Teaching & Learning with Particle Physics “Stuff”

1. Marge Bardeen Fermilab mbardeen@fnal.gov Teaching & Learning with Particle Physics “Stuff” Bardeen, AAPT, Chicago, 2/2009

4. Student Activities • On-line Data-based Student Investigations • Calculate the Top Quark Mass • Investigate Special Relativity • I2U2 • Cosmic Ray Study • Seismic Activity Study at LIGO • Particle Collisions Study in CMS • Search for Higgs • Study Data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey • Paper Versions of Data-based Student Investigations • Calculate the Top Quark Mass • Superconductivity Activities • Classroom Activities • ARISE Physics First Activity Index • Beauty and Charm • Graphing Particle Data • Particle Decay Prediction • Photoelectric Effect Virtual Lab • TMP Resource Book • Online Exhibits • Anatomy of a Detector • Fermilabyrinth • Fermilab’s Accelerators • Interactive Timeline • Pulse, Accelerator Science in Medicine • Searching for the Building Blocks of Matter • The Accelerator Kiosk Resources & References Equipment Cloud Chamber Cosmic RaY Detector Superconducting Train Online Reading Accelerating Science, A Comic High-Energy Physics Made Painless Inquiring Minds Physics Folklore Top Quark Secrets Resources Photographs and Video Clips Streamed Video Leo’s Logbook Publications Quarks Unbound Quantum Universe Symmetry Magazine Programs For Teachers QuarkNet Professional Development Workshops Research Experiences Teacher Resource Center For Students Field Trips Saturday Morning Physics Symposium on the Nature of Science ed.fnal.gov Bardeen, AAPT, Chicago, 2/2009

5. Forbush Effect Cosmic Ray Muon Detector Cosmic Ray e-Lab Bardeen, AAPT, Chicago, 2/2009

6. Observe Model Particles: U.S. Pennies Frank Lipinski The Effect of Temperature on Conductivity How Do We Levitate a Train? Jeff Rylander & Phil Sumida Calculate the Mass of the Top Quark Bob Grimm Bardeen, AAPT, Chicago, 2/2009

7. Observe Model Particles: US Pennies by Frank Lipinski "Experimental particle physicists look at data much in the same way that students will go through these exercises. While the subject matter may seem ordinary, students will find that the graphical methods used by particle physicists are remarkably effective at uncovering patterns in sets of data." Bardeen, AAPT, Chicago, 2/2009

8. The Effect of Temperature on Conductivity by Jeff Rylander & Phil Sumida "This project allows students to experimentally discover the temperature dependence of resistance using a copper wire, a standard 1 Ω resistor, and a piece of BSCCO 2223 superconducting tape. Using liquid nitrogen as the refrigerant, students will measure electrical resistance over a temperature range from -196 °C (77 K) to room temperature, approximately 22 °C (295 K)." Bardeen, AAPT, Chicago, 2/2009

9. How How We Levitate the Train? by Jeff Rylander & Phil Sumida "Students will be presented with a problem: “What superconducting material is best to use for a maglev train?” Students will discuss strategies for solving the problem, learn how to sift through hundreds of data runs to develop answers, produce graphs that will lead them to their conclusions, present findings to the class, and propose a specific answer to the problem based on data." Bardeen, AAPT, Chicago, 2/2009

10. Calculate the Mass of the Top Quark by Bob Grimm "Students use conservation of momentum to calculate the mass of the top quark. This activity examines the fingerprint of a top/antitop production . . . and will build on student understanding of vector addition and depends upon only a small amount of particle physics explanation." Bardeen, AAPT, Chicago, 2/2009

11. The Quark Puzzle by Eric Gettrust “The motivation for creating this activity was primarily to construct a group of objects (puzzle pieces) which obeyed, as much as possible, the Standard Model’s rules limiting the quark composition of bound states, both hadrons and mesons.” Bardeen, AAPT, Chicago, 2/2009

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