MinutePhysics
What is the Uncertainty Principle?
What is the Uncertainty Principle? A succinct video describes the uncertainty principle as wave behavior.
MinutePhysics
What is the Wave/Particle Duality? Part 2
Electrons, neutrons, and photons display behavior explained by wave-particle duality. The video explains how to picture the duality of behaviors in these parts of atoms. The drawings and comparisons to the behavior of water focus on...
SciShow
Quantum Computing Breakthrough
In January 2017, the first quantum computer was offered to the public and came with 2000 qubits. The breakthrough that makes quantum computing possible is detailed in a video that also discusses how quantum computing will change...
SciShow
Schrödinger's iPad? New Breakthroughs in Quantum Computing
Are quantum computers the future of technology and security? The video explains what quantum computing is and how quantum computers are vastly different than traditional computers. The narrator details the benefits and downfalls of...
SciShow
So What Is the Higgs Boson?
This short video explains what the Higgs Boson is, how scientists knew to look for it, and how its discovery confirmed many of the theories that had been proposed over hundreds of years of physics.
SciShow
Great Minds: Richard Feynman, The Great Explainer
Who is known for his bongo playing and solving the hardest algebra problem of all time? Richard Feynman loved to solve puzzles and didn't handle being bored very well. He is known for the Feynman diagrams that explain quantum...
Berkeley University of California
Hydrogen Atom as a Particle in a Box (NB)
How does an electron qualify as a particle in a box? It behaves like a wave and, when bound to an atom, has boundaries. Using this notion, the professor explains a quantum mechanical calculation for a hydrogen atom. Given the length of...
TED-Ed
How Does Your Smartphone Know Your Location?
When your smartphone tells you the weather of your current location or gives you directions to the nearest gas station, there's more going on that you might realize. Follow along with this short video as it explains how...
TED-Ed
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
Not sure how to introduce young physicists to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal? Well this short video is a great place to start, as it explains how the particle and wave nature of matter makes it impossible to know both the...
TED-Ed
Schrödinger's Cat: A Thought Experiment in Quantum Mechanics
Can something be both alive and dead at the same time? According to quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger, the answer is yes. Watch this short video to learn how the wave and particle nature of all matter allows objects to be in two states...
TED-Ed
Einstein's Brilliant Mistake: Entangled States
Mistakes aren't always a bad thing. Learn how one of Albert Einstein's greatest contributions to the field of quantum physics was actually a theory that ended up being proven wrong, with this short video on entangled states.
TED-Ed
Particles and Waves: The Central Mystery of Quantum Mechanics
Help young physicists make a quantum leap in their understanding of matter with this short instructional video. Tracing the early work of Max Planck, Albert Einstein, and others, this resource explains the science behind the...
TED-Ed
What Can Schrödinger's Cat Teach Us About Quantum Mechanics?
Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. Step out of the macroscopic world and into the strange, bizarre realm of quantum mechanics with this short instructional video. Using the example of the Schrödinger's Cat thought...
MinutePhysics
What is Quantum Tunneling?
Only about a minute long, this brief explanation is of quantum tunneling. What does it mean? What might it lead to? Appropriate for your advanced physics classes, it could be added to your quantum mechanics presentation.
MinutePhysics
How the Sun Works: Fusion and Quantum Tunneling
There may be nothing new under the sun, but astrophysicists constantly are learning new things about the sun! In this minute-long clip, learn the physics of fusion in the sun and the possibility that quantum tunneling is happening...
Curated OER
Flow Of Time, Part 4/4
The conclusion of this excellent four-part series brings modern quantum mechanics and theoretical physics into the conversation of time. Coming full circle from the music employed as an allegory of time, we return to the piano,...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Krulwich Wonders: A Canadian Bohemian Rhapsodizes About String Theory
Watch and listen to Tim Blais, a physicist, explain string theory through the lyrics of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. Don't miss this amazing performance.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Quantum Numbers
An explanation of finding the probable location of an electron using quantum numbers to describe the orbitals. [12:00]
NASA
Science at Nasa: Science Casts: The Coolest Spot in the Universe
NASA researchers plan to create the coldest spot in the known Universe - inside the International Space Station. The device, known as the Cold Atom Lab, could discover new forms of matter and novel quantum phenomena. (Jan 30, 2014) [3:51]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Ask a Quantum Mechanic
MIT's Seth Lloyd discusses quantum mysteries in this episode of Ask a Quantum Mechanic.
Crash Course
Crash Course Physics #43: Quantum Mechanics Part 1
What is light? That is something that has plagued scientists for centuries. It behaves light a wave - and a particle - what? Is it both? In this video [8:45] episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini introduces to the idea of Quantum...
Crash Course
Crash Course Physics #44: Quantum Mechanics Part 2
e=mc2. It's a big deal, right? But why? And what about this grumpy cat in a box and probability? In this video episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini attempts to explain a little more on the topic of Quantum Mechanics. [9:07]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Quantum Mechanical Model
Practice using probability to describe the location of electrons in the atomic model. [3:25]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Spooky Science: Quantum Entanglement
In the quantum world, physics can get pretty strange.