Causing tension
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Physics gender gap
Readers of Tes magazine might have noticed my article this week, which I hinted at in an earlier blog: Context is key to making an impact on the physics gender gap. This is a research interest that rests...
How many zlings in your plodge?
If an electron is accelerated through a potential difference of 1V it will gain a kinetic energy of 1 eV. How much kinetic energy will an electron gain if accelerated through a potential difference of...
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Physics in the garage?
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Tale of two books
"A staggeringly beautiful read for physicists, classicists, philosophers and theologians" is how I described Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time in my email bulletin to this year's Oxbridge applicants today....
See no evil, see no evil, see no evil
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Site update
It's here - the launch of the new site layout! Thank you for your patience while this work has been going on. I'll talk you through some of the main developments. The issue? Needing to go to many far-reaching areas...
Reflections from a train
The train back to London from a weekend in Durham seems like as good a time as any to write my first blog post. After all, I was up to visit my younger brother (proud moment!) who is doing PhD research...
Emma
This blog is to inform you that from now on the site has two authors, Emma Mitchell and me. Emma is a physics teacher and Head of Higher Education at Whitgift School, near London. Originally from Northern...
Ways to use students no.1
It's time for my students to hand in a first draft of their EE which in reality means time to do some serious work on it. The idea is that students should do most of their research in the summer holiday...