{"id":3441,"date":"2026-08-11T11:07:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T00:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mansfieldsteiner.vic.edu.au\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2026-08-18T16:24:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T05:24:53","slug":"physics-of-energy-and-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mansfieldsteiner.vic.edu.au\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/physics-of-energy-and-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics of energy and communication"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3441\" class=\"elementor elementor-3441\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bdbf257 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"bdbf257\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"e-paragraph-base\" data-interaction-id=\"c49df81\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"c49df81\">In this unit, students explored the history of energy generation, tracing its development from fossil fuel\u2013based technologies such as steam engines and the modern four-stroke engine to the renewable energy revolution that is reshaping Australia\u2019s energy market. They conducted scientific investigations into wind power, using the experimental process to determine the optimum blade angle and number of blades needed to maximise the voltage generated by a wind turbine. Building on this understanding, students constructed working electric motors using copper wire and magnets, as well as Morse code communication devices powered by electromagnets, giving them a practical understanding of electricity and electromagnetism.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 data-interaction-id=\"157012b\" class=\"e-heading-base\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"157012b\"><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this unit, students explored the history of energy generation, tracing its development from fossil fuel\u2013based technologies such as steam engines and the modern four-stroke engine to the renewable energy revolution that is reshaping Australia\u2019s energy market. They conducted scientific investigations into wind power, using the experimental process to determine the optimum blade angle and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secondary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mansfieldsteiner.vic.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mansfieldsteiner.vic.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mansfieldsteiner.vic.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mansfieldsteiner.vic.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mansfieldsteiner.vic.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mansfieldsteiner.vic.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3446,"href":"https:\/\/mansfieldsteiner.vic.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions\/3446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mansfieldsteiner.vic.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mansfieldsteiner.vic.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mansfieldsteiner.vic.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mansfieldsteiner.vic.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}