Skill: Developing Models

Students will compare classical predictions to real-world data to introduce special relativity.

This Cosmic Watch Suite of data activities describes experiments that can be done either at the singles or two-fold rate.

The students will investigate the relationship between uncertainty in momentum and the uncertainty in position and how these relate to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

This activity is based on the data analysis used for World Wide Data Day,

This activity provides techniques for guiding students doing an independent research project.

Students discover the rules of particle transformations using transformation diagrams.

Students analyze tracks in a bubble chamber.

Students analyze tracks in a cloud chamber.

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.