Unit 10: Waves, Particles and Atoms

Subject(s): Physics | Age: Post 16 | Type: Teacher guidance | Textbook | Publication Year: 1970 - 1979

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This Nuffield Advanced Physics Unit offered an introduction to quantum theory presented in a single volume for teachers and students. The main work was theoretical. Many of the arguments were presented as a chain of questions.

Contents
• Introduction: the quantum revolution
Part One: Photons
Part Two: Electrons
Part Three: Waves in boxes
Part Four: The scope of wave mechanics
• Appendix: The Compton effect - a photo-electric game of billiards
• More questions
• Answers
• Lists of films, film loops, books, and apparatus

URL: http://stem.org.uk/rx4zu

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