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	<itunes:keywords>Physics,Higher,Mackenzie,fizzics,thurso</itunes:keywords><itunes:summary>Help with the SQA Higher Physics course.  The blog contains resources for revision and this podcast is used to distribute homework exercises, videos of worked solutions to homework  and any other media of interest to the Higher Physics course.</itunes:summary><itunes:subtitle>Fizzics with Mr Mackenzie</itunes:subtitle><itunes:category text="Education"><itunes:category text="K-12"/></itunes:category><itunes:owner><itunes:email>sinclairm@gmail.com</itunes:email><itunes:name>Sinclair Mackenzie</itunes:name></itunes:owner><item>
		<title>charged particles in magnetic fields</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2021 09:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[These Bitesize pages will help if you need to recap on the basics of magnets.  A magnetic field is produced whenever current flows through a wire.  The magnetic field is represented by a series of concentric circles around the wire, as shown below. Magnetic field lines around a current carrying wire.  image: physick wiki The direction ... <a title="charged particles in magnetic fields" class="read-more" href="https://mrmackenzie.co.uk/2021/11/charged-particles-in-magnetic-fields/" aria-label="Read more about charged particles in magnetic fields">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>particles in electric fields</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2021 23:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An electric field can be used to accelerate charged particles.  Conservation of energy tells us that the work done by the field is equal to the change in the particle&#8217;s kinetic energy.  The speed of the particle can be determined if its charge and the accelerating voltage are known.  These notes show how to perform the calculation. ... <a title="particles in electric fields" class="read-more" href="https://mrmackenzie.co.uk/2021/11/particles-in-electric-fields/" aria-label="Read more about particles in electric fields">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>fundamental particles: quarks, leptons and the standard model</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2021 10:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At the end of Our Dynamic Universe, we considered big things like stars, galaxies and the Universe itself.  Now the Particles and Waves unit brings us to particles so small we need groups of them just to make a single atom.  Is there a connection? Why do we study particles? from mr mackenzie on Vimeo.&#160; The Standard Model An elementary ... <a title="fundamental particles: quarks, leptons and the standard model" class="read-more" href="https://mrmackenzie.co.uk/2021/11/fundamental-particles-quarks-leptons-and-the-standard-model/" aria-label="Read more about fundamental particles: quarks, leptons and the standard model">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>dark matter, dark energy and the end of the Universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2021 17:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s complicated and cosmologists are not certain.  One of the issues is only being able to see about 4% of the mass in the universe &#8211; the stars, planets, gas and dust.  About 25% of the mass of the universe is Dark Matter.  It&#8217;s &#8220;dark&#8221; because it doesn&#8217;t emit light that enables us to see ... <a title="dark matter, dark energy and the end of the Universe" class="read-more" href="https://mrmackenzie.co.uk/2021/11/dark-matter-dark-energy-and-the-end-of-the-universe/" aria-label="Read more about dark matter, dark energy and the end of the Universe">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>evidence supporting the Big Bang model: 3. Olber’s paradox</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2021 17:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You might remember that we looked at some paradoxes when we studied special relativity earlier this term.  Here is another situation where a paradox can arise.  The German astronomer Heinrich Olbers (1758–1840) asked why the night sky was dark.  At the time, astronomers believed that the Universe was both infinite and steady state (unchanging), so ... <a title="evidence supporting the Big Bang model: 3. Olber&#8217;s paradox" class="read-more" href="https://mrmackenzie.co.uk/2021/11/evidence-supporting-the-big-bang-model-3-olbers-paradox/" aria-label="Read more about evidence supporting the Big Bang model: 3. Olber&#8217;s paradox">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>evidence supporting the Big Bang model: 2. nucleosynthesis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2021 17:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As we worked through the diagram explaining the stages of the Big Bang model, we looked at a section of the diagram where the Universe was hot enough for nuclear fusion.  At this point, hydrogen nuclei were fusing together with other hydrogen nuclei to create helium nuclei.  As the Universe expanded, it cooled and further ... <a title="evidence supporting the Big Bang model: 2. nucleosynthesis" class="read-more" href="https://mrmackenzie.co.uk/2021/11/evidence-supporting-the-big-bang-model-2-nucleosynthesis/" aria-label="Read more about evidence supporting the Big Bang model: 2. nucleosynthesis">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>evidence supporting the Big Bang model: 1. CMBR</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2021 17:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[introduction to the Big Bang from mr mackenzie on Vimeo. Georges Lemaître&#8217;s theory of an expanding Universe, which has become known as the Big Bang, was supported by Hubble&#8217;s observations.  The expanding Universe idea was challenged by influential scientists who believed the Universe was both infinite (and therefore not expanding) and steady state (unchanging).  Supporters ... <a title="evidence supporting the Big Bang model: 1. CMBR" class="read-more" href="https://mrmackenzie.co.uk/2021/11/evidence-supporting-the-big-bang-model-1-cmbr/" aria-label="Read more about evidence supporting the Big Bang model: 1. CMBR">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>the Universe is bigger than the Milky Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2021 17:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble had access to the Hooker telescope on Mount Wilson, Los Angeles.  This was the largest telescope in the world at that time.  His first breakthrough was the discovery of a cepheid variable star in the Andromeda nebula.  This enabled him to calculate the distance to Andromeda and he quickly realised this was ... <a title="the Universe is bigger than the Milky Way" class="read-more" href="https://mrmackenzie.co.uk/2021/11/the-universe-is-bigger-than-the-milky-way/" aria-label="Read more about the Universe is bigger than the Milky Way">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>redshift</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2021 21:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Doppler Effect, which is familiar to us in terms of sound waves, also affects electromagnetic waves. Normally we are talking about light but the same effect would be detected in, for example, microwaves or radio waves. more redshift and Yoker Uni&#8217;s video about Doppler and stuff While redshift can be used to tell us ... <a title="redshift" class="read-more" href="https://mrmackenzie.co.uk/2021/10/redshift-2/" aria-label="Read more about redshift">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">5996</post-id>	<dc:creator>sinclairm@gmail.com (Sinclair Mackenzie)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity</title>
		<link>https://mrmackenzie.co.uk/2021/09/einsteins-special-theory-of-relativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2021 20:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We started our study of Einstein&#8217;s special theory of relativity this week.  Special relativity is tricky get your head round, so I&#8217;ve put together a collection of videos that help to explain the ideas we&#8217;re going to consider.  Let&#8217;s start with a video about the speed of light. The next video follows Einstein&#8217;s thought process ... <a title="Einstein&#8217;s Special Theory of Relativity" class="read-more" href="https://mrmackenzie.co.uk/2021/09/einsteins-special-theory-of-relativity/" aria-label="Read more about Einstein&#8217;s Special Theory of Relativity">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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