Posts Tagged ‘tokamak’
IOP Schools Lecture – part 10
Our 2010 IOP schools lecturer Melanie Windridge on her tour and fusion physics: On my “fusion tour” last week I travelled between York and Chapel-en-le-Frith, finishing in the heart of the Peak District. The weather has been mostly fine and, though I’ve been in schools during the day, I’ve had some lovely evening drives through [...]
2010 school lecture – part 8
Our 2010 School Lecture presenter Dr Melanie Windridge on her lecture tour and fusion reaction. My fusion tour around Scotland took me to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Inverness on consecutive days, so I’ve had busy days of talking and travel. There wasn’t time to see much of the cities, but I did get to see [...]
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 [...]
2010 Schools Lecture – part four
Our 2010 School Lecture presenter Dr Melanie Windridge on her lecture tour and fusion reaction: This past week I have been in the South West and have travelled all the way from Gloucester to Truro. The weather for most of the week has been beautiful and I have driven through miles of glorious English countryside, [...]
