A super time lapse film of the International Space Station as it flies over the planet.
Look out for the aurora. These are the green bands on the edge of the Earth. You can also see lightning storms and big cities lit up at night.
What a joy to see.
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.
Hi physics lovers! Here is the brilliant PhET simulation which is exactly what we were studying this week in both Intermediate 2 and Standard Grade physics.
Run the simulation like the real loop in lab and study the graph of potential energy and kinetic energy with and without friction.
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My S3 physicists used the Optoelectronic College`s resource to find out which material could be used for a telecommunication company`s new broadband cables.
Our results are below… enjoy.
Hi Third Year Physicists! here is the video you made of your jelly baby wave machine.
S3 Physicists helped build a wonderful wave machine out of jelly babies and bbq sticks.
We also have made a movie which will be online shortly.
Well done S3 physicists!
Hi physics lovers. Here is the first nasty 7 test of the session.
Remember it is only nasty if you have not studied.
Our third year physics class began building a wave machine from jelly babies, barbeque sticks and a roll of duck tape!
We hope to have a video made. In the meantime check out what the video should look like below.
Click the above picture to take you to our virtual experiment to find the link between the wave speed, wavelength and frequency.
Have some fun. If the wave disappears press the reset button.
If you know that the speed of sound is 340m/s then you can work out how far away a thunderstorm is from your position.
The video below taken from Mr Mackenzie`s wonderful fizzics website. shows a thunderstorm in progress.
Time how long the thunder comes after the flash and use this time to calculate how far the thunderstorm is away.
Lightning from Daniel Dingemanse on Vimeo.
Today sees saw the launch of the last space shuttle. For thirty years this space craft has brought us joy and sadness. I can remember the first launch way back in 1981. I was thrilled as a physics undergraduate to see this new era of space exploration happening, especially when the astronauts carried out physics experiments in space and showed us the Earth in all its glory using modern tv and video.
There was the fantastic rescue of the Hubble Space Telescope but also the dire sadness of the two disasters.
The Challenger disaster of January 1986 was particularly sad because of the loss of the first school teacher on board Christine McAuliffe.
In 2003 a faulty tile caused the disaster of Columbia as it returned to Earth. In all fourteen astronauts lost their lives in the shuttle program.
Here is a link to a wonderful documentary on the space shuttle`s history.
Farewell Space shuttle and God`s speed on your final return.
