Curated Video
The Effects of Wavelength and Speed on Electromagnetic Waves
This video is a lecture on the effects of wavelength and speed on electromagnetic waves. The speaker explains what can happen to a wave at the boundary between two media, including reflection and refraction. They also discuss how...
Curated Video
How Remote Controls Work
In this video, we learn how remote controls work by sending signals through electromagnetic signals. The remote control emits infrared radiation, which is received by a small infrared light detector on the device being operated. By...
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Electromagnetic Waves EM Spectrum
This nugget explains the source, generation, properties and discovery of electromagnetic waves.
Curated Video
How Do Cell Phones Work?
This video provides a clear and concise explanation of how cell phones work, highlighting their evolution from simple communication devices to multi-functional computers. Learn the basics of sending and receiving calls, texts, and data...
Curated Video
Introduction to Electromagnetic Waves and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
The video explains the basics of electromagnetic waves, including their definition as transverse waves that transfer energy from a source to an absorber. It discusses the seven general sections of the electromagnetic spectrum, going from...
Curated Video
The Power of Bluetooth: Connecting the Wireless World
This video provides a brief overview of Bluetooth technology and its applications. It explains how Bluetooth uses radio waves to send and receive signals in short distances, making it ideal for wireless connections between devices such...
NASA
The Secrets behind Earth's Multi-colored Glow
What does our planet look like from space? Most are familiar with the beloved images of the blue marble or pale blue dot -- Earth from 18,000 and 3.7 billion miles away, respectively. But closer to home, within the nearest region of...
Let's Tute
Understanding Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
The video discusses the concept of light as a type of electromagnetic radiation and explains the different types of radiations in the electromagnetic spectrum based on their wavelength, frequency, and energy. It also highlights the...
Visual Learning Systems
The Atmosphere: the Ionosphere and the Exosphere
Students will learn about the different layers of the atmosphere. The changes in the atmosphere are explained using examples of contemporary environmental conditions brought about by human behavior. The oxygen cycle and the carbon cycle...
Curated Video
Introduction to Radio Waves and Communication
This is a lecture video on radio waves where the instructor explains how radio waves are produced and used to communicate around the world. The video covers the electromagnetic spectrum and explains that radio waves are a classification...
Curated Video
Microwaves: Cooking Food with Radio Waves
Microwave ovens use radio waves to quickly and efficiently cook food by agitating water molecules and generating heat at the atomic level. The waves can pass through certain materials such as plastic, glass, and ceramic, making heating...
Professor Dave Explains
What is Light? Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Up until a couple centuries ago, we had no idea what light is. It seems like magic, no? But there is no magic in this world, really. Just stuff we don't understand. So let's understand light a little better right now!
Curated Video
Technology and Uses of Drones
The basic nuts and bolts of how things work is explained simply by exploring the natural world and human made inventions that we come in contact with. Drones are used for all kinds of things from military missions to movies to delivering...
Curated Video
How Radios Transmit and Receive Sound
Learn how a radio works, from transmitting electrical energy through radio waves to converting them back into audio for the user to listen to. Understand how signals are encoded and decoded using modulation techniques, as well as the...
Curated Video
Uses and Applications of Electromagnetic Waves
In this lecture video, the different types of electromagnetic waves are examined, and their uses and applications are explored. The video begins with an overview of the electromagnetic spectrum, starting with gamma rays and ending with...
Science360
National Science Foundation - EHT Press Conference Revealing First Image of Black Hole
View, Learn, Share, this National Science Foundation webcast.
TMW Media
The Very Large Array Telescope: The purpose and characteristics of the VLA
What is the purpose of the VLA? What astronomical objects do they observe? Why was the VLA renamed Carl G. Jansky Very Large Array? What are the characteristics of the antenna? The Very Large Array Telescope, Part 1
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Seeing Saturn's Moon Titan
Overview of the Cassini spacecraft's investigation of Saturn's moon Titan.
Flipping Physics
Resonance Introduction using 9 Demonstrations
Resonance is introduced and demonstrated using a “singing rod”, a swing, a goblet, a hollow tube in water, a hollow tube open on both ends, a seashell, a broken speaker, a human body and a key fob, and a shorter “singing rod”....
Flipping Physics
Introduction to Waves
An introduction to mechanical waves which are defined and demonstrated. The fact that the medium is not displaced is demonstrated. Both transverse waves and longitudinal waves are also defined and demonstrated.
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Sound
This video is a lesson about sound and how it works. It covers topics such as the definition of sound, how sound is produced through vibrations, the different types of waves (transverse and longitudinal), the speed of sound in different...
Visual Learning Systems
The Nature of Waves: Types of Waves
Upon viewing the The Nature of Waves video series, students will be able to do the following: Define waves as traveling disturbances that carry energy through matter or space. Explain that waves do not actually move matter. Instead,...
Visual Learning Systems
Vibrations and Waves: Waves in Action
This program explores the fascinating features of vibrations and waves. Vivid examples of these phenomenon help students understand how sounds are formed, how light travels, and how ocean waves move. Special attention is also given to...