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Formula: Kmax = hf - pfi. Under the right circumstances, light or other electromagnetic radiation directed on to the surface of a material can cause electrons to be ejected from the...

INTRODUCTION Compton scattering is the inelastic scattering of an X or gamma-ray photon by a (virtually) free charged particle (usually an electron), in which some of the photon`s en...

Think back to your days as a child, when an adult, for the very first time, tells you that a seemingly empty room is in fact, not empty but rather filled with invisible gases that we ...

The following comprises the first two sections of my masters thesis from Imperial College London, completed in 2013. It gives a general overview of the research I was involved in. ...

It is incontrovertible that there has been a change seen in the earth's climatic behaviour over the past century with vast amounts of experimental evidence corroborating this as fact...

Quantum Physics...sounds scary, right? That`s certainly what many physicists thought at the start of the 20th Century; the likes of Max Planck, Niels Bohr and even Albert Einstein ...

Aerodynamics: the Physics of Flight and Formula 1 Introduction This article will discuss some important principles of aerodynamics, and their application to flight and Formula 1...

Last year I submitted a paper that was accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society journal. If you search the article title in google you`ll find...

As you likely already know, there has recently been a furore over the behaviour of an infamous lepton. Some measurements of these sub-atomic particles that have been taken in Italy th...

Rewind the clock back 2000 years. For people who cared to wonder, the Earth would have been the centre of the universe and a place full of mystery and superstition. Without careful ob...