As a part of their revision of the equations of motion, 4D1 were asked to come up with an example of a fictional, ‘incredible’ journey and give details of –

• the destination (anywhere)
• the distance travelled (in any units)
• a mode of transport (anything goes)
• the speed of their mode of transport (in appropriate units)

Having obtained this information they were then required to use it to calculate the time for their journey.

The students were then asked to find an ‘interesting’ means of presenting this information, in an attempt to allow them an (all to rare) opportunity to do something creative in physics.

These are some of the best examples received –

Marcus  – travelling to Perth, Australia by Quicksilver (comic strip  – www.bitstrips.com)

 

Murray  – Round the world journey by Dominic Malonga (Powerpoint)

Me and Dom’s Dribble Around the World

Kiani – Santa’s Story (play)

Santa’s Story (word .doc)

Performance (mp3)

Isla – Outer Space Story  – walking home from the Moon (bitstrips.com)

Lisa – Glasgow to Saltcoats, Hopping

Alexander – Ardrossan, UK to Ardrossan, Aus by Segway (limerick)

(My journey is from Ardrossan, Scotland to Ardrossan, Australia which is a distance of 16,317km away on a segway which has an average speed of 5.59 metres per second which means it would take around 2,918,962 seconds or 810 hours)

There once was a boy with a segway

I can travel the world he did say

So he worked out that day

Our town to Aussie let’s say

810 hours, no way!

More to follow, including…

Zara – Koala getting home to Australia for Dinner (childrens’ story)

Stuart – Circumnavigating Io by ? (haiku with calculation)