TED-Ed
What if every satellite suddenly disappeared? | Moriba Jah
What would happen if one day all of humanity's artificial satellites suddenly disappeared? Within hours, most of the planet's traffic would grind to a halt, the world economy would shut down, and most countries would declare a state of...
SciShow
Animals Inspiring the Armor of the Future
Organisms have evolved many clever forms of armor so that they can be ready for whatever nature throws at them. And us flimsy humans can learn to enhance our armor by taking inspiration from some of these creatures, and not necessarily...
TED Talks
David Kelley: Human-centered design
IDEO's David Kelley says that product design has become much less about the hardware and more about the user experience. He shows video of this new, broader approach, including footage from the Prada store in New York.
Crash Course
Statics: Crash Course Physics
The Physics we're talking about today has saved your life! Whenever you walk across a bridge or lean on a building, Statics are at work. Statics is the study of objects when they're NOT accelerating. In this episode of Crash Course...
Crash Course
Light
In order to understand how we study the universe, we need to talk a little bit about light. Light is a form of energy. Its wavelength tells us its energy and color. Spectroscopy allows us to analyze those colors and determine an object’s...
MinutePhysics
Our Ignorance About Gravity
Thanks to the Heising Simons Foundation (https://www.hsfoundation.org/) for their support of this video, and of short range gravity research. This video is about how little we know about the behavior of gravity at short length and...
SciShow
How to Make Pokémon GO
You wanna be the very best? Like no one ever was? Travel across your neighborhood with us and learn about some of the tech behind the phenomenon that is Pokémon GO.
Bozeman Science
Position vs. Time Graph - Part 1
Mr. Andersen shows you how to interpret a position vs. time graph for an object with constant velocity. The slope of the line is used to find the velocity. A phet simulation is also included.
PBS
The Origin of Our First Interstellar Visitor
We were recently visited by a traveler from outside our solar system. This is the first time we've ever seen an object that came to us from interstellar space. It's name is 'Oumuamua.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Is light a particle or a wave? - Colm Kelleher
Can we accurately describe light as exclusively a wave or just a particle? Are the two mutually exclusive? In this third part of his series on light and color, Colm Kelleher discusses wave-particle duality and its relationship to how we...
Crash Course Kids
Organizing Properties
Have you ever thought about all the different kinds of groups you’re a part of? Like, there’s the friends you hang out with and your family, your hockey team, your Crash Course fan club, and that’s just for starters! And even though...
PBS
What Physics Teachers Get Wrong About Tides!
We all know tides have something to do with gravity from the Moon and Sun, but if gravity affects the motion of all objects equally, then how come oceans have large tides while other bodies of water don't? It's because your mental...
Crash Course
Electric Fields: Crash Course Physics
As we learn more about electricity, we have to talk about fields. Electric fields may seem complicated, but they're really fascinating and a crucial part of physics. In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini chats about capacitors,...
SciShow
Electromagnetism - Magnetic Force: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #4b
In this final segment on the four fundamental forces of physics, Hank tackles the magnetic force, the second of the two ways in which electromagnetism is apparent in the universe
Bozeman Science
PS4B - Electromagnetic Radiation
In this video Paul Andersen describes some of the properties of electromagnetic radiation. The electromagnetic spectrum varies by wavelength from radio waves to gamma rays. We only see a portion of the spectrum known as visible light. A...
Crash Course
Skyscrapers, Statics, & Dynamics: Crash Course Engineering #26
What if you were on a high floor of a skyscraper and the building started swaying? Today we’ll explore statics and dynamics, and what they mean for the structures we design. We look at the idea of static equilibrium, forces, and torques,...
SciShow Kids
Echolocation: Seeing with Sound! | Amazing Animal Senses | SciShow Kids
Squeaks and Mister Brown learn all about echolocation, and how animals use it to sense things! First Grade Next Generation Science Standards Crosscutting Concept: Structure and Function: The way an object is shaped or structured...
Bozeman Science
Conservation of Electric Charge
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the conservation of charge applies to objects in a system. When a charged object induces charge or conducts charge to a neutral object the net total of charge will not change. Grounding allows...
SciShow
How Some People Echolocate Like Bats
Animals like bats and dolphins navigate the world using echolocation, but there’s also another animal capable of such a feat: humans.
TED Talks
Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry, reality's riddle
The world turns on symmetry -- from the spin of subatomic particles to the dizzying beauty of an arabesque. But there's more to it than meets the eye. Here, Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy offers a glimpse of the invisible numbers...
Crash Course
Brown Dwarfs
While Jupiter is nowhere near massive enough to initiate fusion in its core, there are even more massive objects out there that fall just short of that achievement as well called brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs, have a mass that places them...
Bozeman Science
Center of Mass
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the center of mass of an object represents the average position of matter in an object. The center of mass of a system is a combination of all the objects within the system. As long as no external...
Curated Video
Compare Lengths of Objects by Drawing Pictures
In this video lesson, we present various examples, such as measuring train lengths and finding missing tiles, to help us compare lengths of objects by drawing pictures. The lesson emphasizes the importance of subtraction and highlights...