Thursday, 24 March 2011

Not Brian Cox

The Brian Cox Wonders of the Universe programmes on Sunday nights have been brilliant. The second programme Stardust was probably the best documentary on Physics I've ever seen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00zm833/Wonders_of_the_Universe_Stardust/
But you might have missed JimAl-Khalili on BBC4 on Monday night. He did a brilliant programme about why the sky is black at night even though the Universe is infinite in size. You should watch it! http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00yb59m/Everything_and_Nothing_Everything/

Saturday, 19 March 2011

Estimation

There haven't been many posts recently. I've been very busy. Further to the last post - the estimation went like this:
We thought that there might be 100 trees per row and 100 rows, meaning that 10,000 trees had been cut down. It seems a lot.
Next estimate the height of the turbine in the picture and the length of one blade. This turbine is at Watchtree.