The Electromagnetic Spectrum by year 12 physics students

Microwaves Thanusiyan Jekanathan 12Y Microwaves are a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths ranging from as long as one meter to as short as one millimetre, or equivalently, with frequencies between 300 MHz (0.3 GHz) and 300 GHz. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave http://ims2012.mtt.org/en/node/184 The existence of radio waves was predicted by James Clerk Maxwell in 1864 from his […]

The Electromagnetic Spectrum by year 12 physics students

Radio Waves Nicholas Savva 12I Radio waves are a part of the electromagnetic wave spectrum with frequencies of between 3 KHz and 300 GHz, and wavelengths of between 1mm and 1km. Like all the electromagnetic waves it has the same speed in a vacuum of 3 x E8 ms^-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_wave The frequency range of radio […]

The Electromagnetic Spectrum by year 12 physics students

An introduction to electromagnetic waves Kowdham Srikumar 12G My report is an introduction to the electromagnetic spectrum, what it is and who was responsible for identifying what an electromagnetic wave actually is. James Clerk Maxwell FRS FRSE (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematical physicist whose most prominent achievement was to […]

Spectroscopy in a suitcase

A Spectroscopy workshop kindly funded by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in collaboration with Imperial College London. Hosted by Ben (PhD student) and Leila (undergraduate) at Imperial College We were very fortunate that Rooks Heath Chemistry and Physics A level students were able to take part in this workshop last December. Spectroscopy is a […]

Visit to Culham Centre for Fusion Energy

Tour of JET and MAST JET With Dr David Keeling http://www.efda.org/jet/ http://www.ccfe.ac.uk/JET.aspx http://www.efda.org/multimedia/jet-video-gallery/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power The Joint European Torus (JET), located at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, is the world’s largest and most powerful tokamak and the focal point of the European fusion research programme. Designed to study fusion in conditions approaching those needed for a […]

Visit to Culham Centre for Fusion Energy

http://www.ccfe.ac.uk/ http://www.efda.org/ http://www.efda.org/fusion/classroom/ http://ec.europa.eu/research/energy/euratom/index_en.cfm Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) is the UK’s national laboratory for fusion research. CCFE (formerly known as UKAEA Culham) is based at Culham Science Centre in Oxfordshire, and is owned and operated by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. http://www.ccfe.ac.uk/CCFE.aspx Fusion – Energy for the future? Dr Anthony J. Webster, […]

The History Of The Atom Part 6

Other Particles By Aslam, Matthew, Wing Chung, Pameer, Alfie Rooks Heath Year 13 Physics Students The Positron So the image of the atom before the Second World War was a central nucleus made up of protons and neutrons surrounded by a cloud of electrons but where did the other sub-atomic particles fit in? Paul Dirac […]

The History Of The Atom Part 5

Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger By Matthew Kelly 13B Niels Bohr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr Niels Bohr (7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who helped discover quantum physics and the structure of the atom. The Rutherford–Bohr model or just Bohr model for short (1913) followed on from the plum-pudding model (1904) and […]

The History Of The Atom Part 4

Ernest Rutherford and James Chadwick By Alfie Mussett 13Y Ernest Rutherford (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) Ernest Rutherford was born in 1871 in Nelson, New Zealand where he was the fourth child of James and Martha Rutherford. His research often involved the use and study of alpha particles since he classified them in […]

The History Of The Atom Part 3

John Dalton and J.J. Thomson By Aslam Sookia 13B John Dalton John Dalton (6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844) was an English chemist, meteorologist and physicist. He is best known for his work on the development of the modern atomic theory. His theory was that different atoms could be distinguished by their different weights […]