Physics update course February 2012 Every year during the February half-term the Institute of Physics puts on a number of physics lecture aimed at 6th formers. I am going to write a little about each lecture. The first lecture was given by Prof. Jonathon Butterworth and was entitled The Large Hadron Collider: Latest news from […]

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During half-term we were privileged to be able to tour the facilities at CERN. CERN is described as the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Our Day We began our day at the Globe which is an interactive exhibition about the world of particles and origin of the universe. After the Globe we spent […]

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