Unit 2 revision Sunday 8th June 10am-1pm

Dear Year 12
We will be running a revisions session on Sunday 8th June 10am-1pm in school in W8 for Unit 2 - please come with some work to do or questions you are stuck on.  There will be some past papers available and teachers to help you, as well as a couple of specific sections and probably some cake.
   If there is anything you'd like a quick recap on, please email cha@cheney.oxon.sch.uk or mpo@cheney.oxon.sch.uk

Thanks
Ms H

Peter Higgs comes to Oxford!

My Life as Boson

Friday 16^th May 2014, 4:30-5:30pm

Professor Peter Higgs, Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh comes to Oxford to talk about his work. Online registration for this event is required, register online here. The lecture will be held in the Andrew Wiles Building, Mathematical Institute (fully booked). There will also be a mixed live stream of the lecture to the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre and the Lindemann Lecture Theatre in the Clarendon Laboratory. A drinks reception will follow on both sites. 

particle physics tips

Particle Physics tips

• KNOW YOUR FORMULA SHEET
• Hadrons feel the strong nuclear force and are made of quarks
• Baryons are made of three quarks, mesons are made of two quarks (a quark and antiquark)
• Protons are uud, neutrons are udd
• Baryons eventually decay into protons (protons are the only stable baryon)
• Neutrons decay into a proton, an electron and an antineutrino (beta minus decay)
• Protons decay into a neutron, a positron and an neutrino (beta plus decay)
• Hadron – heavy and strong  Lepton – light and weak
• Leptons have a lepton number of 1 (or minus 1 for antiparticles) and lepton number is conserved
• Leptons can change into other leptons during decay via the weak interaction
• Strangeness is conserved in a strong interaction
• K mesons are strange particles (containing a strange or antistrange quark) formed through the strong interaction and decay through the weak interaction into π mesons, muons and antineutrinos
• π  mesons Charged π mesons decay into muons and antineutrinos (or antimuons and neutrinos), π zero pions decay into photons
• Muons decay into electrons and antineutrinos (or antiparticles)
• Know the Feynman diagrams for beta minus, beta plus and electron capture

12d no lesson P1 Monday

Dear 12d
Due to the A level ISAs on Monday 10th Feb there will be no lesson with Ms Hamnett P1
Please can you read and revise all statics and equilibrium from P80-91 in your books and do the work on kerboodle.
Thank
Ms Hamnett

Equilibrium ISA

Y12, sorry I sent Dr P the wrong link, here is the right one (I think)
Equilibrium ISA task sheet


Thanks
Ms H

Y12 ISA dates for your diary

Y12 ISA Practical Wed 26th Feb (week B)
Exam Wed 5th March (week A)