Information

Table of Contents

Complete PiC

Year

2018

Volume

74

Number

3

Theme

Physics in Mining (Vol. 74, No. 3-4)

Guest Editor

Daniel Cluff - CanMIND Associates

Cover description

Reflections of modern physics. A physicist in clean-room gear walks through a pristine drift of SNOLAB, located at the 2070 m level of the Creighton mine. SNOLAB is a permanent clean lab expansion built around the cavity of the original Nobel Prize winning SNO experiment.

Articles (Click on the titles to open PDFs in a new tab)

Foreword

• The Physics in Mining
  • Dr. Daniel L. Cluff, C.Eng., P.Phys

Feature Articles

• Physics and Mining are Connected Through the Millennia
  • Dr. Daniel L. Cluff, C.Eng., P.Phys

• Meeting Future Mineral Resource Demand by Ult ra-Deep Mining
  • Douglas Morrison

• Exploring New Frontiers in Deep Underground Science
  • Samantha Kuula, Blaire Flynn

• 3D Scanning and Mapping of Underground Mine Workings Using Aerial Drones
  • Syed Naeem Ahmed

• Electromagnetic Radiation from Coal Rock Failure in Underground Coalmines
  • Dazhao Song, Xueqiu He, Enyuan Wang, Zhenlei Li, Ming Cai

• The Impact of Cryogenics on Deep Mines
  • Dr. Daniel L. Cluff, C.Eng., P.Phys

• Gravitational Wave Detections Usher in a New Era of Astronomy
  • Jonathan Ziprick, Gabor Kunstatter

Student Prize Articles

• 2018 Student Competitions

• Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Fast Turbulent Gas Flow
  • Amy-Rae Gauthier, Benedict Newling

• Interpreting Satellite Observations of the Ult raviolet Aerosol Index to Understand Aerosol Scattering and Absorption
  • Melanie S. Hammer, Randall V. Martin, Aaron van Donkelaar, Chi Li, Virginie Buchard, Omar Torres, Brian L. Boys, David A. Ridley, Robert J.D. Spurr, Max Manning

• Improving Reconstruction of GeV-scale Neutrinos in IceCube-DeepCore by Direct Event Simulation
  • Sarah Nowicki

• Modeling Polarisation Distortion of Optical Quantum Signals Through A Pressurized Window
  • Sebastian Slaman, Thomas Jennewein

Education Articles

• Elementary School Education and Outreach Through the Ex-Alt a 1 CubeSat Mission
  • Ruth E. Ferrari, Ashley J. Hansen, Stefan Damkjar, Callie Lissinna, Andy Kale, Duncan G. Elliott, Ian R. Mann, David M. Miles

CAP Awards

• 2018 Prize Winners

CAP Medals Awarded

• 2018 CAP Medal Recipients

• Interview with Sarah Johnson, Recipient of the CAP’s 2018 Medal for Excellence in Teaching Undergraduate Physics, September 2018
  • Daria Ahrensmeier

• High School / CEGEP Physics Teaching Awards

Conference Reports

• CERN High School Teacher Programme 2018
  • Giselle Lawrence, Thana Rahim

• Report on Canada’s Participation in the 49th International Physics Olympiad in Lisbon, Portugal (December 3, 2018)
  • Andrzej Kotlicki, Sepehr Ebadi

CAP Office

• Report of the CAP’S 2018- 19 Outgoing President
  • Stephen Pistorius

Departments

• CAP Members

• Explore Physics at the University of Alberta

Book Reviews

• Books Received

• Book Reviews