wigton physics

We went to Dalemain House near Penrith for the wonderful marmalade festival and found this lovely old sundial. It had markings on for the m...

First of all we set the ramp to a particular height measured from the floor with a metre stick. Then we let the trolley roll down the r...

I posted last month about Riemann surfaces. The Riemann sphere is a simple Riemann surface. I made a model of it to help me to understand it...

 I use a ripple tank to show the properties of waves to my classes. Today Derwent Water was acting as a ripple tank. The waves were coming...

 I set out to investigate Newton's 2nd Law using this apparatus. The light gates were connected to a computer to calculate the acceler...

 There aren't any canal locks in north Cumbria. This one is in Berkshire. Canals were waterways made by people about 250 years ago to ...

Wainwright's guide to the Northern Fells reports that in 1745, an army with horsedrawn carriages was seen along the top of this hill. ...