E5 plan: Fusion and stars
Big picture Guiding questions What a fantastic chapter on which to conclude the Standard Level course - if this is how you have organised things. In chapter E1, we learned that the structure of the atom determines the type of element. Here, in our study of fusion, we find out how different nuclei come to exist. Of course, the answer is in stars, and so understanding their evolution and cosmology as a whole deservedly...