Safety Issues in Nuclear Power Safety Measures for Workers Several measures are in place to reduce the worker’s exposure to radiation The fuel rods are handled remotely ie. by machines The nuclear ...
Energy Generation You need to know about the main ways of generating electricity: The equipment involved The advantages and disadvantages Calculate power obtained for different setups These revisio...
Energy Resources Energy resources are large stores of energy that can be transferred from one form into electrical energy that can be used by society Generating energy reliably requires the use of ...
Primary Energy Sources Primary energy sources are found in nature and have some stored energy capacity To be a primary energy source, there must be: No processing or refining Stored energy must occ...
Sankey Diagrams Diagrams are used to represent energy transfers These are sometimes called Sankey diagrams The arrow in a Sankey diagram represents the transfer of energy: The end of the arrow poin...
Specific Energy The amount of energy that a fuel can provide for the amount of fuel used is an important consideration for the modern world In order to compare fuels by unit, either mass or volume ...
The Higgs Boson The Higgs-boson was predicted in 1964 The prediction included an approximate mass for the particle, at 125 GeV c–2 This prediction came from the standard model, which required the p...
Feynman Diagrams Feynman diagrams are a clear way of representing particle interactions in terms of their incoming and outgoing particles and exchange particles Although there are many variations o...
Fundamental Forces The Strong Nuclear Force In the nucleus, there are electrostatic forces between the protons due to their electric charge and gravitational forces due to their mass Comparatively,...
