TED-Ed
How Quantum Mechanics Explains Global Warming
What do quantum mechanics and global warming have to do with each other? More than you might think. Surprisingly, this video explains how it's not the energy emitted from the sun that causes the problem, but how the infrared radiation...
PBS
Electromagnetic Spectrum | UNC-TV Science
Illuminate lightwaves, even those not visible to the human eye, in a concise activity about the electromagnetic spectrum. Pupils watch and listen to an animated video describing the electromagnetic spectrum as well as frequency and...
Curated OER
The Electromagnetic Spectrum
Did you know that the visible light wavelengths comprise only one inch of the electromagnetic spectrum that extends over 2,000 miles? Yet even the visible spectrum provides so much information. The Hydrogen spectrum is illuminated as an...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Infrared: More Than Your Eyes Can See
In this video segment adapted from NASA, astronomer Michelle Thaller introduces the world of infrared light and demonstrates how infrared cameras allow us to see more than what the naked eye can perceive. [5:42]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Light and Color
This video segment adapted from Shedding Light on Science illustrates the dispersion of light through a prism and how raindrops refract sunlight to form rainbows. [3:55]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Electromagnetic Spectrum: Nasa
From radio waves to gamma rays, this video segment from NASA introduces the seven categories of the electromagnetic spectrum and how each type of radiation is part of our everyday lives. [2:58]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Tour of the Electromagnetic Spectrum: Radio Waves
A tour of radio waves in the electromagnetic spectrum. [3:38]
NASA
Science Casts: Mysterious Objects at the Edge of the Electromagnetic Spectrum
NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope is finding hundreds of new objects at the very edge of the electromagnetic spectrum. Many of them have one thing in common: Astronomers have no idea what they are. [3:27]
PBS
Nova Labs: The Electromagnetic Spectrum
The Sun is constantly broadcasting information about its activity in the form of light waves. Find out why there's more to see than what meets the eye. [2:56]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Light and Fundamental Forces: Introduction to Light
Provides an introduction to light and the electromagnetic spectrum, and how light behaves as both a wave and a particle. [9:36]
Crash Course
Crash Course Physics #37: Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves
In the early 1800s, Michael Faraday showed us how a changing magnetic field induces an electromotive force, or emf, resulting in an ecectric current. He also found that electric fields sometimes act like magnetic fields, and developed...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Wave Shape: Lesson 3
This lesson will introduce the shape of waves, including amplitude and frequency. It will also describe how the shape of waves changes from one type to the next. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Wave Shape."
Other
Professor Dave Explains: Wave Particle Duality and the Photoelectric Effect
Professor Dave explains what we mean by wave-particle duality and how this relates to the photoelectric effect. He discusses how this relationship was discovered through the work of Max Planck and Albert Einstein. [3:55]