Physics
Books
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Why don’t penguins’ feet freeze? – NewScientist
The Grand Design – Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
Newton – Peter Ackroyd
The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen – Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines (Second Edition) - Jim Al-Khalili
Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed - Jim Al-Khalili
Podcasts
Lectures
Helen Czerski - The Fascinating Phyiscs of Everyday life: https://www.ted.com/talks/helen_czerski_fun_home_experiments_that_teach_you_physics
Harry Cliff - Have we reached the end of Physics? https://www.ted.com/talks/harry_cliff_have_we_reached_the_end_of_physics
Vikram Sharma - How quantum Physics makes encryption stronger
https://www.ted.com/talks/vikram_sharma_how_quantum_physics_can_make_encryption_stronger
James Beacham - How we explore unanswered questions in Physics
https://www.ted.com/talks/james_beacham_how_we_explore_unanswered_questions_in_physics
Asaf Bar-Yosef: An athlete uses physics to shatter world records
https://www.ted.com/talks/asaf_bar_yosef_an_athlete_uses_physics_to_shatter_world_records
Jonathan Butterworth - What’s the smallest thing in the universe?
https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_butterworth_what_s_the_smallest_thing_in_the_universe
Visits
Science Museum
Imperial War museum
The Planetarium
Greenwich Observatory
The Space Museum (Washington DC)
Web sites
Research
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/orion
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/frontier-physics-future-technologies
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/creating-the-amazing-engineering-the-future
Competitions
British Physics Olympiad
Oxford Scientist Essay Writing Competition