Slide Preview for P7 Further Physics

Powerpoint Description:

Use this slideshow to help you teach the OCR 21st Century Further Physics unit. It covers: the solar system, orbits and spins, the apparent movement of stars, solar days and sidereal days, the orbit of the moon, phases of the moon, solar and lunar eclipses, viewing stars and planets, angles of declination, refraction of light through different media, converging and diverging lenses, ray diagrams, using lenses in telescopes, using concave mirrors, using mirrors in telescopes, magnification, diffraction, aperture width in telescopes, spectra, parallax, luminosity, measuring distance to stars using their brightness, cepheid variable stars, the Curtis-Shapley debate, Hubble's Law and recession velocity, the Hubble Constant, frequency and energy output of stars, absorption and emission spectra and how they are caused, particle motion in gases and how it explains pressure, the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature in gases, the life cycle of stars, nebulae, main sequence stars, energy-mass equivalence, the structure of our sun, the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, red giants, red supergiants, supernovae, black holes, observing the universe, using computers to control telescopes, international collaboration in space and its advantages, impact of building observatories.