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Bernard Rand

@bernardrand.bsky.social

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Here to share ideas and resources for teaching Physics. I have a range of A Level teaching resources for OCR A and AQA on this site - sites.google.com/view/alevelphysics…

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

We have a lovely class set of little ripple tanks that allow them to play around and observe wave behaviour

Two adjacent dippers produce circular wavefronts that produce an interferance pattern showing regions of constructive and destructive interference.

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I like this one as a predict, observe and explain exercise to hammer home force on a current in a magnetic field and Fleming’s Left Hand Rule.

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Here it is going in circles, with a bit of help!

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

A couple of students in my enrichment group have made a nice linear motor. #iteachphysics #chatphysics

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Kicking a concrete football. A nice question for getting students thinking about force and momentum carefully.

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Building little motors with batteries and neodymium magnets is great fun.

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The drinks can induction motor. One of my favourite demos, putting Faraday’s and Lenz’s laws together in a fairly complex situation. To get them really thinking hard you can ask why the current trip on the supply only goes once it spinning at a good rate?

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

200g mass (i.e. about 2N) at each end of the string. What tension does the Newton metre read in the middle? #chatphysics #itachphysics

A string passes over two pulleys with a Newton metre in the middle. 200g mass hangs at the two end of the string.

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

The answers to why the sky is blue and why are sunsets red are both illustrated well by this demo #chatohysics #iteachphysics

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Bernard Rand @bernardrand.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

This was posted by a physics teacher on another app. I don’t think they’re on here so I hope posting it isn’t seen as an attack on them. Can anyone spot my problem with the slide (and it’s not the Formby reference)? #chatphysics

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