Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Tuesday final blog

Enjoy the main points from this morning:
1.) Presentation of nuclear chemistry and its applications.
2.) Detection of radiation
3.) Observing the detection of gamma rays in the physics room
4.) Observing the "tracks" in the bubble chamber.

I still have a lot of questions about particles such as muons, etc and how it is all related. I also need more information about the strong and weak force and their interaction inside the nucleus.

I am curious to see how this particle detector will work when we are finished.

2 comments:

Cathy Ezrailson, Science Education, University of South Dakota said...

Hi Paul,
Thanks for your great blogs. Here is a resource that may help with understand the "particle zoo."
Dr. E

Cathy Ezrailson, Science Education, University of South Dakota said...

Now how about the link?
http://www-public.slac.stanford.edu/babar/
Here it is.