Instructional Video1:44
Curated Video

Friction Experiment: Rice in a Bottle

Pre-K - 8th
We are exploring friction with this simple science experiment. Max put raw rice inside a bottle and taped it against the table, the rice settled, reducing air pockets between each grain. So much so that when Max pushed a wooden spoon...
Instructional Video0:59
Science Buddies

The Phone Book Friction Experiment (with sticky notes)

K - 5th
As seen on Mythbusters - you can try this experiment yourself with sticky notes! For a version you can do (safely) at home, see the written instructions on our site: https://www.sciencebuddies.org/stem-activities/notepad-friction
Instructional Video4:00
Crash Course Kids

Astronaut Experiment

3rd - 8th
Air resistance! It's a thing! In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina does her own Astronaut Experiment to show us how we can prove it!
Instructional Video3:29
Curated Video

Why Is Static Friction Greater Than Kinetic Friction?

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Friction is the resistance that one object or surface experiences when moving over another object or surface. The two types of friction that come into play when moving two objects against one another are static and kinetic. Static...
Instructional Video3:29
Science ABC

Why Is Static Friction Greater Than Kinetic Friction?

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Friction is the resistance that one object or surface experiences when moving over another object or surface. The two types of friction that come into play when moving two objects against one another are static and kinetic. Static...
Instructional Video5:25
Science360

Friction and Heat - Science of Speed

12th - Higher Ed
Friction always creates heat. Brakes and tires depend on friction to work, but more friction isn't always better. In the engine, friction is never good and engine builders use everything from oil to high-tech coatings to get a little...
Instructional Video1:17
Virtually Passed

Friction intuition animation

Higher Ed
The maximum friction force when stationary is equal to UsN. The friction force when moving is UkN. This is always constant. In almost all cases, Us is greater than Uk (as expected). Wheels undergoing pure roll always experience static...
Instructional Video5:00
Curated Video

Introduction to Friction: Static and Kinetic Friction

9th - Higher Ed
This video explains the concept of friction, which is a force that exists between two objects that resists motion. The video discusses the two types of friction, static and kinetic, and explains how they work. It also explains how the...
Instructional Video3:15
Curated Video

Friction

6th - 12th
Friction can be friend or foe. What is friction, how does it affect our lives and how can we alter it? Physics - Forces - Learning Points. Friction is a resistive force between surfaces moving at different velocities. Friction is...
Instructional Video4:50
Curated Video

Charging by Friction: Understanding and Demonstrating the Transfer of Electric Charge Between Insulators

9th - Higher Ed
This video explains the concept of charging by friction. The video presents experiments and demonstrations to show how two insulators become charged and how opposite charges attract while like charges repel each other. The video also...
Instructional Video4:58
Flipping Physics

Introduction to the Coefficient of Friction

12th - Higher Ed
Please do not confuse the Coefficient of Friction with the Force of Friction. This video will help you not fall into that Pit of Despair!
Instructional Video2:56
Flipping Physics

Experimentally Graphing the Force of Friction

12th - Higher Ed
To help understand the force of friction, mr.p pulls on a wooden block using a force sensor.
Instructional Video8:58
Flipping Physics

Determining the Static Coefficient of Friction between Tires and Snow

12th - Higher Ed
We use Newton’s Second Law and Uniformly Accelerated Motion to experimentally determine the Static Coefficient of Friction between Tires and Snow.
Instructional Video5:32
Curated Video

The Robbers Cave Experiment: Understanding Tribal Conflict

Higher Ed
This video covers the Robbers Cave experiment, which was a controversial study conducted in 1954 that manipulated groups of boys from competing camps to fight each other. The study's findings established the realistic conflict theory,...
Instructional Video7:50
Curated Video

Separating Notebooks

6th - 12th
We interleave the pages of notebooks to see how hard it is to pull them apart. As the amount of interleaving increases, we see that the force required to separate them also increases. This is because the friction between the notebooks is...
Instructional Video3:26
SciShow

Fun With Potatoes & Physics! A SciShow Experiment

12th - Higher Ed
Hank uses a favorite subject of the YouTube community - the potato gun - to teach us about the principles of pneumatics, which use the potential energy of compressed gas to do work in lots of useful machines every day.
Instructional Video5:43
Curated Video

Millikan's Oil Drop Experiment : Tiny Drops, Big Discoveries

9th - Higher Ed
Millikan's Oil Drop Experiment: A Discovery and Impact Experimental Setup: • The experiment involved measuring the force on charged oil droplets suspended between two metal plates. • The apparatus included an atomizer, observation...
Instructional Video1:44
Curated Video

DIY SCI - FRICTION

6th - Higher Ed
DIY SCI host Steve Spangler demonstrates one way to solve the friction problem with the law of inertia.
Instructional Video23:21
Curated Video

Friction: do and review

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Pupil outcome: I can carry out an investigation into friction and evaluate the results. Key learning points: - Scientists carry out investigations to measure and compare the amount of friction created between different surfaces. - The...
Instructional Video1:38
Curated Video

Factpack: Experience Friction

6th - 12th
An interactive demonstration of how friction is created, and its effects. Physics - Forces - Learning Points. A Twig FactPack Film. Open a discussion on what has been already learnt in a topic, or use to grab attention at the start of a...
Instructional Video13:49
Schooling Online

Physics Introduction to Statics and Dynamics: Forces and Newton's Laws - Contact Forces Part 1

3rd - Higher Ed
A birthday party isn’t complete without cake, music and drama! This lesson will introduce the most common types of contact forces encountered in Physics. Definitions included: contact force, normal force, friction force, static friction,...
Instructional Video2:29
Curated Video

Understanding Newton's First Law of Motion: Inertia and Forces

12th - Higher Ed
New ReviewThis video discusses Newton's first law of motion, also known as the law of inertia. It explains how Newton built upon the experiments of Galileo to formulate this law. The video illustrates the concept using the example of a ball on the...
Instructional Video12:06
Let's Tute

Introduction to Physics

9th - Higher Ed
This video introduces the world of physics by explaining how it is involved in our everyday lives through examples such as sound, heat, friction, gravity, magnetism, force, electricity, light, and atoms. It defines physics as the study...
Instructional Video4:59
Science360

Science of the Winter Olympics - Curling

12th - Higher Ed
Curling has been in the Winter Olympics for four years now, but it still seems a little strange to most of us. John Shuster, the captain--or "skip"--of the U.S. Curling Team in Vancouver, explains this unusual sport, and NSF-funded...

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