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Science (Copenhagen)

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Copenhagen

Science

 

Research the following topics in pairs or groups and prepare short presentations on them. Each student should talk for at least 2 minutes and not more than 3 minutes. This will not be enough time to go into much detail!

 

Communicate with each other so that your presentations together form a coherent overview of the various topics.

 

Below the topics you will find a list of links to get you started, but you will certainly find other sources too!

 

2 students:

  • The structure of the atom

 

2 students:

  • Quantum physics versus traditional physics (an overview)

 

4 students (1 per sub-topic):

  • The Uncertainty Principle
  • Complementarity
  • The Copenhagen Interpretation
  • Schrödinger’s Cat

 

3 students (1 per sub-topic):

  • Nuclear fission

  • The chain reaction and the critical mass

  • Uranium-235 / uranium-238 / plutonium

 

 

Some links to get you started (all of these are relevant to more than one of the above topics)

 

Atomic structure

 

An introduction to quantum mechanics

 

Quantum physics in chapters 

 

Quantum physics overview

 

What is quantum physics?

 

A lazy layman's guide to quantum physics

 

Quantum mechanics and the Copenhagen Interpretation

 

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

 

Bohr: Discussions with Einstein on epistemological problems in atomic physics

 

Heisenberg (American Institute of Physics)

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