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This book explains over 40 key skills in detail and is packed with questions as well as answers, hints and tips to help develop a thorough understanding.

This book explains over 35 key skills in detail and is packed with questions as well as answers, hints and tips to help develop a thorough understanding.

This book explains over 35 key skills in detail and is packed with questions as well as answers, hints and tips to help develop a thorough understanding.

Included in this book are basic and general circuits, motor car and model railway circuits, alarms and noise makers as well as section on the 556, 558 and 559 timers...

This book has been especially written for the less experienced hobbyist and offers a range of fairly simple projects based on a number of popular and inexpensive linear and digital integrated circuits.

Ice - Water - Steam

This Catalyst article describes an experiment in which, using a microwave oven, water can be boiled in a cup made of ice, allowing all three states of water to be seen at once. The article explains what equipment needed to carry out the experiment, instructions, and a detailed explanation of why it works.

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Ice and beyond: climate science with CryoSat

This book invites teachers to explore some of the many scientific results from the CryoSat mission. The book describes key techniques of precise radar and SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) altimetry, and reviews state-of-the-art achievements. The book is intended as a living document, and will continue to capture new...

Ice breaker

In this resource learners will explore the relationship between a ship’s hull and the job it does. In particular, the lesson will look at the difficult job a polar ship faces when having to break through sea ice and the importance of the...

Ice Clouds and Viper Venom

In this podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Sue Nelson visits the ice cloud chamber in the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences.

Scientists know that fluffy stratocumulus clouds act like a blanket on the Earth - they stop...

Ice cores

In this practical activity students analyse ice cores extracted from the icy worlds of Enceladus or Europa. This resource provides information about Enceladus and worksheets for both qualitative and quantitative analyses. In the video, Steve Althorpe explains how ice cores containing minerals can be made and then...