science
What's New in Science - Introduction to Gender and the Brain
What's New in Science Christia Brown
Part 1 of 4: This segment includes a description of why it is difficult to examine gender differences in people and what the implications are for getting it wrong. It also provides a primer for what people should know when evaluating research on gender.
Conference to Address STEM Opportunities for Girls
The Kentucky Girls STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Collaborative, in partnership with the STEM-H Institute at Eastern Kentucky University, will hold its fifth annual conference "Reaching for the Stars!" Friday, June 7, at the Eastern Kentucky University campus.
What's New in Science - From Electrons to Materials: How Small is Small?
What's New in Science Anne-France Miller
Part 1 of 4: We discuss the scale of atoms and their constituents, and explore some things that we know about interactions and forces within the atom.
What's New in Science - Quantization
What's New in Science Anne-Frances Miller
Part 2 of 4: A quick tour through the development of Bohr’s model of the atom concludes with calculation of the allowable (quantized) energies of an electron orbiting in a Hydrogen atom. Electron states, and transitions between states are presented, as are their related spectra.
What's New in Science - Computing a Small Molecule: Water
What's New in Science Anne-Frances Miller
Part 3 of 4: Understanding molecules requires more sophisticated models. Modeling software is introduced, which we use to build a model of water, and simulate its vibrations and stretching.
The Higgs Field and its Role in Creating Mass
We meet the Higgs field, and also consider aspects of empty space and the universe. Two demonstrations are used to model how the Higgs field gives mass to particles: sugar and ping-pong balls; and a prism and light beams.
What's New in Science - Tim Gorringe Spring 2013 Series, University of Kentucky
Introduction to a Stunning Discovery
This segment outlines the presentation and introduces the large hadron collider (LHC), the massive ATLAS and CMS experiments, and the economic scale and human scale of the experiments. It ends with speculations on the Nobel Prize for the Higgs particle prediction and Higgs particle discovery.
What's New in Science - Tim Gorringe Spring 2013 Series, University of Kentucky
Mass and Fields
We examine the concept of mass from the different perspectives of Newton and Einstein. Fields are introduced, starting with the familiar gravitational and magnetic fields. Our modern understandings of the mass of an atom and the masses of the proton and the neutron are not as simple as one might expect.
What's New in Science - Tim Gorringe Spring 2013 Series, University of Kentucky
