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Physics
"It is unfortunate that a four
years’ course in elementary science should leave such subjects as
light, sound, magnetism and electricity wholly untouched." 1906
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Tiered seats in the first physics-and-chemistry
lab, now M11
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"The Physics lab was up here, very
old fashioned benches and equipment. There was a way up to the
roof and the prefects had access to the roof, no-one else was
allowed to. There was a rain gauge up there, for Physics, and
we had to check it every day. "
1950s pupil, viewing MII
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"The LIII physics
contains a little magnetism and electricity, but otherwise the
course is confined to heat, pressure and mensuration. "
from the 1933 inspection report
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A rather posed picture
round the Wimshurst machine, 1950s |
Electronics - good for developing logical
thought
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"Last year we also began to develop
seriously the study of electronics in school when Mr D introduced
an electronics club."
from the 1986 headmistress's report
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Pendulum
experiments in the 1980s |
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A modern heat experiment
in the Cecil Place labs |
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