A pig of a problem
Comparing a real experiment to a simulation helps to see how our mathematical models relate to the practical situation, so I've been trying to build simulations for all of the practicals in my programme....
It's a gas
I really like the PhET gases simulation but would like more control, so have been experimenting with gas simulations in Algodoo. In the animation here I have made a box containing a large number of perfectly...
Viral swing
Was checking out facebook today and this viral video caught my eye. It's amazing how a bit of simple physics gets so much interest, over 3 million views on youtube and over 9 on facebook. When I first...
Cable knit
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Lab or demo
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The magic of physics (or vice versa)
The last post I wrote was about the extended essays I am supervising, one of them is about the physics behind a magic trick so here is Elliot performing the trick. The reason you can't see the pen is...
Why rEEsearch?
Here are this years EE students and for the first time ever (I don't have such a good memory so this might not be true) all of them have finished ahead of time. Supervising an EE can be a real headache...
Rosetta's stone
Exciting news about the Rosetta space probe meeting up with 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. I saw a picture of how big the comet is compared to a city and it seems to be about the size of a mountain, this...
Hooray for the new IA
When I first saw the new criteria for internal assessment I thought that that was the end of design labs however, on further consideration design labs are pretty good preparation for the investigation....
Who can say Huygens?
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