Adding Magnesium turnings to copper sulfate gave a nice temperature rise recorded on @pascoscientific Capstone. Different groups doing different experiments meant that we could easily share the data.
Friday, 15 March 2024
Thursday, 14 March 2024
Magnetic field
Measuring the changes in magnetic field with distance, using @pascoscientific magnetic field sensor and the smartcard to provide the position information.
Wednesday, 13 March 2024
Lightbox and Graphs
Comparing two graphs can be difficult. If they are on a computer, then it's simple, but paper graphs need a lightbox so that one can be seen through the other.
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.
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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...