Khan Academy
Plate Tectonics: Evidence of Plate Movement, Cosmology & Astronomy
Need a video to accompany your lecture on plate tectonics? Sal summarizes clues that certain parts of the world may have once been connected. Use the video as part of one lecture or break it up over several lessons.
Curated OER
Finding the Dot Product
Are you just starting a unit of vectors or matrices? Help your class learn how to find the dot product with this simplistic video tutorial. The procedure is shown as the tutor determines the dot product of A and B by transposing numbers...
Curated OER
Angular Velocity Vectors Right Hand Rule
Niki and Megan share the right hand rule for angular velocity vectors. This visual demonstration employed a bicycle wheel and Niki's right hand. This clip could be a helpful way to demonstrate the right hand rule in class. You could have...
Curated OER
STEMbite: Conservation of Angular Momentum
Showcase a few classic demonstrations of angular momentum with this two-minute film. Using a gyroscope, a bicycle, and a tire removed from a bicycle, the narrator explains how angular momentum keeps an object up in a way that defies the...
Curated OER
STEMbite: Projectile Motion of Abby's Arrow
Projectile motion is seen in action as Andrew's niece, Abby, practices archery. This is a nice demonstration since most video clips that you can find online are actually just animations. That being said, there is nothing more to this...
Virtual Nerd
What is a Vector?
Define a vector and teach your class about the different parts of a vector with this video. An instructor conveys what a vector is, labeling the parts and providing multiple examples. Learners can re-watch this video if they are...
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Science of Nhl Hockey
A collection of ten videos that examine the physics behind NHL hockey. They cover topics such as Newton's Laws of Motion, projectile motion, and kinematics.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Intro to Vectors & Scalars
Video explores the difference between vectors and scalars while discussing distance, displacement, speed and velocity. [8:38]
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Khan Academy: Linear Algebra: Vector Examples
Video gives examples of vector addition, graphing vectors, multiplying vectors by a scalar and vector subtraction using vectors in R2 and extends to vectors in other dimensions. [25:33]
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Science of Nfl Football
A collection of ten videos that examine the physics and math behind NFL football. They cover topics such as Newton's Laws of Motion, the Pythagorean Theory, kinematics, and projectile motion.
University of Nebraska
University of Nebraska Lincoln: Football Physics
Every Husker home game, Dr. Tim Gay attempts something as crazy as running against the NU defense: bringing physics to everyday life. In one-minute segments shown on the screens around the stadium, he talks about basic physics concepts...
University of Nottingham
Sixty Symbols: Symbols of Physics and Astronomy: Vectors
University of Nottingham astronomer Meghan Gray introduces us to a fairly simple physics concept: the vector, defined as "something that has a size and a direction." Learn about everyday vector quantities, such as velocity, acceleration,...
Math TV
Math tv.com: Vectors: An Algebraic Approach
The video tutorial investigates vectors from an algebraic point of view. A worksheet consisting of practice problems and solutions is included to check for understanding of the concept. In the left hand menu, click on Trigonometry,...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Equivalent Vectors: Lesson 1
This lesson goes over how to recognize equivalent vectors. It is 1 of 6 in the series titled "Equivalent Vectors."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Unit Vectors: Lesson 5
This lesson introduces unit vectors. It is 5 of 5 in the series titled "Unit Vectors."
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Science of Nhl Hockey: Vectors
Explains why passing the puck in ice hockey is such an important skill. The puck is an example of a velocity vector and vectors can be added to determine the direction and speed of the puck. [4:28]
Crash Course
Crash Course Physics #4: Vectors and 2 D Motion
The scientists from Crash Course Physics introduce the ideas of vectors and scalars so we can better understand how to figure out motion in 2 Dimensions. [10:05]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Subspaces and the Basis for a Subspace: Linear Subspaces
Introduction to linear subspaces. This video gives examples of vector sets and testing to see if they are vector subspaces.
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Khan Academy: Vector Dot and Cross Products: Distance Between Planes
This video demonstrates a problem about the distances between two planes.
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Khan Academy: Linear Algebra: Vector Dot Product and Vector Length
Video first reviews vector addition and multiplying by a scalar multiple. Gives notation for dot product and shows example of calculating the dot product of vectors. Then gives the formula for vector length and gives examples of using...
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Khan Academy: Vector Dot Product and Vector Length
Definitions of the vector dot product and vector lengthVideo first reviews vector addition and multiplying by a scalar multiple. Gives notation for dot product and shows example of calculating the dot product of vectors.
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Khan Academy: Orthonormal Basis: Gram Schmidt Example With 3 Basis Vectors
Video using the Gram-Schmidt process to create an orthonormal basis from a specific basis with three basis vectors in four-dimensional space.
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Khan Academy: Proof of Stokes' Theorem: Stokes' Theorem Proof Part 4
A video proving the Stokes' Theorem.
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Khan Academy: Proof of Stokes' Theorem: Stokes' Theorem Proof Part 3
This is part three of a video proving the Stokes' Theorem.