Unit 1 Particle Physics

We start today with the frontier of physics.  Those ideas that are driving the next generation of engineers, cosmologists and scientists to ask new questions about how the universe works.

Let's start with a question generator:


http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-05/scientists-will-move-50-foot-ring-3200-miles-summer-physics-sake
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/january-2013/bosons
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/december-2012/decay-channel
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/september-2012/explain-it-in-60-seconds-klystron
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/december-2009/explain-it-in-60-seconds-scintillators

Now, are there answers we can find here?

http://serc.carleton.edu/quantskills/methods/quantlit/RadDecay.html





1/2 page summary of today on back of graph.  Hand in.