Particle Physics Outreach to Secondary Education

Outreach: Can Physics Cross Boundaries?

Recently, physical thinking has been making progress in domains at which it did not aim originally. In this contribution, I want to sketch some examples of what can be done. The method consists of finding systems which originate in complex or complicated structure or dynamics, and which can profit from questions physicists ask. The examples I want to present comprise biology, language and the W...

Introduction to Particle Physics

Public Education and Outreach

Building Community Systems for Young Children is a series of reports designed to support the implementation of Proposition 10: The California Children and Families Act. Each installment is written by a team of experts and provides comprehensive and authoritative information on critical issues concerning young children and families in California. Building Community Systems for Young Children has...

MPPhys - A many-particle simulation package for computational physics education

In a first course to classical mechanics elementary physical processes like elastic two-body collisions, the mass-spring model, or the gravitational two-body problem are discussed in detail. The continuation to many-body systems, however, is defered to graduate courses although the underlying equations of motion are essentially the same and although there is a strong motivation for highschool s...

Community outreach for stroke education.

See related article, pages 2331–2335. Educating the public on the warning signs of stroke is considered a critical part of the chain of survival and of better stroke care.1 Repeated studies have demonstrated that high-risk groups, such as the elderly, minority groups, or those of low socioeconomic status, often have the poorest knowledge of stroke warning signs.2–4 Although mass media can be a ...