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Johnson, Carla C., Ed.; Walton, Janet B., Ed.; Peters-Burton, Erin E., Ed. – NSTA Press, 2019
What if you could challenge your 11th graders to figure out the best response to a partial meltdown at a nuclear reactor in fictional Gammatown, USA? With this volume in the "STEM Road Map Curriculum Series," you can! "Radioactivity" outlines a journey that will steer your students toward authentic problem solving while…
Descriptors: Grade 11, High School Students, STEM Education, Nuclear Energy
Reed, B. Cameron – Physics Teacher, 2018
The discovery of nuclear fission was one of the most dramatic scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century. Within a few years, the fantastic energy latent in the nuclei of atoms would be powering reactors and bombs, a development that fundamentally changed the relationship between physics and human affairs. To drive home the magnitude of this…
Descriptors: Energy, Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
Young, Clive – School Science Review, 2017
Matter can be described and explained in a number of ways, using models of increasing complexity depending on the intended audience. Under the current National Curriculum for England, the kinetic theory of matter is taught to 11- and 12-year-olds in secondary schools to explain the structure of solids, liquids and gases and their behaviour when…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, National Curriculum, Scientific Principles
DETERLINE, WILLIAM A.; KLAUS, DAVID J. – 1961
THE AUTOINSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS IN THIS TEXT WERE PREPARED FOR USE IN AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY, OFFERING SELF-TUTORING MATERIAL FOR LEARNING ATOMIC PHYSICS. THE TOPICS COVERED ARE (1) RADIATION USES AND NUCLEAR FISSION, (2) NUCLEAR REACTORS, (3) ENERGY FROM NUCLEAR REACTORS, (4) NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS AND FUSION, (5) A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW, AND (6) A…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Experimental Programs, Learning Processes, Nuclear Physics
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Ramsey, Norman F. – Physics Today, 1981
Examines the state of physics in 1931, the predicted and actual states of physics in 1981, and predictions for 2031. Focuses on general conditions such as economy, energy (fossil, solar, nuclear fission, fusion), physics research, and physics publications. (JN)
Descriptors: College Science, Energy, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
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Physics Teacher, 1971
New research topics have been brought about by the acceleration of nitrogen nuclei to the energy of 36 billion electron volts. Describes experiments on tumor cells, cosmic rays, and nuclear fission performed with the Bevatron at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. (TS)
Descriptors: Atomic Structure, College Science, Nuclear Physics, Physics
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Lafrance, Pierre – Physics Teacher, 1975
Explains macroscopic properties of a number of systems as averaged-out behavior of numbers of particles. The approach is applied to a model of nuclear fission, rotational velocity in a galaxy, the nature of the rings of Saturn, oscillations of the earth, drops on a spider web, and the shape of ruined Meidum pyramid. (GH)
Descriptors: Astronomy, College Science, Instructional Materials, Mechanics (Physics)
Zandy, Hassan F. – Phys Teacher, 1970
Discusses plasma as a source of energy through nuclear fission processes, as well as the difficulties encountered in such a process. States that 99 percent of the matter in the universe is plasma, and only 1 percent is the common three states of matter. Describes the fundamental properties of plasma, plasma "pinch, and plasma oscillations. (RR)
Descriptors: College Science, Energy, Matter, Nuclear Physics
Stuewer, Roger H. – Science & Education, 2006
The capsule histories of physics that students learn in their physics courses stem basically, I believe, from a linear view of history--that physicists in making fundamental discoveries follow a Royal Road to them, as Hermann von Helmholtz put it in 1892. The actual routes they follow, however, are generally nonlinear, and when historians display…
Descriptors: Physics, Science History, Scientists, Experiments
Aubrecht, Gordon J., II – 1986
The twentieth century has witnessed a burst of discovery in physics unparalleled in human history. Despite the fact that general relativity and quantum mechanics are well over half a century old, introductory physics classes in high schools, colleges, and universities essentially ignore them. These two seminal ideas, the phenomena of…
Descriptors: College Science, Course Content, High Schools, Higher Education
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Harvard Project Physics. – 1968
Five experiments and nine activities are presented in this Unit 6 handbook. The experiments are related to random events, ranges of alpha and beta particles, half-lives, and radioactive tracers. The activities are concerned with the energy measurement in beta radiation, demonstration with sugar cubes, ionization by radioactivity, magnetic…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Laboratory Experiments, Laboratory Manuals, Nuclear Physics
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Harvard Project Physics. – 1968
Nuclear physics fundamentals are presented in this sixth unit of the Project Physics text for use by senior high students. Included are discussions of radioactivity, taking into account Bacquerel's discovery, radioactive elements, properties of radiations, radioactive transformations, decay series, and half-lives. Isotopes are analyzed in…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Nuclear Physics, Physics, Radiation
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Rotblat, J. – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1977
Discusses the problems of controlling weapons-grade fissionable material. Projections of the growth of fission nuclear reactors indicates sufficient materials will be available to construct 300,000 atomic bombs each containing 10 kilograms of plutonium by 1990. (SL)
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Warfare
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Atwood, Charles H.; Sheline, R. K. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1989
Some of the topics that might be included in a nuclear chemistry section are explored. Offers radioactivity, closed shells in nuclei, energy of nuclear processes, nuclear reactions, and fission and fusion as topics of interest. Provided are ideas and examples for each. (MVL)
Descriptors: Chemical Nomenclature, Chemical Reactions, Chemistry, College Science
Allardice, Corbin; And Others – 1968
This booklet is one of the "Understanding the Atom" Series. Consisting of three sections, it is an account of the development of the first nuclear reactor by a team of scientists led by Enrico Farmi. The first section briefly reviews the early work on nuclear fission and neutron emission, the impact of Einstein's letter to President…
Descriptors: Atomic Theory, Energy, Nuclear Physics, Physics
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