Curated Video
Climate: How Does It Impact the Way People Live?
The video “Climate: How Does It Impact the Way People Live?” defines climate and identifies the many factors that influence it.
Flipping Physics
Intermediate Series and Parallel Resistor Circuit Demos and Animations
A detailed look a combination series and parallel resistor circuit. Includes a demonstration of the real circuit and an animation of the electric potential energy of the charges as they move through the circuit.
Flipping Physics
Resistors in Series and Parallel Equation Derivations
Kirchhoff’s two rules of electrical circuits are used to derive the equations for equivalent resistance of series and parallel resistor circuits.
Flipping Physics
2016 #4 Free Response Question - AP Physics 1 - Exam Solution
My solutions to Free Response Question #4 from the 2016 AP Physics 1 Exam. This is a electric circuits question about ranking electric potential differences and currents. Also included are my reflections on how to get perform better on...
Visual Learning Systems
Oceanography: Summing Up
The physical and chemical characteristics of ocean waters are discussed including salinity, temperature, density, and pressure. Footage from Maine, the Canadian Maritimes, and the Pacific coast highlight dynamic characteristics of the...
Science360
NSF-funded research to forecast space weather, protect the power grid - Science Nation
Multidisciplinary approach to developing next-generation space weather modeling tools, with the goal of a five-day forecast capability Description: While Earth's weather reports center on precipitation, temperature, wind direction and...
Science360
Eliciting brain plasticity to keep the body moving
With support from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Emerging Frontiers of Research and Innovation (EFRI) program, bioengineer Gert Cauwenberghs, of the Jacobs School of Engineering and the Institute for Neural Computation at the...
Curated Video
Obtaining IV Characteristics for Electrical Components: Equipment, Procedure, and Typical Graphs
This video provides an overview of how to conduct a practical experiment to obtain IV characteristics for different electrical components, including resistors, bulbs, and diodes. The video explains the equipment and circuit needed for...
Weatherthings
Rip Current Safety: How Can You Stay Safe from Rip Currents?
This is the science of what, where, and how of rip currents. Most lifeguard rescues on ocean beaches in the United States are for rip currents. See how to avoid rip currents and learn safety from these killer currents on beaches. They...
Curated Video
Electrolysis of Aqueous Copper Sulfates: Analysis and Conclusion
The video is a lecture presentation on the electrolysis of aqueous copper sulfates. The presenter discusses an experiment to test the hypothesis about the relationship between the current through the electrolyte and the mass of copper...
Curated Video
Finding Resistance
This video is a lecture presentation on how to find the resistance of a certain resistor in a circuit. The presenter introduces the formula for finding resistance using the potential difference and current values. The video then shows...
NASA
NASA | Aquarius Ocean Circulation
Until now, researchers did not have a full set of data on ocean salinity and how it impacts climate change. Aquarius salinity data, combined with data from other sensors that measure sea level, ocean color, temperature, winds, and...
Curated Video
Understanding Input and Output Currents in Transformers and Their Practical Applications
The lecture video discusses input and output currents of transformers and how the number of turns of wire on primary and secondary coils affect them. The video explains the definition of electrical power and how it is related to current...
Visual Learning Systems
Oceanography: Surface Currents
The physical and chemical characteristics of ocean waters are discussed including salinity, temperature, density, and pressure. Footage from Maine, the Canadian Maritimes, and the Pacific coast highlight dynamic characteristics of the...
NASA
NASA | Meanwhile at the Bottom of the Ocean
The Ben Franklin mission has been forgotten by time, overshadowed by the concurrent Apollo 11 mission. However, the scientific findings obtained by the six aquanauts has provided a foundation for understanding the Gulf Stream and ocean...
NASA
NASA | Dynamic Earth Excerpt: Viz Challenge Winner
Watch Earth's magnetic shield protect the planet from a pelting by the solar wind. See how the sun's energy drives a remarkable planetary engine, the climate. This video, originally created by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio as...
NASA
NASA | Dynamic Earth
This was the version submitted to the 2013 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. For the original version, with a narration by Liam Neeson, go here: Watch Earth's magnetic shield protect the planet from a pelting by the solar...
Next Animation Studio
Gulf Stream nearing ‘Day After Tomorrow’ tipping point
Scientists say the increased melting of arctic freshwater is causing an imbalance in the salinity of seawater, and this could lead to plummeting temperatures in the northern hemisphere.
NASA
A 3D Look at the 2015 El Niño
El Niño is a recurring climate pattern characterized by warmer than usual ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific. Two back-to-back 3-D visualizations track the changes in ocean temperatures and currents, respectively, throughout...
Curated Video
I WONDER - What Is A Conductor?
This video is answering the question of what is a conductor.
NASA
Mars Wind Currents Reveal a Surprising Feature
MAVEN is the first spacecraft specifically designed to study the Mars upper atmosphere, in order to better understand the evolution of its climate. By measuring windspeed and direction near the top of the atmosphere, MAVEN has discovered...
NASA
NASA’s S-MODE Takes to the Air and Sea to Study Ocean Eddies
After being delayed over a year due to the pandemic, a NASA field campaign to study the role of small-scale whirlpools and ocean currents in climate change is taking flight and taking to the seas. Music: “Graceful Play” via Universal...
Curated Video
Experiment on the Characteristics of a Resistor and Ohm's Law
The video is a lecture presentation on the characteristics of the human eye. The presenter introduces an experiment conducted by Matt to investigate the relationship between the current through a fixed value resistor and potential...