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St Ives (Cambs)

Our Place in the Milky Way and our local group

Event type: -
Date: Fri 19th Apr 2024
Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Group: Science and Technology 2
Venue: St Ives Methodist Church

This was our first meeting and we looked briefly at the life cycle of stars and how elements are created during that cycle. We talked about Milankovitch cycles and the effect they have on our climate, We looked at Kepler's laws of motion, our planets motion and season, We had a few minutes to spare at the end of the session and looked at the two slit experiment that demonstrates how light and matter can behave as a wave or a particle.

Here are links to the videos we watched.