Physics III, grades 10-12.
This course will introduce the students to the frontiers of modern physics. We will be discussing quantum mechanics, elementary particles, and dark matter. Carleton University has a strong research group in Particle Physics, and we tapped into their expertise when designing this course. Carleton’s physicists contributed to building detectors at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (Geneva) and participated in experiments leading to the discovery of the Higgs boson. Carleton’s team also played an important role at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. The discovery of neutrino oscillation at the Sudbury experiment has led to the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to the team leader Prof. Art McDonald.
Physics III course will be taught by an Instructor from the Carleton Particle Physics group, who will bring insights from the current research work straight to our classroom!
2024/25 Course Information
This course will not be offered in 2024/25. It will run in 2025/26.
2023/24 Course Information
The course will run in-person on Mondays 7:00pm-8:30pm from September 25, 2023 to April 2024 (with a break in December).
New class location in the Winter term: Nideyinàn (formerly known as the University Centre) room NN 376.
Physics II is a pre-requisite for this course, only students who successfully completed Physics II will be invited to register in this course.
We plan to offer Physics III course once in 2 years.
We reserve the right to cancel the course with a full refund if minimum enrollment is not reached.
Registration Information
Registration is now closed.
We will open registrations for September 2024 in April.
Refund Policy
100% refund prior to August 31st
95% refund prior to September 30th
75% refund prior to October 31st
50% refund prior to November 30th
To request refund, please complete this form before the deadline.
Inquiries
For details please write to enrichment-admin@math.carleton.ca.
**Please note we are unable to answer any enquiries by phone.**