KEVICC Courier Winter 2021 Lockdown

Page 14 Fantastic learning Year 7 Moonlighting Year 7 were asked to model the different phases of the moon using any equipment they could find at home. We love their ingenuity and creativity here! Page 17 Left to right: Vera Kirby's waning crescent; Rosie Wolf's half moon and Ruby Wilkins' waxing gibbous. Great effort guys! Last summer when we were all away from College the Ogden Trust launched a photographic competition for students in three different age categories to capture ‘Physics in Everyday Life’. In the Sixth form group KEVICC students scooped two of the top three prizes – showing that they can be masters both of art and science! Lalie Pireyn (now in Y13) finished second with her night time exposure of a scene familiar to all Totnesians. Her composition has a skilful exposure that lets you see the light that has taken less than a millionth of a second to arrive from the brickwork as well as the photons that have travelled for hundreds of thousands of years from distant stars to arrive together at that precise moment. The sense of scale is spectacular. Ogden Trust Winners Tom Read (who has now left KEVICC) photographed a light bulb. This looks a simple enough proposition but the focus and shallow depth of field show the reflected light from the hundreds of tiny scratches in the glass against the glow of the filament. The choice of a low temperature (still about 2000oC) bulb gives it the warm, orange hue of an old-fashioned carbon filament lamp - although the modern LED equivalents achieve the same effect they rely on a quantum physical process to achieve it! Dr Ruffle Head of Science