09 December 2022

Hydrocarbon burning




 
@chemix diagram helped the students go from the design to the reality in minutes.

08 December 2022

Terminal velocity

A @pascoscientific rotary motion sensor measuring a thin string attached to different shaped weights. The tube is 2m long and filled with water can determine the max velocity. The mass is wrapped tin the same mass of different shapes of plasticine to see the effect of streamlining

07 December 2022

Radial Electric Field



 Observing a radial electric field. Excellent results are achieved using just one or two turns on the Wimshurst machine and thick gauge wire with the castor Oil and Semolina

06 December 2022

Ideal Gas


 
Investigating the relationship between temp and pressure using the @pascoscientific ideal gas kit and Capstone. The students clearly saw that as the volume halved, the pressure doubled, and the temperature spiked.

24 November 2022

Naming Organic Chemistry


 It's glycine made from @snatoms, but its IUPAC name is much more difficult to work out

23 November 2022

Centre of Mass Experiment


 An opaque plastic container on an inclined plane. Some have a high centre of mass and some have a low centre of mass. Working out which is which using an inclinometer app on a phone. Making Phones useful in the lab and devising experiments to test out

14 November 2022

Old and New Technology


 Using old and new technology together, with a tickertape recording and the @pascoscoientific smart cart generating a realistic record of the journey down the track

Why Mechanics Questions Go Wrong (It’s Not the Maths… It’s the Setup)

  Why Mechanics Questions Go Wrong (It’s Not the Maths… It’s the Setup) “Most students lose marks in mechanics before they even start the ...