Community College Physics Material

This web page collects some material presented at different meetings and workshops with students and faculty at community colleges.

Aug. 22, 2014 Presentation to teachers in the College Now program at TC3. The material discuss recent progress in CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background) studies and the Higgs discovery at the LHC.

Jan. 22, 2014 Presentation given at workshop on recent advances in physics at Cornell. The material discuss recent progress in particle physics and our understanding of forces.

Aug. 13, 2014 Presentation given at teacher development workshop at TC3.

May 27, 2011 workshop on connecting community colleges to research. Material for presentation and discussion is available here. Lora Hine's slides with links are here.

Other material is linked below:

Some basic physics problems related to CMS and the LHC.

Slides to introduce the Standard Model and the LHC.

Slides to introduce the Standard Model and the LHC with some more Feynman diagrams.

Draft compendium on Standard Model.

Guest lecture given on the standard model does not yet exist in electronic form.

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation grant no. 0846388

Last update: Sept., 22, 2014 (Anders Ryd)