Cosmic Ray

Students roll dice, record the resulting individual values as well as the sum of the values, create histograms of the data and develop insight into the concept of “degrees of freedom." 

Students create and interpret a histogram of penny masses. 

Students use statistics to make an indirect measurement they can easily confirm.

Students use Standard Model rules to build hadrons and mesons from quarks.

Students experience the excitement of scientific collaboration in this series of investigations into high-energy cosmic rays.

Students use conservation laws and vector addition to calculate the top mass from event displays.