SciShow
Strong Interaction: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #1b
Hank continues his primer on the strongest of the four fundamental interactions of physics, the strong interaction. Today he talks about the nuclear force and a force carrier called a pion.
Crash Course
Fluids at Rest: Crash Course Physics
In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini is very excited to start talking about Fluids. You see, she's a Fluid Dynamicist and Mechanical Engineer, so fluids are really important to her. Actually they're really important to anyone...
SciShow
Weak Interaction The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #2
Hank continues our series on the four fundamental forces of physics by describing the weak interaction, which operates at an infinitesimally small scale to cause particle decay.
SciShow
How to Escape Quicksand
You probably won't get stuck in quicksand. But if you do, you can use physics to get yourself out.
SciShow
How to Build a Rocket Engine in Your Kitchen (Experiment Episode)
Hank demonstrates how to build a hybrid rocket engine in your kitchen!
Bozeman Science
Dipole Forces
In this video Paul Andersen describes the intermolecular forces associated with dipoles. A dipole is a molecule that has split charge. Dipole may form associations with other dipoles, induced dipoles or ions. An important type of...
Crash Course
Statics: Crash Course Physics
The Physics we're talking about today has saved your life! Whenever you walk across a bridge or lean on a building, Statics are at work. Statics is the study of objects when they're NOT accelerating. In this episode of Crash Course...
MinutePhysics
Our Ignorance About Gravity
Thanks to the Heising Simons Foundation (https://www.hsfoundation.org/) for their support of this video, and of short range gravity research. This video is about how little we know about the behavior of gravity at short length and...
Crash Course
Electric Fields: Crash Course Physics
As we learn more about electricity, we have to talk about fields. Electric fields may seem complicated, but they're really fascinating and a crucial part of physics. In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini chats about capacitors,...
TED Talks
Keren Elazari: Hackers: the Internet's immune system
The beauty of hackers, says cybersecurity expert Keren Elazari, is that they force us to evolve and improve. Yes, some hackers are bad guys, but many are working to fight government corruption and advocate for our rights. By exposing...
SciShow
Electromagnetism - Magnetic Force: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #4b
In this final segment on the four fundamental forces of physics, Hank tackles the magnetic force, the second of the two ways in which electromagnetism is apparent in the universe
Crash Course
Skyscrapers, Statics, & Dynamics: Crash Course Engineering #26
What if you were on a high floor of a skyscraper and the building started swaying? Today we’ll explore statics and dynamics, and what they mean for the structures we design. We look at the idea of static equilibrium, forces, and torques,...
TED Talks
Jennifer Vail: The science of friction -- and its surprising impact on our lives
Tribology: it's a funny-sounding word you might not have heard before, but it could change how you see and interact with the physical world, says mechanical engineer Jennifer Vail. Offering lessons from tribology -- the study of friction...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How to use a semicolon - Emma Bryce
It may seem like the semicolon is struggling with an identity crisis. It looks like a comma crossed with a period. Maybe that's why we toss these punctuation marks around like grammatical confetti; we're confused about how to use them...
Crash Course
Ampère's Law: Crash Course Physics
Hans Christian Oersted had just discovered the connection between electricity and magnetism. Meanwhile, a French physicist named André-Marie Ampère was experimenting with some wires, trying to learn more about the connection between...
SciShow
Strong Interaction: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #1a
Part one of a four part series on the fundamental forces (or interactions) of physics begins with the strong force or strong interaction - which on the small scale holds quarks together to form protons, neutrons and other hadron particles.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The history of the barometer (and how it works) - Asaf Bar-Yosef
A barometer is an instrument that measures air pressure, allowing weather forecasters and scientists to better predict extreme weather events. Despite its incredible usefulness, inventing the barometer was no walk in the park. Asaf...
SciShow
Terminal Velocity
The terminal velocity of an object is the speed at which the force of drag equals the force of gravity on that object.
TED Talks
TED: The genius behind some of the world's most famous buildings | Renzo Piano
Legendary architect Renzo Piano -- the mind behind such indelible buildings as The Shard in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the new Whitney Museum of Art in New York City -- takes us on a stunning tour through his life's work....
Crash Course
Muscles, part 2 - Organismal Level: Crash Course A&P
Hank calls in a friend to do his push ups for him today to explain how skeletal muscles work together to create and reverse movements. Hank and Claire also demonstrate the role size plays in motor units, the three phase cycle of muscle...
Bozeman Science
Center of Mass
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the center of mass of an object represents the average position of matter in an object. The center of mass of a system is a combination of all the objects within the system. As long as no external...
Bozeman Science
Strong Nuclear Force
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the strong nuclear force holds the nucleus together in spite of repulsive electrostatic charges acting on the nucleons. Mesons exchanged between nucleons keep the nucleus intact and gluons...