Relativity Workshop at OSU 2024 | QuarkNet

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Published: Wed, 06/26/2024 - 21:29 | Group(s):

Oklahoma State University QuarkNet Center

Agenda

Monday July 29

Time (local)	Activity	Remarks
09:00	Coffee, introductions, and business	Must-do items
09:15	Welcome to OSU	Dean Melinda A. Cro
09:30	Setting the stage	Intro to QuarkNet Data Actvities Portfolio
09:45	Data Activity: Mean Lifetime Part I: Dice	Lifetime calculation practice
10:15	Break
10:30	Data Activity: Mean Lifetime Part II: Cosmic Muons	Establish a time baseline.
11:15	Introduction to Special Relativity	Joe Haley (Time Dilation video)
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Data Activity: How Speedy are These Muons?	Establish a speed baseline.
13:45	Relativity Concepts Tutorial
14:30	Break
14:45	Calculation	Apply time or length transformations to cosmic ray muons
15:15	Data Activity: Energy, Momentum, and Mass	Extend E=mc². (Explanation by Michael Fowler) Editable Google Sheet Minute Physics E=mc² video
16:00	End of day

Tuesday July 30

Time (local)	Activity	Remarks
09:00	Coffee and discussion
09:15	Classic video	Either Time Dilation or Ultimate Speed
10:00	Break
10:15	Find the mass of a muon Slides Data (Each participant does 2-5 events.) (Scroll down to Groups under "Radioactive decay of muons.") Results form Spreadsheet	Or: Use relativistic momentum p = mv/sqrt(1-v²/c²) where m is invariant mass. Assume p = 5.27 GeV/c and v = 0.99c.
11:00	Data Activity: Z mass calculation	Find the masses of Z bosons that decay into muons (data) (lab sheet) (Subatomic Bomb Squad video) If we finish early, Implementation Plans work
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Code activity: J/Psi mass in two reference frames	Python notebook (make a copy in your Google Drive)
14:15	Summing up	Main concepts: Lorentz transformations Energy-mass-momentum Invariant quantities
14:30	Break
14:45	Begin work on Implementation plans (slides)
16:00	End of workshop

Wednesday July 31

Time (local)	Activity	Remarks
09:00	Coffee and discussion
09:15	GR as Curved Spacetime	Joe Haley and PBS Spacetime videos: 1- https://youtu.be/NblR01hHK6U?si=UJU4Kg1LkaJDotjb 2- https://youtu.be/D3GVVkPb3OI?si=HbiNYhD_bncA9lGo 3- https://youtu.be/P4rW_pPbD-U?si=6xIwHw_bus5hGAyx 4- https://youtu.be/AwhKZ3fd9JA?si=fo1LECgbCbmxfE9f
10:00	Long LPved particles	John Stupak
10:15	Break and discussion
10:30	Measurments in Curved Space	Joe Haley
11:00	Visualizing Curved Spacetime	https://youtu.be/wrwgIjBUYVc?si=JgqYRi89MHsVwKUb
11:15	GR and Black Holes	Tao Xu
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Scalars and Vectors and Tensors... oh my!	Joe Haley
13:30	Einstein's Equation	Joe Haley
13:45	Break
14:00	Gravitational Waves	Tao Xu
14:45	Conclude and present Implementation plans (slides)
15:30	Survey (find in Must-do items)
15:45	Group Photo	Survey (find in Must-do items)
16:00	End of workshop