wigton physics

I noticed a street light diffracting through net curtains. It makes a cross shape because there are horizontal slits which diffract light ...

Thomas Young is someone who ought to be a household name. I know him as the man who proved that light is a wave by demonstrating diffracti...

 We did this experiment to measure components of magnetic flux density B. There was a.c. in the large copper coil which created a rapidly ...

My friend uses a Smartphone compass. I had a theory that it works by GPS comparing the position of the phone with known north. Turns out t...

We found this at Center Parcs near Penrith. It was a display of the heights of sports stars. It was as bilingual as ever, giving metric me...

I climbed Scoat Fell on a beautiful day when the cloud mass was gathering in the north. You can make out the cloudy haze above High Sti...

I spotted this from the railway bridge at Kennington near Oxford. We guessed that it was to do with signals and would be magnetic. I thoug...