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Today I read two more chapters of the particle physics book. It is getting much more complicated, though, and I'm having some troubles remembering the differences between pions, muons, taus, and neutrinos. I keep having to refer back to those charts, but I don't know what all of the categories mean. I think that I understand the general concepts, but it's very confusing. I also updated the notes section for //A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo.// I added entries into my logbook too.
 * February 3, 2008**

Today I forgot to bring my particle physics book to class. The book has all of my notes in it, so I was not able to work on that. I did, however, poke around our wikispace, and I found that I never put my notes from Matt and Vinay's paper online. I worked on that for the remainder of classtime and got about half-way through their paper. I had to reread a lot of the material, but it was a good reminder of everything.
 * February 4, 2008**

I also read particle physics until 1 tonight! Needless to say, it was a long night. And I hate muons!

Today I updated my notes from the chapters of //A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo.// I finished the notes for chapter 5 in class.
 * February 5, 2008**

Today I am returning to ashes. In the meantime, I also updated my logbook and my notes from the physics book. I am almost finished!
 * February 6, 2008**

Today in class I read through my notes that I've put up from the physics book and made sure that I had everything up that I wanted to have. It was also good to refresh my memory on what I had already written about, because I started the notes a while ago, and some things were fuzzy.
 * February 7, 2008**

Today we had a class conversation on upcoming events. We talked about the science fair at the end of the month and what type of work that would entail. Dr. L then introduced CC and I to Joe R., who will be helping us with our error analysis. CC gave us a very in-depth definition of standard deviation. As I understand it standard deviation is how far the distance between the high and low outlayer is. The middle ground should be where most of the data falls, and so the standard deviation should be the most accurate measurement. Somehow that is going to be helpful in finding the error of the star formation rate calculations. We are supposed to be meeting with Joe again on Monday, so hopefully that will shed some more light on this task.
 * February 8, 2008**

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