Curated Video
Introduction to Electrical Circuits and Quantities
The video explains the basic principles of a simple electrical circuit and how to calculate current, potential difference, and resistance using equations. The video also applies these equations to a simple circuit diagram with a battery,...
Visual Learning Systems
The Nature of Electricity: Moving Charges
This video describes the basic role that atoms play in creating electrical charges, as well as the nature and creation of static electricity. Various methods of charging are discussed, emphasizing the role that insulators and conductors...
Mazz Media
Wind Turbine
This live-action video program is about wind turbines. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated...
Dom Burgess
What Happens When You Are Struck By Lightning?
Third degree burns, brain damage and heart attacks. In this episode, Dom investigates what happens to your body when you are struck by lightning and why high voltage electricity is just, like, really not good for you! Prepare to be SHOCKED!
Zach Star
What Math Classes do Engineers (and Physics Majors) Take (Part 2)?
In the last video I covered the required math classes for engineers and physics majors that you will definitely see. This video will cover more of the classes that you MAY encounter depending on your major. These classes include......
Cerebellum
Early Scientific Revolution - William Gilbert
Europe experienced one of the most remarkable periods in history roughly between 1550 and 1700, when three of history's most important events were occurring simultaneously: the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution....
Catalyst University
The Pacemaker Potential EXPLAINED
In this video, we discuss how the electrical conduction system generates a pacemaker potential by viewing the action potential diagram.
Zach Star
Is Engineering Experience Needed Before College
Some students ask if engineering experience is needed before they enter college. And the good news is you really don't need any engineering experience. In fact most students who enter college don't have much, if any. There are some...
The Backyard Scientist
Making Plasma, Microwaving grapes --- SMS#2
Plasma, like solid liquid and gas is considered a state of matter. Plasma is ionized gas, and can be created by applying energy to a gas, like electromagnetic or electrical energy like this transformer. As you can see it puts out an...
Science ABC
If An Appliance Is Plugged In But Turned Off, Does It Still Use Electricity?
When the charger is plugged in with the switch turned on, it still draws some power from the outlet even when no device is attached to the charger. Though this amount is trivial, the total becomes significant when multiplied by 4-5...
Zach Star
Robotics Subfields and Which Majors to Pick
This video covers just a few examples of research and companies that you might find interesting in the field of robotics. I only cover a few examples but remember there are SO many more. Many companies encompass some version of robotics...
Next Animation Studio
U.K. switches on giant floating power plant with twin turbines
Dubbed the world’s most powerful tidal turbine, the device is the size of a jumbo jet and can produce enough power to supply electricity to 2,000 U.K. homes.
Next Animation Studio
China starts huge project to beam power from space
Beijing aims to put miles of solar panels in space and use them to power a massive microwave emitter that will hang 23,000 miles up in the sky.
Next Animation Studio
Revolutionary spine implants let paraplegics walk again
Patients whose spinal columns had been severed in accidents can now walk again, thanks to an amazing medical invention.
Curated Video
Time Delay Relays Explained
Time Delay Relays, in this video we learn the basics of how time delay relays work. Looking at time on delay and time off delay using transistors, capacitors and diodes as well as switches, mechanical relays and optical couplings to...
Next Animation Studio
Dubai says freak rain was caused by cloud-seeding drones
The people of the United Arab Emirates were amazed by torrential rains falling on their parched desert.
NASA
Solar Wind at Martian Moon Could Impact Future Missions
Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Both are small, airless bodies with irregular shapes. Because they lack protective atmospheres and magnetospheres, Phobos and Deimos are directly exposed to the solar wind for part of their orbits....
NASA
Training the Next Generation of Planetary Scientists
Each year in early March, a new class of postdocs at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center gathers for the Planetary Science Winter School. This intensive training program takes the young scientists and plunges them into the Instrument...
Curated Video
What is a stepper motor
What is a stepper motor? Find out what a stepper motor is in this quick video about what a stepper motor is.
Curated Video
Voltage Explained
Voltage explained. What is voltage and what does it do? In this video we discuss how it work and its purpose to understand how electricity works. We'll look at voltage for both alternating current and direct current starting off very...
Curated Video
Learn the Basics of a 3 Phase Rectifier
In this video, we're going to learn the basics of a 3 Phase Rectifier. This rectifier is used in power supplies and can be a major part of your electrical engineering education.
Curated Video
Consumer Unit Explained - Fuse Board
How do consumer units work. Learn the service head, fuse, circuit breaker, miniature circuit breaker, residual current device, live, phase, neutral, earth, bus bar, main breaker, RCD, MCB in this video.
Curated Video
AC & DC Electricity
In this video, we'll cover the basics of AC and DC electricity. From what AC and DC are to how they work, this video will make sense of the confusing topic of electricity!