Welcome new year 12!

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Essential equipment for September.
1) 30cm clear plastic rule. NOT 15cm! not folding! not flexible! not opaque!
2) calculator - find out how it works!!!
3) compasses & protractor

Book list
Later in the year you will be asked to give a short presentation on a book (related to Physics!) which you have read. There are dozens out there to choose from. Have a look for something suitable over the summer. Take it to the beach with you. Here are some suggestions:

• Surely you're joking Mr.Feynman. (Richard Feynman) - [brilliant]
• The Pleasure of finding things out. (Richard Feynman) - [great]
• What do you care what other people think? (Richard Feynman) -[great]
• The character of physical law (Richard Feynman) - [good]
• QED: The strange theory of light and matter (Richard Feynman) - [deep but readable]
• Richard Feynman (John Gribbin) - [readable - not as good as above]
• Genius - Richard Feynman and modern Physics (James Gleick) - [less readable]
• In search of the Big Bang (John Gribbin) - [very readable]
• In search of Schrodingers Cat (John Gribbin) - [very readable]
• Introducing Einstein (Icon books) - [cartoon style]
• Quantum theory for beginners (Icon books) - [cartoon style]
• The Quantum Universe (Hey & Walters) - [very informative]
• The Fabric of the Cosmos (Brian Greene) [quite heavy]
• The Elegant Universe (Brian Greene) - [very heavy]
• A cartoon history of time - [one long cartoon!]
• A brief history of time (Stephen Hawking) - [classic]
• The Universe in a nutshell (Stephen Hawking) - [simpler version of above]
• What we believe but cannot prove (John Brockman)

Breaking a glass with RESONANCE....


If this doesn't blow your mind nothing will.
Dr.Quantum explains the truly weird nature of our Universe....