Anyone doing Particle Physics option?

Limerick Dude

Im posting up a link to a bbc documentary about CERN and how they want to discover what happened a billionth of a second after the big bang. It mentions all the stuff like hadrons, quarks etc and its pretty interesting stuff too!
Enjoy!

http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/106571/BBC_Horizon_6_Billion_Dollar_Experiment_CERN.html?rh=186270

cocoa

it's fun reading about that stuff but annoyingly, in regards to the leaving cert it's probably best to forget anything too up-to-date. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you might actually lose marks if you point out that there is in fact only three elementary forces (gravitational, strong nuclear and electroweak).

Nehpets

I did applied elec. for my mocks but I am thinking of doing this for the real thing. The questions don't seem that hard.

Limerick Dude

Yeah its pretty handy alright, plus i cant stand applied electricity, makes little sense to me.

spartacus93

Nehpets wrote:

I did applied elec. for my mocks but I am thinking of doing this for the real thing. The questions don't seem that hard.

It's very short, not too much to learn. If you like Modern Physics this should be fairly handy...

Whim

cocoa wrote:

it's fun reading about that stuff but annoyingly, in regards to the leaving cert it's probably best to forget anything too up-to-date. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you might actually lose marks if you point out that there is in fact only three elementary forces (gravitational, strong nuclear and electroweak).

Really? I was told that there's five - gravitational, strong nuclear, weak nuclear, electric and magnetic. When will the lies end?

PurpleFistMixer

Whim wrote:

When will the lies end?

Never.

Also, isn't it electromagnetic, as in, there are four? (according to LC course blah blah)

Whim

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

Never.

Also, isn't it electromagnetic, as in, there are four? (according to LC course blah blah)

According to the course it's that, yeah. But apparently in the real world of physics the five I mentioned are actually used. Apparently. Best to be ignored anyway.

Tomlowe

leaving cert says 4

gravitational
electromagnetic
weak nuclear
strong nuclear

Raphael

Leaving Cert lies, the electromagnetic & weak nuclear can be brought together as the ElectroWeak force, as cocoa said.

Remember kids, Leaving Cert always lies. Always.

Edit: However in practical terms, there are the 4 from the leaving cert. But in college they at least tell you it's not entirely true!

cocoa

the weak appears so rarely it's a bit of a specialist's force anyway >_> unless of course you happen to be one of those nuts working on unified theory of everything...

DtotheK

my teacher flew through particle physics in a day... literally!! so i have to basically learn it all from scratch which is pretty daunting!

although she did find a song on youtube about it which was.........interesting..

Raphael

cocoa wrote:

the weak appears so rarely it's a bit of a specialist's force anyway >_> unless of course you happen to be one of those nuts working on unified theory of everything...

Eh...Radioactivity is caused by the weak. Without the weak, there's no Beta Decay. So it shows up pretty often.

PurpleFistMixer

This is a fairly good site for the particle physics stuff. Like, it's not the LC course so there's stuff which you don't have to know, but it's interesting anyway!