The Early Universe - A Means of Securing the Pipline

早期宇宙 - 确保管道安全的一种方法

• 批准号: 9150909
• 负责人: Timothy Halpin-Healy
• 金额: $ 4.79万
• 依托单位: Barnard College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-06-15 至 1992-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9150909&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Early; Universe; Means; Securing; Pipline

The project develops a novel one semester non-calculus based physics survey course "The Early Universe", designed to expose students, particularly first-year Barnard women contemplating a possible major in the natural sciences or mathematics, to the most exciting developments in 20th century physics. This course represents an effort by the Barnard physics department to secure the pipeline against potential losses of talented women physicists. The essential subject matter is physics of the early universe, with the bulk of the course spent on cosmological and modern theories of elementary particles. The final third of the course concentrates on Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. No knowledge of calculus is necessary nor any previous study in physics, only a willingness to employ algebra, geometry and trigonometry to assist one's critical thinking about subtle scientific questions. The laboratory component of the course is devoted to measuring the fundamental constants of Nature, including the speed of light, Newton's gravitational constant, the mass and charge of the electron, and Planck's constant.NSF funds for personnel support, in the form of stipends for advanced Barnard undergraduates assisting in the course development during summer 1991 and equipment support, in the form of a small-scale computer physics lab of Mathematica-equipped Macintosh computers, permit a much expanded computational component to the Early Universe course that manifests itself in innovative laboratory, homework, and learning assignments. NSF funds for equipment are matched with funds from non-federal sources.

该项目开发了一个新颖的一个学期非库鲁斯物理调查课程“早期宇宙”，旨在揭露学生，尤其是一年级的Barnard妇女，即认为是自然科学或数学的一名大专业的学生，​​是20世纪物理学中最激动人心的发展。 本课程代表了巴纳德物理学系的一项努力，以确保该管道免受才华横溢的女性物理学家的潜在损失。 必不可少的主题是早期宇宙的物理学，大部分课程用于基本颗粒的宇宙学和现代理论。 课程的最后三分之一集中在爱因斯坦的相对论特殊理论上。 对微积分没有任何了解，也没有任何先前的物理学研究，只是愿意采用代数，几何学和三角学来协助一个人对微妙的科学问题的批判性思考。 该课程的实验室组成部分致力于衡量自然界的基本常数，包括光速，牛顿的重力常数，电子的质量和电荷以及普朗克的常数。NSF为人员支持的基金，以津贴的形式，以高级Barnard较小的培训为额外的计算机提供的助学金，并在1991年夏季进行了计算机的发展，并在夏季进行了计算机，并构成了SMILD SCER的SC，以下是SC。 Macintosh计算机允许在早期的宇宙课程中扩展大量的计算组件，该课程在创新的实验室，家庭作业和学习任务中表现出来。 用于设备的NSF资金与非联邦来源的资金相匹配。