Posts Tagged ‘schools lecture’
2010 School Lecture – part 7
Our 2010 School Lecture presenter Dr Melanie Windridge on her lecture tour and fusion reaction. Summer seems to fly by! It has been raining most of August and with all the wind this week it’s been feeling quite autumnal, which can only mean one thing – the summer holidays are coming to an end and I’ll [...]
2010 Schools Lecture – part 6
Our 2010 School Lecture presenter Dr Melanie Windridge on her lecture tour and fusion reaction. Another short week of lectures this week – just two. Tuesday saw me up very early and braving the M40 traffic to get into London for my talks in Camden. Then it was north into Hertfordshire for talks in Hatfield. [...]
2010 Schools Lecture – part 5
Our 2010 School Lecture presenter Dr Melanie Windridge on her lecture tour and fusion reaction. Last time we were talking about how we can use magnetic fields to trap charged particles. There are a variety of machines that can be used to do this, such as the tokamak, the stellerator and the reversed-field pinch. The [...]
Small Particles make Big Splash
This month small particles have been making a big splash with pupils in Devon, Cornwall and Somerset schools. Over 3000 students and teachers have heard CERN & Bristol University physicist Dr Helen Heath talking about what is probably the largest physics experiment in the world – the Large Hadron Collider. Dr Heath was touring South West schools with [...]
2010 Schools Lecture – part two
Our 2010 School Lecture presenter Dr Melanie Windridge on her lecture tour and fusion reaction: The second destination on my country-wide schools lecture tour was Liverpool. I was speaking at the University of Liverpool to pupils of various different schools in the area. Now, before we start to talk about the fusion reaction used in tokamaks, [...]
