My Physics department at school has a collection of old VHS cassettes, some dating back to the 1980s. I don’t want them to be lost forever, so I’ve started the process of digitising them. I found an old VCR in a cupboard in the geography/geology department, got a SCART to HDMI adapter and a videoContinueContinue reading “Old Educational VHS Cassettes”
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“Physics is JUST applied mathematics”
“Physics is just applied mathematics”: a statement often given by non-physicists in an attempt to assuage their own feelings of inadequacy. In this blog post, I explore the assertion that mathematics was invented by physicists.
Achievable Scientific New Year’s Resolutions for 2025
Here are six scientific new year’s resolutions for 2025! See how many you can do! See the blog post.
My Nostalgic Mobile Phone Journey
Read my life story as told through the medium of mobile phone handsets. See this blog post!
Resurrecting an old end-of-life Chromebook using Linux
Does anyone know the name of this fractal? See blog post
Visualising relativistic length contraction in 2D
I made a two-dimensional simulation of relativistic length contraction using QBASIC.
32-bit windows programs running on a Chromebook!
Here I am running a 32-bit version of Crocodile Clips using Wine and Box86 in Crostini on the Chromebook. It took hours of fiddling, but it works! In the end, I installed Box86 and Wine via Pi-Apps, which took care of all the dependencies for me. Huzzah! No more running Windows 3.11 in Dosbox and being limited to 16-bit programs!
Rocketry competition
If you see me at the South East regional finals of the UKRoc competition, say hello and I’ll give you a badge!
Microsoft Office running on Microsoft Windows on a Chromebook
I installed Microsoft Word on a Chromebook, just to see if I could.
Apologies and a confession
Earlier today I announced that I would be offering biology and chemistry tuition. I am afraid this was an April Fool’s Day prank. See blog post for more.
Physics with Keith 