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keep your eye on the pig
Always worth timing many cycles when trying to find out the time period but maybe timing the same one over and over again is not going to improve the accuracy of the experiment. Interesting how the simple...
Pigs in orbit
Its pig time again. Ilaria is measuring the height of the pig above the ground but first she has to catch it. Might have been easier to wait for the pig to fly past rather than chasing after it. Reminds...
Hat last
I've been dropping hints all these years but eventually I got one and its a whoppa. Too big for the photo. Quite timely since I've just made a worksheet on Relativistic mechanics including the Mexican...
Lifes little disappointments
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Brochure boy
I recently found this photo in a pile of old climbing magazines. It was taken when I was a student at Leeds University. I'm pouring liquid Nitrogen into the outside jacket of a flask containing liquid...
Simulexplanation
This week my first year students have started Thermal physics and doing the Particle nature of matter activity . This includes something about the interatomic force (off syllabus but worth knowing). Several...
Flemings Left hand electro dubstep rap
Students are often a little shy when they first try Flemings Left hand rule, what better way to break down inhibitions than a bit of modern dance. Thought I might try to compete with the English class...
Apple pencil
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Different subjects
The room next door to mine has been assigned to English so there are often strange things going on. They play music and move the tables around. Today I heard a commotion and went to see what was happening....
Common mistakes #1
I'm just going to give my seconds years a test on component combination involving the use of the parallel equation. I bet some forget to invert the fraction. I of course tell them afterwards, maybe I...