Graham Yapp
@grahamyapp.bsky.social
Failed-to-retire headteacher, now teaching GCSE & A level physics & chemistry in Hertfordshire and lurking here. Groundhopper, Modus Hopper Random blog with #keepertopcolourstats. Born West Brom. Duolingoer.
Taking a social media break, length unknown.
February 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Taking a social media break, length unknown.
Hello once again from the hanging-on-to-speak-to-HMRC telephone dark zone where the dreadful hold music has started to decrease my resolve to pay my dues into the nation's coffers.
January 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Hello once again from the hanging-on-to-speak-to-HMRC telephone dark zone where the dreadful hold music has started to decrease my resolve to pay my dues into the nation's coffers.
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Offers from @selwyn1882.bsky.social have gone out today for undergraduate admissions this autumn. 85.5% of our home offers are to state school students, with the biggest group at comprehensives. In 2024 this kind of mix helped us be the highest-rated Cambridge college for good honours.
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Offers from @selwyn1882.bsky.social have gone out today for undergraduate admissions this autumn. 85.5% of our home offers are to state school students, with the biggest group at comprehensives. In 2024 this kind of mix helped us be the highest-rated Cambridge college for good honours.
Splendid evening at the Uni of Herts at an IoP regional event with some Y12 students. Nick Evans of the Uni of Southampton making us think about quantum gravity with a romp through modern physics. Physics is bonkers at its margins.
January 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Splendid evening at the Uni of Herts at an IoP regional event with some Y12 students. Nick Evans of the Uni of Southampton making us think about quantum gravity with a romp through modern physics. Physics is bonkers at its margins.
Hello from Stamford Bridge where a dad next to me is teaching his daughter how to time correctly the We Hate Tottenham refrain during The Liquidator.
January 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Hello from Stamford Bridge where a dad next to me is teaching his daughter how to time correctly the We Hate Tottenham refrain during The Liquidator.
Treating myself to a day off tomorrow and heading for a WSL battle at Stamford Bridge as Chelsea host Arsenal. Last season's League Cup Final at Molineux (same teams) was not the greatest game, hoping for better (though weather forecast is not good).
January 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Treating myself to a day off tomorrow and heading for a WSL battle at Stamford Bridge as Chelsea host Arsenal. Last season's League Cup Final at Molineux (same teams) was not the greatest game, hoping for better (though weather forecast is not good).
My period 3 lesson with Y13 on Monday will be Period 3 in more ways than one. It's these little things that make the life of a chemistry teacher so worthwhile.
January 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
My period 3 lesson with Y13 on Monday will be Period 3 in more ways than one. It's these little things that make the life of a chemistry teacher so worthwhile.
I'm at a particle physics lecture day... feeling more educated and more inadequate simultaneously! Will solve the internal conflict with chocolate shortly.
January 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I'm at a particle physics lecture day... feeling more educated and more inadequate simultaneously! Will solve the internal conflict with chocolate shortly.
As you'd expect, I'm a big fan of decent people with the work ethic in leadership positions. Pleased to see Tony Mowbray back at West Brom.
January 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
As you'd expect, I'm a big fan of decent people with the work ethic in leadership positions. Pleased to see Tony Mowbray back at West Brom.
Reposted by Graham Yapp
A computational investigation into the inductive effect in aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons has generated fresh evidence that alkyl groups are inductively electron-withdrawing relative to hydrogen and that this effect is small compared to other factors such as hyperconjugation.
Time to stop mentioning alkyl group inductive effects
New computational evidence reiterates that alkyl groups are inductively electron-withdrawing and that hyperconjugation dominates
www.chemistryworld.com
January 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A computational investigation into the inductive effect in aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons has generated fresh evidence that alkyl groups are inductively electron-withdrawing relative to hydrogen and that this effect is small compared to other factors such as hyperconjugation.
(calls up inner Fast Show Mark Williams)
Tomorrow, I will be mostly wingin' it.
Tomorrow, I will be mostly wingin' it.
January 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
(calls up inner Fast Show Mark Williams)
Tomorrow, I will be mostly wingin' it.
Tomorrow, I will be mostly wingin' it.
Big Jet TV on YouTube for entertainment this morning rather than the Vienna NYD concert. All about the physics.
January 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Big Jet TV on YouTube for entertainment this morning rather than the Vienna NYD concert. All about the physics.
Reunited today after over six decades. It seems that I am falling apart more than my childhood teddy bear!
December 27, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Reunited today after over six decades. It seems that I am falling apart more than my childhood teddy bear!
Carbohydrates of the season to all our readers.
December 24, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Carbohydrates of the season to all our readers.
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Heavy day of traffic on the new Pin Badge FC website yesterday.
All 92 League clubs plus a quiz now up on the site. European leagues to follow.
Thanks for popping in. 👊🏼
pinbadgefc.com
All 92 League clubs plus a quiz now up on the site. European leagues to follow.
Thanks for popping in. 👊🏼
pinbadgefc.com
December 21, 2024 at 8:10 AM
Heavy day of traffic on the new Pin Badge FC website yesterday.
All 92 League clubs plus a quiz now up on the site. European leagues to follow.
Thanks for popping in. 👊🏼
pinbadgefc.com
All 92 League clubs plus a quiz now up on the site. European leagues to follow.
Thanks for popping in. 👊🏼
pinbadgefc.com
me in my headteacher years chairing a subject leaders' meeting before I learned about the dangers of Any Other Business on an agenda
me when I'm trying to walk along a curvy path but people keep throwing boxes at me
December 20, 2024 at 2:50 PM
me in my headteacher years chairing a subject leaders' meeting before I learned about the dangers of Any Other Business on an agenda
My Autumn term is done. Tough (as ever these days) but also rewarding in many ways (also as ever) with plenty of variety and high points. A domestic to-do list now rises temporarily to the top of the pile. Good luck to everyone on their final day of term tomorrow.
December 19, 2024 at 11:51 PM
My Autumn term is done. Tough (as ever these days) but also rewarding in many ways (also as ever) with plenty of variety and high points. A domestic to-do list now rises temporarily to the top of the pile. Good luck to everyone on their final day of term tomorrow.
It's my day off. Have arrived in Leighton Bromswold, country walk imminent. Four of us with >250yrs of wisdom, aches and pains. Expecting mud.
December 18, 2024 at 9:15 AM
It's my day off. Have arrived in Leighton Bromswold, country walk imminent. Four of us with >250yrs of wisdom, aches and pains. Expecting mud.
I have the tired-but-smug look of one of those teachers who has got up to date with the end-of-term mock exam and test marking.
December 16, 2024 at 9:54 PM
I have the tired-but-smug look of one of those teachers who has got up to date with the end-of-term mock exam and test marking.
Plug 1 of 2 : great people, supportive team etc etc and you might even bump into me on Friday mornings
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December 11, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Plug 1 of 2 : great people, supportive team etc etc and you might even bump into me on Friday mornings
www.teachinherts.com/find-a-job/v...
www.teachinherts.com/find-a-job/v...
OK, I finally accept that Spursiness is a measurable phenomenon which now needs an SI unit.
December 8, 2024 at 7:28 PM
OK, I finally accept that Spursiness is a measurable phenomenon which now needs an SI unit.
Refreshing my French on Duolingo and still get the urge to say "boop!" at the end of every sentence like in Longmans Audio-Visual French course of the late 1960s. (For youngsters: it meant move the filmstrip forward one frame.)
December 7, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Refreshing my French on Duolingo and still get the urge to say "boop!" at the end of every sentence like in Longmans Audio-Visual French course of the late 1960s. (For youngsters: it meant move the filmstrip forward one frame.)
Marking a GCSE test this morning, energy stores and pathways. Anyone else of the view that the s&p model is struggling to get embedded? I still see lots of "converted into" ideas mixed in - maybe pupils using revision sources other than the school's? First year I've taught GCSE since 16-17. (1/2)
December 7, 2024 at 11:39 AM
Marking a GCSE test this morning, energy stores and pathways. Anyone else of the view that the s&p model is struggling to get embedded? I still see lots of "converted into" ideas mixed in - maybe pupils using revision sources other than the school's? First year I've taught GCSE since 16-17. (1/2)
A level physics kinetic theory today. Anyone looking through the window would have seen me bouncing off the walls and miming some of the vibrational modes of carbon dioxide molecules. Love this topic, especially the final reveal of three-over-two-kT.
December 6, 2024 at 2:53 PM
A level physics kinetic theory today. Anyone looking through the window would have seen me bouncing off the walls and miming some of the vibrational modes of carbon dioxide molecules. Love this topic, especially the final reveal of three-over-two-kT.