95 results found for 11-14-year-olds

Hydrogen - the fuel of the future?

How simple algebra can be used to investigate cubes and other polyhedra up to icosahedra.

How simple algebra can be used to investigate cubes and other polyhedra up to icosahedra.

Bill uses slow motion video to show the ingenious engineering design of the apparently simple tab of a pop can.

Rob Mueller, Lead Senior Technologist at NASA Swampworks answers some questions about his project to 3D print on Mars and other space objects! Interview by Philip Schlenoff at GEOSET Studios before the Stacking Layers II conference http:/stackinglaye....

A look into the research of biochemist Ceri Harrop, who specialises in respiratory medicine and developing new treatments for people with breathing difficulties.nAs part of her research at the University of Manchester, Ceri meets with athlete Wayne A....

In designing an object an engineer must choose the proper material. Never is this more important than in the 'black box' flight data recorder.

Professor Sir Harry Kroto shows local schoolchildren in Sheffield how to build a buckyball

An Internet Buckyball workshop to 80 young children in Iceland which worked extremely well. It was the first test of the FSU Internet GEO project.

We see smaller and smaller objects through naked eye and microscopes, from hair to atoms.

Anjali Nayar visited a pioneering project in Madagascar that's aiming to protect one of the country's few remaining forests. It's hoped that projects like this will help curb global warming. But first, these projects must overcome the poverty and pol....

To engineer an object means to make choices. Bill illustrates how the choice of having a single heating element made an engineer find a creative way to pump water with no moving parts.

A brief look at the Physics behind sending signals along cables and via geostationary satellites. An experiment to measure the speed of an electrical pulse in a cable is described and the Physics of the orbits of communcations satellites is develope....

Bill moves a piece of sewer pipe into his office to show how important the ancient material concrete is to our modern world. It, of course, wreaks havoc on his office.

Bill cuts a copper pipe from his ceilng to show the five properties of copper that make it the most important metal for our world: From clean water to electronics.

A description and demonstration of the way in which craters formed by dropping objects into sand can be linked to some elementary physics

Conversation in science, art and design

A really good overview of Dark Matter - from an 11-year old! http://www.geoset.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Dark-Matter.pdf

This short video shows one of the demonstrations for the Physics SEPNet exhibition - "Who will keep the lights on?" which travelled around the southern UK from February 2009.  We describe and explain the electrical generator demonstration which Jona....

Use of physiological signals for emotion recognition and human-computer interaction.

Yadvinder works in the Geography department at Oxford University. He looks at how human activity and especially carbon dioxide emissions have changed the ecosystems of tropical rainforests. This work takes him on regular trips to his two research sit....

With the aid of Prof. Sir Harry Kroto, Dr Peter Wothers demonstrates that both Diamond and Graphite are indeed made of Carbon.