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PSSA 2012: What, When, Where

WEEK I (tentative)	Monday July 2	Tuesday July 3	Wednesday July 4	Thursday July 5	Friday July 6
9 am- 10 am	Intro, Kinematics DRL A1	Particle Physics DRL A1	What? A day off this soon? Happy Fourth!	Dynamics DRL A1	Conservation Laws DRL A1
10 am- 11 am	Kinematics Lab 3N9/12	Geometric Optics DRL A1		CERN Teleconference DRL A1	Bouncing Ball Lab DRL 3N9/12
11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Kinematics Lab 3N9/12	Telescope Lab DRL 3N14/16		Physical Optics DRL A1	LUNCH
12:30 pm- 1:30 pm	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	DEPART from Penn: 12:30 PM from the Quad trip to theSimeone Foundation Museum RETURN to Penn: 4:30 pm
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Thin Lenses DRL 3N14/16	Refraction, Total Internal Reflection DRL 3N14/16		Diffraction, Interference DRL 3N14/16

WEEK II (tentative)	Monday July 9	Tuesday July 10	Wednesday July 11	Thursday July 12	Friday July 13
9 am- 10 am	Fundamentals of Electricity DRL A1	Digital Scope Intro DRL A1	Wave Particle Duality DRL A1	Hershey Park Prep Data Collection with the GLX DRL A1	DEPART from Penn: 8:00 am from the Quad Trip to Hershey Park RETURN to Penn: 6 pm (leave park by 4 pm)
10 am- 11 am	Voltage and Resistance DRL 3N14/16	Speed of the Pulse DRL 3N9/12	Error Analysis DRL A1	Hershey Park Prep Data Collection with the GLX DRL A1
11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Voltage and Resistance DRL 3N14/16	Professor Kenneth Lande DRL A1	Planck's Constant Prep DRL A1	Millikan Prep DRL A1
12:30 pm- 1:30 pm	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Electronic Devices and Ohm's Law DRL 3N14/16	Astronaut Lecture Dr. Don Thomas DRL A1	Planck's Constant DRL 3N14/16	Millikan Oil Drop Experiment DRL 3N9/12

WEEK III (tentative)	Monday July 16	Tuesday July 17	Wednesday July 18	Thursday July 19	Friday July 20
9 am- 10 am	Exponential Growth Lecture and Demo DRL A1	Special Relativity DRL A1	Doppler Effect DRL A1	Oobleck Behind DRL	DEPART from Penn: 9:30 am from the Quad Trip to The Franklin Institute RETURN to Penn: 4:00 pm (leave museum by 4 pm)
10 am- 11 am	Student Investigations of Exponential Topics DRL A1	Magnetism DRL A1	Doug Smith, MD Traumatic Brain Injury DRL A1	BLAST! the Movie DRL A1
11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Student Investigations of Exponential Topics DRL A1	Professor James Aguirre Radio Telescopes DRL A1	Professor Mark Trodden Particle Cosmology DRL A1	Professor Mark Devlin BLAST DRL A1
12:30 pm- 1:30 pm	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Interest Groups Various Locations

DRL 3W7/11

WEEK IV (tentative)	Monday July 23	Tuesday July 24	Wednesday July 25	Thursday July 26	Friday July 27
9 am- 10 am	Bill's Demo Show! DRL A1	Speed of Light Lab DRL 3W7/11	@8:30: Breakfast with the Bomb Nuclear Physics DRL A1	Student Presentations of Interest Groups DRL A1	Student Presentations of Hershey Park DRL A1
10 am- 11 am	Bill's Demo Show! DRL A1		@8:30: Breakfast with the Bomb Nuclear Physics DRL A1	Student Presentations of Interest Groups DRL A1	Student Presentations of Hershey Park DRL A1
11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Professor Justin Khoury DRL A1		Students work on Presentations	Professor Phil Nelson DRL A1	LUNCH
12:30 pm- 1:30 pm	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Speed of Light Lab (Build Sensors) DRL 3W7/11	Students Work on Presentations	Student Presentations of Exponential Topics DRL A1	TBD