Extended Project for Physics

I did mine on 'How far it's possible for manned space travel to the outer planets and beyond' which has a lot of physics in along with some engineering and medicine.

Wave-particle duality is a good one, I think.

Awesome, what can I write about that topic?

Have you studied the wave theory of light and the photon theory of light yet?

Is it in quantum phenomena? I've only done unit 1 so far AQA AS A if it helps

You'll have done the photon theory of light then. How light acts as a particle in some cases, such as the photoelectric effect, work function etc

In unit 2 you will see how light acts as a wave through diffraction gratings, constructive and destructive interference, and more.

This is what is called wave-particle duality, where something (in this example, light) exhibits behaviour of both particle nature and wave nature.

If you like it, then you should read a little bit ahead in unit 2 for a few days and go on from there

EDIT: I also love your username

Yep! Learnt that but what can I say about it? I want to make my topic interesting and as everyone is fascinated by space, I don't want to bore the people I give the presentation to about particles if they don't understand. They probably don't even know what a particle is.

Thanks! I'm craving for a BBQ thanks to your name

Hmm have a go at talking about how we aren't exactly sure what light is, even though it is absolutely everywhere around and we absolutely need it to do pretty much everything. We can observe so many of it's effects but at the end of the day we can't use a single model to explain it's nature.

That sounds cool, what did you include if you don't mind me asking

Perfect, thanks!

What about black holes? I'm fascinated by them, I can write what they are how they're formed, that's about it though

I don't do Physics but just a note- science pursuers tend to want to explain/analyse some aspect they're interested in and forget to form a question that is argumentative. IE to what extent is this .... Or should there be ... Etc

It will help you get better marks


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Please do elaborate

I dropped Physics a while ago so forgive my [lack of] subject- specific knowledge.

What I mean is, when people do Science-based EPQ's, their questions are very narrow. "What is so .... about black holes?" or "Are there any more discoveries to be made in space?" ie you can't form a proper argument with such questions.

"To what extent are black holes *enter descriptive information about them* .."- ie you can argue both sides - it IS *blah* to a great / little extent, and then come down to a conclusion that you make of your own.

I do hope that's clearer

Thank you!
It's a great idea, how about "To what extent are black holes... black/empty/dense/?

To what extent are the astronomically observed black hole responsible for the (creation [should I include this]) or destruction of the universe?

To what extent... ...a danger but a phenomenon to the universe?

To what extent do black holes play a threat to mankind?

Is the black hole a chimera? (Chimera meaning absurd and impossible to logically exist but it does)

I'm guessing these have already been proved or the answer can be logically sought but what do you think?

"What's on the other side... of a Black Hole?" Or "Somewhere, on the other side of nowhere"
The answers to these questions are going to be the same, the "I don't really know and physicist are trying to find out" and you can't really argue even though there's a large amount of logic, findings and math, a new question most definitely emerged