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Forces and Energy: Energy and Work

What do we mean by energy? Energy is the capacity of a physical system to do work or cause a change. We will examine what this means in detail below, but to help establish students’ baseline understanding of energy get students to do Activity 1. What is energy? Why is understanding energy important? When we design and build stuff important ...

FLEET Schools Home Science: Conductors and insulators

In these activities you get to build electric circuits and investigate the concepts of and think critically about conductors, insulators and resistance. 8 Oct 2018Water Bender15 Oct 2021Understanding electricity27 Apr 2020Shapes and Patterns & the next big thing in physics: moiré pattern and twistronics22 Sep 2021FLEET Schools9 Jul 2018Electrified Steel Wool15 Jan 2018Electric Motors: Spinning Wire

FLEET Schools

FLEET Schools is a resource for primary and secondary teachers and students to engage with physics and chemistry, and to learn and think about the research problems FLEET is working on. That problem is our ever increasing energy requirements coming from our for rapidly increasing computation demand. Think Internet of Things, AI, driverless cars, smart phones and gaming. To solve ...

FLEET schools: Conductors, insulators and electricity

Introduction From the dawn of time we have witnessed electricity as a primal force of nature in the form of lightning. The ancient Greeks would rub amber with a cloth and get small electric shocks – the same static electricity we experience when we rub our feet along the carpet and then touch something conductive, for example a metal bench ...

Shapes and Patterns & the next big thing in physics: moiré pattern and twistronics

What can you do with simple shapes? Create a type of animation that will surprise you. It is cool quantum art, yet our understanding of moiré patterns is behind the development of novel materials to enable quantum computing, and to develop energy-efficient digital technologies, data storage and information and electricity transmission. It all comes down to magic angles and what ...

Electrified Steel Wool

This is a simple experiment that creates a circuit with steel wool and shows the fiery potential of resistance. The steel wool does actually catch fire so make sure you do it safely. Download activity as a pdf Learning intentions Students get to generate inquiry questions about electrical circuits. The activity will help students recognize the need for a complete …