Blog

• 13th December 2018Blog

  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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  2nd December 2018Blog

  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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  30th November 2018Blog

  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 […]

• 22nd November 2018Blog

  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 […]

• 21st November 2018Blog

  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 […]

• 20th November 2018Blog

  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 […]

• 16th November 2018Blog

  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 […]

• 18th October 2018Blog

  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 […]

• 11th October 2018Blog

  “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 […]

• 10th October 2018Blog

  Tick-Tock

  So, the first podcast will go live at 5:00am tomorrow. Arbitrary timing I know, but it gives us time to panic in the night and pull the plug on this […]