Category Archives: Unit 4

Professor Dave: Interference, Reflection, and Diffraction

Posted on August 9, 2020 by VCE Physics
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PhET – Wave Interference

Posted on July 27, 2019 by VCE Physics

Make waves with a dripping faucet, audio speaker, or laser! Add a second source to create an interference pattern. Put up a barrier to explore single-slit diffraction and double-slit interference.

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Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle – the single slit video

Posted on May 2, 2019 by VCE Physics
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The ultimate speed = c! Relativistic momentum and energy

Posted on May 2, 2019 by VCE Physics
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Muons and Einstein video

Posted on May 2, 2019 by VCE Physics
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Why do moving clocks run slow? (video)

Posted on May 2, 2019 by VCE Physics
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Veritasium – The world in UV

Posted on August 25, 2018 by VCE Physics
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Professor Dave Explains: Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom

Posted on August 17, 2018 by justin

Why don’t protons and electrons just slam into each other and explode? Why do different elements emit light of different colors? Niels Bohr knew why. And now you will too!

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Professor Dave Explains: Wave-Particle Duality and the Photoelectric Effect

Posted on August 17, 2018 by justin

Look, up in the sky, it’s a particle! It’s a wave! Actually it’s both. It’s light! How do we know about this stuff? Well, because of Einstein for one. He did more than E = mc^2, you know. But don’t … Continue reading →

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Muon decay

Posted on June 10, 2018 by VCE Physics

How can the decay of muons produced in the Earth’s upper atmosphere provide evidence for the Special Theory of Relativity?

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