Maths Exam

Your maths exam will be coming to your exam room tomorrow, so remember the pen, pencil, compass, protractor, ruler, and eraser. And it might just be worthwhile doing a past paper today.

 

Diffraction

 Shining a red laser through a narrow slit? You’ll see diffraction in action! The light bends and spreads out, creating a pattern of bright and dark fringes—proof that light behaves like a wave.  #Physics #Diffraction #LaserLight

Diffusion

 A-Level Biology: Diffusion in Agar. Some tubes are filled with agar and an indicator, and the rate of diffusion of some acid is measured as it moves through the agar. By setting up a known series of concentrations, an unknown concentration can be determined.

Capturing the picture

 Trying to get the photo of the sailing boat, sailing in front of the Upper Thames Sailing Club

MicroLab

 It’s that time of year when the micro lab comes out of its suitcase and shows the students what type of computer was used and available in the 1980’s. The micro lab was used to teach the students how to diagnose computer faults

Distillation

Students learning how to separate two liquids of different boiling points using the distillation apparatus. The students had to choose all the parts, assemble them and then produce their distillation products.

 

Trigger Dropper

 This is the new Smart Cart Trigger Dropper from @pascoscientific. It can be used for explosions by programming when to depress the trigger, showing the path of a dropped ball, and demonstrating conservation of momentum. On my wish list, now to see if I can get one