The other ones
I have 3 classes and I can't leave the last one out so here they are. All good stuff....
IA: Messy but fun
Its IA time again at RCN and my lab is piled high with apparatus. At the start of the process I tried to encourage students to put their equipment away but I lost the battle and am now going with the...
Seen ya Sina
Sina had a cunning plan. As a last ditch attempt to be featured in my blog she decided to sit under the table, unfortunately Robin beat her to it yesterday. Had to reward the effort though. Notice to...
Keep your hat on
Apparently Robin gets a knot in his tassle if I wear his hat for the whole lesson. Maybe he'll get an extra one if I publish the photo. Last lessons for second years today which means they will be throwing...
Russling under the table
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Seat of the pants
Here's something I wrote for my schools website. I never liked doing “seat of the pants” stuff, as Tony Macoun would put it, but that’s how it was being an administrator with a full-time teaching job....
Reflected glory
Here are the winners of the Norwegian Physics Olympiad 2017. The one on the right is Nikita and he won, he is also my student. Hurrah and congratulations. He is obviously very good at problem solving...
F=μN spells Fun
I've been using this equation for years and only just noticed that it spells fun. It doesn't really of course since that's a mu not a u and fun doesn't have an equals sign in it but you see what I mean....
One over the eight
These are my EE supervisees for the coming session. as you can see there are 8 which isn't one over the eight its just 8. That's good because one over the eight is one too many which is bad. However there...
Pigs and toast
Piglet was born yesterday as a result of several hours of thinking about ways to help my students remember definitions. First I thought of flash cards, I've never used them so why should I expect my students...