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AL's Logbook

__1/15/08__ - Today, I was supposed to go to the lab but instead I am staying in class beccause I have to tutor after school. In class I just looked at more particle adventure sites. The first site I went over was the [|weak force] article. Weak force is responsible for the decay, according to the site, of large quarks into smaller quarks. The mass is conserved, but some of it is lost as kinetic energy, making the quarks that come from the large quakr, smaller. Surprisingly, [|gravity] is the strangest of the fundamental particles as the Standard Model cannot explain it entirely. No gravity particle has ever been found, but scientists believe it exists and they call it the graviton. In particle physics situations, the effects of gravity are extremely small compared to the other three forces (weak force, strong force, and electromagnetic force).

__1/16/08__ - I read through... http://particleadventure.org/frameless/quantum_mech.html http://particleadventure.org/frameless/pauli.html http://particleadventure.org/frameless/decay_intro.html http://particleadventure.org/frameless/decay_start.html

__1/17/08__ - Today I went to the lab to continue my project. I began a new batch of enzyme digested DNA because I've already used up my old batch. Now it is a matter of waiting as it takes some time for the enzyme to take effect on the plasmid. Afterwards I deposited some APTES solution on the silicon, but the AFM images came out with particle matter on the surface.