GMES - Global Monitoring for Environment and Security

Physics

• Wednesday 10th February 2010 Shenley Academy (Birmingham)

Curriculum areas covered during masterclass:

• Gravitational field theory
• Newton's laws and momentum
• Vectors and scalars
• Ballistics theory
• Theory of orbits including Kepler's Laws and multipolar fields
• Wave phenomena, including Doppler effect, scattering, interference and polarisation
• The EM spectrum
• Atomic excitation and photon emission/absorption
• Wien's Law/Blackbody radiation
• Ideal gas theory and kinetic theory of gases
• Use of exponentials to model pressure drop with altitude in an ideal gas atmosphere (parallels to capacitors/radioactive decay)
• Nuclear excitation and gamma ray/neutron spectroscopy
• Magnetic fields, generation of and charged particle interactions with.

Course tutor:

Anu Ojha

Anu Ojha is Director of Education and Space Communication at the National Space Centre,
Leicester.

Formerly an AST and Director of Science and Mathematics (Assistant Headteacher) at the
largest Specialist Science College in the UK, he was awarded Advanced Skills Teacher status
by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) in 2003 and is Project Director of the Space
Academy partnership between the National Space Centre, Universities of Nottingham and
Leicester, Science Learning Centre East Midlands, STEMNET and emda
(www.ukspaceacademy.org )

For the last five years he has had extensive involvement with Johnson and Kennedy Space
Center education programmes, leading UK groups of educators on US placements and
presenting teacher masterclasses at NASA's Space Exploration Educators Conferences in
Houston in 2007 - 2009. He is a member of STFC's Science in Society Advisory Panel and is a
Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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