woodchurch science

here’s a few pictures of stephen, phil, dillon and robert cleaning out the school pond as part of the go for green project.

this could come in handy for revision! it’s a bit extreme though…what do you think?
here’s a load more science tattoos. click here, this link, the blue text…right here.

some interesting wallpapers from mr wilkinson. download them to your computer. (a) feeding time

and (b) storm at sea

mr smith has recommended this picture taken in norway of six rainbows in the sky. comes complete with a good explanation of how they’re formed.

here’s a picture from microsoft virtual earth looking directly into the cone of mount vesuvius. you can zoom in further here.

here you can see a stack of images from the last major eruption in 1944.

here’s a picture of ancient artefacts made of metals extracted from a viking grave. note the iron sword, copper pin, silver bracelet, gold ring. can you suggest which object would be the most corroded?

these ancient buildings are made of limestone. why do you think the egyptians needed to build pyramids if they wanted to build high buildings?

above is a picture of a bottle of caproic acid (or hexanoic acid) that has a very distinctive odour. see it’s entry in the merck catalogue alongside: now what exactly is ‘goat-like’? seems you’d have to be overly familiar with barnyard animals to recognise that as a smell.

very attractive pictures of about 25 metal ores, with links to much larger high resolution pictures and more information.

here’s a video from 1999 filmed in cornwall showing the last total eclipse visible in the uk. the video image has been treated (so that you can see what’s going on) because the 11th august 1999 was quite a cloudy day in cornwall.

 play using real player (quite quick, only 1.3mb)

 play using windows media player (slow to load, about 22mb)

additionally, here’s a link to a series of photographs of progressively darker then lighter clouds!

finally, a great resource for eclipses