wigton physics

 Robert Brown first noticed the weird random agitation of particles by looking at pollen in a microscope. These days we look at smoke part...

I teach about the fractional distillation of crude oil. Crude oil is a mixture of liquids with different boiling points. The bigg...

The gate across the footbridge below Low Nest Farm was very stiff. I can lift my whole body weight with one leg but an arm is weaker. Say ...

It occurred to me yesterday that the Bunsen Burner works by way of the Bernoulli effect. That says that when a gas flows, it has lower pre...

We found amazing amounts of mistletoe in the Cotswolds. I've just been teaching the more detailed version of the photosynthesis rea...

Having experienced the air getting colder as we reached the valley floor at Buttermere before Christmas and seen evidence of the denser ...

It has always seemed strange to me that you can keep yourself warm with just a thin piece of foil but that's exactly what a lot of run...