@CSFCPhysicsOfficial

The official twitter page for the Physics department at Cardiff Sixth Form College.

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#EESWProject Award Winners 2021-22

@CSFCOfficial 2, working with @networkrail, won the award for the Most Effective Presentation of the Chosen Solution sponsored by @IndustryWales for their project on potential solutions to corrosion issues to the Severn Tunnel

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Congratulations Ahmed, Ho Ying, Andrew, Mariam, Stephen and Milly for winning the award for "Most effective presentation of the chosen solution" at this year's @EESWSTEMCymru Project 2021-22! #EESWSTEMCymru🧠
Read more here: https://t.co/atrosI471q

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A productive first meeting with this year’s EESW teams. Looking forward to seeing them get to work on their project in collaboration with @networkrail

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Congratulations to our aspiring engineers who received their awards today for participating in the @EESWSTEMCymru project in collaboration with @AECOM

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Our NASA Club is exploring new materials for their future space settlement. Meet metamaterials: materials whose function is determined by structure, not composition. More: https://t.co/tIhkZwvvuk

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Born 164 years ago #Today, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was one of the fathers of rocketry and astronautics. His works later inspired leading Soviet rocket engineers such as Sergei Korolev and contributed to the success of the Soviet space program https://t.co/0QeVh0rZfl

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Shenzhou-12 astronauts return to Earth after 3-month space station mission - SpaceNews https://t.co/dEEbLn4CkM

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An exciting day today as we start back to teaching. Great to see some new faces as well as familiar ones continuing their journeys with us @CSFCOfficial

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Uranus: Look how I spin sideways on my axis.
Venus: Watch me!

A great collection of all planets (+Ceres and Pluto) and their spin characteristics. Ask iGCSE students for more!

Credit: James O'Donoghue/JHUAPL/Nasa

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Aristarchus (230 BCE) used a total lunar eclipse to measure the size of the Moon compared to the known size of the (shadow of the) Earth, and the distance to the Moon from the time it takes to cross it (speed) and its period.

Photo credit: Andrew McCarthy / @AJamesMcCarthy

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A rare view: Jupiter's moon's orbiting the gas giant as viewed from the Hubble Space Telescope. This week our iGCSE students learn everything about the planets of our Solar System. More: https://t.co/RscJ7Mt07D

Credit: ESA/Hubble

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The (US) Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite looks down and finds the Chinese Zhurong Mars rover. The lander with the ground marks appears clearly, with the (smaller) rover right below it. More: https://t.co/sjiEipAh6U

Credit: NASA/JPL via BBC.

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China's first crewed mission #Shenzhou12 is launching on the 17th to dock with the #Tiangong space station. The first astronauts of the station, will stay in orbit for 3 months! Follow the # for more. https://t.co/QQu3Vx2Mu2

Photo: CNSA via Youtube

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Monday is Dragon boat festival, which commemorates the poet Qu Yuan credited with the poem "questions to heaven" for which Tianwen is named. Space art to mark the occasion as ever, focusing on Tianwen-1 & upcoming Shenzhou-12 mission.

Retweet from: Andrew Jones / @AJ_Fl

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Red giants are stars towards the end of their lives, expanding to huge sizes before they die (sometimes) with a bang. Betelgeuse, of the Orion constellation, is almost as big as our entire Solar System. Our iGCSE students can add more details.

Credit: Captain Chaos via Youtube.

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As our iGCSE students study the life of stars, here's a glorious photo of our own star, the Sun, as taken only 10 days ago, with some of its features annotated by the photographer. Follow his account for more content.

Photo/Annotations Credit: Andrew McCarthy / @AJamesMcCarthy

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A beautiful selfie from China’s Zhurong rover with its landing platform, currently on Mars. A simple idea, that of a remote wireless camera, works wonders. Zhurong placed the camera on the ground and moved to position for the selfie. More: https://t.co/K3rxIyDGjc (Chinese)

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Our iGCSE students are looking at galaxies, such as our own and its companions, the two Magellanic Clouds. In the largest of the two, a supernova remnant can still be seen today. Ask our young physicists for more!

Credit: Hubble, Nick Risinger, R. Gendler, ESO / Johan Monell

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This week, to coincide with their theory lessons, our AS students are investigating Young’s Modulus for a copper wire.

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Watch the partial solar eclipse (taking place now) on Youtube here: https://t.co/2lzYonQFZk

The Welsh clouds won't allow us to see it, but streaming is here to save the day! Enjoy.