Blog Posts
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Maintaining backwards compatibility
A hobby of mine is writing spreadsheets that maintain compatibility with archaic and obsolete software. Recently, a bug was discovered in one of my spreadsheets, which I had to fix by losing compatibility with Excel 97.
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The end of Bloganuary 2024
At the start of the year I set myself a challenge to post to my weblog every day. I did it!
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Five revision tips for Physics
Physics is a subject where students can always improve if they practice routinely. In this post I give some tips on how to revise Physics effectively.
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The Mother of the Nuclear Atom
Lise Meitner’s first duty was to science. From a supportive and encouraging childhood, she grew into one of the most remarkable physicists of the 20th Century, whilst keeping her moral integrity intact.
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Civilian radiation accidents in the 20th Century
Here is a short list of accidents that involve civilians being exposed to ionising radiation before the year 2000. Why did I stop there? The list was getting too long and too repetitive. And that is really concerning!
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On the arrogance of physicists
Physics teachers can look like people whose whole raison d’etre is to catch young people out and proclaim, “ah ha, you were wrong!” In a way, that is precisely what we do.
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Leslie’s Cube
There is more to surface emissivity than just colour and shininess. When using a good quality infrared thermal camera, there is usually an option to correct the temperature scale for the surface emissivity, from 0 to 1.
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