Student access
One of the purposes of this site is to provide resources that teachers can use with their students, to make this possible teachers can customise their own student site by making available only the resources...
New syllabus saves lives
One of the problems with living in the country is that things grow. That doesn't sound like much of a problem but when they grow on the roof of your house it is. Last week I begun the task of removing...
What do you find at a crowbar?
Pretty much finished with this years big writing project :-) if it wasn't raining that would mean more time for climbing. Earlier in the year I found the boulder in the photo, bouldering is climbing on...
Parelaxing
Not been blogging so much of late partly because I'm on holiday. That sounds like I've not been bothered to blog because when I'm on holiday I like to relax and not think about physics teaching. That's...
Building site physics
Not a particularly politically correct title to this video clip but some good physics none the less. I don't see it as particularly suicidal either as long as the masses are close enough. I wonder how...
UWC logo
I've blogged about it before and as long as it rains in Norway I'll blog about it again. It's those patterns in the fjord again. This time is particularly interesting because of the two spirals that look...
Kettles boiling
Last week we bought a new kettle, we had to because I ruined the last one by putting it on the heat to make a cup of tea then forgetting about it. The new one has a much better whistle so hopefully I...
Wooden boats are not as heavy as they look
For the past 3 or 4 years students have been helping to build a wooden rowing boat. It's taken so long because they only work sporadically, during project weeks and when the expert boat builder (the one...
Great mysteries of the world
It's not exactly one of the 7 wonders of the world but its something I have on occasion wondered about. Why does making an optical fibre thin make it only possible for one mode to be propagated through...
The place you must always remember to forget
About 2 years ago I blogged about a nuclear waste storage facility in Finland. Actually it wasn't so much about the facility but about a documentary that I had seen on television. It was quite a special...