16 October 2023
Milk
It was interesting talking to students about Milk and the things I learned. Generally, milk was perceived as being unhealthy for you - way too much fat content ( 3.5%) and many of the alternatives chosen were based on advertising rather than any accurate information.
15 October 2023
Modern Webpage Design
The computing books look at Web pages designed using Notepad, which is what I taught 30 years ago. We looked at more modern software like Nicepage and others to create webpages that do all the clever things and how much web pages have changed through the years.
14 October 2023
Electric Fields
Creating parallel and radial electric fields from a Static electric feed rather than an EHT device. It works better.
13 October 2023
Fractional Distillation of Oil
Starting with Synthetic Crude Oil the students heated the oil progressively heating it to a higher temperature and collecting the fractions. The first fraction burnt but the subsequent ones apart from the last wouldn't burn.
12 October 2023
Pressure inside a ballooon
Is the pressure inside an inflated balloon greater than that in a deflated balloon? The debate raged on until with a @Pascoscientific wireless pressure sensor proved that the pressure was indeed 1.1 KPa higher in the inflated balloon - the elasticity of the balloon to blame.
11 October 2023
10 October 2023
Static Electricity to Direct Current Demo
A good fun experiment taking the static electricity from a Wimshurst machine and passing this to a capacitor plate and using a graphite-covered ping pong ball to transfer the charges which can then be picked up on a beam galvanometer.
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