A reminder to 12PhD (Mrs Casson's class) you have a test on Mathematical Methods in Physics Friday Lesson 5.

Happy revision!

CCA

Work for Thursday 24th September Ms Hamnett 12b

Dear Y12
For next week's lesson, please can you make notes on alpha, beta and gamma decay and the changes to the nucleus caused by each type of decay.  Find an example of a balanced decay equation for each one and bring your notes to next Tuesday's lesson.
Thanks
Ms H

PUBLIC LECTURE ON QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY

See below - free and all welcome but booking is required
Ms H

PUBLIC LECTURE ON QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY

Quantum - from Schroedinger’s Science to New Technology

Professor Sir Peter Knight FRS

[Imperial College, NPL and Kavli Institute]

Monday 28^th September 2015

6.30pm Welcome drink

7.00pm Public Lecture

Venue: Auditorium, St John’s College, Oxford, OX1 3JP

(Entrance via the Porters Lodge at the Main College gate on St Giles)

As part of the Quantum UK 2015 conference, Professor Sir Peter Knight will give a public lecture on current advances in quantum research and how disruptive technologies harnessing quantum properties will revolutionise our world in the 21st century. Professor Sir Peter Knight FRS is a world-renowned physicist who plays a continuing role in shaping the UK's civilian and military strategies on next generation technologies. In this open lecture, Sir Peter will introduce the world of quantum technologies. Come along to hear how quantum particles can be used to sense, measure and communicate with unprecedented precision and security. Book your free ticket now at Eventbrite.co.uk, search for Peter Knight, or click here.

Drinks are free and you don’t need a PhD!

12b Ms Hamnett work for Thursday

Dear 12b
I am away on Thursday 17th September - here is the work I am setting you;
1. Complete the "Maths for Physics" test given out in class and bring to next lesson
2. Read the "Quarks and the weak interaction" article, highlight all the Physics vocabulary you know in one colour and write definitions of each word.  Then highlight all the vocabulary you don't know in another colour and bring to next lesson.
This article is not aimed at confusing you, but mean to show you how far you will get - it probably looks like gobbledygook now but you will understand most of it by just after half term!
Thanks
Ms H

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