What actually happens in fire

What actually happens in fire

Pencil Lead nuclear reactor

Pencil leads are a mixture of clay and graphite so have a ideal resistance to glow white hot when hooked up to a school electrical power supply. When placed in water they heat for a time then crack due to the ingress of water. This an ideal hands on way to teach about nuclear power stations.

Sodium Explodes

Sodium in floats in water, heating up until its vapour explodes

A Quantum Physicist gets serious about pod-casting

The absolute truth about being a Quantum Physicist is summarized in these two points

1. Many things make sense to you because you get the deeper ideas of Quantum Physics
2. Most people do not want to invest even the smallest amount of time in gaining new understanding.

So this being said, don't over think things but just experience some of the maths working for you in this Web App

So just click on this image and you will be taken to what looks like a App gallery. It is in fact a crystal of knowledge.  Yes there is totally new maths and new forms of numbers involved. Double click on the 25 or 23 tile to hear the podcasts.

I have a hunch about which culture will understand this first so if you get it please drop a short email to me on drhillteach@gmail.com. To put you in the picture: it is like an alien space ship has crash landed and we are trying to make sense of their hard drive.  Not everyone will get it.

Here's Pride and Prejudice and here is Genesis

I am a robotics scientist and just have labview reading my computer and it effortlessly creates the Web App live as I type. The web and social implications are staggering.

Also included is a Podcast talking you through it. Enjoy, it really is an experience.  I still have a sense of awe as it does so much.

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.

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.

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

Year 8 Chocolate rock lesson

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.