Fall 2015 OLLI Catalog Entry
Cosmic Rays, Lightning, Carbon-14 Dating and LHC - Tuesday
Cosmic Rays, Lightning, Carbon-14 Dating and the LHC--We
will explore the physics and astronomy relating to cosmic
rays. In the second week we will explore lightning and its
relationship to cosmic rays. The third week looks at
Carbon-14 dating of fossils and its relationship to cosmic
rays. And to wrap things up we explore the energies achieved
by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and those of
cosmic rays.
What We Know About Cosmic Rays
http://edu-observatory.org/olli/CosmicRays/Week1.html
Lightning and its Relationship to Cosmic Rays
http://edu-observatory.org/olli/CosmicRays/Week2.html
Carbon-14 Dating and its Relationship to Cosmic Rays
http://edu-observatory.org/olli/CosmicRays/Week3.html
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and Cosmic Ray Energies
http://edu-observatory.org/olli/CosmicRays/Week4.html
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