Showing posts with label physics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label physics. Show all posts

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Using the Bloodhound SSC land speed car in Physics lessons

Just been reading last week's New Scientist which has a fascinating article about the Bloodhound SSC. I think I've probably mentioned this in every lesson for the past week! I have one of the big free posters (available here) in the corner of my room and it's a real talking point.

Anyway, I'm using the data from www.revisingphysics.com/gcse (a link to the Bloodhound file is in the mechanics section) to produce velocity-time graphs with year 10s. It's a really fun activity and with a bit of cross-curricular thrown in too it's a real winner! Plenty of awe and wonder as well. They find it fascinating to imagine travelling that fast.
Hope it's useful to you.

Sunday, 29 November 2009

Cartoon Physics

Just seen the pixton.com cartoon making website. Have a look at http://pixton.com/uk/comic/2n8fmdur and http://pixton.com/uk/+/leftyjoef. It's possible to make your own cartoons using this site too though I'm not sure how artistic you need to be!
Looks to me like a really good resource.