Wednesday, 13 March 2024

Lightbox and Graphs


 Comparing two graphs can be difficult. If they are on a computer, then it's simple, but paper graphs need a lightbox so that one can be seen through the other.

Tuesday, 12 March 2024

Particle accelerator


 Building a PingPong ball accelerator with the students from some sticky copper strips and a mixing bowl powered by a Van de Graaf generator. It's not exactly fast, but it does move.

Monday, 11 March 2024

Eye Lens

Modelling the eye lens from @Pascoscientific. Looking at ordinary lenses just does not give an idea of how the eye works, but this lens changes as water is added and removed much in the same way as the eye lens works.


 

Sunday, 10 March 2024

Online teaching


 Online teaching. Using multiple screens, cameras, visualisers controlled by an atem and stream deck to make on line teaching a breeze.

Saturday, 9 March 2024

Hard Disk

Exploring how a hard disk works. Looking into the formatting and why a disk loses so much space on formatting and how this is used to access all the data.
 

Friday, 8 March 2024

alloys


 Ask a student for a magnetic metal and its iron. But get some coins out, and some are magnetic, and some are not, and they don't contain iron. 20p coins look the same but have different properties. Properties changed with different issues.

Thursday, 7 March 2024

Metre Stick


 Seeing Lenz's Law with a magnet slowly sliding down on the outside of the @pascoscientific Metre Stick gives another insight to how this experiment works. We compared the rate to a 1p sliding down to measure the difference.

Doppler Rocket

Demonstrating the Doppler effect with the @pascoscientific Doppler Rocket: As the rocket moves away, students can hear the pitch drop (red s...