Author: LHCb Experiment
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Electromagnetic Adventures #3: Permanent magnets… in space!
Explore the structure of matter across many length scales to understand how permanent magnets work, and discover along the way that magnetism comes in more flavours than you’d expect.
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Electromagnetic adventures #2: Currents 🔁 Magnets
Learn how electric currents can create magnetic fields as well as the opposite phenomenon – how changing magnetic fields can create electric currents.
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How to create photons you can see
Learn how light is created, how incandescence (“warm light”) differs from luminescence (“cold light”) and how we use the latter in scintillation detectors.
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Electromagnetic adventures #1: How to steer a proton
Explore electromagnetic fields, how to control a beam of electrically charged particles and how to design a particle accelerator like the LHC.
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A Particle Physics Course for High-School Students
16 chapters with videos and quizzes to learn about the fundamentals of particle physics.
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Cosmic SOS
Explore electromagnetic radiation and ionising particles through an adventure game presented as a workshop.
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Playdough Core Sampling
Explore how geologists delve into the mysteries beneath the Earth’s surface.
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Balloon Hovercraft – Power of Air
Explore how air is able to help us lift heavy things by reducing friction.
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Particle Detectives: A low-cost portable science show
Join us as ‘particle detectives’ to explore particles and their interactions, from molecules to CERN.
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Scattering boxes – Seeing the invisible
Explore how balls interact with a hidden structure to develop a scientific model.