Moving pictures: teach speed, acceleration, and scale with photograph sequences
Picture sequences provide engaging opportunities for students to explore the concepts of speed and acceleration using supplied digital images or their own smartphones.
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Picture sequences provide engaging opportunities for students to explore the concepts of speed and acceleration using supplied digital images or their own smartphones.
In a spin: use a rotating platform to explore how gravitational acceleration affects a simple pendulum.
Your mission: to land an intrepid egg-naut safely on the surface of the Moon and learn about classical mechanics along the way.
Intrigue your students with some surprising experiments – it’s a great way to challenge their intuitions and explore the laws of mechanics.
Can you play world-class sport, and also be part of a team that tries to understand the nature of our Universe? Yes – just ask Tamara Davis. Henri Boffin from ESO talked to her in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Moving pictures: teach speed, acceleration, and scale with photograph sequences
The centrifugal force awakens
Landing on the Moon – planning and designing a lunar lander
When things don’t fall: the counter-intuitive physics of balanced forces
“Intelligence is of secondary importance in research”