Physics of the Future Unit 6 - Energy Sources Part 2

Mysteries Parking Lot Unit 6 SL Whiteboard

Detailed list of IB syllabus understandings and related guiding questions

Skills in the study of physics to be developed during this unit: appreciate when and how to take background radiation into account. Identify and extract data from databases.

Future Physics Contexts: nuclear energy and its by-products (e.g. current fusion efforts, alternative uses of nuclear fission as a power supply), solar photovoltaic cells (HL).

SL Nuclear Physics

Slides (in progress) (.pptx, best viewed in MS PowerPoint)

Solutions (in progress)

Kognity book sections: E.1.1 (discovery of the nucleus + nuclear notation), E3.1-E.3.4, E.4.1-E.4.2, E.5.1 + fusion-related content from E.5.2-E.5.4, including HR diagrams

HL Nuclear and Quantum Physics

Kognity book sections: E1.2, E2.1-E.2.2, E3.5-E.3.7

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