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Simon Poliakoff

@simonpoliakoff

Physics Teacher who loves demonstrations and practicals. Makes YouTube videos and free creative commons lesson resources.

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Another lunchtime spent on making a short today: The jumping / floating ring demonstration with infrared camera youtube.com/shorts/KZTIQ3w…

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Demonstrating how fuses and the earth wire work This is my cheap, large and easy to make version of a demonstration originally described by Mark Harrison in Physics Education Journal youtu.be/bSoFhj3SRVY

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Much improved video of balanced can circular motion: Surely a can balanced on its edge can’t do vertical circular motion! youtu.be/OC9PlwYR1ws Still find it hard to believe it works

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Whenever questions about explaining refraction with wavefronts come up on AQA GCSE physics/ combined science they are not well answered. Zooming in on the PhET bending light simulation really helps to explain it to students. youtu.be/E_Qt9zQdMEQ Thanks to PhET Sims

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A great thank you present from some of my A-level students. As it doesn’t have a case you can see how it works. youtu.be/vmkKEfvzeFI

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Gas discharge tubes with plasma globe. Thanks to Arbor Scientific for the idea. Viewed through 1000 lines per mm diffraction grating film. youtu.be/AjuKXOFSdjY

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I made a video about electron diffraction which features a new demonstration which uses three crossed diffraction gratings, a violet laser & glow in the dark film to show & explain simply why the electron diffraction produces rings at 3 mins 30. youtu.be/XAtYh0dBWaU