Skip to main content
loading
Explore Menu Menu
Home
  • Browse
    Close
    Take a browse
    Resource Type
    • CPD videos
    • Classroom Physics magazine
    • Advice & Guidance
    • Blog
    • Classroom Activities
    • Enrichment Activity
    • Glossary Definitions
    • Lessons
    • Misconceptions
    • Physics Narrative
    • Practical Activities
    Domain
    • Earth & Space
    • Electricity & Magnetism
    • Energy & Thermal Physics
    • Forces & Motion
    • Light, Sound & Waves
    • Properties of Matter
    • Quantum & Nuclear
    Age Group
    • 5-11
    • 11-14
    • 14-16
    • 16-19
  • Collections
    Close
    Take a browse
    DOMAINS CPD collections
    • Forces & Motion
    • Energy & Thermal Physics
    • Electricity
    • Light, Sound & Waves
    Established resource collections
    • Practical Physics
    • Supporting Physics Teaching
    • Teaching Advanced Physics
    • Marvin and Milo
    More collections
    • Popular resources
    • Casgliad o Adnoddau yn y Gymraeg
    • Thinking About Teaching
    • Ready To Teach
    • Curated
    • All Collections
  • Misconceptions
  • News
  • COVID-19 Support
Search
Close
Travel to
  • Institute of Physics website
  • Education section of IOP website
  • TalkPhysics is the IOP online community forum for teachers of physics
  • Gender Action is an award programme which promotes and supports a whole-school approach to challenging stereotypes
  • SEEdash insights and tools for understanding STEM education in England

Search Results

Show me

Filter
  • (-) Supporting Physics Teaching
  • (-) Physics Narrative
  • Quantum and Nuclear
  • Ionising Radiation
  • (-) Ionisation
  • (-) 14-16
Apply filters
Apply Filter
Showing 3 results

We have 215 misconceptions on this result

Explore misconceptions
Ionising Radiation
Quantum and Nuclear Supporting Physics Teaching

Exploiting ionisation for detectors

Both photons and particles can shift enough energy to to convert the absorber atoms to ions. Detect these ions and you'll have...

Physics Narrative 14-16

Ionising Radiation
Quantum and Nuclear Supporting Physics Teaching

Particles that ionise

Fast-moving charged particles can rather easily shift energy to atoms and so strip electrons–that is, ionise the atoms. There...

Physics Narrative 14-16

Ionising Radiation
Quantum and Nuclear Supporting Physics Teaching

Ionisation and damage

An atom or molecule is ionised by having at least one electron stripped from it:

Physics Narrative 14-16

2021 IOP Awards

Teachers of Physics Award

Recognising and celebrating outstanding contributions to the field of physics education.

Learn more
  • About IOPSpark
  • Supporting Physics Teaching
  • Teaching Advanced Physics
  • Practical Physics
  • Accessibility
  • Copyright
  • Disclaimer
  • Privacy
  • Terms & Conditions

© 2021 IOP All rights reserved.
The Institute is a charity registered in England and Wales (no. 293851) and Scotland (no. SC040092)

Website by Catch
Manage privacy and cookies
Close

Physics Links Explorer

Explore the links between different physics concepts