Physics

Does the change of separation distance between the domino affect the time taken for alldominoes to fall?

Investigating different theories likeAlbert Einstein’s Special Relativity theory and time as a frame of reference.

Understandings:• Conduction, convection, and thermal radiation• Black-body radiation• Albedo and emissivity• The solar constant• The greenhouse effect• Energy balance in the Earth surface/atmospheresystemApplications and skills:• Sketching and interpreting graphs showing the variation of intensity with wavelength for bodiesemitting thermal radiation at different temperatures• Solving problems involving the Stefan–Boltzmann law and Wien’s displacement law• Describing the …

Project 8.2: Energy balance and solar constant Read More »

Understandings:• Quarks, leptons and their antiparticles• Hadrons, baryons and mesons• The conservation laws of charge, baryon number, lepton number and strangeness• The nature and range of the strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force and electromagneticforce• Exchange particles• Feynman diagrams• Confinement• The Higgs bosonApplications and skills:• Describing the mediation of the fundamental forces through exchange particles• …

Essay: 7.3 Project Read More »

How does the intensity of light vary with distance?

What is the relationship between the depth of water and wave speed?