Showing posts with label physics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label physics. Show all posts

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Blame Quantum Mechanics

Students who know about quantum theory appreciate this answer but it does lead to a lot of odd questions being asked further down the road.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Collision Course

Bumper Cars
You can make up so many problems involving conservation of momentum with these things. It's also quite fun trying to re-enact some of them.

Monday, July 26, 2010

And we all fall down

Sky diving.
Way better than listening to someone talk about literacy in the classroom or new strategies to make students read. Though how many teachers would sign up to study free fall hands on?

Monday, July 19, 2010

Practical Vectors

Paintball
Practical & fun, but anything gun related seems to be frowned upon in school.

Monday, June 21, 2010

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Curling Lab

Curling
Sure glad curling was broadcast online during the olympics. Made my physics class a lot more interesting.