Tag: mass

  • Mary, Mass and Melting

    Mary, Mass and Melting

    Our first T-shirt winner, Mary Wild, joins us to chat about helping Charlie with mass, weight and gravity and also to share a practical she loves: Specific Latent Heat of fusion for Ice. S02E06 Timestamps Introducing our guest Mary Wild (@MaryWild) @ 01:10 Physics in the News – Static Spiders @ 02:15 Charlie’s audio diary…

  • 6. What happens when your jelly won’t hold your weight? Is it time to lose some mass?

    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…