LHC Physics in the Classroom @ AAPT SM24
AAPT SM 2024 Workshop: LHC Physics in the Classroom
Sunday, 7 July, 2024 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET
Boston, MA
Westin: Marina Ballroom II
Small URL for this page: https://tinyurl.com/lhcaapt2024
Agenda
Time (ET) | Activity |
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8:00 AM | Greetings and introductions - Shane
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~8:15 AM | Activity: Shuffling the Particle Deck - Susan
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~8:45 AM | Activity: Rolling with Rutherford - Shane
Activity: Calculate the Z Mass - Susan
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~10:00 AM | BREAK |
~10:10 AM | World Wide Data Day measurement (November 14, 2024)
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~11:30 AM | Discussion & Evaluation
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12:00 PM |
End of workshop
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Contacts
Shane Wood, QuarkNet National Staff
Susan Wetzler, QuarkNet Fellow
AAPT Program information:
Date: July 7
Time: 8:00 AM to Noon
Location: The Westin Boston Hotel
Room: Marina Ballroom II
Organizer(s): Shane Wood
Cost: $75 member/$100 non-member
Students who complete an introductory physics course may be under the impression that physics somehow “stopped” in the late 19th or early 20th century. Of course this idea could not be further from the truth, as physicists today continue to work on addressing an ever-growing list of unsolved questions: Where has all the antimatter gone? What is dark matter? What is dark energy? (What questions have we not thought of yet?) Physicists from all over the world work to address these and many other questions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, on the border of Switzerland and France. This workshop will focus on how teachers can tap into the excitement of LHC physics to both motivate students and provide a contemporary context for them to engage with topics and practices covered in introductory physics courses, including (but not limited to) conservation laws, data collection, organization, and analysis, and making claims based on evidence. Participants in this workshop will alternate between “student mode” and “teacher mode”, will analyze authentic LHC data, and will get a chance to work through some activities from QuarkNet’s Data Activities Portfolio. The workshop will conclude with a discussion on classroom implementation. Some of the activities will be computer-based, so please bring along a laptop! This workshop is supported by the NSF-funded QuarkNet program, https://quarknet.org, and OPTYCs, https://optycs.aapt.org.