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A (Very Brief) Introduction to Particle A (Very Brief) Introduction to Particle Physics Physics Stockholms Skolors Kosmiska Nätverk 2006-02-07 Mark Pearce ([email protected]) Mark Pearce - KTH Stockholm -

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A (Very Brief) Introduction to Particle PhysicsStockholms Skolors Kosmiska Ntverk2006-02-07Mark Pearce - KTH Stockholm -

Mark Pearce ([email protected])

What is Particle Physics?

Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary constituents of matter and radiation, and the interactions between them

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According to Wikipedia

Some History ~500 BC - Thales of Miletus Water is the most fundamental substance on Earth ~450 BC - Empedocles No its earth, air, fire and water ! ~400 BC - Democritus Introduces the concept of atoms ~350 BC - Aristotle Introduces the scientific method 1500 AD - Copernicus The Earth revolves around the Sun scientific revolution 1600 - Galileo One of the first to adopt theories on the basis of scientific method 1700 - Newton Develops Classical Mechanics 1800 - Faraday Discovers electromagnetismMark Pearce - KTH Stockholm -

1873 - Maxwell Develops electromagnetic theory 1895 - Rntgen Discovers X-rays 1893 - The Curies Separate radioactive substances never seen on Earth before 1898 - J.J. Thompson Discovers the electron - The start of particle physics !

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After Thompson ...

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Models of the Atom

Modeller av atomen

Thomson och Kelvin (1904)

Rutherford, Geiger + Marsden (1909-1914)

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Guld folie

A Journey into Matter

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10-10 m

10-14 m

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