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Watched live on Nasa TV the landing of the Phoenix Lander on Mars . What excitement as the lander touched down at 12.53pm last night.
It was amazing to hear the spacecaft`s velocity reducing from 21,000 kilometres per hour (13,000 mph) to touchdown on the planet`s surface after a journey of 10 months covering a distance of 680 million kilometres ( 423 million miles).
Perhaps one day we will be witnessing the landing of humans on the surface. In the meantime it is up to robot like craft to explore the surface.
Phoenix will not rove about the Martian surface rather it will dig holes into the Northern landscape peeling away layers of soil down to the frozen layer where instruments will check for water and habitable conditions…maybe life itself.
Good luck Phoenix.
If you want to see how it landed click here

Ever wanted to fly through the universe? Well this is one exciting free, yes free program that you can download.

The program is called Celestia. Even if you only download it to see the Earth you will be so impressed.

Let your teacher know about it so that he/she can set it up using a projector. Turn off your lab lights, draw the curtains and you`ll be flying through deepest space.

Enjoy!

Celestia download here.

Heather Reid has been honoured with an O.B.E. for her contribution to physics.
This is fantastic news for the physics community. Heather herself dedicated her honour to all hard working physics teachers.
Congratulations from Mr. Mallon’s website.

This is the second news item about females who have contributed to physics lets hope Heather`s award will spur on more girls to take up the study of this wonderful subject.

• Heather Reid
• Met Office

Science should be so exciting! There should be at least one experiment or teacher demonstration each week that would make you want to try science at home with your parents.

Here is something from The Telegraph newspaper about great experiments.
Kindly ask your teacher to give a demonstration of these experiments in the last two weeks of the school session.

You will find a link to the article here

A Scottish schoolgirl has won a prestigious physics competition at an international science festival.

Congratulations from Mr Mallon.

Read about her success here.

It is a great thing to read. So if you are interested in physics then checkout this article about the great Albert Einstein. If you’ve ever wondered who that chap in the big poster is with his tongue out then click this article from the The NewYork Times.

Einstein’s Story

With my first look at the multiple choice part I think it was a very fair set of questions. If you are interested in the answers then they are given below. I’ll take a look at the other exams later. Anyway here are the mc answers….

1D 2C 3B 4D 5A 6C 7A 8E 9A 10A 11E 12C 13D 14A 15E 16C 17E 18D 19B 20B

All the best!

I sincerely wish all of you physics students all the best of luck for your exams. If you have studied well then you will be rewarded. If you feel that things have not gone as well then click on the link below and you’ll see that this good old world still keeps turning as normal and vow to study better next time.

All the best.

See the earth turn

Happy new year all you physics lovers. I hope that 2007 will be a successful year for your physics.

Some students have been asking do you need an ipod to listen to my podcasts. Well you don’t need an ipod or mp3 player at all.
You can listen to it on your computer or laptop.

A really great piece of software is a program called Winpodder.
This program is free to download. It enables you to catch any podcasts that are of interest to you. Download the free program and follow the instructions.

Well the day has dawned when all that hard work is rewarded or not!
I hope your results are what you’ve deserved.
If you have passed your Highers then congratulations. If you haven’t then there is always this session to work extra hard.

If you’ve done well in your Standard Grades, especially physics then I hope you will continue with the fascinating physics story onto higher level.

For more information on your results then click the link to the SQA website below:

SQA Website