Veritasium
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle Explained
Quantum physics relies on Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, yet many don't fully understand it. A brief video installment from a larger playlist explores the principle with a laser light and a slit for it to pass through. It describes...
Crash Course
The History of Atomic Chemistry
Take a historic view of our knowledge of atoms with a video that explores the discoveries of many scientists including Leucippus, Democritus, Rutherford, Bohr, Heisenburg, and more.
Be Smart
What's the Hottest Hot and Coldest Cold?
When temperatures get extreme, physics gets a little weird! Show physics scholars the lowest man-made temperature to date, as well as the extreme heat of the Big Bang using a video from an extensive playlist. The narrator explains some...
Crash Course
Quantum Mechanics—Part 2: Crash Course Physics #44
Introduce your classes to the famous Schrodinger's cat. An episode of a Crash Course physics playlist continues a discussion of quantum mechanics. Topics include Schrodinger's equation, the probability density function, and the...
TED-Ed
Will We Ever Be Able To Teleport?
Quantium entanglement? The Uncertainty Principle? A cubit of data? Spooky Action at a Distance? How do these terms figure in an answer to the question of whether or not it will ever be possible to teleport? A short video provides all the...
MinutePhysics
What is the Uncertainty Principle?
What is the Uncertainty Principle? A succinct video describes the uncertainty principle as wave behavior.
SciShow
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Subatomic particles live in a cloud of probability. The video explains the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and how it relates to this cloud of probability. It also details the observer effect, which is often confused for the uncertainty...
SciShow
Absolute Zero: Absolute Awesome
Do you know the location of the coldest place in the universe? Turns out, it is in laboratories on Earth. While space is cold, radiation heats it up so it is more than two degrees Kelvin. Scientists working on absolute zero have been...
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...