Schoolgen Sister Schools Cluster Day at Greenhithe Primary School.

Weeks of planning came to fruition.  Maggie, Katie and myself had worked hard to get the first “sister schools” day off the ground. The day went very well and the two activities I had designed seemed to work and be enjoyed by almost all the students. According to the evaluation forms they particularly enjoyed the [...]

Using the excel spreadsheet to explore simple heat conduction.

I have started working on creating my own simulation of heat conduction. I hope to create an interactive flash program which the user can play with to visually and numerically see how conduction occurs in a 3 dimensional object, initially a cube. To get to grips with the basic physics of it I setup an [...]

Thermal Modeling of an Auckland House using SunREL

Using SunREL* to model a hypothetical house to see the effect of windows/glazing on solar gain, the amount of incoming solar energy into the house which leads to heating of the internal zones. To model a building you must specify all aspects of the building- its dimensions, the orientation of the walls, the positions of [...]

Heat Conduction

The following is my summary of relevant parts of a wikipedia article on Heat Conduction and other bits and pieces of information. Conduction is one of the three ways in which heat can be transferred, the other ways being convection and radiation. Conduction can simply be thought of as heat transfer by “touch”, and only can [...]