Skill — Convert quantities between units using conversion factors.
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Linked atoms
31 linked atoms.
00 Physical quantities, estimation, equilibrium
- Unit conversion
- Worked example — Conversion of compound units
- Worked example — The leaking tap
- Worked example — The column of air pressing on our feet
- Worked example — Fruit press
- Worked example — Blood pressure of the heart
- Worked example — How big is a small room in litres
- Problem — Elementary conversions
- Problem — Cooking rice, the Fermi way
- Problem — Volume of a rectangular box
01 Kinematics
09 Kinetic theory of gases
19 Maxwell’s equations and electromagnetic waves
- Problem — Energy of a visible photon
- Problem — Frequency of yellow light
- Problem — H-alpha line
- Problem — Wavelength of an FM station
- Problem — Light travel time Sun-Earth
21 Introduction to quantum mechanics
- Problem — Spectral width and mean lifetime
- Problem — Infinite potential well
- Problem — Current from an illuminated semiconductor
- Problem — From lambda to the initial level (Balmer)
- Problem — de Broglie wavelength of an electron at 100 V
- Problem — Energy of a green photon at 530 nm
- Problem — n=3 level of hydrogen and the H-alpha line
- Problem — Polariser and photon counting
- Problem — X-rays from ionised fluorine
- Problem — Deriving h from photoelectric data
- Problem — Stellar spectrum and the 397 nm line
- Problem — Fermi estimate, atoms in an apple
- Problem — Fermi estimate, photons from an LED