I am starting to worry about how we teach Physics to the pupils of today. It seems increasingly obvious that we teach more and more about things that are really unimportant to science and less about the fundamentals.
For example we spent a lot of time on the new HSW curriculum on identifying the type of …
Dec 24 2010
The Problem with Teaching Physics in modern times….
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Dec 24 2010
New solar fuel machine “mimics plant life”
In the prototype, sunlight heats a ceria cylinder which breaks down water or carbon dioxide
A prototype solar device has been unveiled which mimics plant life, turning the Sun’s energy into fuel.
The machine uses the Sun’s rays and a metal oxide called ceria to break down carbon dioxide or water into fuels which can be …
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Dec 01 2010
3D Invisibility Cloak unveiled
3-D invisibility cloak hides gold “bump” The first device to hide an object in three dimensions has been unveiled by a group of physicists in the UK and Germany. While the design only cloaks micro-scale objects from near-infrared wavelengths, the researchers claim that there is nothing in principle to prevent their design from being scaled …
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Nov 15 2010
NASA’S Chandra Finds Youngest Nearby Black Hole
WASHINGTON — Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have found evidence of the youngest black hole known to exist in our cosmic neighborhood. The 30-year-old black hole provides a unique opportunity to watch this type of object develop from infancy.
The black hole could help scientists better understand how massive stars explode, which ones leave behind …
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Oct 29 2010
The Hydrogen Bomb…Teller–Ulam
This is part of a great Wikipedia Article, read more here….
The Teller–Ulam design is the nuclear weapon design concept used in most of the world’s nuclear weapons. It is colloquially referred to as “the secret of the hydrogen bomb” because it employs hydrogen fusion to generate neutrons. However, in most applications the bulk of its …
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Oct 28 2010
Neutron Stars – from BBC…
Neutron star packs two Suns’ mass in London-sized space
Pulsars are so-called because of the way their radio emission is detected at Eart. Astronomers have discovered what they say is the mightiest neutron star yet. The super-dense object, which lies some 3,000 light-years from Earth, is about twice as massive as our Sun. That is 20% …
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