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Newton’s Laws for Non-Specialists
Thomas and Robin are joined by our original guest – Jessica Rowson from episode 1 returns to talk Newton’s laws and how we would teach them and in what order.
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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 think that there is room for improvement. I ended up writing a few sentences for the kids to do: The ancient Greeks thought that arrows […]
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6. What happens when your jelly won’t hold your weight? Is it time to lose some mass?
Thomas and Robin got together in the same room for a chat this week. Don’t worry, as a good physicist and a good engineer they avoided eye contact*. The big news last week was the redefinition of the kilogram which was originally based on the mass of Napoleon’s leg**, but latterly on a lump of […]