Blog
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Somebody Out There Likes Us
Robin and I started with very limited ambitions, it wasn’t quite “more listeners than presenters” but not far off. We agreed to do episodes until the end of the academic […]
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Refutation Text for the Jelly Chair
I said in Episode 6 I would share what I came up with for the Jelly Chair lesson and refutation texts. I did put some thought in to this but […]
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Kicking a Rock on the Moon
In Episode 6 I mentioned a thought experiment with a concrete-filled rugby ball. I have used this model for years and knew it came from a text book long ago […]
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Entries! and Momentum Round-Up
We put out the competition not really knowing quite what to expect. Four entries before 8:15am was an exciting start to the day though as I write at 4:30pm it […]
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Interact and Win a T-Shirt!
Now we have listeners, and an Instagram page (@physics_teaching_podcast) we thought we would encourage you to share the podcast by having our first competition. Join us at the bottom of an exponential by […]
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Face to Face + Progress on Momentum
I had found an excellent purveyor of T-shirts and as a joke got a couple made up with “I’m at the bottom of the exponential” for Robin and I to […]
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Squeezing it all in + pondering momentum ?
This week’s episode was a bumper edition, and we had to work hard to keep it down to just under 27 minutes. I really wanted to put in the Practicals […]
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Thinking back to when I started
Talking to Imogen for the new podcast has made me think back to when I started. I remember very well how I was only a few years older than the […]
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“Air Is Heavy”
After mentioning my memories of my first physics experiment I decided to look for that exercise book. I turned the house upside down a couple of times looking for the […]