Feeling isolated
We were discussing an exam question in class and discussing whether momentum is conserved if a system is acted upon by external but balanced forces. To illustrate the point I tried to think of an example...
Danish regards
One of my students, Oliver from Denmark, sent me a link to this youtube video. I was just about to write a reply to him then thought that I might as well put it on my blog. The effect that makes the interesting...
Retro techno
I was wasting time in Singapore airport, I think it was, cruising round the duty free shop seeing if there were any free samples on offer when I noticed this advertisment. Images of people playing golf...
Lies are more impressive than the truth
This morning I was doing about alternative sources of energy with my SL class and was asking them how the thermal energy from a solar panel could be converted into electrical energy. They go the idea...
Here is the Neus
My students have been doing an experiment to measure the time for a ball to roll down an inclined plane and today's lesson was spent discussing uncertainties and how important they are. Taraah.... That...
Interactive students
Ever since I got a SMART board 5 years ago I have been using Interactive physics to demonstrate just about everything in the mechanics part of the course. Watching red balls fly and blue boxes slide can...
Zip wire
As one of my CAS activities (at UWC's Teachers do them too) I supervise a group of students who instruct groups of young children in rock climbing. When the weather is really bad we can't climb up rocks...
Robin Hood
Like Robin Hood I was born in Nottingham so have always liked to play with bow and arrows. I used to make them from sticks cut from a hedge and a piece of string, I have often thought that this could...
Big classes
The start of a new term is often quite busy what with all the new students and everything. Maybe not the best time to develop new resources but sometimes you have no choice. This year I discovered that...
Walking the gangplank
I always think about physics when I travel on the boat between Rysjedalsvika (bet non nordics can't pronounce that one) and Bergen. This is most likely because am always on the way to or back from a...