Physicopoeia

This is a subject where those of us who went into teaching from a pure Physics background are sometimes at quite a disadvantage to our colleagues who instead went down the Engineering path. Certainly, this is an area where I felt my knowledge was initially rather limited and I enjoyed finding out a lot more about it to improve my teaching.

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Definitions in Materials

Getting a value for Young's modulus from a stress-strain graph

Relating micro to macro: the Lennard-Jones potential curve

Giant Mutant Ants: scaling objects up

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See below for some extra materials questions: nothing terribly unusual, really, but just a series of worksheets I wrote, each one following a news story or experience I'd had where I realised there was the possibility for some interesting materials science questions.