Topic 7 Resources

Topic 7 Worksheets                              Particle Physics Powerpoints

 

Bubble Chamber  ImageCourtesy CERN

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!

Cosmic Ray Muons

Minute Physics: Special Relativity

What Does Planck's Constant REALLY Mean? 


First Bubble ChamberJohn Wood, 1954

        Cern 15 Foot Chamber