Cambridge Physics Centre Lecture – Relativity This week we took a trip to the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge where Dr Julia Riley gave a lecture entitled ‘Relativity – understanding the connection between space and time’. Meeting at Stortford station, we took a very crowded train to Cambridge where we then caught […]
Presentation – Year 12, Chris Davis Chris’ presentation was on the cryptography and mathematics involved in the enigma machine and the German codes. After an introduction which took us through the historic context of the enigma, Chris used diagrams to show how the cipher wheels of the machine worked and why the code was so […]
Presentation – Year 13, Robin Franklin This week’s presentation was given by Robin Franklin and was on the topic of mathematical proof. After first looking at some basic proof by direct argument he quickly moved on to proof by contradiction, using the irrationality of square root of 2 and the base-3 logarithm of 2 as […]
Video – A Night With The Stars After a brief one-week hiatus due to the Teacher Karaoke event on 3rd October, members of the Maths and Physics Society regrouped to watch Brian Cox’s excellent ‘A Night With The Stars’ programme which aired a few years back. With the help of several notable guests including Sarah […]
Presentation – Year 13, Penny Hart Our first student presentation of the academic year was by Year 13 student Penny Hart. Despite the very large audience of almost 30 new Year 12s she gave a very convincing presentation on Fermat’s Last Theorem and modular clock arithmetic. Afterwards we discussed our plans for the upcoming Festival […]
Speaker – Past Student, Oliver Philcox Last week we had the pleasure of welcoming back ex-student Oliver Philcox when he dropped in to deliver a short talk to the Maths and Physics Society. Oli, who in October will be leaving to study physical Natural Sciences at Emanuel College Cambridge, gave an excellent lecture to us […]
Senior Physics Challenge Pouring rain and thunderous stormy skies is weather you would not typically associate with the end of June and certainly not weather that I wanted to be walking through when I arrived for the recent Senior Physics Challenge in Cambridge! A week-long residential summer school for 65 students from around the UK […]
Professor Lepage and Professor Horgan Visit by Professor Horgan, Cambridge University & Professor Lepage, Cornell University. Two Professors speak to the Maths & Physics Society. The TBSHS Maths and Physics Society were delighted to welcome Professor Ron Horgan and Professor Peter Lepage from Cambridge and Cornell Universities who came to give a talk and presentation on Friday 21st March. The pair, […]
Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge In January, the Society went on the first of what we hope will be many trips, to the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge attending one of the Outreach lectures for members of the public. The lecture, entitled ‘The Ever Expanding Universe and Dark Energy’, was delivered by Professor Carolin Crawford and […]
