States+of+Matter

STATES OF MATTER Science 9 Example of what you need for a completed project:
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__**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Project Assignment: **__<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">Select one of these forms of matter from the list below that are unique and exotic:Use the following resources to help you locate information on your topic:

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">__Resources:__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">A. General:Use one of these online encyclopedias to locate information on the topic that you choose: <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Use the following database to find magazine articles, etc. on your topic.



<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">B. Use the Links listed under the topic that you are researching: <span style="color: #800022; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">
 * <span style="color: #800022; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">1. Plasma: **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Plasma - Definition of Plasma] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Perspectives on Plasmas - the Fourth State of Matter] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Chem4Kids.com: Matter: Plasma] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|What is plasma?] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Plasma: the 4th State of Matter] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Amazing Plasmas - Space Weather Center] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Plasma, theFourth State of Matter - Fusion Home Page] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Plasma: the Fourth State of Matter - The Human Touch of Chemistry] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Plasma - HowStuffWorks]

<span style="color: #800022; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Superfluid Definition] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Second superfluid state of matter proposed] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|MIT physicists create new form of matter] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|NASA'S Chandra Finds Superfluid in Neutron Star's Core] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Strange but True: Superfluid Helium Can Climb Walls] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Properties of Superfluids] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Physics News Graphics:Superfluidity in Helium-3] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Q&A About High-temperature Superfluidity]
 * <span style="color: #800022; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Superfluid: **

<span style="color: #800022; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Probing Question: What is a supersolid?] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[| Supersolid: A New State of Matter is Found] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Probable Discovery Of A New, Supersolid, Phase Of Matter] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Reality of 'Supersolid' in Helium-4 Challenged] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Moses Chan Backtracks on Search for Supersolids]
 * <span style="color: #800022; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">3. Supersolid: **

<span style="color: #800022; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|What is superconductivity? - HowStuffWorks] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Superconductivity] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Superconductivity Explained] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Human-Made Material Pushes the Bounds of Superconductivity] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Superconductivity] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Superconductors] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Electrons are Not Enough: Cuprate Superconductors Defy Convention] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Hole Superconductivity] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Fundamentals of Superconductors] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Superconductor Information for the Beginner]
 * <span style="color: #800022; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">4. Superconductivity: **

<span style="color: #800022; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Definition of Quark-Gluon Plasma] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Quark-Gluon Plasma - Physics Central] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Heavy-ion collisions, the quark-gluon plasma, and quantum chromodynamics] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Explained: Quark-gluon plasma] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Hottest Particle Soup May Reveal Secrets of Primordial Universe] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|About Quarks & Gluons] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Densest Matter Created in Big-Bang Machine] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Quark Gluon Plasma] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|The Perfect Liquid -- Now Even More Perfect]
 * <span style="color: #800022; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">5. Quark/Gluon Plasma: **

<span style="color: #800022; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|MIT physicists create new form of matter] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Bose-Einstein Basics - Rader's Chem4Kids.com] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|BEC - What is it and Where Did the Idea Come From?] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[| Bose-Einstein Condensate Created at Room Temperature] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Bose Einstein Condensation] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Bose-Einstein Condensates with Rubidium Atoms] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Bose-Einstein Condensate - Universe Today] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Bose-Einstein Condensate Science Definition] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Bose-Einstein Condensate] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[| Super-Photon: A Bose-Einstein condensate With Practical Potential]
 * <span style="color: #800022; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">6. Bose-Einstein Condensate: **

<span style="color: #800022; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Fermionic Condensate Makes its Debut] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|NASA-supported Researchers Have Discovered a Weird New Phase of matter Called Fermionic Condensates.] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|NIST/University of Colorado Scientists] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Fermi Condensates] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[| Coffee, Tea or Fermionic Condensate? The Discovery of a New State of Matter] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Condensate] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Researchers Unveil New Form of Matter - Scientific America] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Fermionic First for Concentrates] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Halfway Across the BEC-BCS Prairie]
 * <span style="color: #800022; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> 7. Fermionic Condensate: **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Use the following to present your information: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Materials to use:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">An 11 X 17 sheet of paper (provided)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Pencil Crayons (provided)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Computer/printer access (provided)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">1. Obtain an online article or definition of your form of matter and attach it to your project. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Write your state of matter at the top of the 11 X 14 sheet of paper. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">3. Write out an adjusted Kinetic Molecular Theory so that the state of matter that you chose would fit (do the best you can - there is leniency here). <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">4. As with other states of matter in your textbook, p. 172, and on your handout identify: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">5. Use materials, pencil crayons, etc. and draw or create a particle model of the state of matter you chose (i.e.: how the balls are arranged, etc.) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Check the attached PDF for the example of a completed project for Solid**.**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> distance of particles
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">type of motion
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