Conductive glass is one of my favourite little demos that crosses boundaries. #ITeachPhysics #ITeachChemistry

Hot on the heels of talking about teaching physics with whatever you have, what about this Doppler effect Saucer from what used to be my local cafe!

#ITeachPhysics benefits from using everyday items - not just in demystifying the lab but also injecting some creativity. I used to do a CPD session on creative teaching and I've written it up here. Hopefully you'll find it interesting #physics #teaching thesciencelab.substack.com/p/rubber-duc...

Messing about with Red onion and saline solution today. Poor little cells.

This is a really cute way to do a static-electricity mini practical!

A simple practical on measurements, and why you should bother. #ITeachPhysics

Messing about with my IPEVO Visualizer and a microscope. Always fun to display cells HUGE on the board and have the students annotate the features with whiteboard pen.

I like this very much. Great use of clever sensors

Very often we ignore drag because it's hard but we can investigate it in the lab - here's a nice set-up with a lever, fan, trolley, ramp and a force meter. Students can streamline the car and lowest force recorded wins! #ITeachPhysics

So - what's happening here? #ITeachPhysics

Another image from the random pictures from textbooks that make me laugh

Forces and Newton’s Laws - Teaching Physics Tips open.substack.com/pub/thescien...

A Human on a Bicycle is Among the Most Efficient Forms of Travel in the Animal Kingdom (best aligned to upper-secondary courses like AP physics, AP bio, precalculus, stats)

A quiet new year eve and some time to write a bonus story for you all. Story: Why is Radioactivity green? open.substack.com/pub/thescien... #iteachphysics #physics #radioactivity #storiesofphysics

This article is so staggering to me. Here's how to use it for good. substack.com/profile/2272...

There's a non paywalled post here :https://interestingengineering.com/energy/plane-engine-gas-turbine-energy

Five Big Physics Stories This Year — and What They’re Actually Good For in Class open.substack.com/pub/thescien... #ITeachPhysics

A note on mass/weight/gravity... substack.com/profile/2272...

Silly #Desmos thingy inspired by the spinning wad of burning steel wool image. www.desmos.com/calculator/b...

Another in my series of Teaching Physics Tips - Circular motion is today's xmas present to you all; open.substack.com/pub/thescien... #ITeachPhysics

Just when you couldnt be any prouder to be British, here's Joseph Banks describing Xmas 1768 on Cook's Endeavour "all hands get abominably drunk so that at night there was scarce a sober man in the ship, wind thank god very moderate or the lord knows what would have become of us”.

🎢 A Merry Physmas to All! ⚛️

Another in my little series: open.substack.com/pub/thescien...

Another in my little series: open.substack.com/pub/thescien...

From Radium Water to “Wellness”: open.substack.com/pub/thescien...

Physics teaching tips - Astronomy. A few things that might be useful, basics, stories and demos: open.substack.com/pub/thescien... #ITeachPhysics

I have a large collection of these. Sadly, the collection keeps growing! usma.org/unit-mixups More in this Google drive pdf: drive.google.com/file/d/1a7EI...

Another late-20th-century tale of failure to convert units is the demise of the Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft in 1999…

The case of the “Gimli Glider” is a cautionary tale for aviators!

This morning I learnt another great example of why units matter - the flight of Air Canada 143 ran out of fuel at an altitude of 41.000ft.The Pilots managed to glide the plane down safely with their 70 passengers. The jet had been loaded with 22,300 pounds of jet fuel instead of 22,300kg

Great 'use your words' question for students in any physics course... might kick off next semester with a discussion in APC. #iteachphysics

When I call AI "cancer" I do so because it spreads and kills in the exact same way as its biological counterpart.

Another in the radioactivity series... A short History of Radioactivity open.substack.com/pub/thescien...

Whilst he was in the camp, he wanted to continue his research, and the only source he could access was ... radioactive toothpaste! www.ww1.manchester.ac.uk/sir-james-ch...

As stories tend to do, there is a nice link here - at the outbreak of the First World War, James Chadwick was working in Berlin and was placed in an internment camp.

Teaching tips for Basic Physics - some notes you may find useful #ITeachPhysics #teaching #science #education open.substack.com/pub/thescien...

From Radium water to wellness. Some stories for your classroom; open.substack.com/pub/thescien... #iteachphysics #physics

It's amazing what you can do with a bit of plumbing pipe...

Watching Diffusion in 3D: The Thymolphthalein Agar Cube Demo open.substack.com/pub/jrowing/...

I am pleased to report that Physics and science teaching in Seychelles is awesome. I've been up to all sorts of tricks in physics chemistry and biology, some old, some novel. Favourite thing recently? using thymolphthalein in agar as a way to investigate diffusion. Wayyy clearer than phenolphthalein

A nice transformer demo, a note on Substack: substack.com/profile/2272...

This is an incredible price for a brilliant book! Great to support STEM and science learning in school, for adults who love science, adults who never really ‘got’ science, and curious people everywhere! 👇

Alom, Generous to a fault and a great writer.

I’ve bought a whole load of these and if, for *any* reason, the price is still prohibitive for you, I’d be happy to send you a FREE copy.

Pretty sure that if anyone knows how to make a philosopher’s stone, it’ll be Phil. Buy this book and find out:

Little demonstration of Brownian motion : a larger and heavier tracer particle moves through a fluid. At about halfway, the smaller particles are faded out, leaving only the tracer particle visible.

I often recommend doing the “radioactive balloon” demo (charge balloon, hang it up to collect daughter ions of natural decay processes, wait, measure) when talking about background. Here’s the trace from before, to after placing the deflated balloon next to the Radiacode.

This is a great resource for background radiation remap.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Advanced.aspx #iteachphysics