wigton physics
Saturday, 2 April 2016
Mercury barometer at Chastleton House
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Chastleton House is a wonderful Jacobean manor house between Chipping Norton and Stow on the Wold. It's charm is that it has hardly...
Friday, 1 April 2016
Zodiac clock at Snowshill Manor
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Snowshill Manor in the Cotswolds is well-known for the bizarre collection of hand-crafted objects collected by Charles Wade. I liked this ...
Thursday, 31 March 2016
Cloud streets at Croome Court
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We visited Croome Court in Worcestershire on a day where the cumulus clouds we forming into long lines parallel to the wind direction. The...
Wednesday, 30 March 2016
This duck sounds like a Geiger counter
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Spotted at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust centre at Slimbridge near Gloucester. Is this a Physics duck? And, yes, it does sound a bit ...
Tuesday, 29 March 2016
Mirrors for X-rays at Diamond
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How do you get X-rays to reflect from a mirror? X-rays go through most things and the shadows of bones are caused by X-rays being absorbe...
Friday, 25 March 2016
NPL time signal at Anthorn
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I've been looking at these aerials every day for over 10 years but I haven't paid much attention to how they work. It occurred to ...
Thursday, 24 March 2016
Two TV programmes to watch on the iplayer
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There have been two excellent Physics programmes on the BBC this week which will be available to watch on the iplayer for the next month. ...
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