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Particle Physics
| Excellent overview of what is what you need to know. | Link | Use this as an a quick introduction but then go over it in much more detail for revision afterwards. It's as good as any professional production but was put together by physics teacher Louise Boylan from Mount Sackville. | 5 Star |
| 1909: The first splitting of the atom: Rutherford, Geiger and Marsden. | Link | Forward to the 5 minute mark to get an account of the famous experiment. Youtube. 10 minutes | 5 Star |
| Cockroft and Walton Experiment | Link | Nice animation | 4 Star |
| Audio Link - Listen to Einstein explaining the meaning of his equation, while also name-checking Cockroft and Walton. (one minute) | Five Star | ||
| A variety of video clips to do with particle accelerators in CERN | Link | These can all be downloaded onto your hard-drive | 4 Star |
| Particle accelerator simulation | Link | Impressive simulation of CERN particle accelerator Experiment | 5 Star |
| Particle Accelerators and Quarks | Link | Short video - you need to register. (3 Mins, 4 Mb) | 4 Star |
| Pair Annihilation and Production | Link |
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4 Star |
| How to blow up a shed using anti-matter | Link | Light-hearted v ideo from howstuffworks. 2 mins | 4 Star |
| Four forces of Nature | Link | Video clip (6 mins) about the 4 forces, including the anomaly of gravity | 5 Star |
| Link | Teachers TV. 15 minutes | 5 Star | |
| What are the big questions that still remain in this area? | Link | Part of The Particle Adventure presentation | |
| Quarks | |||
| Story of the origin of quarks | Dr. Brian Cox. Youtube. 3 minutes. | 5 Star | |
| Build your own particles from quarks | Link | Put together the various Baryons and Mesons from a combination of quarks | 4 Star |
| Want to hear a song about Quarks? | Link | And let's face it - who wouldn't want to hear a song about quarks? | 3 Star |
| Interactive timescale going from present time back to the big bang | Link | 4 Star | |
| For a bucket-load of free resources (mostly posters) for Teachers | Link | ||
| Neutrinos | |||
| Gell-Mann on beauty in physics | Link | Taken from thinkforyourself.ie blog. Includes reference to his education and a TED talk from Gell-Mann on Youtube. 16 minutes | 4 Star |
| Detector one | Link | From Snolab in Canada. Youtube. 7 minutes | 3 Star |
| Detector two | Link |
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3 Star |
| The history of neutrinos | A 20 minute podcast, from yours truly. | ||
| Also available from itunes | |||
| The script to the podcast | |||
| How do PET scans work and what have got to do with antimatter? | Link | Click on PET Scans; Look inside your body, click also on the help option to see how they work |
4 Star |