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Ramping it Up
Stage: 5 Challenge Level: 
Look at the calculus behind the simple act of a car going over a step.
Motion Capture
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Explore displacement/time and velocity/time graphs with this mouse motion sensor.
Whoosh
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
A ball whooshes down a slide and hits another ball which flies off the slide horizontally as a projectile. How far does it go?
Resistance
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Find the equation from which to calculate the resistance of an infinite network of resistances.
Escape from Planet Earth
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
How fast would you have to throw a ball upwards so that it would never land?
Universal Time, Mass, Length
Stage: 5 Short Challenge Level:
Can you work out the natural time scale for the universe?
Cannon Balls
Stage: 5 Short Challenge Level:
How high will a ball taking a million seconds to fall travel?
Lunar Leaper
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Gravity on the Moon is about 1/6th that on the Earth. A pole-vaulter 2 metres tall can clear a 5 metres pole on the Earth. How high a pole could he clear on the Moon?
Construct the Solar System
Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
Make an accurate diagram of the solar system and explore the concept of a grand conjunction.
The Real Hydrogen Atom
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Dip your toe into the world of quantum mechanics by looking at the Schrodinger equation for hydrogen atoms
The Amazing Properties of Water
Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
Find out why water is one of the most amazing compounds in the universe and why it is essential for life. - UNDER DEVELOPMENT
Big and Small Numbers in Chemistry
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Get some practice using big and small numbers in chemistry.
Stemnrich - Technology
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
This is the technology section of stemNRICH - Core.
The Not-so-simple Pendulum 1
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
See how the motion of the simple pendulum is not-so-simple after all.
Ideal Gases
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Problems which make you think about the kinetic ideas underlying the ideal gas laws.
Mach Attack
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Have you got the Mach knack? Discover the mathematics behind exceeding the sound barrier.
Pumping the Power
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
What is an AC voltage? How much power does an AC power source supply?
Moving Stonehenge
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
A look at the fluid mechanics questions that are raised by the Stonehenge 'bluestones'.
Constantly Changing
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Many physical constants are only known to a certain accuracy. Explore the numerical error bounds in the mass of water and its constituents.
Keep Your Momentum Going
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
A look at a fluid mechanics technique called the Steady Flow Momentum Equation.
Levels of Bohr
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Look at the units in the expression for the energy levels of the electrons in a hydrogen atom according to the Bohr model.
Lennard Jones Potential
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Investigate why the Lennard-Jones potential gives a good approximate explanation for the behaviour of atoms at close ranges
Gravity Paths
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Where will the spaceman go when he falls through these strange planetary systems?
Striking Gold
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Investigate some of the issues raised by Geiger and Marsden's famous scattering experiment in which they fired alpha particles at a sheet of gold.
Cobalt Decay
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Investigate the effects of the half-lifes of the isotopes of cobalt on the mass of a mystery lump of the element.
The Lorentz Force Law
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Explore the Lorentz force law for charges moving in different ways.
Big and Small Numbers in Physics - Group Task
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Work in groups to try to create the best approximations to these physical quantities.
Engnrich
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
engNRICH is the area of the stemNRICH Advanced site devoted to the mathematics underlying the study of engineering
The Ultra Particle
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Explore the energy of this incredibly energetic particle which struck Earth on October 15th 1991
The Not-so-simple Pendulum 2
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Things are roughened up and friction is now added to the approximate simple pendulum
Modelling Assumptions in Mechanics
Stage: 5
An article demonstrating mathematically how various physical modelling assumptions affect the solution to the seemingly simple problem of the projectile.
Physnrich
Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
PhysNRICH is the area of the StemNRICH site devoted to the mathematics underlying the study of physics
Reaction Types
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Explore the rates of growth of the sorts of simple polynomials often used in mathematical modelling.
Go Spaceship Go
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Show that even a very powerful spaceship would eventually run out of overtaking power
Whose Line Graph Is it Anyway?
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Which line graph, equations and physical processes go together?
Drug Stabiliser
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
How does the half-life of a drug affect the build up of medication in the body over time?
Diamonds Aren't Forever
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Ever wondered what it would be like to vaporise a diamond? Find out inside...
Ideal Axes
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Explore how can changing the axes for a plot of an equation can lead to different shaped graphs emerging
Core Scientific Mathematics
Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
This is the area of the advanced stemNRICH site devoted to the core applied mathematics underlying the sciences.
Maths in the Undergraduate Physical Sciences
Stage: 5
An article about the kind of maths a first year undergraduate in physics, engineering and other physical sciences courses might encounter. The aim is to highlight the link between particular maths. . . .
Pack Man
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
A look at different crystal lattice structures, and how they relate to structural properties
Motorbike Momentum
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
A think about the physics of a motorbike riding upside down
Ancient Astronomical Terms
Stage: 3, 4 and 5
Some explanations of basic terms and some phenomena discovered by ancient astronomers
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.