Simon Poliakoff

@simonpoliakoff.bsky.social

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Physics Teacher who loves demonstrations and practicals. Makes YouTube videos and free creative commons lesson resources. Website: www.teachphysics.org YouTube: www.youtube.com/@SimonPoliakoff

Image of title slide of set of ideas for teaching Atomic and Nuclear Physics
Blue morpho butterfly with wings open showing the blue colour.
Large visible light spectrum on lab wall about 2m long and half a metre high.
water droplet projected horizontally take with strobe to show the horizontal displacement constant but vertical displacement increasing.
soft toy monkey hanging from the electromagnet
Photo of double rainbow
Black lava surrounding semi enclosed sea pool with cliffs behind. Single swimmer snorkelling in the middle.
Photo of reflection in River Avon early this morning.
Green plastic with recessed areas with dark grey appearance with bits of rusty metal inside them. About 4 inches long.
Same cylinder as main post but with an Earthed copper wire in the centre. Now the threads inside point towards the centre.
Threads standing up around a copper mesh cylinder but not inside showing the electric field after charging with a fun fly stick.
Photo of neon discharge tube through 1000 lines per mm diffraction grating showing the spectral lines.
Ray diagram showing how the floating ship illusion can occur
Green turtle near dusk with colours shown by low sun about a metre below the surface.
Blue and white hair bell flowers in tall unmowed grass
Knitted sign with white lettering on a dark background saying Physics
2D spectra visible from sunlight diffracting through a pigeon feather
Blanket of different coloured stripes with each colour representing a different temperature.
Photo showing guard cells and stomata using tradescantia zebrina
Image showing the cells with lots of chloroplasts.
Apple photo identifies staples on electromagnet as a stick insect
triangular prism splitting white light into a spectrum and then showing only red and only green light passing through filters of those colours.
Photo of the two spectra
Photo of double slit with mm scale from ruler
Screen shot of website of infrared camera teaching ideas
Title slide of Talk ‘Using Video to Enhance Science Education’
Flyer for talk about using videos in science teaching
YouTube comment suggesting hiding in a greenhouse when running from police helicopters.
infrared and visible light photos of a knitted sheep
Photo of candle burning underwater crested with Pepper’s Ghost illusion
GUESS SUn acronym for calculation questions in physics
Title slide of talk on “Ten ways to use videos to make science teaching more effective”
Google AI suggests 13500 lines per inch is 342900 lines per mm
Two forks and a match stick balanced to the rim of a wine glass.
Model pylon, power lines and little sheep for national grid demo.
Sun light through a large diffraction grating makes a spectrum on a table.
Light scattering from mist from streetlights