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One-Day Physics Investigations: Activities based on techniques particle physicists use to make discoveries
The Standard Model organizes what we know about subatomic particles.
- Quark Workbench: Students use Standard Model rules to build hadrons and mesons from quarks. (Student Pages
Magnetic and electric fields accelerate, bend and focus beams of charged particles.
- Making it 'Round the Bend: 3 activities in which students explore
- properties of dipole and quadrupole magnets,
- forces felt by charged particles moving through magnetic fields,
- the effects of electric and magnetic fields on particles.
Well-understood particle masses provide data to calibrate detectors.
- Plotting LHC Discovery: Students explore features of mass plots of a well-understood particle and apply what they have learned to plots from new discoveries.
Event displays visualize data. Application of conservation of momentum and energy reveals new phenomena.
- Calculate the Top Quark Mass: Students use conservation laws and vector addition to calculate the top mass from event displays.
- Calculate the Z Mass: Students use conservation laws and vector addition to calculate the Z mass from event displays.
Histograms represent data for analysis and interpretation.
- Mass of U.S. Pennies: Students create and interpret a histogram of penny masses.
Indirect evidence provides data to study particles too small and fleeting to see.
- Rolling with Rutherford: Students use statistics to make an indirect measurement they can easily confirm.
- Cosmic Rays and the Sun: Students investigate the idea that cosmic rays originate in the sun and study evidence to confirm or refute their original understanding.
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Master teachers developed these activities in conjunction with particle physicists. Some were funded through QuarkNet.