Examination I

Physics 191                                                                 Runs until  October 24, 2009

Name:__________________________________________

BYU ID:________________________________________

The topic of my paper is ________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________

1. Choose one of the topic from Physics 191 assigned reading listed below. Circle your choice. Then in the space provided below, write a short, concise paragraph or two from what you read about the researcher’s work that you have chosen that answers the following:

What question (s) is/are being asked by the researcher(s) in their work and why is/are the question (s) interesting? 

The actual exam will have the planets broken out individually. I have the links in italic to  show that this text is not on the exam. 

Here are those links in a clickable form.

http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200902/physicsstories.cfm

  1.  Superconductors:    High-temperature superconductivity in the iron pnictides.  http://physics.aps.org/articles/v1/21, The iron age of superconductivity:  http://physics.aps.org/articles/v1/28
  2. LHC:   http://physics.aps.org/articles/v1/14
  3. Planets:
    1. Mars:  http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/news/CO2.html

                                                               i.      PHOENIX: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20080729.html; http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/sep/HQ_08246_Phoenix.html  

    1. Venus   http://www.physics.byu.edu/faculty/allred/191/Sister_Planet.htm
    2. Saturn:  http://www.physics.byu.edu/faculty/allred/191/gassy_geysers.htm
    3. exoplanet: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/06aug_kepler2.htm; http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/news/CO2.html 
  1. Quarks Searching high and low for bottomonium  http://physics.aps.org/articles/v1/11 ;  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_baryon
  2. Farthest Gamma Ray Burst:   http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/farthest_grb.html

 

2. Choose one of the speaker’s talks from Physics 191 listed below. Circle your choice. Then in the space provided below, write a short concise paragraph for the speaker’s talk that you have chosen that answers the following:

The set I will choose three from is: Gus Hart, Duane Merrell, Tom Stephens, Victor Megenes, Ryan Hecox and Kent Gee.

What question (s) is/are being asked by the speaker in his/her work and why is/are the question (s) interesting?