Tuesday, 12 March 2024
Particle accelerator
Building a PingPong ball accelerator with the students from some sticky copper strips and a mixing bowl powered by a Van de Graaf generator. It's not exactly fast, but it does move.
Monday, 11 March 2024
Eye Lens
Modelling the eye lens from @Pascoscientific. Looking at ordinary lenses just does not give an idea of how the eye works, but this lens changes as water is added and removed much in the same way as the eye lens works.
Sunday, 10 March 2024
Online teaching
Online teaching. Using multiple screens, cameras, visualisers controlled by an atem and stream deck to make on line teaching a breeze.
Saturday, 9 March 2024
Hard Disk
Exploring how a hard disk works. Looking into the formatting and why a disk loses so much space on formatting and how this is used to access all the data.
Friday, 8 March 2024
alloys
Ask a student for a magnetic metal and its iron. But get some coins out, and some are magnetic, and some are not, and they don't contain iron. 20p coins look the same but have different properties. Properties changed with different issues.
Thursday, 7 March 2024
Metre Stick
Seeing Lenz's Law with a magnet slowly sliding down on the outside of the @pascoscientific Metre Stick gives another insight to how this experiment works. We compared the rate to a 1p sliding down to measure the difference.
Wednesday, 6 March 2024
Parametric Graphing
Using the @casio CG-50 calculator to sketch parametric functions. These are pretty hard to visualise but the calculator makes this a dream to do.
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Doppler Rocket
Demonstrating the Doppler effect with the @pascoscientific Doppler Rocket: As the rocket moves away, students can hear the pitch drop (red s...
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Negative feedback is a difficult concept to try and get over so I tried using a balance board and the @pascoscientific smart cart strapped...
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We went to the Bett Show a few weeks ago and there we saw a model of a Liver. It had been knitted so we thought we would have a go. After ...
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#Physics Taking wind speed readings using the PASCO scientific wireless weather station. Grabbing some monthly data on the weather in t...