{"id":47091,"date":"2023-02-16T08:22:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T00:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.science.nus.edu.sg\/?page_id=47091"},"modified":"2025-02-14T09:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T01:15:16","slug":"radioactivity-and-wave-particle-duality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.science.nus.edu.sg\/sdl\/workshops-and-programmes\/radioactivity-and-wave-particle-duality\/","title":{"rendered":"Radioactivity and Wave-Particle Duality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ionising radiation is invisible to our eyes. If seeing is believing, how do we then detect ionising radiation?\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p paraid=\"618697633\" paraeid=\"{4b58597f-09b3-4c73-9b12-13aff45206e9}{218}\">Discover it for yourself in the Radioactivity and Wave-Particle Duality workshop!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraid=\"618697633\" paraeid=\"{4b58597f-09b3-4c73-9b12-13aff45206e9}{218}\">Workshop participants will work in teams to build cloud chambers capable of detecting ionising particles and thereby elucidating their trajectories. We explore how photoelectric effect hints at the particulate nature of electromagnetic radiation and how the wave nature of electrons can be demonstrated through diffraction experiments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\" paraid=\"1921321386\" paraeid=\"{1b3bd7f0-a22a-4569-b6d7-35c83d5cdb13}{141}\" lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\" paraid=\"2129682751\" paraeid=\"{9021da67-08b1-4abb-9029-1e0d0c0783c5}{215}\" lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span><strong>Duration<\/strong>: 2 hours<\/span><\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0||\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\"><\/span><strong><span data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\">No. of<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\">p<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\">articipan<\/span><\/strong><span data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span><strong>ts<\/strong>: 20 &#8211; 25 || <strong>Mode<\/strong>: In-person only\u00a0<span data-contrast=\"auto\" class=\"TextRun BCX7 SCXW147022360\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX7 SCXW147022360\">(NUS)<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN-SG\" lang=\"EN-SG\"><\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN-SG\" lang=\"EN-SG\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\" class=\"TextRun BCX7 SCXW147022360\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX7 SCXW147022360\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\" paraid=\"2129682751\" paraeid=\"{9021da67-08b1-4abb-9029-1e0d0c0783c5}{215}\" lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>For inquires and bookings, please email enquiries to Miss Ng Mei Ting at <a href=\"mailto:ngmt@nus.edu.sg\">ngmt@nus.edu.sg<\/a> (<strong>6516 4234<\/strong>) or <a href=\"mailto:sdlvisit@nus.edu.sg\">sdlvisit@nus.edu.sg<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ionising radiation is invisible to our eyes. If seeing is believing, how do we then detect ionising radiation?\u00a0 Discover it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":0,"parent":9567,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47091","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.6 (Yoast SEO v23.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Radioactivity and Wave-Particle Duality - NUS Faculty of Science<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ionising radiation is invisible to our eyes. 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