34 results found for university-of-sussex

Video by Hugh Fox

Mark Hindmarch talks about our understanding of how we explain the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang.

Roy Darlington explains the attractions of the remarkably simple Stirling engine

Jonathan talks to a real exoert about the science of balance.

What is there in your computer which is attractive to bacteria and fungi?

Norman Billingham talks to Jonathan Hare about the science and ethics of preservation and conservation.

Jess describes her route into Chemistry

Sussex University has always supported unusual, interdisciplinary and innovative faculties. A good example of this was the Nitrogen Fixation Centre. Jeff Leigh was part of this exceptional work who's aim was to discover how nature uses nitrogen to cr....

A laboratory demonstration of Carbon Dioxide's effect of global warming.

Some intimate details of this novel new material.

Jonathan describes a smaller 'buckyball' with its inherent differences from C60.

How the structures of fullerene molecules obey the rules of mathematics discovered long ago by Euler.

Some of the subtleties of the structures found in carbon nanotubes.

Jonathan Hare describes the novel chemistry of the C60 molecule.

Jonathan describes the construction of a model of the C60 molecule.

The interesting spectrometry of the first fullerene is described and analysed

A vivid description of how these recently discovered molecules are synthesised.

The differences in the structures and properties of the various allotropes of carbon are clearly explained.

Using a data-logger to analyse the performance of a longboard.

How the production of new polymers has made long- and skate-boarding possible.

A few (surprising?) thoughts on how the wheels on a longboard or skateboard actually move.

Jonathan describes his adventures with a longboard and some different methods of making a speedometer for it.

The UK coast is constantly being bombarded by sea waves.  There is a massive amount of power available from these waves.  Jonathan describes three different ways of generating electrical power from water waves.

A short video explaining how transistors work.  At the heart of our high-tech society with radios, mobile phones, computers and space exploration are tiny electronic components called transistors.  They have revolutionised electronics and in the pr....