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Elastic and Inelastic Collisions - Physics 101 / AP Physics 1 Review with Dianna Cowern
Lesson 13 (Collisions) of Dianna's Intro Physics Class on Physics Girl. Never taken physics before? Want to learn the basics of physics? Need an AP Physics 1 review before the exam? This course is for you! Exercises in this video: 1. Are...
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BIZARRE spinning toys
Spinning toys and tops have unusual behaviors. The famous tippe top flips itself over and spins on its stem. The PhiTOP stands up on its end, which you can also do with a hard-boiled egg. These behaviors all have to do with torque and...
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What weightlessness feels like on Zero-G planes
The zero g plane, also known as a parabolic flight, or the vomit comet, flies in parabolic trajectories to give a brief experience of weightlessness. This flight, operated by Novespace in Bordeaux, France, offered 14 weightless...
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Singing plates - Standing Waves on Chladni plates
Use physics to create cool patterns on a vibrating plate. How is this like a guitar string or a singing wine glass?
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5 weird ways to put out a candle
What happens when you pour liquid nitrogen on a flame? What about when you blow on the flame with a cup in the way? Try these five unusual ways to extinguish a candle. Pour out the flame with CO2. Cut off the oxygen supply to the flame...
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DIY Lightning Experiment! Make a SHOCKING Capacitor
Create "lightning" in your living room! Make giant sparks by building up static charge on a homemade 2-plate capacitor, and discharging through a grounded rod. Watch as my friend Ashley agrees to touch the charged-up capacitor. How is it...
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MIND-BOGGLING HIKER RIDDLE ft Anne Wojcicki
I ask Anne Wojcicki, founder and CEO of 23andMe to answer some logic and physics riddles. Yes, it's mean and fun.
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World’s Easiest DIY Electric Train
How do you take copper wire, a battery and magnets and make electric train? With science! This super simple DIY physics demo uses electromagnetic induction to propel a train made of magnets and batteries.
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How Fluid Can Climb Upward! SLIME EXPERIMENT
Slime exhibits some crazy unusual properties, like viscoelasticity, because it's a non-newtonian fluid. We can use non-newtonian properties to make the fluid "defy gravity" and climb up a spinning rod. This is called the Weissenberg effect.
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How does laser cooling work?
Lasers are known to burn things, fix eyes, and dance on powerpoint presentations. But they can also be used to cool objects to some of the coldest temperatures in the universe.
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New Horizons first probe to reach pluto!
The New Horizons probe reached its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015 at 7:49 EST. We have received more and more detailed images and data about the dwarf planet and its largest moon, Charon. Very exciting times!
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The ULTRAVIOLET CATASTROPHE
How did the field of quantum mechanics come about in the first place? The Rayleigh-Jeans catastrophe, also known as the ultraviolet catastrophe was a prediction by the Rayleigh-Jeans law that a blackbody would radiate infinite amounts of...
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I dove in a NUCLEAR SUBMARINE (Frozen Ocean)
What could go wrong diving in a nuclear submarine in the arctic? For one, we nearly lost our drone.
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Why RED BUBBLES are impossible… or are they?!
Take a look at a bubble and you’ll see all the colors of the rainbow... right? WRONG. Bubbles are actually missing colors!
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Special Relativity and the Twin Paradox
How can just two rules of Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity lead to seemingly paradoxical changes in the perception of time? Want exclusive updates whenever a new video is posted? Special relativity was one of the first...
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How Mirrors Could Solve our Energy Problem
We visited a giant field of solar mirrors to learn about Concentrated #Solar Power technology!
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Avoid electric shock getting out of a car!
As the weather gets colder and dryer, you are more likely to get shocked when getting out of a car, touching a door knob, or doing laundry. Is there a way to prevent getting shocked on the car door?
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Exploding soda cans with electromagnets in SLOW MOTION ft Joe Hanson
Watch a soda can rip itself apart in a fiery explosion at 11,000fps with a Phantom high speed camera. Running a current through a coil, produces an electromagnet. Turn up the voltage in this experiment, and make that current strong...
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Why do mirrors flip horizontally (but not vertically)?
Why do mirrors appear to flip images horizontally but not vertically?
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Quarks Explained in Four Minutes - Physics Girl
Protons and neutrons are made of three quarks, right? Wrong! Explore the particle they should have told you about when you were a kid!
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Stacked Ball Drop
What happens when you drop a perfectly balanced stack of balls? And how is the result like a supernova? The classic momentum transfer demonstration, taken to the next level. A big thank you to my nephews and niece Drew, Max and Whitney...
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Amusing Surface Tension Experiment
How does soap change the surface tension of water? I have used my degree to make a fifth video -- for you all -- to explain this very question.