website link

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html

Particle accelerators talk

The next free lectures at the Department of Physics are detailed below, all free, click on the links to find out more and to book a space.

The Hintze Lecture Series - ‘LSST: New Science Frontiers’

Date: 26 Oct 2012 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Venue: Martin Wood Complex, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU

Audience: General public (Age 14+)

Expected to be on the sky by 2020, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope system will produce a 6-band (0.3-1.1 micron) wide-field deep astronomical survey of over 18,000 deg2 of the southern sky using an 8.4 meter ground-based telescope and a 3200 megapixel camera. Each night, LSST will obtain multiple images covering a wide swath of sky visible from its location on Cerro Pachón in northern Chile. Each patch of visible sky will be visited more than 800 times during the 10-year survey. The LSST leverages innovative technology in all subsystems.

Particle accelerators: making the Higgs Boson and more!

Free

Date: 6 Nov 2012 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Venue: Martin Wood Complex, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU

Audience: General public (Age 14+)

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the world's highest-energy sub-atomic particle smasher. In July 2012 physicists working at the LHC announced convincing evidence for discovery of a new type of particle that is very likely a Higgs Boson.

Telescope trip and Kerboodle log in

Reminder about the Telescope visit Wednesday 24th October at Dept of Physics, 7pm-9pm, free!
Letters to go out next week

Kerboodle logins for Y12

www.kerboodle.com

Username - initial and surname, no hyphens

E.g. Jack Smith would be jsmith

Password – first name, if shorter than 6 letters then add letters of surname to make 6

E.g. jacksm

Organisation code 5166

Exoplanets talk Monday 8th October

The talk below is free, click on the link for more info and to book places if you are interested

Portraits of distant worlds

Date: 

8 Oct 2012 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Venue: 

Martin Wood Complex, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU

Audience: 

General public (Age 14+)

http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/2012/10/08/portraits-of-distant-worlds

Portraits of distant worlds

Dr Suzanne Aigrain

Less than twenty years ago, the Solar System was the only planetary system we knew about. Since then, astronomers have discovered many hundreds of exoplanets - planets which orbit other stars than the Sun. We now know that exoplanets are common, perhaps even outnumbering the stars in our Galaxy. Some of them are so utterly unlike any of the Solar System planets that they challenge both our imagination, and our theories of how planets form and evolve.

In this talk, I will describe some of the highlights and challenges of exoplanet exploration in the past decade, and outline how we are working to detect and characterise an ever wider range of planets, including some which might harbour life.

Y12 Homework

In Physics A-level we will be using unit prefixes for very small and very large numbers.  Find the names, sizes and symbols of powers of 10 unit prefixes from -15 to +15.

Year 12 Physics work September 2012

§1. Key words for electricity from GCSE – if this is the answer, what is the question?

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Series, parallel, voltage, current, joules, resistance, diode, LDR

E.g. if the answer is Physics, question could be "What is Ms Hamnett's favourite subject?"
2. Find a recent article about particle physics e.g. in newspaper or New Scientist and prepare a 1 minute summary of what it is about

3. Here is the Physics "joke"
Einstein walks into a bar. Because of his relatively low velocity, time dilation effects are negligible and nothing amusing happens.
Why might some people find this funny?

Revision sessions

The revision sessions below are available as well as Tuesdays after school.

Day	Date	Period	Room	Topic
Wed	16/5	1	W8	Particles, quantum
Wed	16/5	2	R21	Electricity
Fri	18/5	3	R21	Optics
Fri	18/5	4	W8	Suvat etc
Wed	23/5	1	W8	Moments
Wed	23/5	2	R21	Waves