Contemporary Physics Education Project

The Contemporary Physics Education Project (CPEP) is an "organization of teachers, educators, and physicists"[1] formed in 1987. The group grew out of the Conference on the Teaching of Modern Physics held at Fermilab in 1986, organized by the American Association of Physics Teachers.[2] The group's first effort aimed to supply a chart for particle physics teaching that would rival the Periodic Table of the elements. The first version of this chart was published in 1989.[3]

CPEP has created five charts emphasizing contemporary aspects of physics research: particles and interactions; fusion and plasma physics; nuclear science; and cosmology; and gravity.. Almost half a million of these charts and similar products have been distributed.

The group has created website support for teaching for each of the charts.[1]

CPEP received the 2017 "Excellence in Physics Education Award" from the American Physical Society, "for leadership in providing educational materials on contemporary physics topics to students for over 25 years."[1]

Offshoots of CPEP include the book, "The Charm of Strange Quarks: Mysteries and Revolutions of Particle Physics" (2000), by R. Michael Barnett, Henry Muehry, and Helen R. Quinn, three of the founders of CPEP.[4] See also the web site "The Particle Adventure: The Fundamentals of Matter and Force".[5]

R. Michael Barnett described the formation and early days of CPEP in a Nobel Symposium Lecture in 2002.

References
  1. "Home". cpepPhysics.org.
  2. G. Aubrecht, ed., Quarks, Quasars, and Quandaries: Proceedings of the Conference on the Teaching of Modern Physics (College Park, MD: American Association of Physics Teachers, 1987)
  3. Fundamental Particles and Interactions — A Wall Chart of Modern Physics, Fundamental Particle and Interaction Chart Committee (W. Achor et al.), Phys. Teach. 26, 556 (1988).
  4. Barnett, R. Michael; Muehry, Henry; Quinn, Helen R. (2000). The Charm of Strange Quarks: Mysteries and Revolutions of Particle Physics. New York: Springer-Verlag. p. 302. ISBN 0-387-98897-1.
  5. "The Particle Adventure".
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