FINAL ASSESSMENT – PROJECT: Paper or Presentation
Physics B – Fusion Academy
FINAL ASSESSMENT – PROJECT: PAPER OR PRESENTATION
Project Choice 1: Write a minimum 2,000 word essay discussing the history and development of one of
of the topics below within modern physics. Citations should use a standard format, such as MLA.
Project Choice 2: Make a minimum 9 minute presentation discussing the history and development of
one of of the topics below within modern physics. Citations should use a standard format, such as MLA.
At minimum a reference page should be included citing all sources. Ideally footnotes should be included
on slides needing citations.
Topics:
• God does not play dice!: Deterministic v. Probabilitistic
• Failures of Classical Physics: Blackbody Radiation, the Photoelectric Effect and Bohr's Model
• Everything Getting Mixed Up: The Development of the Special Theory of Relativity
• Einstein’s Miracle Year in Physics (1905): The Photoelectric Effect, Brownian Motion, Special
Relativity and Mass-Energy Equivalence
• Beauty and Truth in Quantum Mechanics and Relativity
• Mix Everything Up, and You Get GUT (Grand Unification Theory)
• Other topic approved by your teacher
Possible Resources:
• TED Beauty and Truth in Physics -
http:
www.ted.com/talks/mu
ay_gell_mann_on_beauty_and_truth_in_physics
• TED Fusion is Energy’s Future -
http:
www.ted.com/talks/steven_cowley_fusion_is_energy_s_future
• TEDx Breaking Ba
iers with Quantum Physics -
https:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlmwLyeWv5M
• TEDx You are a Simulation and Physics Can Prove It -
https:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chfoo9NBEow
• TEDx – Richard Feynman - https:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpjwotips7E
• TED Have We Reached the End of Physics? -
https:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWPFJgLAzu4
• TEDx – Feynman Diagrams - https:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SYW6eZFHwU
• TED-Ed – Einstein’s Miracle Year - https:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=91XI7M9l3no
• Crash Course – The History of Atomic Chemistry -
https:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=thnDxFdkzZs
• Minute Physics – The Origin of Quantum Mechanics -
https:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1TVZIBj7UA
• TEDx – “Spooky” Physics - https:
youtu.be/wZzHnZzm_58
http:
www.ted.com/talks/mu
ay_gell_mann_on_beauty_and_truth_in_physics
http:
www.ted.com/talks/steven_cowley_fusion_is_energy_s_future
https:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlmwLyeWv5M
https:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chfoo9NBEow
https:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpjwotips7E
https:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWPFJgLAzu4
https:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SYW6eZFHwU
https:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=91XI7M9l3no
https:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=thnDxFdkzZs
https:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1TVZIBj7UA
https:
youtu.be/wZzHnZzm_58
Physics B–Final Assessment-Project Fusion Academy
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