wigton physics

Precession is the way in which the axis of a rotation changes orientation. In other words, it's the way in which the axis around which a...

Last week's In Our Time on Radio 4, presented by Lord Bragg of Wigton, is about the mathematician and physicist Emmy Noether. Understand...

I saw part of last week's lunar eclipse but my photographs didn't work. This new camera doesn't work well in low light levels....

This picture is from a display at a local attraction. It caught me by surprise. In the resources that I use to teach climate in class, the...

This wire fence at Watchtree was amazing. But is it hoar frost or soft rime? Both produce spikes like this. Hoar frost is formed when t...

If you look at these two pictures, you might be able to discern two halves of a white arc. It was clearer through my polarising sunglas...

 We did an experiment to measure the specific latent heat of fusion, which means the change of state from solid to liquid. We packed a gla...