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Young IOP members get a new perspective on physics
Aimed at 6th formers and college students, Physics in Perspective is the Institute’s flagship lecture series for its 16-19 year-old members. Held at UCL and The Royal Institution, this year’s lecture programme, which took place last week, included talks from Jon Butterworth, Matt Genge, Professor Peter Vukusic on the science of light (available to view here) and from [...]
PGCE blog: end of the first placement
This is the first 2012 posting from our student physics teacher (read his last post here) He’s feeling a little sad as his first placement has come to an end. “The Christmas holidays, although a very welcome break, just flew past. I followed the advice of people around me and took a good week off completely [...]
Meet our first IOP Scholars
Last year the IOP launched its Teacher Training Scholarships, exclusive awards for just 100 outstanding individuals wishing to embark on a physics initial teacher training course. Here are two of the first people to be awarded a scholarship – could you follow in their footsteps and join them? Rob (pictured left) is 38 and from Bath. With [...]
Association for Science Education Annual Conference
The Stimulating Physics Network and the Institute of Physics had another busy time at the Association for Science Education Annual Conference. Nearly 40 workshops were delivered over a period of three days by the Stimulating Physics Network’s team of Physics Network Coordinators and Teaching and Learning Coaches. The programme of free workshops included sessions on [...]
Early career teacher blog: a School Trip to CERN
This is the fourth posting from our busy physics teacher who is now in his second year after qualifying (read his previous post here). “This blog is about firsts: the first time I organised a residential trip, the first time the science department organised a trip abroad and the first time I went to CERN. Since [...]
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Today’s physics news: Astronomers discover new type of planet – the water world and more
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Young IOP members get a new perspective on physics
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Physics World Online Lecture Series – Quantum Man: Richard Feynman’s Life in Science
February 21, 2012 09:02
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Faisal:
Cooking and physics can be indirectly linked. The way you cook the food can affe -
Marcus Wilks:
An interesting comment made was that courses should be more hands on, the Open U -
Jeslyn:
That's an intelligent answer to a difficult qesution xxx
