Topic 7 Resources
The attachments below include many of the notes given in class.
The order of the attachments doesn't match the order they were presented in class.
A Better Understanding of Binding Energy: Taught by an MIT Professor!
How to Draw Feinmann Diagrams: On the Slant!
See the scale: Atomic Size Comparison
Millikan Oil Drop Experiment: Millikan Video
Review Videos: These go over much of Topic 7: Ringo Dingrado Reviews Nuclear Physics for You!
The History of Helium: It's Newer Than You Think!
Quantum Mechanics: An Overview of QM
Laser Simulator: U of Colorado Laser Simulation
Article on the CERN, courtesy Vanity Fair: CERN Particle Accelerator
CERN Animation, Courtesy Chris Horchler: CERN Collider Animation
CERN Website: All About Synchrotrons!
Cloud Chambers: The Birth of Helium!
Weak Charge and Protons: The Weak Charge
What is Something? It's All Fields!
What is Mass? It's Not All About the Higgs!
Photoelectric Effect: Lose That Charge!
The links and files below can help your study of the strangeness that is particle physics!
Minute Physics: Special Relativity
What Does Planck's Constant REALLY Mean?
First Bubble ChamberJohn Wood, 1954
Cern 15 Foot Chamber