wigton physics

I also took a photograph of the Super Moon through net curtain. The weave on the net curtain is fine enough to act as a diffraction gratin...

The Moon doesn't orbit the Earth in a perfectly circular orbit. The orbit is slightly elliptical - in other words, slightly egg shaped...

This blog is still loving the proliferation of rainbow posters in support of NHS staff. It's not been raining recently, fortunately, s...

 The first thing I did was to try to reduce the effective area of the pendulum. I tried a marble as a sphere has a smaller drag coefficien...

A proper Foucualt's Pendulum looks like this  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMxLVDuf4VY  and has a frictionless magnetic drive at the ...

 The hand wash in my bathroom has run out. Then I remembered that we bought some carbolic soap from the a museum last year. It stinks!  ht...

I got an elastic band and hung it from a wooden spoon from the kitchen between two chairs. I tied a water bottle to the bottom of the elas...