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Weigh a Million Dollars with Your Mind
Ever wonder if you could carry a million dollars? A video tutorial uses money to demonstrate estimation calculations. Using known values, the narrator builds an approximation for the weight of a million dollars.
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Why are Stones Round? feat. Zach Weiner
Explore how gravity shapes the world around us. An engaging video lesson explains how gravity contributes to the shape of stones. The discussion centers on the difference between the formation of spherical and flat stones.
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The Tides
By watching the engaging video, young scholars learn the cause of tides and their effect on the earth and its rotation. The narrator explains the relationship between gravity and the location of the earth in relation to the moon and...
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Faster Than Light Neutrinos (Maybe): Field Trip!
Walk in the shoes of a research scientist. A short video describes the hurdles necessary to prove that neutrinos are faster than light. The narrator describes the initial experiment and the follow-up research necessary to support the...
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The Tacoma Narrows Fallacy
Prove your textbook wrong! A detailed video lesson debunks a traditional explanation for the collapse of a bridge in Tacoma in the 1940s. The narrator outlines why resonance is not the culprit and explains the concept of...
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The Hairy Ball Theorem
Math tells us that it is impossible to comb a ball of hair. The 23rd video of an informative physics series helps learners understand the physics implications of this statement. Through an analysis of vectors, the video narrator...
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The Sound of Hydrogen
Hydrogen is odorless, colorless, and tasteless, but can we hear it? By taking the wavelengths of the atomic spectrum of radiation from hydrogen, the creator of the video shifts the waves into sound waves. Then, he shifts these waves into...
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GPS, Relativity, and Nuclear Detection
When will we need to know Einstein's Theory of Relativity in real life? Every single time you use a cell phone, GPS, or watch satellite TV. When a satellite is sent into space without accounting for relativity, problems immediately arise...
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The Speed of Light in Glass
What happens to the speed of light as it goes through a glass door? Light travels slower through glass than through air, but does the speed of light change or is it just our perception? The short video explains the speed of light as it...
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There is No Pink Light
Barbie, pink flowers, Pink Panther, pink pigs, pink clothes, and pink flamingos all have one thing in common — they really aren't pink because there is no such thing as pink light. So, what is the color we call pink? The short video...
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2011 Nobel Prize: Dark Energy feat. Sean Carroll
In 2011, a Nobel Prize was awarded for explaining how dark energy is causing solar systems to move away from each other at increasing speeds. The video highlights the theories the discovery was based on and the connection to Einstein.
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What is a Dimension? In 3D...and 2D...and 1D
How many dimensions are there? Latitude, longitude, and altitude are accepted dimensions, but what about time or another type of dimension? An engaging video describes how we theorize that we live in three dimensions and which laws of...
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What is the Wave/Particle Duality? Part 1
Einstein rejected the idea of wave/particle duality, yet now we believe the concept to be true. A short video explains the properties of waves, particles, and the behavior of electrons, which act as both. The film concludes with...
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Tutorial: Creating the Sound of Hydrogen
How do you create the sound of hydrogen? An interesting video explains how to use mathematical formulas and sound software to translate the spectrum of light that comes from hydrogen into a sound. The resource walks through each...
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What is the Uncertainty Principle?
What is the Uncertainty Principle? A succinct video describes the uncertainty principle as wave behavior.
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What is the Wave/Particle Duality? Part 2
Electrons, neutrons, and photons display behavior explained by wave-particle duality. The video explains how to picture the duality of behaviors in these parts of atoms. The drawings and comparisons to the behavior of water focus on...
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Minute Physics: What Is Dark Matter?
It's hard to explain stuff you can't see! But, this animated stick-figure drawing describes dark matter and how we know it exists. It likens the galaxy to a merry-go-round, holding the stars on their circular path. The one-minute...
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What Is the Universe?
Viewers will be able to differentiate between the whole universe and the observable universe, and tell what comprises the observable universe. If you are about to embark on a journey through parallel universes or quantum physics, this...
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Common Physics Misconceptions
Some commonly accepted concepts are not completely valid. In this video, the following ideas are thoroughly explained away:
Light cannot be effected by gravity
Velocity is additive
The earth appears to be flat
Not only is this an...
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Minute Physics: What Is Gravity?
Gravity is thoroughly defined in this short, but weighty, featurette. The relationship of mass to force is incorporated, and the idea that gravity can also attract energy is introduced. In a flipped classroom situation, have learners...
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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...
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Where Was The Big Bang?
If you think the world revolves around you, think again! In this super-short clip, the narrator explains, accompanied by drawings, how scaling varies based on your frame of reference or vantage point. You might want to add this clip to...
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How to Destroy a Magnet (+ interactive periodic table)
This unique resource explores magnetism at a high school level. Since most magnetism resources are quite primary, physics teachers will rejoice! This episode explains ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism and how temperature affects the...