Week+of+November+5

Back =__Monday, November 5th, 2007__=

//Sick//
Looked on the LIGO to try to "log it"
 * It is not working.

=__Tuesday, November 6th, 2007__=

//During Class//
Worked on evaluating everyones log books during class. I got 7 people's completed.
 * It seems that most people had little information regarding what they did during class.
 * Practically no one mentions the work they accomplish at home.
 * A person whose organization I really liked used a lot of useful links and used a table to organize their data.
 * A person who had good information wrote EVERYTHING they accomplished in that day.

//At Home//
Read the particle adventure and then took ten min to figure out how to link it to no success. It keeps saying that its undergoing changes to the bookmarks. Here is the site you can get to it on.  If anyone can help me, it would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks! To learn more about the Particle Adventure click this link to view my beginning notes on it.
 * 1) First log on as a guest
 * 2) Go to "getting started"
 * 3) Under that, "describe the test beam particles" click on it.
 * 4) A box will come up
 * 5) Under references "The Particle Adventure - How Physicists Experiment" Click on that.
 * 6) Another box will come up and click on the link posted and then you are there.

=__Wednesday, November 7th, 2007__=

//During Class//
Worked on evaluating the logbooks again before we were told to help find out the kinks in the web pages for CMS and cosmic-rays.
 * The classic logbook either had a ton of information, but **NO** organization, **NO** information but good organization, or neither.
 * It turns out that there were ALOT of broken links, pages that wouldn't load and so on.

//At Home//
I had no time to work on anything. Sorry! : (

=__Thursday, November 8th, 2007__=

//During Class//
We had career day this day, so we were not even in our typical room. The speaker was kind of boring and couldn't speak well... that was sort of mean... and i probably shouldn't be putting this in our logbook.

=__Sunday, November 11th, 2007__=

//At Home//
Finished evaluating my fellow classmates logbooks. Updated my logbook.

//Plan for the upcoming week://
Here are my "beggining steps" courtesy of DL:
 * 1. Build the CMS wikispace page with links to every helpful CMS resource you can find, including those found in the CMS Testbeam e-Lab. That way you have a fertile space for exploration, and so will others following you. The page should be simple, with lots of links to other pages. Perhaps an image or two, followed by a link to an annotated bibliography page, followed by a link to an "explanation of OGRE plots" page (see #2, below.)
 * 2. Post a series of OGRE plots, with explanations. (You can post the series first, and provide explanations as you grow in understanding.) A first simple but useful set of plots is the following:
 * a. E vs. H plots of muons: first at one energy, then another. (You can use the table function to insert a series of plots in a row.)
 * b. Same for electrons.
 * c. Same for pions. Perhaps your table should be three down by four across, where three different energies plus one explanation for each particle type occupy a single row.

I want to get number 1 finished or close to finished by the end of the week. I need to use my computer skills to make the CMS page neat tidy and informative.