Crash Course
Thermodynamics: Crash Course History of Science #26
Scientists discovered the first law of thermodynamics 25 years after the second law of thermodynamics. The seemingly obvious discoveries sometimes confuse scientists while more complex challenges encourage extra study—and take more time...
Teacher's Pet
Heat in Changes of State
Melting ice seems pretty easy, right? But what's actually happening is much more complex! Introduce the class to enthalpy calculations using a video tutorial. The narrator explains and performs the calculations that show the energy at...
Bozeman Science
Potential and Kinetic Energy
When does potential energy become kinetic? Young physicists find the answer to this question as they view the video lesson. They learn the difference between the two energies and how to calculate their values.
DoodleScience
Charge, Current and Voltage
This brief video provides definitions for charge, current, and voltage and compares and contrasts these terms. The video also discusses coulomb, amps, and joules.
DoodleScience
Calculating Power and Fuses
Watt is this video about? It explains how to calculate power when you know the energy and time, and continues by discussing fuses, currents, and electrical surges.
Curated OER
Video 8 - Work
The eighth video in a series about basic physics terms, a segment focuses on work. A strong man and a clown demonstrate work in action. After several examples and a defintion, the video closes by introducing joules as a unit of measure.
Educreations
Entropy & Free Energy
An understanding of chemical reactions really boils down to two concepts: entropy and enthalpy. Follow along with this instructional video as it explains how these two principles are used to calculate Gibbs free-energy which...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Quantifying the Energy Associated With Everyday Things and Events
This lesson is about energy and how it manifests itself in every day things and events. In particular, the video focuses on quantification or estimation of energy. The main learning objectives are to: gain familiarity with units of...
Crash Course
Crash Course Physics #22: The Physics of Heat
Have you ever wondered why we wear clothes? I mean, beyond the obvious. Why does wearing a jacket in the cold keep your warmer? What is happening to all the heat inside your body? In this video episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Calculating Internal Energy and Work Example
This video shows a worked example calculating the change in internal energy for a gas using the first law of thermodynamics. [7:13]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Electric Power
In this video, David from Khan Academy derives the formula to find the power used by a resistor. [10:42]