1 / 20

Bubble Chamber Website Presentation: Explore Modern Physics Research

Dive into the world of bubble chamber pictures to enhance students' understanding of modern physics concepts. The website offers tutorials, exercises, FAQs for teachers/students, and a student analysis worksheet. Improve pattern recognition, problem-solving skills, and explore conservation principles. With innovative activities and engaging content, this platform aims to make learning physics fun and accessible for all. Future plans include linking tutorials with FAQs for a seamless educational experience.

krausc
Download Presentation

Bubble Chamber Website Presentation: Explore Modern Physics Research

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Bubble Chamber Website Shane, Per, Peter, Szilvia, Luminita, Inger and Claude.

  2. Outline of B.C. Presentation • Introductions, motivations – Shane • Improvements in tutorial – Inger • Example exercises – Luminita/Per • FAQs/Lessons – Peter • Gallery improvements – Claude/Szilvia • Summary – Shane

  3. “Catchy” Questions • Interested in “seeing” the invisible? • Want your students to make their own observations and analyses, much like a scientist? • Want to know more about what is happening in modern physics research? …Then studying bubble chamber pictures is for you (and your students)!

  4. Review/Apply Concepts • Conservation of energy • Conservation of momentum • Conservation of charge • Behavior of charged particles in a magnetic field

  5. Practice Various Skills • Pattern recognition—noticing patterns and deciding what events are “interesting” • Problem solving in physics, potentially using limited – non-intimidating – mathematics

  6. The Tutorial Minor improvements: • Fixed broken links. • Corrected mistakes. Major improvements: • Table. • Momentum and energy conservation. • Conservation of charge, baryon number and strangeness. • Exercises.

  7. Exercise 2 • Random order of question • Exercise 2

  8. Exercise 2, events • No electron spiral • Vee pointing to a kink • Two kinks • Symmetric vee

  9. Bubble Chamber Student Analysis. Bubble Chamber Track Activity Worksheet

  10. Objective • Develop a “template” that you can use with your students to evaluate anyof the bubble chamber pictures.

  11. Required Materials • Print out of bubble chamber photograph • Ruler • Coloured pens

  12. Required Background • Conservation of Charge • Conservation of Energy • Conservation of Momentum • Left Hand/Right Hand Rule

  13. Layout • Modular Format • Recreating the crime scene/ Scientific Method

  14. Investigating the Crime Scene • Looking for evidence → high lighting it! • Evaluating the evidence • Reconstructing the crime scene

  15. Reconstructing the Crime Scene • Measuring “event” time scales • Applying Conservation of Energy • Identifying daughter particles of decays • Identifying properties of the interaction particle

  16. FAQPresents Bubble Chamber FAQ for Teachers and Students

  17. Motivation • With an active website, there is now a need for a FAQ section. • For points where you (teacher) or students may get stuck in the tutorial.

  18. Example FAQ’S • How do I distinguish between a decay and a collision? • How can I determine the direction of the magnetic field if there is no knock-on electron? • What is the sequence of particle identification?

  19. Future Plans • Create the links between the Bubble Chamber Tutorial and the FAQ’s.

  20. Review • We now have a “tool” for our educational “tool box” for addressing the following: Interested in “seeing” the invisible? Want your students to make their own observations and analyses, much like a scientist? Want to know more about what is happening in modern physics research?

More Related