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Inspiration with Sir Peter Ogden
The first in our series of interviews with the Ogden Trust and a glimpse into the key life experiences that motivated Sir Peter Ogden towards a life time career supporting physics educators and education.
Thomas, Robin and I reminisce about the inspirational teachers that lead us into careers in physics education; Quirky characters and memorable methods abound. We also share our favourite practical actives to bring fun, flair and engagement into the classroom.
- The Ogden Trust
- Marching Soldiers Activity – Explaining Refraction
- Energy Ball – Teaching Circuits with students
- Brainiacs – Electric Fence Video
- “Air is Heavy”- Thomas’ blog post from the podcast’s early days
- The Flame Probe “Silver, Gold, Blades, Fire and High Voltage”
- Calculating Specific Latent Heat (Bond energy of water) – with Mrs Physics
- Aluminium Foil Speakers – with Rhett Allain
- Wimshurst Machine
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Music
- Season 7: Physics Is Our Business by Miracles of Modern Science.
- Seasons 5 and 6: Crescents by Ketsa.
- Seasons 3 and 4: Disco Sheik by Podington Bear.
- Seasons 1 and 2: One legged equilibrist polka by Circus Homunculus.
- Occasionally we also use Cantina Rag by Jackson F. Smith.
The music is used under the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License