Education-oriented Physics-Chemistry for Universities

Visualizations in Year 11 Chemistry and Physics Education

The use of computer-based tools in education is booming, and governments are pouring large amounts of funding into providing these tools for teachers, while the evidence for their educational effectiveness is still being gathered. This study compared the effectiveness of scientific visualizations computerbased animations and simulations with teacher's 'normal' teaching without visualizations, i...

U.K. universities. 'Darwinian' funding and the demise of physics and chemistry.

The Finances of Chemistry and Physics Departments in UK Universities: Third Review

Radiation Physics and Chemistry

We review an atomic resolution imaging method based on the analysis of the fine structure in X-ray absorption anisotropy, which results from incident beam diffraction. For a polychromatic X-ray beam, due to the suppression of higher order diffraction fringes, X-ray absorption anisotropy patterns can be interpreted as distorted real-space projections of the atomic structure around absorbing atom...

The Physics and Chemistry

To appreciate the following story, we need to be familiar with the setting, the cast, their observational appearance and their physical interactions. Here, each member of the cast – gas, dust, cosmic rays, magnetic fields and radiation – is introduced and their potential behaviour is studied. Stars form in clouds. Like atmospheric clouds, they are largely molecular and opaque. However, star-for...