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NSF Director on 1st cosmic event seen in gravitational waves and in light
Excerpts from National Science Foundation Director France Córdova's remarks at the press conference announcing the first gravitational wave detection of a neutron star collision and the first time a cosmic event was seen both in...
Flipping Physics
How to Wear A Helmet - A PSA from Flipping Physics
Wearing a helmet is all about impulse, change in momentum and the force of impact. This video illustrates why you should secure your helmet to your head. Thank you very much to Colton and Jean Johnson who said yes when I asked them if I...
Curated Video
Conservation of Momentum: Principles and Calculations
This video is a lecture presentation on the topic of conservation of momentum in physics. It explains the principle of conservation of momentum and how it can be used in calculations. The video provides examples of collisions between...
Curated Video
Understanding Chemical Reactions: Collision Theory and Catalysts
This video discusses collision theory and how it applies to chemical reactions. The concept of activation energy and how it relates to the rate of a chemical reaction is explained. The video goes on to explore three ways that the rate of...
Flipping Physics
2D Conservation of Momentum Example using Air Hockey Discs
A 28.8 g yellow air hockey disc elastically strikes a 26.9 g stationary red air hockey disc. If the velocity of the yellow disc before the collision is 33.6 cm/s in the x direction and after the collision it is 10.7 cm/s at an angle...
Next Animation Studio
‘Fossil galaxy’ found hidden deep inside the Milky Way: study
Scientists have discovered the remnants of what they call a “fossil” galaxy buried in the inner depths of the Milky Way.
Curated Video
Understanding Collision Theory and Activation Energy for Chemical Reactions
The video explains collision theory and activation energy in chemistry. It demonstrates the concept of how reacting particles need to collide with sufficient energy to break reactant bonds and form new products. The video also explains...
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New LHC detector technology - Installing the ATLAS IBL
Scientists and engineers installed a new component in the core of the ATLAS detector--one of two general-purpose detectors at the Large Hadron Collider. This new component, called the Insertable B-Layer, sits merely centimeters from the...
Flipping Physics
AP Physics 1: Rotational Dynamics Review
Review of the Rotational Dynamics topics covered in the AP Physics 1 curriculum.
Curated Video
Momentum and Safety: How Changing Force Can Reduce Damage
This video is a lecture presentation on the topic of momentum and safety. The presenter discusses the relationship between force and rate of change of momentum and provides examples of how changing the force acting on an object during a...
Curated Video
Hands-On Unity 2018.x Game Development for Mobile (Video 6)
Ready to take your game development skills to the next level by deploying your games to mobile platforms? With the boom in the mobile game development space, there has never been a better time! This course will give you the necessary...
Next Animation Studio
NASA: Potentially hazardous asteroid the size of the Eiffel Tower will pass close to Earth in December
A 330-meter-wide asteroid, around the size of the Eiffel Tower, is heading towards Earth, and is expected to pass us by on December 11, according to NASA.
Next Animation Studio
Earth's gold formed by stellar collisions, scientists say
American astronomers have revealed that gold is likely the byproduct of the cataclysmic merger of neutron stars, according to the USA today.
Weird History
The Kursk | What Happened to the Russian Sub That Exploded
When the Russian submarine Kursk sank in 2000, it was a conspiracy theorist's dream come true. Immediately, conflicting stories started pouring in from official sources, ranging from a US submarine ramming the Kursk to a potential...
Curated Video
Complete Git Guide: Understand and Master Git and GitHub - More details on hash collision probability (OPTIONAL)
This video gives a more detailed view on hash collision probability. This clip is from the chapter "How Git Works Under the Hood" of the series "Complete Git Guide: Understand and Master Git and GitHub".This section explains how to...
Science360
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week - Episode 10
Genes turn on, fluids go surfing, radioactivity spills from a cosmic collision, and an oceanic plate crashes the party at Earth’s mantle. It's your weekly briefing on the latest discoveries you might not hear about anywhere else, all...
Next Animation Studio
Massive collision with a planet bigger than earth may be the answer to Jupiter's unusual core
A cosmic collision between Jupiter and a protoplanet billions of years ago could explain the unexpected readings from NASA’s Juno space probe.
Next Animation Studio
Train crash in Taiwan kills 50 people
Tragedy struck on the first day of Taiwan’s Tomb Sweeping holiday when dozens of people were killed in the country’s worst train crash in decades
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Autonomous Helicopters
Claire Tomlin, formerly of Stanford and currently with Berkeley, is pushing the envelope of aerospace design, building a new class of autonomous helicopters, with support from the National Science Foundation. These aircraft don't need a...
Next Animation Studio
China says SpaceX satellites are trying to hit its space station
Beijing complained bitterly to the U.N. about having to avoid collisions twice, but its anti-satellite missile test did much worse to the ISS.
Curated Video
Gravity Assist: How to Move an Asteroid, with Nancy Chabot
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Mission, or DART, will deliberately impact a small asteroid called Dimorphos to deflect its orbit around a bigger object, Didymos. Nancy Chabot, planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University...
The Art Assignment
Make It, then Break It. | Carolina Borja and Amy Toscani | The Art Assignment
We went to ArtPrize and met up with Minneapolis based artists Carolina Borja and Amy Toscani. Their exhibit this year invited the audience to destroy the large-scale handmade piñatas that they had spent hours constructing. And now it’s...
NASA
Happy Lunar New Year From Hubble
Hubble welcomes the Year of the Rat with a view of its own favorite rodents, NGC 4676A and B, and highlights the planetary origins of the Chinese zodiac’s 12-year timetable. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Bradley Hague (GSFC...
NASA
Hubble Trivia: 6) What Has Hubble Helped to Reveal About the Expansion of the Universe?
The Hubble Space Telescope has been revealing the secrets of the universe for over 30 years, but it turns out Hubble has some secrets of its own! The question is: What has Hubble helped to reveal about the expansion of the universe? You...