Category: Teaching physics
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Learning from the other side of the world
In October, alongside a trip to see my daughters in Australia, I arranged to visit in person several people from the education world in both Australia and New Zealand who I had met previously, mostly online. They in turn arranged various visits and meetings where I was able to meet…
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Scotland’s unconventional turn on electric current
Every now and again amongst Scottish physics teachers the topic of why electron flow rather than conventional current is commonly used to teach electric circuits flares up. This post is a summary of some investigations I made to try and find out what might sit behind that decision. Probably the…
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