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Presentation – Year 13, Sam Harding

June 28, 2022/0 Comments/in EMP Society/by Steve Telford

Presentation – Year 13, Sam Harding

This week’s presentation was on the topic of infinity and the different types of it that occur throughout mathematics.

After a brief historical introduction, Sam showed us the famous tortoise and hare problem. That was followed by a discussion of improper integrals and fractals which provided an opportunity to introduce some of the Year 12s to calculus and the exponential function. The talk finished with a brief discussion of aleph-null and cardinality of different sets, followed by planning for our lecture trips in the coming weeks.

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Presentation – Chris Ross

November 28, 2014/0 Comments/in EMP Society/by Steve Telford

Presentation – Chris Ross

Chris’ presentation this week was on the topic of quantum mechanics and focused on the uncertainty principle and the photoelectric effect, both very important aspects of quantum theory.

As Chris explained, the uncertainty principle puts a limit on the precision with which we can know the momentum and position of a particle simultaneously whereas the photoelectric effect explains why electrons are emitted from the surface of a metal when light of the right frequency is shone on it. Callum gave an excellent presentation, despite the challenging nature of the subject matter; you can download his presentation as a PDF file at the end on the page.

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Speaker – Professor Arttu Rajantie, Imperial College, London

November 26, 2014/0 Comments/in EMP Society/by Steve Telford

Speaker – Professor Arttu Rajantie, Imperial College, London

This week the TBSHS Maths and Physics Society were delighted to welcome Professor Arttu Rajantie from Imperial College. His lecture took place during enrichment on Wednesday 26th November and was attended by a large group of year 12 and 13s, as well as several gifted and talented students from lower down the school.

The Professor is an admissions tutor and also a member of Imperial’s Theoretical Physics research group, specialising in applications of quantum field theory in cosmology and particle physics. More relevantly to year 13 students, he has also worked at the Large Hadron Collider and is heavily involved in the MoEDAL experiment. This provided an excellent insight for the year 13s who will be visiting CERN in Geneva next February half term.

In addition to his work at Imperial College, Professor Rajantie is also a visiting professor at King’s College London and an external examiner for the University of Sussex. During the 5 years he spend in Cambridge he worked with Professor Ron Horgan, one of the society’s guests last year and husband to the school’s own languages teacher, Dr. Frances Horgan.

Professor Rajantie’s talk focused on the role of the Higgs field in particle physics and how the mechanism the gives elementary particles their mass actually works. With an analogy that involved rolling a cake tin with a magnet attached along a table, he convincingly demonstrated the symmetrical properties of the Higgs field and how oscillations give rise to mass. In his talk, Professor Rajantie also discussed the standard model of particle physics and the relative strengths of the fundamental forces of nature, explaining why massless force carriers give rise to forces acting over an infinite distance.

There was just enough time afterwards for several questions from the audience and for the presentation of a ‘thank you gift’ as a token of our appreciation. We would like to express our gratitude that Professor Rajantie took time out of his busy schedule to come and visit us and give a very interesting lecture.

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Presentation – Charlie Jonas

November 21, 2014/0 Comments/in EMP Society/by Steve Telford

Presentation – Charlie Jonas

The weekly presentation today was given by myself and covered the topic of differential geometry, specifically using integration to find the length of an arc.

I started with an brief overview of integration and differentiation and the use of infinitesimals in calculus which is highly relevant since the derivation of the arc length formula involves taking infinite tangents. Using a graph of the function y^2=x^3, I showed how the formula is derived simply from rearranging Pythagoras’ theorem. We then used this to complete an example question from the OCR MEI FP3 maths syllabus, an additional part of our A-level maths course that we do not normally study in school. I ended the presentation by touching on the similarly related field of line integration which is especially relevant for calculation involving scalar fields in physics. I hope my presentation was enjoyable and accessible by all!

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Cambridge Physics Centre Lecture – Relativity

November 13, 2014/0 Comments/in EMP Society/by Steve Telford

Cambridge Physics Centre Lecture – Relativity

This week we took a trip to the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge where Dr Julia Riley gave a lecture entitled ‘Relativity – understanding the connection between space and time’.

Meeting at Stortford station, we took a very crowded train to Cambridge where we then caught a taxi to the Bragg Building at the famous Cavendish laboratory – the site of discovery of the electron & neutron and where James Clark Maxwell formulated his laws of electromagnetism.

The hour-long lecture introduced us to the idea of inertial frames and Newtonian relativity before moving on to Einstein postulates and his more complicated theory of special relativity. Dr Riley showed how to derive the equation for the Lorentz factor and, through her excellent diagrams, explained the phenomena of length contraction and time dilation. The last few minutes of the lecture were occupied by a brief overview of general relativity and Einstein equivalency principle, as well as a short discussion of black holes.

The lectured was followed afterwards by a trip to Pizza Hut which I’m sure was enjoyed by everyone who attended! We would welcome any other students who wish to come to future lectures or to join the society on a Friday lunchtime.

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Presentation – Year 12, Chris Davis

November 2, 2014/0 Comments/in EMP Society/by Steve Telford

Presentation – Year 12, Chris Davis

Chris’ presentation was on the cryptography and mathematics involved in the enigma machine and the German codes.

After an introduction which took us through the historic context of the enigma, Chris used diagrams to show how the cipher wheels of the machine worked and why the code was so difficult to break. He talked about the reverse wiring needed to make the enigma both an encoder and decoder as opposed to having two separate machines, a design factor that when combined with operator error led to the code being broken by the Polish. Thank you Chris for a very interesting talk.

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Presentation – Year 13, Robin Franklin

October 17, 2014/0 Comments/in EMP Society/by Steve Telford

Presentation – Year 13, Robin Franklin

This week’s presentation was given by Robin Franklin and was on the topic of mathematical proof.

After first looking at some basic proof by direct argument he quickly moved on to proof by contradiction, using the irrationality of square root of 2 and the base-3 logarithm of 2 as examples. The talk ended by showing the proof of Euler’s Identity using the Taylor expansions of sine, cosine and the natural exponent. Our thanks to Robin for his presentation.

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Video – A Night With The Stars

October 10, 2014/0 Comments/in EMP Society/by Steve Telford

Video – A Night With The Stars

After a brief one-week hiatus due to the Teacher Karaoke event on 3rd October, members of the Maths and Physics Society regrouped to watch Brian Cox’s excellent ‘A Night With The Stars’ programme which aired a few years back.

With the help of several notable guests including Sarah Millican, Simon Pegg, Jim Al-Khalili and Jonathan Ross, Cox explained wave-particle duality and electron diffraction with a simple trough of sand and used a long piece of rope to explain how standing waves form. In a section at the end of the video he went on to discuss the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics.

The video was very interesting and thoroughly enjoyed by all.

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Presentation – Year 13, Penny Hart

September 26, 2014/0 Comments/in EMP Society/by Steve Telford

Presentation – Year 13, Penny Hart

Our first student presentation of the academic year was by Year 13 student Penny Hart.

Despite the very large audience of almost 30 new Year 12s she gave a very convincing presentation on Fermat’s Last Theorem and modular clock arithmetic.  Afterwards we discussed our plans for the upcoming Festival of Ideas in Cambridge and Battle of Ideas in London, both of which we hope to attend in the future.

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Speaker – Past Student, Oliver Philcox

September 12, 2014/0 Comments/in EMP Society/by Steve Telford

Speaker – Past Student, Oliver Philcox

Last week we had the pleasure of welcoming back ex-student Oliver Philcox when he dropped in to deliver a short talk to the Maths and Physics Society.

Oli, who in October will be leaving to study physical Natural Sciences at Emanuel College Cambridge, gave an excellent lecture to us about his EPQ project on Dark Matter and Supersymetry. Topics covered included the Standard Model of particle physics as well as the Higgs mechanism. The second part of his talk was a first-hand student’s account about applying to one of the world’s top universities and detailed several useful resources and tips which many of the year 13s found extremely useful. After a short Q&A session we concluded our first lunchtime session and bid Oliver a final goodbye! We wish him all the best.

Charlie Jonas, September 2014

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