01 May 2025
A smartcarts eye view
This is a @pascoscientific Smartcart's eye view of the track as the cart hurtles down it, sending information to Capstone so that the student can immediately take away with them the accurate data plot of the acceleration down the track.
30 April 2025
29 April 2025
Ethanol Fuel Cell
Using an ethanol fuel cell to power led lights and a fan. Fuel cells can be of several different types and comparing them gives the students some idea of how they could be used in the real world.
28 April 2025
ATP
What makes ATP, ADP, and AMP so valuable? They are used in DNA and RNA to store and release energy and as signals inside cells. Each day, we recycle kg of these to keep us alive.
25 April 2025
Iron Ore Extraction
Very small-scale extraction of ores. On a wooden spill with iron oxide Fe(III)O and some Sodium Carbonate, and place in a Bunsen Burner. The iron oxide is not magnetic, but the iron produced at the end is magnetic, and the filings can be collected and moved by a magnet.
24 April 2025
Momentum inline and stacked
Inelastic collisions comparing one @pascoscientific smartcart hitting two stacked and two inline. Does it make a difference? Not much since the wheels are nearly frictionless. But it is an interesting experiment to do.
23 April 2025
Circle Theorems
Students remember all the Circle Theorems so that they can solve the A-level problems. Finding the Midpoint of a chord, then finding a perpendicular and another perpendicular, allows the student to find the centre of the circle.
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