Physics of the Future Unit 6 - Energy Sources Part 2

Mysteries Parking Lot Unit 6 SL Whiteboard Unit 6 HL 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

Part 1 - atomic structure, radioactive decay and nuclear power (.pptx, best viewed in MS PowerPoint)

Part 2 - fusion in stars

Solutions

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 (+ "Entropy Epilogue")

Slides

Solutions

Kognity book sections: E1.2, E2.1-E.2.2, E3.5-E.3.7, A.5.2 (muon decay), B.4.3 (first half, up to Figure 3)

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