90kg Weakling
I was looking through the excellent text book "Physics" by Giancoli (4th Edition and very battered) when I came across this interesting problem about a 90kg weakling who couldn't do even one pull up....
A bit of a wind up
In the middle of group 4 project and everyone is having fun. The idea of the day is to make the most powerful wind turbine out of paper and a bit of card. The source an electric fan which produces more...
EE or zz
While all the biology and ESS students were away on a field trip I decided to organise a practical morning for my EE students. It's one thing to have an idea but until you start to experiment its difficult...
It's not so easy
Luckily our students didn't have to go through the trauma of doing this since they do all their answers on the exam paper but if you have been invigilating or sitting other exams you might have come across...
How not to pour beer
Last week I did the beer foam decay experiment with one of my first year classes. If a couple of students bring their own lap tops we now have enough computers for one each so instead of using the sticky...
Collector of hats
If you are using my text book you may have noticed my interest in hats, The photo shows part of my collection. Actually it shows all of my collection, I'm not doing so well. It started when I hinted to...
I will survive
As teachers we sometimes have to do things a little bit out of the ordinary, last week was one of those times. Every two years we have an evening when the teachers put on a show for the students. As in...
Battling cars
Here's something interesting that one of my students (Julia RB) spotted today. We've been doing a design lab using "the worlds smallest solar powered car" and a lamp. It's all related to Earth day (which...
A lesson with the relatives
I wouldn't want to be accused of favouritism so I've animated my SL class too, not that they aren't already animated of course. Unfortunately the gif ended up with a blank preview so you have to open...
Adiós amigos
Last HL class was today and never got round to taking that class photo so here is an alternative, the class interactive physics mexican dance. Well, not much of a dance really, apart from a little stamp...