Thursday, 24 March 2022

Umbrella Drop


 Doing the umbrella drop experiment. Two identical umbella's, fall at the same time, but if one is opened ...

Wednesday, 23 March 2022

Bernoulli's Principle

 Bernoulli's Principle Faster air = lower pressure. Looking at everything from fun items to planes flying and wind and air pressure. #iteachphysics



Tuesday, 22 March 2022

Spectrometer with Fibre optic scope



 One of the problems of the students using a spectroscope to observed the emission lines is that they usually can't see them, but using the @pasco spectrometer I can put the image on the board and we can calculate the limes easily

Monday, 21 March 2022

A Far Infrared Picture


 My Phone with a FLIR attachment allows me to take and show heat pictures to the students, showing the shadow of a hand print on a table of how much heat the white board gives out.

Sunday, 20 March 2022

Faradays ice Pail

 More fun with the Van De Graaff Generator this time with Faradays ice Pail #iteachphysics



Black Light

 

Using a UV light to show up the invisible parts of bank notes enthused the students some claiming they hadn't seen a £50 note before and seeing that it was genuine. I was glad all the notes we looked at were genuine.

Saturday, 19 March 2022

electrical conductivity

Busy day today with lots of experiments including using the @pascoscientific electrical conductivity meter to look at different salts and how their conductivity varied. Students thought best part was using the vortex mixer.




Doppler Rocket

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