Gresham College
Can Maths Tell Us Where We Are?
Mathematics has played a vital role in GPS technology. It is one of the few areas where Einstein's general theory of relativity impacts our lives directly. A lecture by Chris Budd, Gresham Professor of Geometry 8 January 2019...
Gresham College
Maths Goes Into Space - Professor Chris Budd OBE
Space science is one of HM Governments eight great technologies. In this lecture I will explain the mathematics behind satellites, showing how they are controlled, how they are sent to distant planets and how they transmit and receive...
Curated Video
Introduction To SOHCAHTOA | Trigonometry | Maths | FuseSchool
Triangles are the building blocks of all other straight-edged shapes. They were used for hundreds of years to create accurate maps and GPS today still works using trigonometry. Even the pixels on phones and screens use trigonometry.We...
SciShow
The Sun's Center Is 39,000 Years Younger Than Its Surface
In the early 1960s, Richard Feynman was quoted as saying that Earth's center should be a day or two younger than its surface. 50 years later, scientists re-did the math.
SWPictures
An Injection of Hope: The Challenges of Vaccination in Developing Countries
An Injection of Hope part 3/4: This video highlights the challenges of delivering vaccines to remote and impoverished communities in developing countries. It also explores the efforts of global vaccination programs to bridge the gap in...
FuseSchool
Introduction To SOHCAHTOA
Triangles are the building blocks of all other straight-edged shapes. They were used for hundreds of years to create accurate maps and GPS today still works using trigonometry. Even the pixels on phones and screens use trigonometry.We...
PBS
Navigating with Quantum Entanglement
We often think of quantum mechanics as only affecting only the smallest scales of reality, with classical reality taking over at some intermediate level. But in his 1944 book, What is Life?, the quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger...
IT'S HISTORY
Isn't that India? - Navigation at Sea I PIRATES
Since the dawn of seafaring our ancestors had ways to navigate the seven seas. How did Navigation work before GPS and Google Maps? In our new episode, Brett explains how they used the stars, math and early forms of maps to explore the...
Curated Video
UX Design for Web Developers (Video 26)
User experience (UX) design is a theoretical understanding of how users interact with websites. The major challenge developers building a company website face is finding the right balance that fulfills the objectives of the company as...
Curated OER
What is a Scale Drawing?
Scale drawings are an easy and plausible way to represent large things, such as roads and buildings, on paper. This tutorial explains what a scale drawing is and uses the example of a house to demonstrate how a scale drawing works. It...
Curated OER
What is a Scale Drawing?
Scale drawings are an easy and plausible way to represent large things, such as roads and buildings, on paper. This tutorial explains what a scale drawing is and uses the example of a house to demonstrate how a scale drawing works. It...
TED-Ed
How Many Ways Are There to Prove the Pythagorean Theorem?
There is more than one way to prove the Pythagorean Theorem. Euclid and Einstein found the same way to prove the Pythagorean Theorem. The video introduces several other ways to prove the theorem along with the history of its use.