wigton physics

  It struck me yesterday that I'd never bothered to find out how an electricity meter works. I'd guessed that there must be som...

  I was asked to fix this clock because it was stopping after a few minutes every time it was set going. The problem was that the pendu...

Here's the little finger method applied to the aeroplane. I suspect that my finger might be slightly nearer than previously measured ...

A couple of weeks ago I posted about estimating the height of a plane by trying to estimate the angle that it subtends (blocks out) in my...

  We went back to Saltholme. Here's a picture of the pylons above the reedbed. Last week I was musing that the smaller pylons were ...

  I was taught "Red sky at night, shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning". Well, it's a v...

  I lit a small bulb using two separate power supplies. The yellow battery pack provided a d.c. supply and the other source was low volt...