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10 – 13 Schools Workshop
Particle accelerator - Daresbury
MIRI
James Webb Space Telescope
ENVISAT image of the Gulf of Oman
Central Laser Facility
European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT)
STEM/HAADF Image of the cytoplasm of a dendritic cell
Computer Modelling
Medical Physics – Scanning and Imaging
What is ‘stuff’ made from?
What is the smallest thing you can think of?
Helium Atom
Atoms are not as small as it gets
What is the charge of:
A proton?
A neutron?
An electron?Everything is made out of atoms
• What will happen if two electrons are brought close to each other?
• Why do metals conduct electricity?
• What does a charged particle create?
• How does this relate to particle accelerators?
Investigating electrons
Magnets and Magnetic Fields
Ferrofluid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXvar-4M6VA
A ferrofluid bearing
MRI scanner
MRI scan using ferrofluid tracers
Particle Accelerators
Diamond Light Source (Oxfordshire)Large Hadron Collider (CERN)
Telescopes
European Extremely Large Telescope
Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope
Eagle nebula M51 Galaxy
James Webb Space Telescope
Video
Using Infrared
It could be you