Try out this game which is all about defeating a cross wind…
Feb 22 2011
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Feb 13 2011
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Feb 13 2011
A common problem for teaching Physics when you are not a Physics teacher is that you make many mistakes with complex ideas which appear simple on the surface.
I drop a ball to the earth and want to work out the distance fallen in a certain time. I then do a calculation of..
distance x speed = …
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Jan 30 2011
The story of cathode rays begins in 1855. In that year, Heinrich Geissler invented the mercury vacuum pump. With the pump he could remove almost all of the air from a sealed glass tube. Geissler’s friend Julius Plucker used the pump to evacuate a special kind of tube. Inside the tube were two electrodes. Plucker …
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Jan 29 2011
I was thinking recently about the changes we have seen to GCSE science in the past 10 years. I cannot comment before this but for the past 10 years I have taught AQA Core Science and Additional Science for Y11. Also before this the AQA double award which was split into Y10/Y11 so you had …
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Dec 24 2010
I am starting to worry about how we teach Physics to the pupils of today. It seems increasingly obvious that we teach more and more about things that are really unimportant to science and less about the fundamentals.
For example we spent a lot of time on the new HSW curriculum on identifying the type of …
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