Instructional Video10:53
PBS

Planck's Constant and The Origin of Quantum Mechanics | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios

12th - Higher Ed
Planck's Length is the length below which the concept of length loses its meaning. What exactly does that mean and what are the incredible implications this fact has upon our reality? To find out check out this episode of Space Time...
Instructional Video15:23
PBS

What If Dark Energy is a New Quantum Field?

12th - Higher Ed
What is Quintessence? Well we know that something is up with the way the universe is expanding - there’s some kind of anti-gravitational effect that’s causing the expansion to accelerate. We don’t know what it is - just that it competes...
Instructional Video13:20
PBS

The Crisis in Cosmology

12th - Higher Ed
The search for a single number: the hubble constant, which is the rate of expansion of our universe, has consumed astronomers for generations. Finally, two powerful and independent methods have refined its measurement to unprecedented...
Instructional Video13:10
PBS

Are Dark Matter And Dark Energy The Same?

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers are the worst at naming things. Dark energy AND dark matter? Who can remember which is which. But perhaps one astronomer has just fixed it, with a theory that says perhaps actually they are they same stuff.
Instructional Video14:34
PBS

Is Dark Energy Getting Stronger?

12th - Higher Ed
The power of Dark Energy may be increasing as the universe ages. Subtle clues are emerging that the accepted model for the nature of dark energy and dark matter may not be all that. We saw the first such clue recently in our recent...
Instructional Video13:21
PBS

Could the Universe End by Tearing Apart Every Atom?

12th - Higher Ed
The universe is expanding, and that expansion is accelerating. We don’t know what’s causing that acceleration, but that hasn’t stopped us from giving it a name. We call this unknown influence dark energy. The observed acceleration is,...
Instructional Video14:38
PBS

Why Is 1/137 One of the Greatest Unsolved Problems In Physics?

12th - Higher Ed
The Fine Structure Constant is one the strangest numbers in all of physics. It’s the job of physicists to worry about numbers, but there’s one number that physicists have stressed about more than any other. That number is 0.00729735256 -...
Instructional Video3:25
SciShow

Do I Only Use 10% of My Brain?

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow debunks the myth that you only use 10 percent of your brain. So, how much do you really use? And how do we know?
Instructional Video5:44
SciShow

A Kilogram Is Now a Kilogram—Forever | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
This week in SciShow News, there's a new kilogram in town, and we might be closer to understanding why people love coffee so much!
Instructional Video24:47
3Blue1Brown

But what is a Fourier series? From heat flow to circle drawings | DE4

12th - Higher Ed
Fourier series, from the heat equation to sines to cycles.
Instructional Video13:09
3Blue1Brown

What's so special about Euler's number e? Essence of Calculus - Part 5 of 11

12th - Higher Ed
What is the derivative of a^x? Why is e^x its own derivative? This video shows how to think about the rule for differentiating exponential functions.
Instructional Video21:06
3Blue1Brown

Feynman's Lost Lecture

12th - Higher Ed
This video recounts a lecture by Richard Feynman giving an elementary demonstration of why planets orbit in ellipses. See the excellent book by Judith and David Goodstein, "Feynman's lost lecture”, for the full story behind this lecture,...
Instructional Video24:14
Instructional Video13:49
3Blue1Brown

Derivatives of exponentials | Chapter 5, Essence of calculus

12th - Higher Ed
What is the derivative of a^x? Why is e^x its own derivative? This video shows how to think about the rule for differentiating exponential functions.
Instructional Video15:16
3Blue1Brown

Why do colliding blocks compute pi?

12th - Higher Ed
A solution to the puzzle involving two blocks, sliding fricionlessly, where the number of collisions mysteriously computes pi
Instructional Video12:04
PBS

Anti-gravity and the True Nature of Dark Energy

12th - Higher Ed
We've come a long way in our understanding of dark energy. In previous episodes we've looked at how our universe is paradoxically flat and how dark energy is exponentially accelerating the expansion of the universe. Now, let's dive into...
Instructional Video11:11
PBS

Are the Fundamental Constants Changing?

12th - Higher Ed
The laws of physics are the same everywhere in the universe. At least we astrophysicists hope so. After all, it's hard to unravel the complexities of distant parts of the universe if we don't know the basic rules. But what if this is...
Instructional Video15:15
3Blue1Brown

So why do colliding blocks compute pi?

12th - Higher Ed
A solution to the puzzle involving two blocks, sliding fricionlessly, where the number of collisions mysteriously computes pi
Instructional Video14:55
3Blue1Brown

So why do colliding blocks compute pi? Colliding Blocks - Part 2 of 3

12th - Higher Ed
A solution to the puzzle involving two blocks, sliding fricionlessly, where the number of collisions mysteriously computes pi
Instructional Video21:43
MinutePhysics

Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown)

12th - Higher Ed
Check out Grant’s channel: 3blue1brown. This video recounts a lecture by Richard Feynman giving an elementary demonstration of why planets orbit in ellipses. See the excellent book by Judith and David Goodstein, "Feynman's lost lecture”,...
Instructional Video16:01
3Blue1Brown

The Brachistochrone, with Steven Strogatz: Brachistochrone - Part 1 of 2

12th - Higher Ed
A classic problem that Johann Bernoulli posed to famous mathematicians of his time, such as Newton, and how Bernoulli found an incredibly clever solution using properties of light.
Instructional Video16:02
3Blue1Brown

The Brachistochrone, with Steven Strogatz

12th - Higher Ed
A classic problem that Johann Bernoulli posed to famous mathematicians of his time, such as Newton, and how Bernoulli found an incredibly clever solution using properties of light.
Instructional Video11:27
3Blue1Brown

What DO we know about turbulence?

12th - Higher Ed
A look at what turbulence is (in fluid flow), and a result by Kolmogorov regarding the energy cascade of turbulence.
Instructional Video11:27
3Blue1Brown

Why 5/3 is a fundamental constant for turbulence

12th - Higher Ed
A look at what turbulence is (in fluid flow), and a result by Kolmogorov regarding the energy cascade of turbulence.