Year 13 BTEC trip to Northwick Park Hospital

What is radioactivity? The BTEC students need to understand the basics of radioactivity before they investigate how it can be used in medicine. In order to understand what radioactivity is we need to know what an atom looks like. The simplest model is a nucleus consisting of positive protons and negative neutrons with negative electrons […]

Year 13 BTEC trip to Northwick Park Hospital

Ultrasound scanning The BTEC students need to know about the production of ultrasound and the basic principles of pulse echo technique, reflection and refraction, interaction with tissue, scattering and absorption; intensity measurement in decibels; specific acoustic impedance; sonar principle and ultrasonic scanning e.g. A-scan, B-scan and M-scan; Doppler effect; measurement of blood flow using Doppler […]

Year 13 BTEC trip to Northwick Park Hospital

Year 13 BTEC Applied Science students went to Northwick Park hospital to see the equipment used for all the different types of scans. This was really interesting and helpful for our assignment because we got an insight into how the equipment works and a real life point of view of how well they work and […]

Rosetta Mission Teacher’s Course

Rosetta is a robotic space probe built and launched by the European Space Agency whose mission is to investigate comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It was launched on the 2nd March 2004 and on the 12th of November 2014 the Philae lander was detached from Rosetta and successfully landed on the comet. Unfortunately the initial impact was softer […]

Girls in Physics Lunch 2014

For the second year Mrs Hare (who took the pictures which explains why she isn’t in any of them) hosted a lunch for year 11 girls to give them information about A level physics and how physics could be useful to their future careers. We would like to thank Ms Manchi Chung at the Institute […]

Year 13 Biology Field Trip to Epping Forest

Guy Fawkes Day was slightly different for Year 13 biologists as they were up at the crack of dawn and spent most of the day in the freezing cold! However, a great time was had by all and below is an account of their experience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epping_Forest Epping Forest is an area of ancient woodland in […]

The History of the Atom by Year 13 Students 2014

Leucippus and Democritus by Sarangan Kathirgamanathan 13V Leucippus Leucippus was a Greek philosopher who was said to be the founder of atomisation but very little is known about him. He is believed to be the originator of the theory that the universe consists of two elements which he called solid and empty. He thought that […]

The Plimsoll Line by Year 12 Physics Students

The Plimsoll Line by Ahlaq Hyder 12V What is the Plimsoll Line? The Plimsoll line, also known as load lines or waterlines is a reference mark that is located on a ship’s hull that indicates the draught of the ship [4] and the maximum depth in which the ship may be safely submerged when loaded […]

Dark Matter

Dark Matter is not enough. The Universe ought to be weirder Dr Andrew Pontzen Department of Physics & Astronomy UCL http://www.cosmocrunch.co.uk @apontzen http://richannel.org/dark-matters-not-enough http://richannel.org/qampa–dark-matters-not-enough http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_II_of_Sweden Oscar II (21 January 1829 – 8 December 1907), was King of Sweden from 1872 until his death and King of Norway from 1872 until 1905. He had a great […]

Year 13 visit to the Royal Institution

Abbas, Sujeethan, Nicholas and Sarangan standing behind a statue of the great man, Michael Faraday Introduction I have been teaching electromagnetic induction to GCSE and A level students for well over twenty years now and it still amazes me that moving a piece of metal wire so that it cuts the magnetic field between a […]