Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Energy: Exploring Potential Energy
Upon viewing the Exploring Energy video series, students will be able to do the following: Define energy as the ability to do work. Cite everyday examples of how energy is used to do work. Understand that kinetic energy is sometimes...
Visual Learning Systems
Energy Quiz
This video is a quiz over the topics covered in the Energy series. In this series, we explore the various forms of energy, including mechanical, nuclear, heat, chemical, and electromagnetic energy. We delve into the concepts of kinetic...
Professor Dave Explains
Energy Diagrams, Catalysts, and Reaction Mechanisms
It's time to learn a little more about a chemical reaction. How do molecules have to be arranged and how much energy do they have to collide with? What's a catalyst? Lots of great tidbits in this one.
Science Buddies
How to Build a Rube Goldberg Machine
Rube Goldberg machines—machines that complete a simple task in a convoluted way—are intriguing, artistic, and fun! If you ever wanted to make one, this video will show you how the concept of kinetic energy can help you design and build a...
Science Buddies
Build A Wall Marble Run
In this activity, you will use recyclable materials to make your own wall marble run. A marble run is a fun toy and a great way to learn about physics concepts like kinetic and potential energy. Do you think your marble will make it to...
Flipping Physics
Energy Systems Clarified
A demonstration of a block-spring system on an incline is used to show the relationships between work and energy, and how they depended on what is defined as the system. Want Lecture Notes? http://www.flippingphysics.com/energy... This...
Professor Dave Explains
Conservation of Energy: Free Fall, Springs, and Pendulums
The energy of a closed system is always conserved. This is an important law of physics! But energy does change forms. What are all the forms and how do they interchange? You gotta watch this clip to find out, buddy!
Flipping Physics
AP Physics C: Momentum, Impulse, Collisions and Center of Mass Review (Mechanics)
Calculus based review of conservation of momentum, the momentum version of Newton’s second law, the Impulse-Momentum Theorem, impulse approximation, impact force, elastic, inelastic and perfectly inelastic collisions, position, velocity...
Zach Star
The real world applications of the dot product
The real world applications of the dot product
Wonderscape
Science Kids: All About Energy
This video is a lesson on energy and its different forms. It explains what energy is, the law of conservation of energy, and the two main types of energy: potential energy and kinetic energy. The video also discusses different examples...
Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to Mechanical Energy
In this video, we explore the concept of mechanical energy and its relation to motion. The examples of cars, skiers, and streams help us understand how objects in motion possess mechanical energy. This video is part of the 10-part...
Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to Energy
This video introduces the Energy series. This series of videos describes the five main forms of energy and how to differentiate between them. Students will learn about potential and kinetic energy. Everyday examples illustrate how we...
Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to Mechanical Energy
In this video, we explore the concept of mechanical energy and its connection to motion. We learn that objects in motion possess mechanical energy, which is also known as kinetic energy. This video is part of the 12-part series, Forms of...
Bozeman Science
PS3A - Definitions of Energy
Energy has many forms ... but very few sources! How do we present this to young scientists? Explore the Definitions of Energy, PS3A, in a video about the Next Generation Science Standards. The narrator keeps it simple by relating...
National Science Foundation
Science of the Winter Olympic Games: Physics of Slope-Style Skiing
Many mechanical phenomena are explained by a physics professor using Nick Goepper, a Winter Olympics 2014 slope-style skier, as the model. Beginning with kinetic and potential energy, the professor goes on to explain angular momentum and...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Energy & Matter
After Sam knocks a glass off the lunchroom table, he uses it as a springboard for explaining kinetic and potential energy. He mentions that sound is a type of kinetic energy and introduces the different forms of energy: thermal,...
Curated OER
Baby Energy
Baby energy is not what it sounds like, it's better. Using a baby playing at the park as his model, this young man describes, provides solid examples, and works through a series of equations that show energy. Potential and kinetic...
NASA
STEMonstrations: Kinetic and Potential Energy
A roller coaster is the perfect model of the conversion between potential and kinetic energy. An installment from the STEMonstrations playlist introduces the concept of kinetic and potential energy in a quick video before challenging...
Crash Course
Fluid Flow and Equipment: Crash Course Engineering #13
Bernoulli knows best (at least about fluid mechanics). The 13th installment in the Crash Course Engineering series focuses on Bernoulli's principle. Viewers learn the relationship between the speed and pressure of fluids by watching a...
Veritasium
Stringless Yo-Yo!
Did it break? No, it's supposed to be like that! Yo-yos with the strings unattached make for some challenging yo-yoing! The Veritasium team uses slow-motion video to examine the scientific nature of the yo-yo. They highlight the kinetic...
Domain of Science
Calculus, What Is It Good For?
Explore the meaning of differentiation and integration. A video lesson describes in detail what differentiating and integrating an equation means using the momentum and kinetic energy formulas. Progressing from a linear to a quadratic...
PBS
Energy Defined
What is energy, and why do we need so much of it? Scholars explore the definition of energy as it relates to both conversion and consumption with a video and discussion questions. Part of an energy unit from NOVA, the resource provides a...
PBS
Putting Energy to Use
From burning wood for heat to riding a bicycle, converting one form of energy into another is an everyday process! Using a video clip, learners discover the sources of the thermal, mechanical, and electrical energies that make our lives...
PBS
A Never-Ending Supply
If renewable energy means a never-ending supply of power, why aren't we already using it? A brief video clip, part of a large Energy unit from NOVA, discusses the limitless energy humans obtain from solar, geothermal, and tidal sources....