Thursday, 21 March 2024
Lenz's Law
Demoing Lenz's Law but using the @pascoscientific Metre Stick so the students can see what is happening. It stopped all the argument about slowing down by banging on the side of a copper pipe or becoming stuck or me having another magnet in my hand
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Maths Equipment
Tuesday, 19 March 2024
Magneticforces in a wire
Measuring the magnetic field forces in a wire using an electronic balance with different voltages and recording the orientation of the field according to the electronic flow.
Monday, 18 March 2024
Liver as a catalyst
Comparing Catalase in the Liver as a catalyst with Potassium Iodide to look at the different rates and how effective enzymes are. We managed to cook the liver pieces with the violence of the reaction.
Saturday, 16 March 2024
Raspberry Pi Server
Resources are always a problem in teaching, and letting students build and maintain their own servers is only possible using Raspberry Pi computers running Linux. The students learn so much from building and running their own computer systems.
Friday, 15 March 2024
Exothermic Reaction
Adding Magnesium turnings to copper sulfate gave a nice temperature rise recorded on @pascoscientific Capstone. Different groups doing different experiments meant that we could easily share the data.
Thursday, 14 March 2024
Magnetic field
Measuring the changes in magnetic field with distance, using @pascoscientific magnetic field sensor and the smartcard to provide the position information.
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