Project for ph340

For the project I expect a paper of order 10 pages and a 10 minute talk to be given near the end of the semester. A first draft of the paper is expected near the middle of the semester. These drafts will be circulated to other people in the class for peer review. The exact deadlines are:

7 February 1997 -- Topic chosen and reported to instructor.
17 March 1997 -- First draft is due (three copies).
26 March 1997 -- Reviews are due.
23 April 1997 -- Final draft is due (one copy).
25 April - 2 May 1997 -- Presentations.

As mentioned earlier, the talk should have both substantial historical and technical content. A list of possible topics is given below. First come, first serve on these. If another topic interests you, let me know. We can discuss whether it is appropriate.

Possible massive neutrinos and the solar neutrino problem (see Science, 267, 45-50). (Barbara Mattson)
The Dirac equation and interpretation of negative energy states. (Mike Crawford)
The prediction and discovery of the neutrino. (Jeremiah Harlin)
Parity nonconservation. (Kyle Wiens)
The periodic table of the elements.
The discovery of electron spin. (Ricki Sheldon)
EPR paradox, etc. (James Little)
Bose-Einstein condensation. (Patrick Treuthardt)
Superconductivity. (Joseph Dickerson)
Origins of Quantum Mechanics. (Robert Carver)
The contributions to quantum mechanics of the following Nobel Prize-winning physicists may also be described:
- Albert Einstein
- Niels Bohr
- Werner Heisenberg (Grant Coble)
- Erwin Schrodinger (Ueyn Block)
- Paul Dirac
- Wolfgang Pauli
- Hideki Yukawa
- Enrico Fermi
- Max Born
- Maria Goeppert Mayer
- Charles Townes
- Richard Feynman (Meiling Tong-Morrison)
- Luis Alvarez
- Murray Gell-Mann (Matt Cowan)
- John Bardeen
- Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam, and Steven Weinberg (Matthew Sprague)