ND QuarkNet Course 1, 6-10 July 2020

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Zoom Link For 7/6-7/10
password: Quarknet
meeting ID: 978 7753 8379

Agenda

Mon 6 July Tue 7 July Wed 8 July Thu 9 July Fri 10 July

09:00 Connect and check-in

09:15  Motion (slides)

  • scalar vs vector
  • velocity vs acceleration

10:30  Forces (slides)

  • Forces as vectors
  • Forces resulting in acceleration
  • Newton's 3rd law

11:30   Discussion

11:45   End of day

09:00 Connect and check-in

09:15  Energy (slides)

  • Conservation of Energy
  • “Loss” of energy - why it isn’t actually lost
  • Conservation of Mass is a myth
  • Mass-Energy

11:30   Discussion

11:45   End of day

09:00 Connect and check-in

09:15 Momentum

  • Conservation of
  • Collisions 
    • Special case:  elastic, equal mass. vo=0
    • Special case: elastic, equal mass with an initial velocity

11:30   Discussion

11:45   End of day

09:00  Connect and check-in

(slides)

09:15   What physicists do: Rolling with Rutherford online

10:00   LHC and CMS Tutorial

  • 3 groups
  • Research and slide prep (30 min)
    • All groups research Foundation Question
    • Each group researches its group question
    • Record results in Google slides.
  • Discussion (5 min/group)

10:45   Momentum and Energy: Calculate the Mass of the Z Boson (data) (student guide) (Chrome protractor plugin)

  • 8 groups
    • Groups 1-4: ATLAS events A-D
    • Groups 5-8: CMS evants A-D
  • Add momenta
  • Add energies
  • Apply E2 = p2c2 + m2c
  • Google form

11:30   Discussion

11:45   End of day

09:00 Connect and check-in

09:15 Big Analysis of Muons in CMS (BAMC)

  • Assignment of data
  • Discussion of results

11:30   End of week discussion

11:45   End of Course 1

Homework:

Watch these videos from Minute Physics:

  • A Simple Proof of Conservation of Energy
  • Einstein’s Proof of E = mc2
  • E = mc2 is Incomplete  
     
 

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