Instructional Video20:05
SciShow

5 Scientists Too Smart for Their Time

12th - Higher Ed
You often hear of brilliant scientific discoveries that took decades to become recognized, often by scientists too smart for their time! Join Hank and look back on a few of our episodes about scientists who deserve a little more...
Instructional Video4:34
SciShow

Great Minds: James Clerk Maxwell, Electromagnetic Hero

12th - Higher Ed
Saturn’s rings, colored photography, and the discovery of electromagnetic waves all have have one thing in common. James Clerk Maxwell. Discover for yourself all the amazing contributions Maxwell made to science.
Instructional Video20:00
SciShow

5 Undervalued Scientists: Great Minds Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
Take some time with us to look back on a few of our episodes about scientists who deserve a little more recognition than they got.
Instructional Video11:48
Curated Video

Special Relativity Explained Through Einstein’s Thought Experiments

12th - Higher Ed
New ReviewEinstein's Special Relativity Explained Simply - no math This entire revolution in physics started with a simple thought experiments, in the prolific imagination before Einstein even graduated from high school. Einstein’s theory of...
Instructional Video13:11
Curated Video

How a Computer Paradox Was Finally Solved: Maxwell's Demon

12th - Higher Ed
New ReviewIn this video, we’re exploring the link between information and entropy, by examining a famous thought experiments by James Clerk Maxwell, called Maxwell's demon, which seems to show that entropy can be reversed. In answering whether it...
Instructional Video15:44
Curated Video

A Conceptual Overview of Physics: Essential Principles to Remember

12th - Higher Ed
New ReviewFive areas of physics worth remembering: Classical mechanics, energy and thermodynamics, electromagnetism, Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics. Classical mechanics - two main concepts worth knowing. The first is Newton’s second law: F= ma:...
Instructional Video4:19
CuriosaMente

La radio: ¡A que no sabías esto!

9th - 12th
¿Quién inventó la radio? ¿Cómo funciona? ¿Sabías que México tuvo una vez la estación de radio más poderosa del mundo? La radio es un invento que reúne la ciencia, la comunicación y la música. Guillermo Marconi, un joven inventor, patentó...
Instructional Video
Science for Kids

Science Kids: Scientist Videos: James Maxwell Biography

9th - 10th
Learn how Scottish physicist and mathematician, James Maxwell, helped shape our understanding of a number of different fields, including those of electricity and magnetism. [2:04]
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Physics #37: Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves

9th - 10th
In the early 1800s, Michael Faraday showed us how a changing magnetic field induces an electromotive force, or emf, resulting in an ecectric current. He also found that electric fields sometimes act like magnetic fields, and developed...