I hope that the students and staff of Rooks Heath won’t mind me using the blog to do a spot of reminiscing but the good news is that it does involve physics and one of Rooks Heath ex-students occurs in it. After graduating in 1985 I was privileged to spend three years doing research at […]
Read more "Solid State Physics at King’s College London"Democritus and Aristotle by Sulaxchane Balachanthiran Democritus Democritus was born in Abdera at around 460 BCE (he died around 370 BCE), in Thrace, ancient Greece. Even though he is classified as a philosopher he was more of scientist. He was the first person to formulate an atomic theory and was one of the earliest Greeks […]
Read more "The History of the Atom by Year 13 Physics Students"‘‘Chocolate Unwrapped’’ Trip Report by Pameer Saeed This report will describe how chocolate companies make chocolate, what conditions are necessary and how these are used in order to produce sweet and delicious chocolates. History of Chocolate When most of us hear the word chocolate, we picture a bar or a box of chocolates. The verb […]
Read more "Physics and Chocolate by Year 12 Physics Students"Institute of Physics lecture Throughout the year the Institute of Physics puts on lectures about different aspects of physics. On the 31st of October the lecture was about meteorites and what they can tell us about how the universe, stars and planets can form. Astronomy by Microscope Professor Monica Grady Department of Physical Sciences at […]
Read more "Astronomy by microscope"Physics and Chocolate Believe it or not physics is involved in chocolate production. Without the careful use of temperature and pressure we wouldn’t have the wonderful confectionary that adults and children alike have grown to love. On October 13th year 12 physics students went to the “chocolate unwrapped” exhibition to learn more about the production […]
Read more "Rooks Heath at “Chocolate Unwrapped”"STEM activity at Rooks Heath College SEMTA (Sector Skills Council for the Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering Sectors) has identified that almost 30,000 highly skilled scientists and engineers are needed every year over the next seven years to ease shortages and replace an ageing work force. See http://semta.org.uk/ STEMNET is an organisation who aims to help […]
Read more "STEM at Rooks Heath"Sunday July 8th The final lecture was entitled, “Recreating the Big Bang with the LHC at CERN” with Dr David Evans. The LHC accelerates particles to 0.99999991 of the speed of light to release the sub-atomic energies. The particles collide in four cathedral sized caverns. The circumference of the LHC is 27km. As well as […]
Read more "Birmingham July 2012"Sunday 8th July The first lecture of the day was really a discussion about electricity and how we use models in physics (and chemistry). Some of what I’ve written is a bit disjointed as I was trying to follow the discussion. Jim Woodfin We started off looking at ammeters. Analogue ammeters use a moving needle […]
Read more "Birmingham July 2012"Saturday July 7th The last lecture of the day was The Black Hole Hunter’s essential toolkit given by Dr Somak Raychaudhury Black holes are believed to be a key ingredient of how galaxies have evolved which compensates a little for their bad press. The escape velocity is the speed needed to “break free” from a […]
Read more "Birmingham July 2012"Saturday 7th July A method of modelling projectile motion. The idea is that students use the formulae for horizontal and vertical motion (under the force of gravity) to make the model. The ruler direction gives the horizontal component of the distance travelled (distance = horizontal velocity x time). The lengths of the string are the […]
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