Lesson #2 in QuarkNet STEP UP Series on diversity and inclusion.

Students examine data to find how energy, momentum, and mass are related.

Students construct histograms, identify the best value to represent the data, and report the uncertainty in their answers. 

Heisenberg knew that, at the quantum level, we cannot know everything, at least not all at once. Students explore uncertainties in measurements of complimentary variables to find this out for themselves.

Students use momentum conservation to examine the decay of top-antitop pairs to determine what is missing from the event.

Rolling dice serves as the model for decaying particles.

In this introductory tutorial that, students learn about how to distinguish muon signals from background and instrumental noise.

Students use statistics to make an indirect measurement they can easily confirm.

Students explore the effects of electric and magnetic fields on particles. 

Students use conservation laws and vector addition to calculate the top mass from event displays.