Light Scatter

1 Nov 20211 Nov 2021

Some time ago I was asked to compensate for light scatter when measuring the UV absorbance of protein solutions. I was intrigued because I'd never seen it applied to an…

HPLC analysis on a spreadsheet

11 Jun 202111 Jun 2021

Help! Covid means we can't huddle four or five students round an HPLC system. Any lab-based HPLC experiments we do will take ages! And that's before we decontaminate each HPLC…

Snakes and Ladders at Monte Carlo!

4 Nov 202029 Jan 2021

I have been playing around with simple Monte Carlo modelling systems for a while. I started doing this because I realised that if I was to design games for teaching…

UV analysis on a spreadsheet

2 Nov 20203 Dec 2020

Aaarrrggghhh! An increase in Covid numbers in Scotland (and especially Glasgow) has meant we've had a weeks notice to swap our UV labs from face-to-face to online. I've rehashed one…

Dotenza modelling (with Scratch)

27 Apr 20201 May 2020

Preamble This page is for the school pupils who are using the Dotenza model as part of a science outreach (or engagement) activity. There are teacher (or demonstrator) notes here.…

PID controller

18 Apr 202026 Jul 2020

A few weeks ago I sat in on an online Q&A seminar run by one of my colleagues (and course co-co-cordinater!), Daniel Markl. One of the questions that came up…

Building models V: Epilogue

14 Apr 202028 Apr 2020

In part I of this blog series, I tried to explain the ideas behind doing the whole modelling exercise, the maths of the SIR model and fictional virus, Divoc-91; in…

Building models IV: Findings

14 Apr 202014 Apr 2020

In part I of this blog series, I tried to explain the ideas behind doing the whole modelling exercise, the maths of the SIR model and Divoc-91; in part II…

Building models III: The build

14 Apr 2020

In part I of this blog series I tried to explain the SIR model and in part II I started to use the published data on covid-19 to get some…

Building models II: Parameters

14 Apr 202015 Apr 2020

In part I of this blog series I tried to explain the SIR model, but I now need to try and use the science and medical literature to work out…