wigton physics

Two new words have appeared on the GCSE Physics syllabus - speuclar reflection is for when all reflected rays are parallel to each o...

This is an amazing piece of equipment. The Earth's magnetic field passes through the wooden circle, which contains a big coil of wire...

I really liked this wine bottle holder in the shop at Honister Slate Mine. It is not bolted down. It really is a balance bar obeying the p...

The diffraction pattern from the neighbour's light was really clear through the net curtain this morning. I'm always amazed by how...

This pipe on the RSPB reserve at Campfield Marsh reminded me of a black hole. What goes in can't come out - and a bonus is that gravit...

 Silloth at sunset. Then I remembered that at sunset, the sky above my head is supposed to be plane polarised. Looking at it with my ey...

I love the 2p machines in amusement arcades. Here is one at Silloth. It's the way that the coins manage to build improbable structures...