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- Subject: Physics
- AS: AS90522
- Level: 3
- Credits: 3
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Physics 3.5 Demonstrate understanding of atoms, photons, and nuclei
Subject content
The topics of atoms, photons, and nuclei, that you may be assessed on will include:
- Bohr model of the hydrogen atom (view a simulation of Bohr’s model and the theory behind the model)
- photon
- quantisation of energy
- discrete atomic energy levels
- electron transition between energy levels
- ionisation
- atomic line spectra (infrared, visible and ultraviolet)
- the photoelectric effect
- the electron volt
- description of the particle/wave duality of light
- nuclear binding energy and mass deficit
- conservation of mass-energy for nuclear reactions.
And the relationships you should know and practise, with respect to atoms, photons, and nuclei, are:
Revise work on nuclear reactions.
Check out these excellent online resources aimed at your level that will provide study material for the topics above:
- quantum physics
- atomic and nuclear physics
- For practice in significant figures.
