The water stays inside the cup despite the huge hole! The cup and the water are falling at the same rate due to gravity so...

Enrichment Activity 5-11 11-14

Use these questions to test the pupils' understanding, by discussion or individual completion.

Diagnostic Questions 11-14

The purpose of this activity is to get pupils thinking and talking about where, and on what, forces might act in some everyday...

Classroom Activity 11-14

Ultracentrifuges are devices used to separate materials and can achieve accelerations of up to 1,000,000 times the...

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

The old riddle that asks whether a pound of feathers is heavier than a pound of lead is not as simple as it seems. Some...

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

The term ‘mass’ is derived from the Latin massa meaning a lump of dough or paste. In many ancient cultures, despite...

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

On 23rd July 1983, a Boeing 737 jet flying from Montreal to Edmonton completely ran out of fuel and had to glide for 30...

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

During his time in Venice, Galileo and a friend sent letters to a Jesuit priest pretending to be a rich widow with religious...

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

A paper has considered whether it is possible to jump into orbit on a body of small mass, such as Mars’s moon Deimos. The...

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

In this activity students are introduced to the idea of the centre of gravity by comparing the balance points of a ruler and a...

Classroom Activity 11-14 14-16

In this class activity students tilt three bottles to see which one topples first. You can use it to introduce the idea of...

Classroom Activity 11-14