1 May, 2009 – fizzics

AH – electric fields

1 May, 2009 by mrmackenzie

Here are some problems to get you a bit of practice with electric field questions ahead of the unit 2 nab next week.

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Nuclear fission

1 May, 2009 by mrmackenzie

Animated gif showing fission of U-235 by Stephan-Xp

We’ve discussed nuclear fission in class this week. This is the process where an unstable nucleus splits into 2 or more smaller nuclei. The new atoms produced are called daughter products of the fission process. The University of California has a good animation of the fission process with commentary. I have also included a link below to a nice animation from atomicarchive.com.

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