Case Study: Einstein Lecture

This talk was developed to be presented for the 2005 international year of physics in collaboration with the Derbyshire Education Business Partnership and Derbyshire SETPOINT. The talk gives a brief tour of Einstein's contributions to science consists of a number of computer-animated demonstrations that are complimented with physical objects such as "inertia jars" which demonstrate what would happen if gravitational mass and inertial mass were not equivalent.

The talk is controlled via radio control to the presenting computer. This computer is also interfaced to the outside world to allow control of lights, motors, servos, etc. so that on-screen virtual objects and real world objects can be controlled and choreographed simultaneously.

Case Study: Global Climate

This is an interactive software and movie demonstration of global climate modelling. There is a short animated movie that induces the concepts behind global climate modelling and an interactive interface that lets the user explore the effects of changes in parameters such as distance from the sun, cloud cover, etc. on global average temperatures.

The physics behind a simple climate model is also explained along with an efficient numerical method of solution based on multi-dimensional Newtonian iteration.

An evaluation copy of this demonstration can be made available on request.