Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Fingerprinting Gravity
This very interactive video lesson uses the Simple Pendulum experiment to enable students to answer the fundamental question: What is the value of g in my school and in my home? Students will learn to calculate this value by working in...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Experimenting With a Pendulum
In this video segment, members of the ZOOM cast experiment with a pendulum and discover what they need to do to make the pendulum complete one back-and-forth swing in five seconds. [3:57]
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Circus Physics: Pendulum Motion
Swinging back and forth, the solo trapeze is a giant pendulum, just like the one in a grandfather clock. The time it takes to swing forward, then back to where it started is called the period. Surprisingly, this time has very little to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Segway Technology: What's Newton Got to Do With It?
What do the laws of physics have to do with engineering? Find out in this video segment featuring inventor Dean Kamen and his inventions, the IBOT and the Segway. [8:12]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Simple Harmonic Motion
In the following video Paul Andersen explains how simple harmonic motion occurs when a restoring force returns an object toward equilibrium. The two types of harmonic motion studied in AP Physics are the mass spring oscillator and the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Pendulums
David explains how a pendulum can be treated as a simple harmonic oscillator, and then explains what affects, as well as what does not affect, the period of a pendulum. [14:45]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Identifying Force Vectors for Pendulum: Worked Example
A worked example finding all force vectors acting on a pendulum moving in a horizontal circle. [2:58]
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Physics Videos: Clocks & Time
See how gears and time make a clock work. [8:50]