MinutePhysics
What Is the Uncertainty Principle?
Are you unsure about the uncertainty principle? Using drawings and verbal explanations, this video explains why we cannot know everything about a particle. This is an ideal one-minute addition to your presentation on wave behavior.
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What Is Fire?
Brief, but brilliant, this little animation investigates the properties of fire. From its color and recipe, to the shape of a flame, find out what you always wanted to know about fire. This makes an enlightening addition to your physical...
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Parallel Universes: Many Worlds
Which path will you take in your physics career? Here, the proposed theories for how quantum mechanics meets the real world is explained. Are the many possible outcomes all happening in a universe, far, far away? Inspire aspiring...
MinutePhysics
The True Science of Parallel Universes
There are three models, all unconfirmed, of the possibility of multiverses, or multiple parallel universes. Each are explained in detail, with supportive drawings and diagrams. This is a mind-boggling topic for your astrophysicists to...
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The Wave/Particle Duality - Part 2
By imagining an electron as a particle of dust in a raindrop, the narrator helps viewers to understand wave-particle duality. Drawings and narration liken it to a particle being guided by a wave. The challenge, however, it to determine...
Curated OER
Dr. Quantum - Double Slit Experiment
Cartoon character Dr. Quantum proceeds through the classic double slit experiment, showing that both matter and energy can exhibit the behavior of both particles and waves. This would be a memorable way to enlighten your high school...
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...
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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.
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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,...