Repton Physics

Physics at @ReptonSchool, a thriving independent boarding school for boys and girls aged 13 to 18.

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Mrs Pettit took her lower sixth out to enjoy the sunshine while getting to grips with simple harmonic motion!

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This time of year seems the culmination of several extra-curricular projects from our lower sixth, including some wonderful research presentations.

Here is Will M's entry to the @massolit video essay competion: https://t.co/vT88feqLUM

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Our Lower Sixth visited the City of Oxford and @UKAEAOfficial yesterday. Fascinating talk and brilliant tour of the site - a great day out!

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A beautiful shot of last night's aurora from physicist Rosie B in the garden of @ReptonTheMitre 🤩

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It's good to be back! Here are some of our new lower sixth developing their practical skills as they begin their A Level Physics adventure!

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We had a fantastic evening yesterday, visiting @RoslistonAstro - we heard a fascinating talk covering aspects of physics, astronomy and photography. Unfortunately the weather was not in our favour so we couldn't observe directly, but we look forward to more space physics soon!

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We had a great track session at @derby_arena this week. Our sixth form physicists put their understanding of circular motion to the test - the steep slope of the track means you'll fall off if you dip below 28km/hr #speedisyourfriend

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Last night we were delighted to welcome two experts from the world of radiopharmaceuticals. They gave a fascinating talk, demonstrating the applications of physics in the context of cancer diagnosis. A great opportunity for our physicists, chemists, biologists and @ReptonMedSoc

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Amazing result! Well done indeed. So exciting to see this team continuing to go from strength to strength. Sounds like a very tight match indeed, played in great spirit! Well played to you all! 👏

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It was lovely to welcome Repton Brownies to the Physics Department 🛰️ this evening - some explosive demos 💥 thanks to the chemistry department, designing and launching our own rockets 🚀, learning about the planets 🪐 and (for homework!) Moon Diaries 🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌕🌖🌗🌘

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Manav C and Gonzalo M have produced a fascinating video for @sheffielduni's Kroto Prize, all about how sugar can produce rainbows: https://t.co/FU21fvIlpn #sweet #physics #sheffield #areptonstory #sweet

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The sixth form have been designing and building their very own hovercraft! Here is their first trial run. Don't judge it too harshly - the Wright Brothers' first flight was only 12 seconds!🤣

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We're back! The first society meeting of the school year saw a whopping 33 students turn up for an evening of logic puzzles and "tensegrity" structures - clever designs which hold themselves up using tension. Great leadership from co-president Matthew who ran tonight's session.

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The results are in for @TheBPhO Intermediate Challenge, entered by over 4700 students - and it's another success story for Reptonian Physicists! A whopping 22 Silver certificates (top 65.3% of candidates) - and Gonzalo M, Manav C and Luke R each achieved a Gold Award (top 18.4%)

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The results are in from @TheBPhO's Senior Physics Challenge for our Lower Sixth students - and what a haul!

7 Bronze certificates, 2 Silvers (putting Hugo W and Aarondev A in the top 46% of entrants) and a fantastic 3 Golds - Samual N, Matthew F and Tadd P all making the top 15%

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@TheBPhO's Senior and Intermediate Physics Challenges have been online this year. Our L6 and O-block physicists took part recently and eagerly await their results!

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Who better to celebrate during #BritishScienceWeek than Old Reptonian Alasdair Hastewell. Upon leaving Repton, MIT was an obvious next step; the finest STEM focused university in the world @MITNews. Discover his amazing journey here https://t.co/DJx6oeyMal #ReptonRoleModels

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Today is #WomenInScienceDay and we were delighted to (virtually) welcome back Old Reptonian Bekah - now in her third year studying engineering - to speak to our aspiring students. She gave some fantastic advice - including the importance of "being teachable". @ReptonEngineer

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With the laboratory closed, our sixth formers are collaborating via OneNote to perform a hypothetical experiment - complete with data analysis. Putting that #MIEExpert badge to the test!

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Having just begun our A-level study of Waves, L6 student Caitlin G-S has extended her work by building a 3D hologram viewer - amazing stuff!