Science for Society Course on Sustainable Energy University of Bath 21st to 26th July http://www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk/ http://www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk/charity-education/education/science-for-society-courses/ http://www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk/charity-education/education/science-for-society-courses/sustainable-energy/ Based in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Bath, this course provided teachers with an insight into the science behind the issues of energy and the environment and current scientific approaches to solving these problems. The […]

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Visiting the National Space Centre http://www.spacecentre.co.uk/ http://www.spacecentre.co.uk/tour/the-exhibition    The above right picture is of a pressure suit. Space, skydiving and Red Bull – the Physics behind the Stratos Skydive Anu Ojha Director (National Space Academy), National Space Centre http://nationalspaceacademy.org/ http://baspace.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/red-bull-stratos-high-altitude-stunt-or.html http://nationalspaceacademy.org/news/139-academy-director-discusses-red-bull-stratos-jump http://www.redbullstratos.com/ http://www.redbullstratos.com/science/scientific-data-review/ http://www.esero.org.uk/news/space-jumper On the 14th October 2012 a global audience held its breath […]

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Ideas for Astronomy in A Level Physics Hayley Flood of the National Space Academy http://nationalspaceacademy.org/ To get across the idea of the relative size of the Earth and Moon use a basketball for Earth and a tennis ball for the Moon. The distance between the Earth and the Moon is 9.5 times the circumference of […]

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Teach Meet 1) A review of physics education by Dr David Boyce, Wreake Valley Academy KS1 KS2 – The skills develop here are more important than what is actually learnt. KS3 – Physics learning becomes important but towards the end of the year puberty and other factors cause a drop off of interest in the […]

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Medical imaging – The science of seeing inside your body Dr Michael Wilson, University of Birmingham Find out how physicists build machines that do what our eyes cannot – see inside the human body. This lecture revealed how: Over the past hundred years physicists have developed increasingly sophisticated techniques to see inside the body; These […]

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The Aurora on Earth and Other Planets Tom Conlon Mr Conlon is a PhD student within the Radio and Space plasma physics group in the department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Leicester. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(astronomy) An aurora is a natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude (Arctic and Antarctic) regions, caused […]

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Exoplanets Dr Sarah Casewell Observational astronomer Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/physics/people/academic-staff/slc25 Dr Casewell’s research interests are in white and brown dwarfs. She has published research on topics as diverse as: the first T dwarfs in the Pleiades, the white dwarf initial mass-final mass relation and new L dwarfs in Blanco 1, […]

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Discover the COSMOS particle physics activity Lynne Long, Professor Peter Watkins and Dr John Wilson University of Birmingham Z Mass with MINERVA talk This is an activity you can do yourself and it is very similar to some of the analysis activities that take place at CERN. My year 13 students do the first part […]

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DtC Summer School in Volos Greece, Summer 2013 (I have to confess I didn’t go on this but I’ve added it because it might be of interest to some of you for future years) The DtC summer school was held in Volos, Greece (30/07/2013-04/08/2013)., validated by the equivalent National Agency and it was published in […]

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Nanotechnology Tiny Structures, Big Ideas and Grey Goo Professor Chris Binns Head of the condensed matter physics and professor of Nanoscale Physics (Nanoclusters Group) at the University of Leicester http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/physics/research/cmp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology The Nanoworld contains all structures with a size up to 100nm. In the above picture there is an image of a 13 atom cluster […]

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