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



Attempting to get all the students to have to hand all the basic Maths Equipment that they may need, A calculator, decent compass, 360 protractor, tracing paper pencils and rubber. Some come better equipped but most fail to have all the basics.
 

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.

Current speed on the River Thames

  Measuring the current speed on the River Thames. It has dropped considerably in the past couple of weeks and was doing a steady 1.1 mph