Curated Video
GCSE Physics - Resultant Forces & Free Body Diagrams #42
This video covers: - What a resultant force is - What free body diagrams are - How to calculate the resultant force from a free body diagram - The idea of splitting up the forces into horizontal and vertical components General info: -...
Curated Video
Flat-panel electronic displays: a triumph of physics, chemistry and engineering
Professor Cyril Hilsum has written an article entitled "Flat-panel electronic displays: a triumph of physics, chemistry and engineering" for the issue "Personal perspectives in the physical sciences for the Royal Society's 350th...
Curated Video
GCSE Physics - Vector Diagrams and Resultant Forces #43
This video covers: - How to represent forces with scale diagrams - Finding the resultant force from vectors - How to resolve vectors by splitting them into horizontal and vertical components General info: - Suitable for all GCSE courses...
Wonderscape
Science Kids: All About Penguins
In this video, the teacher introduces the topic of penguins and provides information about their habitat, physical characteristics, adaptations, and social behavior. The video also includes review questions to test the viewers'...
World Science Festival
The Moth: Suffering for Science by Frank Wilczek
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek recounts how imprecise editing in popular science media can lead to apocalyptic visions, as well as awkwardly hilarious moments. Scientists, writers, and artists take to the stage to tell...
World Science Festival
Infinity: The Science of Endless
"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man," said David Hilbert, one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th century. A subject extensively studied by philosophers, mathematicians, and more...
World Science Festival
Your Daily Equation #23: Deriving Classical from Quantum Physics: Ehrenfest's Theorem
Episode 23 #YourDailyEquation: Classical and Quantum Physics describe reality in completely different ways. Yet, in 1927, Paul Ehrenfest showed how Newton's equation could be derived from Schrödinger's, establishing a deep continuity in...
World Science Festival
The Supernova That Rocked Neutrino Physics
On February 23, 1987, neutrino physics changed forever. Here, particle physicist Lawrence Krauss of Arizona State University explains at the 2012 World Science Festival program, The Elusive Neutrino and the Nature of the Cosmos, how a...
World Science Festival
Higgs Boson Discovery Wins Nobel Prize for Physics
Peter Higgs and Francois Englert win Nobel Prize in Physics. Want to know what makes the Higgs Boson Nobel Prize-worthy? Brian Greene explains. The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and...
World Science Festival
Finding New Physics in Quiet Particles
In a room full of subatomic particles, neutrinos keep to themselves, and physicist Janet Conrad admires their independence. At The Elusive Neutrino and the Nature of the Cosmos, she explains that their tendency to not interact with...
World Science Festival
Science Faith and Religion
Public debate, pitting atheist against believer, typically yields a polarized picture. Might a more nuanced conversation that transcends simplistic assertions, and weaves insights from physics, biology, and psychology provide a more...
World Science Festival
NOTHING: The Science of Emptiness
Why is there something rather than nothing? And what does ‘nothing’ really mean? More than a philosophical musing, understanding nothing may be the key to unlocking deep mysteries of the universe, from dark energy to why particles have...
World Science Festival
The New Science of Aging
According to evolutionary biologist Michael Rose, the conventional 20th century science of aging is dead. The way he sees it, we're on the cusp of a new scientific era—similar to when Newtonian physics gave way to Einstein's theory of...
World Science Festival
The Science of Disney Imagineering (excerpt)
How can one person hear a sound that the person right next to them can't? Why are we tracking elephants and what are they saying to each other? What happens when you freeze air? Are you up to the challenge of our Roller Coaster...
World Science Festival
Your Daily Equation | Episode 10: Quantum Physics and Probability
Episode 10 #YourDailyEquation: The revolutionary new idea of quantum mechanics is that reality evolves through a game of chance described by probabilities. In today's episode of Your Daily Equation, Brian explains the origin of this...
World Science Festival
Fun, Games, and Newtonian Physics in Space
Like us down here on Earth, the astronauts on the International Space Station can't work 24 hours a day. So what do they do up there for fun? Luckily, the zero gravity environment gives them a unique opportunity to goof around, as well...
MinuteEarth
Is Climate Change Just A Lot Of Hot Air?
Check out http://www.lynda.com/minuteearth for 10 days of free online courses - http://www.lynda.com/ Illustrations by: Jesse Agar - https://www.youtube.com/user/ThisPlaceChannel Thanks also to our Patreon patrons: - Jeff Straathof -...
Curated Video
Controlling a Helicopter - The Physical World: Helicopters (3/3)
The tail rotor keeps the helicopter from rotating. The cyclic stick is responsible for speed, direction and altitude control. (Part 3 of 3) Playlist link - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL87BE7B419317CB0F Transcript link -...
Curated Video
Traditional Rotor Blades - The Physical World: Helicopters (1/3)
How rotor blades are constructed to cut through the air and keep the helicopter off the ground. (Part 1 of 3) Playlist link - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL87BE7B419317CB0F Transcript link -...
Curated Video
Modern Rotor Blades - The Physical World: Helicopters (2/3)
Large, high speed military helicopters test the limits of aerodynamics. Their rotors use cutting edge blade technology and design. (Part 2 of 3) Playlist link - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL87BE7B419317CB0F Transcript link -...
Curated Video
Edouard Benedictus and the Accidental Safety Glass – The Serendipity of Science (3/3)
When a glass flask was knocked to the floor in Eduard Benedictus' laboratory he was surprised to discover that the glass had shattered but somehow the flask stayed together. It was all the result of his assistant failing to clean away...
Curated Video
Consciousness and the limits of Science - Boundaries of the Knowable (1/10)
Professor Russell Stannard asks how we can ever understand the relationship between consciousness and the physical brain. (Part 1 of 10) Playlist link - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3096540179B12F8D Transcript link -...
Clarendon Learning
Animal Adaptations for Kids, Learn about physical, life cycle, and behavioral adaptations of animals
Animal adaptations for kids is a video that explores the different ways that animals can adapt to their environments. There is a number of ways that different animals do this, from Migration or Hibernation, to Body Structures and even...
Big Think
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Science journalism has a problem | Big Think
Science journalism has a problem New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink/youtube Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Journalists...