12 April 2022
11 April 2022
Using an Oximeter
One of the fun things we do, testing whether the students have a heartbeat and their Oxygen stats. Some students with painted nails appear to be dead!
10 April 2022
Investigating the energy in different fuels
Looking at different alcohols to see how they compare. The equipment doesn’t work well due to the heat loss, so it is up to the students to design a better experiment.
09 April 2022
08 April 2022
07 April 2022
Ninja star 2
Unlike the last Ninja star video where the Ninja star is on the VdGG this time its the electrons from the Ninja star that are being used to neutralise the charge on the Van de Graaff generators dome and this causes motion.
06 April 2022
The Ninja Star
The Ninja Star is actually called a Hamilton's mill but in physics it's called a Electrostatic pinwheel. The reason it gets spinning is because the spinner is positively charged, like the dome. Each point has a strong electric field around it. Air molecules close to the points lose electrons and become positively charged ions - their electrons were attracted to the points and used to neutralise some of the charge on the dome. Positively charged ions are repelled by the positive star's points and move away. The points move in the opposite direction (Newton's 3rd law) so the star Spins.
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