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Quantum Tech Student Activity GPS and Trilateration
Satellite navigation is a key technology for today’s society, allowing for global navigation on land, at sea and in the air. The technology depends upon accurate atomic clocks, which help us...
Quantum Tech Student Activity Laser Cooling
Lasers can be used to heat things up, and also to cool them down. Using carefully tuned lasers, scientists in the UK quantum technology hubs are able to slow atoms down to just a few centimetres per...
Quantum Tech Teacher guide Cryptography
Quantum computers will revolutionise secure communications, and will make some current encryption methods obsolete. This activity, takes in cutting-edge research at the UK Quantum Technology hubs...
Quantum Tech Teacher guide Diffraction patterns
Practical use of diffraction gratings include emission spectra as well as explorations of the wave-particle nature of light and the interference patterns that emerge.
...Quantum Tech Teacher guide GPS and Trilateration
Satellite navigation is a key technology for today’s society, allowing for global navigation on land, at sea and in the air. The technology depends upon accurate atomic clocks, which help us...
Quantum Tech Teacher guide Laser Cooling
Lasers can be used to heat things up, and also to cool them down. Using carefully tuned lasers, scientists in the UK quantum technology hubs are able to slow atoms down to just a few centimetres per...
The UK is at the forefront of research into Quantum Technology, where physics pushes the cutting edge of technological innovation.
These resources, from the UK National Quantum Technologies programme, bring a-level physics and computer science bang up...
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Quantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding of the sub-atomic world. It does not disguise the problems of interpretation that still remain unsettled 75...
This book from the Discovering Science series is about the quantum world.
Topics include:
• Quantized energy
• Quantum indeterminacy
• Atomic structure
• Nuclear structure
• Fundamental particles
• Understanding light
• Light as a wave
• Light as particles ...