Course objectives

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Course objectives
The way we normally teach this course
The Clear Explanation Misconception
The instructor pours information into the students
but little is retained. It is clearly the
students fault! ?
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Course objectives
Web Reading Assignments and Reading Tests
(between 900 pm the day of the lecture and 930
am of the following one)
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Course objectives
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Course objectives
clickers
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• 01.01
• Consider a composite particle with mass m, charge
  q, and magnetic dipole moment m. Which of the
  following are correct about its anti-particle

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• 01.02
• As far as we (as a civilization) know, hadronic
  matter appears as composed of quarks in the
  following combinations

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• 01.03
• The p decays mostly to a positive muon and a
  neutrino with a halflife of 3 10-8 seconds. What
  is the intrinsic width of the p?

A. 2 108 eV B. 2 103 eV C. 2 eV D. 2
10-3 eV E. 2 10-8 eV F. None of above.
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• 01.04
• Mesons are subatomic particles that actually
  consist of a quark bound to an antiquark. The
  lowest-mass mesons are the pions
• The Kaons (K,K-,K0,K0-bar) are mesons with
  masses substantially larger than the pions but
  smaller than other mesons. The quark composition
  of the K- must be

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• 01.05
• The quark triplet called the S0 is the
  lowest-mass uncharged triplet except for the
  neutron, which is substantially less massive. The
  quark composition of the S0 must be