Resources
Episode 538: Electron Scattering
In this learning episode, from the Institute of Physics, students follow work on Rutherford scattering to look at diffraction graphs and calculate nuclear diameters.
The activities include:
* student experiment using an optical analogue to show diffraction around spherical objects
* diffraction...
Episode 539: Deep Inelastic Scattering
In this learning episode, from the Institute of Physics, students use an analogue experiment to illustrate electron scattering by quarks. In the model, magnets are concealed in a box. Their poles represent ‘charges’ which are probed using a freely-suspended magnet. This helps to demonstrate that each of the...
Episode 540: Quarks and the Standard Model
From the Institute of Physics, this learning episode encourages students to investigate the quark model, which creates relative order out of the chaos of particle classification.
Quarks have three ‘colour’ charges, and the rule for stability is that combinations must be colourless.
The activities...
Episode 5: The Untamed, Violent Universe
Rebecca Barnes will give us a glimpse of the hot, energetic and often violent Universe revealed through X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy, look at ESA missions that detect this hidden light and find out how the science that these missions perform is meticulously planned.
Episode 600: Preparation for Kinetic Theory Topic
This topic, from the Institute of Physics, encourage students to learn more about how the microscopic behaviour of particles gives rise to the macroscopic behaviour of materials. They can also see how this gives rise to a mathematical model for an ideal gas.
The learning episodes in this topic include:
...Episode 601: Brownian Motion and Ideal Gases
From the Institute of Physics, these demonstrations, computer model and associated discussions help students to look at Brownian motion as evidence for the particulate nature of matter, and the macroscopic gas laws. The learning episode looks at: * Brownian motion and what it tells us about gases * investigating...
Episode 602: Ideal Gases and Absolute Zero
This learning episode, from the Institute of Physics, establishes the ideal gas law and how to use it. Worked examples and questions allow students to look at the behaviour of an ideal gas and see that an ideal gas is one that obeys Boyle’s law with complete precision.
The activities include:
* a...
Episode 603: Kinetic Model of an Ideal Gas
Produced by the Institute of Physics, this learning episode allows students to relate the gas laws to the behaviour of the particles of a gas.
The activities look at:
* explaining pressure in terms of particles
* deriving an equation for the pressure of a gas
* the link between kinetic...
Episode 604: Preparation for Thermodynamics Topic
Following on from the kinetic theory of gases, this topic from the Institute of Physics, examine the same phenomena in macroscopic terms (energy supplied to materials) and microscopic terms (how the particles are behaving).
The learning episodes include:
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Episode 605: The First Law of Thermodynamics
Produced by the Institute of Physics, this learning episode includes discussions, demonstrations and questions which introduce students to thermodynamics. These include compressing and expanding gases, adiabatic and isothermal changes.
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