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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:28:16 -0900
To: pinhole@exploratorium.edu
From: Ronald Wong <ronwong@inreach.com>
Subject: Re: on-line nuclear stuff
Gene Thompson/Ellen Koivisto wrote:
>atomic stability -- Is there a source for the periodic table based not on
>chemical reactivity and electron configuration but on nuclear reactivity
>and the stability of nuclear arrangement (esp. something on-line)?
I'm not sure if this is what you have in mind but the following website was
developed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in conjunction with
the Contemporary Physics Education Project (CPEP).
If you or your students have ever wanted to make some sense of the
veritable zoo of sub-atomic particles and the forces between them then this
online, interactive tour should be of interest to you. It's called: "The
Particle Adventure" and was designed with the
ignorant/intimidated-but-intrigued in mind.
http://pdg.lbl.gov/cpep/adventure.html
Also produced through this collaboration was a long list of materials
(large, colorful wall charts, smaller transparency of same for overhead
projection, notebook handouts for the students, packet of activities,
computer software - PC and Mac, lab activities, teacher's guide, etc.)
which they hoped would help teachers in their efforts to give students a
better understanding of the nature of matter and energy. The material
takes into account the major research findings of the last few decades in
nuclear physics. As a result, the focus is on nuclear, particle, and fusion
physics.
If you'd like information on the materials that were developed, check out
the following URL:
(You'll find an online, interactive "course" on nuclear fusion there as well)
Hopefully, there is something here for you.
ron