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BRGS
Win Through to Regional Final of Physics Competition.
Can you: Communicate physics to a non-scientist? Work as part
of a team? Build a physics demonstration from items found around
the home?
 Nine students from BRGS participated in a competition requiring
all of the above.
Paperclip Physics is a competition, organised by the
Institute of Physics. The aim is to demonstrate to a non-scientist,
an application or fundamental principle of physics using
only items found in a typical home. The competition is open
to students in years 11 and 12 and requires teams of 3 to
5 students.
Year 11 decided to explain all about eclipses.
They were
attracted to this topic by the promise of eating copious
amounts of Jaffa Cakes, which were used to depict the Moon.
Pictured below are the year 11 team L to R are: John Holland,
Akif Hussein, Elliot Hurst, David Bewicke and Andrew Hoyle.
 Year 12 decided to explain and demonstrate Newton’s
Laws of Motion using a variety of demonstrations which included
balloons, party poppers, candles in bottles, an amusing duck
and a full place setting with table cloth! The team are pictured
below: Lto R Katherine Grant, Sam Lynskey, Ben Smith and
Martin Bracewell.
 This was the first time that BRGS has entered the competition
and the teams made two excellent presentations to the judges
who comprised a professional physicist, a physics teacher and
a non-physicist (who was the most important panel member).
It was important to convince the non- physicist with a clear
and simple explanation.
After a close run competition and a nail-biting wait, the
judges announced the top three teams to go forward to the
regional final. Year 11 had impressed the judges with their
explanation of eclipses and they have won a place in the
regional finals, which will be held in early March.
Well done to both teams and good luck to the year 11 team
in the next round!
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