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 […]

The History Of The Atom Part 2

Aristotle and Roger Joseph Boscovich by Pameer Saeed 13O Aristotle Aristotle was born around 360 BCE in Stagira (north Greece). He was the son of Nichomachus who was the court physician to the Macedonian royal family. He was first trained in medicine, and in 367 he was sent to Athens to study philosophy with Plato. […]

The History Of The Atom Part 1

Leucippus and Democritus By Wing Chung Hau 13B Leucippus (c. 480 – c. 420 B.C.) and Democritus, his student (460-370 B.C.) were philosophers who were the first to be credited with coming up with an Atomic Theory. This was a theory that said that the world was made up of atoms. The word “atom” […]

Visiting the Cavendish Museum

Year 13 2013 trip to the Cavendish Museum The year 13 students are preparing to give one of our year 9 classes a lesson on the history of the atom so to help them we visited the Cavendish Museum to see some of the apparatus used by famous scientists in the field of Particle Physics. […]

Visit to the Science Museum

An audience with Professor Peter Higgs The Guardian hosted a live Q&A with Professor Peter Higgs at the Science Museum, London. Peter Higgs is the Nobel Prize winning physicist Peter Higgs answers questions from young physicists in this hour-long session Q&A session. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Higgs http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/higgs/peter-higgs http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/higgs/ #smCollider http://www.theguardian.com/uk ‎ http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk Rooks Heath Physics A level students […]