Tuesday 2 April 2024
Measuring Friction
A Newton spring meter measured the force of friction exerted by some books on a table. It shows how hard someone has to push to overcome friction—unbalanced forces.
Monday 1 April 2024
Digestive system
Digestive system revision. A quick look at the woolly digestive system and most of the facts it came back. Good visual aids, especially those that can be touched, help with learning.
Sunday 31 March 2024
Away from Teaching
It looks like a good day to get on with some reorganisation of the classroom as I can't do much sailing today and the classroom certainly needs a tidy.
Saturday 30 March 2024
Memory
Different types of memory from 1K chips to 32Gb RAM Modules and much in between. The students learnt how they work and everything about RAM and ROM.
Friday 29 March 2024
Order of Reactivity
Thursday 28 March 2024
Tension Protractor
When you need the @pascoscientific tension protractor, nothing is quite like it. The Zipline practical becomes a breeze when you know the force and direction, which are otherwise difficult to calculate or measure.
Wednesday 27 March 2024
Sicherman Dice
These dice have the numbers 1-2-2-3-3-4 and 1-3-4-5-6-8, but give the same sums with the same probabilities as two normal 1-to-6 dice. The only difference is the odd of rolling a double which as usually 6/36 are 4/36 for the Sicherman dice.
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