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At CERN in Geneva there is an ongoing experiment called ALICE (an acronym for `A Large Ion Collider Experiment`) that involves the teamwork of more than 1500 physicis...

Where did we come from? How did the universe begin? Are we alone in the universe? These are the questions that human beings have asked ever since they first looked up at the heaven...

The phenomenon known as electricity is said to have been discovered or at least first recorded around 2700BC when the Egyptians noticed the painful shocks given to them by the fish of...

Introduction Nobody can perfectly model or predict the continued heavy use and dependence on fossil fuels use as a primary source of energy. It is clear however that the bi-product...

Second in this article is serious about getting better results in the classroom, this article will deal with how to translate the maximum amount of information from the classroom blac...

A handy concept in quantifying the likelihood of electromagnetic or particulate radiation interacting in a particular way with matter is an abstract one referred to as the `cross sect...

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. ...