Visual Learning Systems
The Nature of Waves: Mediums and Waves
Upon viewing the The Nature of Waves video series, students will be able to do the following: Define waves as traveling disturbances that carry energy through matter or space. Explain that waves do not actually move matter. Instead,...
Curated Video
#TheMoment a rare pink fog blanketed B.C.'s Okanagan
CBC Radio's Quirks & Quarks host Bob McDonald explains the science behind the pink fog that dazzled residents of British Columbia's Okanagan Valley early in the morning Jan. 31.
Curated Video
China's Stealth Aircraft Pose New Threat to Its Enemies | GRAVITAS
China claims to have created a new stealth material that is so advanced that it allows fighter jets to slip past enemy defences with near invisibility.
Curated Video
Physicists Prove Origins Of Northern Lights
The theory was reported by a Russian scientist in 1946.
Scholastic
Study Jams! Light
Let there be light in your classroom with a video that explains that light travels in waves, the electromagnetic spectrum contains seven colors, and the color of an object depends on which light waves it reflects and absorbs. With...
PBS
Thermal Radiation: Heat Transfer | UNC-TV Science
What do people, campfires, and microwaves have in common? Investigators explore heat transfer by thermal radiation, discover the role of electromagnetic waves, and see examples of radiation while viewing a video. Scholars challenge their...
PBS
Introduction to Waves | UNC-TV Science
Introduce classes to the idea of waves with a short video clip. An interesting presentation gives a quick but thorough overview of the different types of waves and where people encounter them.
PBS
Light Absorption: Effects of Light | UNC-TV Science
Beat the summer heat by exploring the properties of color. Scientists view a video explaining the relationship between light absorption and energy transfer using variables including intensity, time, and wavelength. A multiple-choice...
PBS
Reflection and Refraction | UNC-TV Science
Uncover the exciting interactions of light energy and matter ranging from color to optical illusions. Participants explore color using red and green apples, differences between reflection and refraction, and descriptions of related...
PBS
Electromagnetic Waves | UNC-TV Science
These waves aren't for surfing. Young scientists learn about electromagnetic waves and how their features affect the light people see. The video lesson describes the amplitude, frequency, and wavelength of the waves and how the...
Veritasium
First Image of a Black Hole!
Have scholars ever wondered what a black hole looks like? See the first image of a massive black hole and learn about what a black hole is, how it forms, and how telescopes took images from around the world. The video then relates the...
Veritasium
How to Understand the Image of a Black Hole
What is a black hole? Individuals hear a detailed explanation about what a black hole is, how it forms, and how it effects light and matter. The characteristics of a black hole determine the image it produces in telescopes, and...
Physics Girl
Exploding Soda Cans with Electromagnets in Slow Motion
Open your class with a bang! An episode from a physics playlist explains the steps in creating an electromagnet. The higher the voltage, the stronger the magnet—strong enough to rip a can in half.
PBS
Cosmic Microwave Background Explained
As part of their Cosmology series Space Time presents a video that explains the history of electromagnetic waves and the shifting and expanding wavelengths. It finishes by exploring cosmic microwave background radiation.
Veritasium
The Original Double Slit Experiment
Is light a wave or a particle? The video recreates the double slit experiment with sunlight in public. Different individuals predict what they will see by looking into a dark box, which allows sunlight into it through two small slits....
Veritasium
Single Photon Interference
How does a single photon show a phase shift? Using the interference pattern created by light traveling through a double slit, the resource asks whether the interference pattern would still show if only one photon of light is sent at a...
Crash Course
Maxwell's Equations: Crash Course Physics #37
Electricity has an interesting history. Consider the development of electric current into usable forms while viewing the 37th lesson in a Crash Course video series on physics. Using Maxwell's Equations, the instructor addresses...
Bozeman Science
Waves
Calculating frequency is so easy it Hertz! The video begins by describing transverse and longitudinal waves, and then it explores their properties and applications. Finally, it applies this to the formulaic relationships between wave...
Berkeley University of California
Colored Solution and Pen Laser
How does color follow the wave model of electromagnetic radiation? A video demonstrates experiments to model both absorption and emission of the color spectrum.
Berkeley University of California
Diffraction and Interference
How do you study something you can't see? The instructor in a video models an experiment that shows the wave properties of light (electromagnetic waves). The video follows another in a 14-part series that describes the features...
Berkeley University of California
Light as a Wave
Let's break down light into the waves that produce it. The series on chemistry of light begins by explaining the features of the waves that create light including speed, wavelength, and frequency.
TED-Ed
Sunlight Is Way Older than You Think
Light travels fast... really fast. But that doesn't mean it moves instantly from its source to whatever object it hits. After watching this video students will understand that once generated in the sun's core,...
TED-Ed
How Does Your Smartphone Know Your Location?
When your smartphone tells you the weather of your current location or gives you directions to the nearest gas station, there's more going on that you might realize. Follow along with this short video as it explains how...
TED-Ed
Schrödinger's Cat: A Thought Experiment in Quantum Mechanics
Can something be both alive and dead at the same time? According to quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger, the answer is yes. Watch this short video to learn how the wave and particle nature of all matter allows objects to be in two states...