S6F Physics

10/02/2020

https://www.yorkshirecoastradio.com/news/local-news/3041164/scarborough-sixth-form-wins-engineering-challenge/

A team of six students from the college have won first prize in a competition.

07/07/2017

Packed house to say goodbye to s6f physics legend Colin Fallows in his last lesson. Happy retirement Colin!

23/06/2017

https://futurism.com/nasa-is-sending-a-lander-to-discover-whether-life-exists-on-europa/

NASA is planning to send a lander to Jupiter's moon Europa, which is believed to hold a vast ocean beneath it's frozen crust. We could retrieve massive amounts of data that would take us one giant step closer to understanding where life exists in our vast universe.

06/12/2016

For over a century, the weight of a kilogram has been determined by a physical object, but that could change in 2018 under a new proposal that would base it on Planck's constant. While these tiny changes in the metric system wouldn't likely affect the average person, they would give scientists a mor...

23/09/2016

http://futurism.com/understanding-the-physics-of-our-universe-what-is-quantum-mechanics/

05/07/2016

Even now, Nikola Tesla is giving back to humanity!

01/07/2016

http://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-just-discovered-an-entire-family-of-new-particles-in-the-lhc

Physicists working with the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment (LHCb) have discovered what appears to be an entire family of new particles that our current physics models can’t explain. The existence of these new forms of matter, known as...

28/06/2016

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36651048

Scientists say they have found a large helium gas field in Tanzania, amid concerns global supplies are running out.

23/10/2015

There is gravity in outer space. And it doesn't work that way that most people think.

07/10/2015

Relativity is one of the most successful theories that Albert Einstein ever came up with. It shook the world by altering the way that we think of space and time.

07/10/2015

Happy Birthday Niels