The best fuel

How does the length of the carbon chain affect the heat given out by different alcohols burning. The students had to design the most efficient way of capturing all the heat, and eventually understood about the amount of energy in bonds.

Partial Fractions

 Working from GCSE to A level and from year 1 to year 2 at A Level. Spending some "slack time" catching up with things gone by and new ideas to come.

Long Scale Galvanometer

 My long scale Galvanometer arrived, so now it is considerably easier to see evens rather than trying to observe a needle flickering. So now we should be able to do some more interesting experiments

Investigating ECG

Investigating the students ECG using the @Pascoscientific sensor and Capstone to gather and analyse the data. This gave a clear view of what was going on in the heart of healthy A level Biology students
 

Chromatic Bells

 Looking at Chromatic bells. Why is a scale a scale? How do the black notes work? What are the frequencies? Is the gap the same? Having some fun with music and physics.

Melting Gallium

The students complained about the Heat. I agreed and said it was hot enough outside to melt metal. No they said, but we took the Gallium outside and sure enough it turned to liquid.

Distillation

 Separating and collecting a liquid from two or more liquids. After the students had fermented some orange juice we collected some nice smelling alcohol which burnt really well. Surprised a few students that it did burn.