| AS2:Waves, Photons and Medical Physics |
describe CT and MRI scans in terms of physical principles, basic equipment, technique and applications
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Unit A2 1: Momentum, Thermal Physics, Circular Motion,
Oscillations and Atomic and Nuclear Physics |
demonstrate an understanding of the concept of absolute zero of temperature
appreciate the equivalence of mass and energyrecall the equation E = mc2 and understand that it applies to all energy changes |
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| Unit A2 2: Fields and their Applications |
state Newton's law of universal gravitation
understand that a moving charge in a uniform electric field experiences a force
Particle accelerators:
describe the basic principles of operation of a linear accelerator, cyclotron and synchrotron;
understand the concept of antimatter and that it can be produced and observed using high energy particle accelerators;
describe the process of annihilation in terms of photon emission and conservation of energy and momentum |
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| Fundamental particles |
explain the concept of a fundamental particle;
identify the four fundamental forces and their associated exchange particles;
classify particles as gauge bosons, leptons and hadrons (mesons and baryons);
describe the structure of hadrons in terms of quarks |
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