Astronomy, Cosmology, Particle Physics at Milton Academy

Cosmology and Particle Physics

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The textbooks for this class are:
The Big Bang by David Harland
A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo by Cindy Schwarz

Here is the sylabus for last semeseter, Spring of 2006.
 

Monday 8th

Tuesday 4th

Wed

Thursday 1st

Friday 2nd

 

 

 

Feb. 3

Particle Adventure Activity 1 – Fundamentally Speaking

 

Read pages 1-8

 

Web site 1

Feb. 4

Particle Adventure Activity 2 – Psyching Out the System

 

Read pages 8-10

Feb. 7

Particle Adventure Activity 3 – Rutherford’s Discovery

 

Web Site 2

Feb. 8

Size of Particles – Marble Activity

 

Web Site 9

 

 

Feb. 10

Mass of Particles – Envelope Activity

Feb. 11

Simple Detectors:

Geiger Counter

Cloud Chamber

Feb. 14

Particle Adventure Activity 4 – Tracking Unseen Particles

Feb. 15

Particle Adventure Activity 6 – Observing Magnetic Effects on Particle Beams

 

 

Feb. 17

Particle Adventure Activity 5 – The Rules of the Game

 

Read Ch. 3 - A Glimpse at the Zoo

Feb. 18

Pions, Muons

Read Ch. 4 - More Particles and Conservation Rules

 

Feb. 22

Monday schedule

Chamber Works

 

Feb. 24

Bubble Chamber Photos

Feb. 25

Accelerators

 

Read Ch. 7 -Particle Accelerators

 

Web Site 3

Web Site 12 – Warp Speed

Feb. 28

Quarks

 

Read Ch. 5 - Simplification of the Zoo

Mar. 1

Web Site 11 – Law and Order, Baryon Bonanza

 

 

Mar. 3

 

Mar. 4

Four Forces

 

Read Ch. 2 - Forces and Interactions

 

Web Site 4

Web Site 11 – Law and Order, Four Forces

Mar. 7

Read Ch. 6 - The Standard Model

 

Web Site 8

Mar. 8

Web Sites 6, 7, and 10

 

 

Mar. 10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mar. 29

Ch. 1 – Introduction

Tour the Universe web site

 

 

Mar. 31

Ch. 2 – Origins of Modern Cosmology

Apr. 1

Ch. 3 – Observational Cosmology

Apr. 4

Apr. 5                   

Hubble Law Lab

 

 

Apr. 7

Ch. 4 – Evidence for the Big Bang

Apr.8

 

Apr. 11

Apr. 12

 

 

 

Apr. 14

Ch. 5 Cosmological Models

Apr. 15

Apr. 18

Apr. 19

Ch. 6 – The First Millisecond

 

 

Apr. 21

Apr.22

Apr.25

Apr.26

Ch. 17 – Into the Infinite Future

 

 

Apr. 28

Apr. 29

May 2

May 3

Community Service Day

Senior Projects Start