Motion Maps and their consequences

Activity

What is the purpose of CERN?

What is the possible benefit or risk of a multi-national, multi-experimental center like CERN?   Think of the following and attempt to comment on pros and cons for each

a) talking with members of different countries
b) medical technologies
c) the grid
d) the energy needed
e) the construction costs
f) the use of energy
g) the discoveries for physics
h) the age of the universe

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/About/About-en.html

Physics of Today

http://www.particleadventure.org/

Get one or two partners.   Your mission:  to find out how physics has changed, what the physics of today looks like, and what we still don't know.

For each section below, you will need to come up with a top FIVE facts list.

Standard Model
Forces Game

The Accelerator Lab
How to Accelerate Game
Trails Game


Mysteries to Solve

Penetrating Radioactivity

Bequerel and the Discovery of Radioactivity

Radon

Yikes!  You could be in danger from radon and NOT EVEN KNOW IT.

Radon Tutorial

Radioactivity Basics

Radioactivity Primer

FINDING OUT ABOUT THE NUCLEUS

Thomsen's Experiment

Rutherford's Model

Chadwick and Millikan

 

Watch the full episode. See more NOVA.

 

RADIATION AND PROBABILITY

The Basics

The Dosages and Such

What is a Detector?

Today, we talked about rules and detectors.   Sometimes detectors are inadequate for us to find all the rules.  What we do in physics mirrors that.  We need to collect enough data, using appropriate detectors, to help us fill out the rules.