols and interface support, viewed the new International Linear Collider Masterclass (using simulated data), visited research activities on the Black Hills State campus, visited the Sanford underground Laboratory learning about the latest neutrino and dark matter research, and sat in on a couple CETUP conference talks.  Time permitted many of the members to visit other local areas such as Mount Rushmore, the Crazy Horse Memorial and Devil’s Tower.

july workshop at Spearfish SD

tuesday July 22

introductions (at BHSU)

CETUP talk: neutrino interactions with nuclei: Ulrich Mosel at Lead middle school

cosmic ray research: James Stith (At  BHSU)

     New JAVA detector control interface

     New blessing tools

     How to bless data

problem with solar neutrinos:  Kara Ketter at BHSU

Wednesday July 23

research at BHSU: Brianna Mount at BHSU

research at Sanford Lab: Jaret Heise at lab in Lead

     tour of mine lift mechanism

Q & A with CETUP participants: Lead middle school

dinner meeting above Deadwood

Thursday July 24

ILC QuarkNet Workshop: Mike Wadness (at BHSU)

     Japan workshop

      ILC presentation

      Analysis of simulated ILC data

QuarkNet Link

/content/ilc-dreft-mini-masterclass

Lesson Link-includes spreadsheet

http://wadness.wikispaces.com/Japan+and+the+ILC