Johns Hopkins University QuarkNet Center

Welcome to the Johns Hopkins University QuarkNet center. We meet on the campus of JHU and serve teachers in the surrounding area.

Contacts:

  • Dr. Morris Swartz, Mentor
  • Jeremy Smith, Lead Teacher
  • Christine DiMenna, Lead Teacher

 

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Seismic Review Activity

Google DocGoogle Doc for shared collaboration with the seismic review questions   https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vLrAXwdsPVBac8nR6AibniBzpyfcpzybIQa3XFMYomc/edit?usp=sharing  …

Authenticity of Scientific Anecdotes

Authenticity of Scientific Anecdotes Nature volume157, pages196–197 (16 February 1946) THERE are two famous anecdotes told concerning-Michael Faraday and the usefulness of scientific…

2018 JHU Workshop - Agenda & List of Talks

Click "Read More" button to see entire agenda --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday 24…

LIGO workshop July 25 - 26, 2018

    Objectives Participating teachers will be able to use the LIGO e-Lab to: Plot and interpret data recorded by LIGO seismic instruments Explain the importance of LIGO…

QuarkNet at Johns Hopkins University

How I use the cosmic e-Lab in my IB classroom (3-day lesson plan)

Here is a Google Slides presentation about a 3-day lesson plan I did with my IB Physics seniors with the cosmic ray e-Lab. I have a muon detector in my classroom, so we use that, but you don't need a…

Mechanical Universe - college version videos

This is the college or AP C (with calculus) version of the video series that Tim Durkin was talking to us about. The entire video series is available from Caltech on YouTube through here:  …

Particles Behaving Badly - NPR

"That situation is playing out now, as outlined in a recent review paper in Nature. The conundrum in question is the decay of a particle called a B-meson, and how many electrons, muons, and…

2017 JHU Summer Workshop - Agenda / List of Talks

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday 24 July   9:00-10:00 Jeremy Smith, Hereford…

Johns Hopkins QuarkNet annual report 2016