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This book explores the significance of the forests in Scotland, northern Scandinavia, Siberia, Alaska and Canada for all life on Earth. The author considers what the trees, and the people who live and work alongside them, have to tell us about the past, present and future of our planet, considering the accelerating...
This unit from the Continuing Mathematics Project is concerned with the calculation of the sides and angles of triangles and how this is used by the surveyor, the navigator, and the cartographer. The development of the television, the light and the road have all relied on trigonometry.
The objectives of the...
The truth about toilet swirl - southern hemisphere
This video demonstrates the Coriolis effect. However, explains that much of what we see in terms of rotating water in either the northern or southern hemispheres is mostly due to other angular momentum sources in the body of the water.
An explanation of the Coriolis effect uses a scientific model (thought...
There have been many theories about what struck the Earth in central Siberia in 1908 with the force of 3,000 atomic bombs causing millions of trees to topple over and many still standing trees to lose all their branches. However, despite many expeditions and the efforts of generations of Russian scientists,...
This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.
The two mangoes problem
This problem provides a gentle introduction to simultaneous equations. Three bags of shopping are shown: two have prices and one does not. The challenge is to find out the price of the final bag of shopping.
The UK Biofuel Supply Chain 2008
From the National Non-Food Crops Centre, this factsheet looks at the sources and supply of biofuels in the UK. It describes:
- how biodiesel and bioethanol are produced
- blends of biofuels used in vehicle fuels
- sources and biofuel production in the UK
- greenhouse gas emission...
The yearbooks of the UK Mathematics Trust contain an account of UKMT...
The yearbooks of the UK Mathematics Trust contain an account of ...
The yearbooks of the UK Mathematics Trust contain an account of UKMT...