TED Talks
John Green: The nerd's guide to learning everything online
Some of us learn best in the classroom, and some of us ... well, we don't. But we still love to learn -- we just need to find the way that works for us. In this charming, personal talk, author John Green shares the community of learning...
TED Talks
TED: The fascinating physics of everyday life | Helen Czerski
Physics doesn't just happen in a fancy lab -- it happens when you push a piece of buttered toast off the table or drop a couple of raisins in a fizzy drink or watch a coffee spill dry. Become a more interesting dinner guest as physicist...
Curated Video
Can A Starfox Barrel Roll Work In Space?
DO A BARREL ROLL! Or at least, try…? The iconic move from Star Fox seems so easy, just press a button and BOOM. The ship rolls. But HOW? Barrel rolls in atmosphere are easy to execute with the use of ailerons, but in space, it's a...
MinutePhysics
Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown)
Check out Grant’s channel: 3blue1brown. This video recounts a lecture by Richard Feynman giving an elementary demonstration of why planets orbit in ellipses. See the excellent book by Judith and David Goodstein, "Feynman's lost lecture”,...
3Blue1Brown
Feynman's Lost Lecture
This video recounts a lecture by Richard Feynman giving an elementary demonstration of why planets orbit in ellipses. See the excellent book by Judith and David Goodstein, "Feynman's lost lecture”, for the full story behind this lecture,...
Curated Video
What Survives Inside A Black Hole?
Black holes are the result of absolute gravitational collapse of a massive body: a point of hypothetical infinite density surrounded by an event horizon. At that horizon time is frozen and the fabric of space itself cascades inwards at...
Curated Video
How An Extreme New Star Could Change All Cosmology
A new white dwarf has been discovered (poetically named: ZTF J1901+1458) that’s doing some stuff that no white dwarf should ever be able to do. In fact, it has multiple properties that are so extreme that it almost certainly did NOT form...
Flipping Physics
All Mechanics Multiple Choice Solutions - AP Physics C 1998 Released Exam
These are my solutions to the Multiple Choice section of the Mechanics portion of the 1998 AP Physics C released exam. AP® is a registered trademark of the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse,...
Science360
Science of the Winter Olympics Figure Skating
Every four years, we watch the stakes for Olympic figure skaters get higher, as they try to increase rotation in the air with their triple axels and quadruple toe loops. How do they do that? It's a scientific principle that we asked...
Catalyst University
Postulates of Quantum Mechanics: Observables & Operators
Postulates of Quantum Mechanics: Observables & Operators
Science360
Science of the Winter Olympic Games - Physics of Slope-Style Skiing
Slope-style skiing is a gravity defying freestyle skiing event debuting in Sochi. Nick Goepper, a 2013 world champion, will need to follow the laws of physics and rotational motion in order to nail his tricks in his quest for Olympic...
Flipping Physics
2019 #1 Free Response Question - AP Physics 1 - Exam Solution
My solutions to Free Response Question #1 from the 2019 AP Physics 1 Exam. Also included are my reflections on how to get perform better on the exam. This Short Answer question also works as a part of the AP Physics C: Mechanics curriculum.
Higgsino Physics
Life Cycle of a Star - Virtual Reality Animation
An animation showing the life cycle of a star. Everything from the interstellar space, Interstellar clouds, pressure waves, protostars and protoplanets, the Hydrostatic equilibrium and at last the collapse of a star. Animated in virtual...
Catalyst University
Quantum Mechanics | The Bohr Model of the Atom
What are the issues with the Bohr model of the atom (Neils Bohr)? Some issues with this mode helped early physicists invent and develop the discipline of quantum mechanics.
Curated Video
NASA | Driving A Lunar Spacecraft
Want to fly a spacecraft around the Moon? Take this video for a spin to see how NASA operates the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Curated Video
NASA | Our Violent Universe
Our universe is more than a serene landscape of stars--it is teeming with activity from some extremely violent events. In a presentation at the IMAX theatre at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. on...
Science360
Science of the Winter Olympics - Aerial Physics
In the sport of freestyle aerials, skiers are judged on their ability to perform complex jumps in the air. Emily Cook, a 12-year veteran of the U.S. Freestyle team, and Paul Doherty, a Senior Scientist at the Exploratorium in San...
Catalyst University
Particle-on-a-Ring: Theory and Interpretation
Particle-on-a-Ring: Theory and Interpretation
Curated Video
Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom
This nugget explains the features and mathematical expressions of Bohr's model and its advantages over Rutherford's model.
Curated Video
Quantum Entanglement: Explained in REALLY SIMPLE Words
Quantum entanglement is a physical resource, like energy, that is possible between quantum systems. When a coin spins on a flat surface, it’s in a state of superposition between its two faces—head and tails. Similarly, electrons in their...
Curated Video
How to Build Quantum Computer?
In this representation I discuss the main principles of quantum mechanics behind the quantum computer. and How to build a device that can manipulate the energy operator of the Schrodinger Equation for an electron to change its spin from...
Curated Video
Mysterious Saturn
Astrophysicist Scott Tremaine, Institute for Advanced Study, describes the many open scientific questions associated with Saturn and its rings, describing what we know, what we don’t know, and why we know there’s a problem with some of...
Catalyst University
Postulates of Quantum Mechanics: Hermitian Operators 2
Postulates of Quantum Mechanics: Hermitian Operators 2
MinutePhysics
What IS Angular Momentum?
Have you ever felt like you're going nowhere? You really are going nowhere — if you happen to be spinning, rotating, or orbiting something! Young physicists learn about angular momentum in a short illustrated video. The narrator...