Remember: You must choose
(and stick with) one of the two tracks.
All summaries or essays must
be 1 ½ - 2 pages long, single-spaced, 12 point font (PDF, TEXT, or Microsoft Word 2003 or later).
Please include your name and NetID on your paper.
Track A: Read
the first chapter of “QED” by Feynman (available in bookstores,
Amazon, etc.) and write an essay,
making connection with the topics we covered in class, and
comparing/contrasting the different approaches.
Track B: Misc. Applications: LIGO
First, watch the quite excellent NSF-produced 20-minute video on LIGO:
or
Next, read the article that you find
here.
Finally, write a summary of LIGO, how it works, what it's trying to see, what are the limitations of the current experiment, and what is being planned to fix those in the future.
Deposit your paper here by the date given on the main James Scholar page.