MinutePhysics
What is Touch?
Share a touching moment with your physics class! Discover the nature of touch in an animated video. Scholars learn what actually happens at the subatomic level when they sit in a chair. The narrator also examines the...
MinutePhysics
Open Letter to the President: Physics Education
Does something seem missing from your Physics class? Is it ... excitement? Current physics topics? The latest discoveries? The video explains some of the "gaps" in most physics curricula throughout the United States. Scholars learn...
MinutePhysics
Can We Predict Everything?
To be or not to be — is the question really that simple? According to the classic quantum mechanical model ... well, maybe! Explore the nature of event prediction and probability in a short, animated video. Young physicists...
MinutePhysics
The Higgs Boson, Part II: What is Mass?
If you're reading this, thank the Higgs field! The second video in a series of three describes how matter is given mass via the Higgs field. Pupils discover the difference between particles with and without mass and how they interact...
PBS
The Mathematics of Quantum Computers
Scholars learn about the basics of quantum computing, starting with Schrodinger's Cat through a video that explains the mathematics behind quantum computers, including the representation of quantum gates as matrices.
MinutePhysics
What is the Wave/Particle Duality? Part 1
Einstein rejected the idea of wave/particle duality, yet now we believe the concept to be true. A short video explains the properties of waves, particles, and the behavior of electrons, which act as both. The film concludes with...
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]