Nuclear and Particle Physics Education Physics

Nuclear and Particle Physics Education Physics

Nuclear and Particle Physics

It should be fairly self-evident that this category is for educating about nuclear and particle physics, from a physics teacher's or student's point of view. Educational materials of all types are welcome, especially those which explain this somewhat opaque subject in a clear way. Sites related to 'issues' surrounding nuclear energy should probably be put in 'Society/Issues.'

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- Covers five major application fields: food irradiation, industry, medicine, space, and electricity.
- A set of simulations to illustrate the historical models of atomic structure and the behavior of light.
- A chronological record of the nuclear age: links to people, documents and educational units. Explore political and ethical dilemmas of the Nuclear Age.
- resources for teachers and students; links to a more technical GAT fusion site
- A product of teachers, educators, and physicists located around the world. Charts, brochures, web features, and classroom activities present the current understanding of cosmic rays, radiation, particle physics, fission, fusion, and similar topics. Awar
- Describes the work of the Hampton University Particle Physics group in the ATLAS project as well as material and links for particle physics and general physics education.
- An introduction to the principles of fusion geared towards high school students. Posters in various languages also available for download or ordering.
- Atoms to quarks, quantum physics, the big bang, and newer theories about matter.
- The effects of a nuclear blast.
- Java applet of a basic nuclear power plant. Try to keep the reactor running safely under various failure scenarios.
- From Scientific American: Ask the Experts: Physics.
- Simple, concise introductory tutorials about radioactivity and atoms.
- The site "allows students and teachers to participate remotely in scientific research at [America's] largest fusion energy laboratory." Requires Java-capable browser and Shockwave plug-in to be able to use the excellent educational modules. Al
- Overview of elementary particle physics experiments and research at Fermilab.
- Leads to several excellent resources which teach about fusion.
- Summary of decay modes and their probabilities.
- Introductory information on leptons (electrons, muons, taus, and neutrinos).
- From The Particle Detector BriefBook.
- An award-winning site from the Particle Data Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs. "A tour of the inner workings of the atom."
- A simulation for Mac and Windows 95/98/NT that allows even beginning students to experience what real particle physics experiments are like. Demo versions available for download.
- Companion site to the PBS show of the same name. Covers "How a Nuclear Reactor Works" and "What Happened," showing the series of events that took place on March 28, 1979. Useful for a quick lesson about Three Mile Island. Also has t
- An exhibition to celebrate the centenary of the discovery of the electron--A collaboration between the Science Museum, London, and the Institute of Physics
- Site seeks to explain the origins of matter and current high-energy research regarding the conditions of the early universe. The information presented here is published in booklet form by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC).
- The FAQ (from Princeton Plasma Physics Lab) is not very extensive, but it has an impressive Glossary.
- Information provided by SLAC for informing the general public about particle physics.
- USENET FAQ glossary on fusion energy.
- Tutorial with 28 color illustrations and photographs looks at these amazing devices and how the results they obtain tell us about the fundamental structure of matter, the forces holding it together and the origins of the universe.
- A shockwave application that allows the user to add up and down quarks to a hydrogen nucleus to create a carbon nucleus.
- Explore radioactive decay and half-life with radioactive sources, screens and a geiger detector.
- The ATLAS Experiment is to be carried out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator facility of the CERN Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Website is intended for people of all ages who are curious about fundamental particles and forces
- A collection of Web-based games and activities to develop an understanding of the operations and experiments that take place in the Fermilab accelerator and detector halls and the scientific ideas they explore. Has a special section for teachers.
- A comprehensive introduction to nuclear science-- antimatter, beta rays, cosmic radiation, radioactivity, the difference between fission and fusion, and the structure of the nucleus, for starters. Site also provides access to reference and teaching mater
- A collection of resources gathered by the Thermodynamics Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
- An overview of bremsstrahlung (or stopping radiation). From The Particle Detector BriefBook.
- Educational information on plasma applications including controlled fusion.
- Overviews the principles of nuclear fission and its use to generate power, why uranium can be fissioned, n/p ratio and delayed neutrons, moderators, also Chernobyl and 3-Mile Island.
- A very comprehensive U.S. Department of Energy site related to fusion research. Provides a large number of links to institutions and organizations, and there is a special fusion education section too.
- Introductory information on particle decays produced by the Stanford Linear Accelerator.
- A report on one of the potentially most important discoveries of the new millennium, along with a summary of the standard model of particle physics.
- Fusion Energy Educational Web Site at LLNL
- Beginners guide to particle physics.
- A thorough discussion covering all aspects of antimatter.
- Introduction to cross section, an important concept in scattering.
- For students, educators, visitors.
- From Scientific American: Ask the Experts: Physics.

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