Johns Hopkins University QuarkNet Center
Welcome to the Johns Hopkins University QuarkNet center. We meet on the campus of JHU and serve teachers in the surrounding area.
Contacts:
- Dr. Morris Swartz, Mentor
- Christine DiMenna, Lead Teacher
- Ray Hodges, Lead Teacher
- Jeremy Smith, Lead Teacher
How I use the cosmic e-Lab in my IB classroom (3-day lesson plan)
Here is a Google Slides presentation about a 3-day lesson plan I did with my IB Physics seniors with the cosmic ray e-Lab. I have a muon detector in my classroom, so we use that, but you don't need a…
Mechanical Universe - college version videos
This is the college or AP C (with calculus) version of the video series that Tim Durkin was talking to us about. The entire video series is available from Caltech on YouTube through here: http://…
Particles Behaving Badly - NPR
"That situation is playing out now, as outlined in a recent review paper in Nature. The conundrum in question is the decay of a particle called a B-meson, and how many electrons, muons, and tau…
2017 JHU Summer Workshop - Agenda / List of Talks
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday 24 July 9:00-10:00 Jeremy Smith, Hereford HS,…
Johns Hopkins QuarkNet annual report 2016
Summer Summary
We had another great summer at JHU. Thanks to all who participated! Please take some time to look at the page listing all the talks and activities for the week, as well as the posters created by the…
JHU QuarkNet Summer 2016 - Summer Student Research
Please click the titles to see a poster summarizing each student's research. Posters can be downloaded (PDF format). ===================================== Jack Carlton - Modeling Quantum Waves and…
Cosmic Ray Detector Files
For anyone who wants / needs the files for the cosmic ray detector, here they are in one handy zip file (zip is in .rar format). Included are the following: 1) EQUIP (user interface for the…
Link to create an elab account and/or QuarkNet account
Teachers may want to request an elab account (for use with the CRMDs as well as the CMS elab and LIGO elabs) or a QuarkNet account. We use the latter to post and share documents within the group and…
2016 JHU Summer Workshop - Agenda / List of Talks
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday 25 July 9:00-10:00 Introduction to QuarkNet (…