Friday, 16 December 2022
Amber
Really old-fashioned static electricity using Amber to pick up pieces of paper. The more you clean and polish it the dirtier it becomes
Thursday, 15 December 2022
Electrostatics
Electrostatics - there is nothing like a Wimshurst machine to demonstrate electrostatics: hand powered and can be done very slowly - does all the tricks of a Van de Graaff Generator and watch the gold leaf electroscopes that are within a few metres respond
Tuesday, 13 December 2022
The mass of a volatile liquid
Determining the volume of a mass of a volatile liquid at 100 Celcius. Quite a tricky experiment to get right. Patience is required to get the apparatus hot enough. But the idea of how much bigger a gas is comes through
Monday, 12 December 2022
Matrices
Learning about Matrices. Finding determinants, calculating inverse Matrices and trying to solve 3 variable simultaneous equations. A level further Maths
Sunday, 11 December 2022
GCSE Optics
Looking at how a flame is turned upside down as the image passes through a lens and reflected on a screen at the far end. Using the optics bench with the scale built in we quickly worked out the relationships to achieve this
Saturday, 10 December 2022
Dissecting a Lamb Pluck
Dissecting a lamb pluck, inflating the lungs, examining the heart, and looking at the diaphragm and the liver. The lungs differ from what the books show, in and the hole to the lungs before the bronchioles.
Friday, 9 December 2022
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Doppler Rocket
Demonstrating the Doppler effect with the @pascoscientific Doppler Rocket: As the rocket moves away, students can hear the pitch drop (red s...
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Negative feedback is a difficult concept to try and get over so I tried using a balance board and the @pascoscientific smart cart strapped...
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We went to the Bett Show a few weeks ago and there we saw a model of a Liver. It had been knitted so we thought we would have a go. After ...
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#Physics Taking wind speed readings using the PASCO scientific wireless weather station. Grabbing some monthly data on the weather in t...