Dr Hill Science News: November 2017

Tuesday, 28 November 2017

Atomic Bomb in a beaker

This podcast describes how to recreate a thermonuclear blast in the classroom, and teach some valuable atmospheric physics

This is a video of students performing the experiment.

Monday, 27 November 2017

Nuclear Fusion for Children

A simple hand game make Nuclear Fusion fun in the classroom.

Two protons hitting and bouncing off each other

A neutron and proton hitting each other

Stick together for Fusion

HR diagram for High School

The building of a 3D edible HR diagram where the stars a cakes hung on string, and coloured with icing is described.

Saturday, 25 November 2017

Astrophysics for high school

Get your class to download Celestia

Get them to chase stars and log them in a Hertzsprung Russel diagram

Then do the star dance

Friday, 24 November 2017

Starting with different blocks of chocolate, students grate them to simulate weathering, move the grated chocolate to simulate erosion, carry it to a river bed of Al foil to simulate transport, sprinkle it to simulate deposition, enclose and sit on it to simulate cementing, then bend to simulate geological folding of strata

Quiet Talk on Graphs and Charts

A general talk on the difference between charts and graphs and some of the deep ideas in graphs.

Tuesday, 21 November 2017

Chocolate rocks

Doctor Hill talks about his chocolate geology lessons as he drives from Glenbrook to a supermarket in Penrith

Saturday, 18 November 2017

George what a bloke!

George was the first ashore on the first fleet and the rest is history

A Little (Quantum) Story about magnets

John Randall, an all star convict

John Randall the American sharp shooter arrives on the first fleet

The Frog that Jump started Science

Saturday, 11 November 2017

Real Understanding of Magnets

Magnets have a lot of history and mystery.

Here about how Frogs got us started

Element Abundance and Rare Earths

Re in Jet Engines and Quantum Mechanics

Re in Jet Engines and Quantum Mechanics.mp3

Tuesday, 7 November 2017

Unpacking Principle Quantum Number

Podcast Almost everyone I know doesn't pick up on the distinctions between Period Number (Periodic Table), Principle Quantum Number (Bohr atom = radial + angle +1) and the more fundamental shape quantum number. Without mastering this distinction there is bound to be much confusion that is often mistaken for mystery/

Through the thunder cloud

Podcast. Ride a hail stone as it grow sheathed in super cooled water, Jump into a Van der Graff generator and think about a giant one powering an Australian Internet data center at Australia's Mawson Base.