Friday, 1 November 2024

A saltwater fuel cell


 GCSE Chemistry Tuition: Exploring the difference between electrolysis and creating a cell. We built a simple cell using a magnesium plate and salt water as the electrolyte—it even powered a fan! The students were amazed to see how easy it is to make a working cell. #Chemistry

Thursday, 31 October 2024

Conductivity Sensor


 A-Level Chemistry Tuition: The students investigated some of the properties of salts using the @pascoscientific conductivity sensor to see how concentration and the different metal salts affected conductivity and how the strength of an acid or alkali affected conductivity.

Wednesday, 30 October 2024

Complex numbers


 A-Level Further Maths: Introducing complex numbers and exploring their powers. Fascinating to see the patterns emerge! #FurtherMaths #ComplexNumbers #MathsMagic

Tuesday, 29 October 2024

SHM


 A-Level Physics Tuition: The Students are investigating Simple Harmonic Motion, investigating how the length of the ruler and the mass on the ruler affect the period and the decay rate in this example of damped harmonic oscillation.

Monday, 28 October 2024

3D Protein Viewer

 A-Level Biology Tuition: Tools I only dreamed of made possible with AlphaFold. This AI system developed by Google DeepMind predicts a protein’s 3D structure from its amino acid sequence and the students can use it.

Sunday, 27 October 2024

Bonding


 A-Level Psychology Tuition: Relationships. Investigating the evidence that individuals who form secure infant attachments go on to enjoy long-lasting and loving adult relationships. Failure to do this seems to lead to broken relationships later in life.

Saturday, 26 October 2024

And gate


 A-Level Computing Tuition: Creating our own  AND gate to understand and see how it worked using a BBC Microbit to control and power the chip.

Doppler Rocket

Demonstrating the Doppler effect with the @pascoscientific Doppler Rocket: As the rocket moves away, students can hear the pitch drop (red s...