Ready for Results Day?
Results Day is just a working week away - on Monday 5th July. As in 2020, departments might like to consider purchasing a Category 2A Return of Materials for the IA to find out the breakdown of marks...
Slow physics
I've made hundreds of videos for my websites, all short, to the point and no chit chat. I speed up writing x2 and drawing x4 to get everything into the shortest time possible. HANG ON. In real life I'm...
Faking a Galaxy
I have often tried to simulate the rotation of a Galaxy in Algodoo but always failed, today I succeeded. As you move out from the centre the rotation speed should increase but when you get to the edge...
Interim EE advice
I thought I would share the advice I just sent to my EE supervisees. Hi; Most of you are pretty much at the same stage so I thought I'd give some general advice. Writing an EE in physics is a bit different...
Accidents will happen
I was at an outside party the other night and someone got out a sort of skateboard thing with a motor. One of the teachers had a go and some interesting physics took place. The motor moved the board forward...
Music from my physics lab
Every other year the staff at RCN but on a show for the students, this is an other year so we performed. Always used to do do a live performance where I would do some sort of Mr Beanish performance but...
Waves on a beach
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Mixing our models
A question about this PhET waves simulation made me think about how are use of analogies and models can sometimes confuse rather than clarify. Don't get me wrong, this is a great simulation but maybe...
May 2021
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