When things don’t fall: the counter-intuitive physics of balanced forces
Intrigue your students with some surprising experiments – it’s a great way to challenge their intuitions and explore the laws of mechanics.
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Intrigue your students with some surprising experiments – it’s a great way to challenge their intuitions and explore the laws of mechanics.
Why does it rain? Can we predict it? Give physics students a mass of weather data and some information technology, and they can try working this out for themselves.
What happens inside magnets? This fun activity for primary school pupils helps them find out – by turning themselves into a magnet.
Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight of Europe’s largest inter-governmental scientific research organisations (EIROs). This article reviews some of the latest news from the EIROs.
Exploring visual acuity requires not only biological experiments, but also some understanding of the underlying physics.
Astronomers are still trying to discover exactly why galaxies formed in spiral shapes, and what’s likely to happen to our galaxy in the future.
Plasma is the fourth state of matter, after solid, liquid and gas – but what is it like and what can it do? Plasma globes allow us to answer these questions – and more.
Studies of radiocarbon are helping scientists to understand how neurons remain stable yet adaptable.
Use one of the most surprising experiments in classical mechanics to teach the scientific method, video analysis and mechanics.
When things don’t fall: the counter-intuitive physics of balanced forces
Wind and rain: meteorology in the classroom
Be a magnet for a day
Proxima b, extremophiles and record-breaking cables
Sharp eyes: how well can we really see?
Galaxies: genesis and evolution
Plasma: The fourth state
The element of surprise
Can something accelerate upwards while falling down?