Flipping Physics
Determining the Static Coefficient of Friction between Tires and Snow
We use Newton’s Second Law and Uniformly Accelerated Motion to experimentally determine the Static Coefficient of Friction between Tires and Snow.
FuseSchool
BIOLOGY - Careers - Scientific Reports
How is scientific enquiry carried out in practice? Before a hypothesis is accepted by the scientific community, it goes through a series of steps. This is what we call the scientific method. This method was first devised by Sir Francis...
ShortCutsTv
Natural Experiments in Psychology
In natural experiments circumstances present researchers with the perfect opportunity to test the effect of one variable on another in ways that just couldn't be done in a laboratory. This film looks at some natural experiments in...
Professor Dave Explains
Bioengineer Jessica Griffiths (Get to Know a Scientist!)
Jessica is a bioengineer at Caltech that studies the gut-brain axis, and in particular how autism-related genetic mutations impact gut dysfunction. It's pretty cutting edge stuff, let's take a look inside her lab and hear about what she...
Professor Dave Explains
Plant Biologist Molly Edwards (Get to Know a Scientist!)
Do you love flowers? What would it be like to study flowers for a living? Let plant biologist Molly Edwards tell you all about it! She works at Harvard University, studying some really neat plant species with fascinating flower petals,...
Curated Video
Chemical Reactions Involving Metals: Oxidation, Reduction, and Redox Reactions
The video discusses common chemical reactions involving metals such as oxidation and reduction, the formation of positive ions, and redox reactions. It also shows the results of experiments where different metals react with water and...
TMW Media
Tree Farming: Why change trees genetically
What is a major concern of transgenic trees? What are scientists trying to determine with their experiment with transgenic trees? Tree Farming, Part 2
Curated Video
Chemistry Practical: Investigating the Effect of Concentration on Reaction Rate
This video discusses a required practical experiment in chemistry where the objective is to investigate how increasing the concentration of a reactant affects the rate of the reaction. The hypothesis is that increased concentration leads...
Curated Video
Analysis of Temperature and Respiration Rate in Maggots: Findings and Future Experiments
The video is a lecture presentation about an experiment on the relationship between temperature and the rate of respiration in maggots. The speaker discusses the experimental setup, which includes placing maggots in a boiling tube with...
Professor Dave Explains
Geophysicist Jon Aurnou (Get to Know a Scientist!)
UCLA is full of amazing scientists! What do they all do? Well, pretty much everything you can imagine, but in this series we will meet as many of them as we can, one by one! Let's start with geophysicist Jon Aurnou. He studies fluid...
Curated Video
Investigating the Relationship Between Acceleration and Mass: A Physics Practical Activity
The video explains a required physics practical activity that investigates the relationship between the acceleration of an object and its mass, keeping the force constant. The experiment uses a trolley being accelerated by the weight of...
Curated Video
Experiment on How Increasing Reactant Concentration Affects Reaction Rate
The video discusses a required practical activity from the chemistry specification, which is an experiment to investigate how increasing the concentration of a reactant affects the rate of the reaction by observing a precipitate. The...
Next Animation Studio
Japan approves human-animal embryo experiments
Japan has become the first country to greenlight a controversial experiment involving hybrid human-animal embryos.
The Art Assignment
Use the Present Perimeter to create art. | Jonathan Nesci | The Art Assignment
This week we meet with artist and designer Jonathan Nesci at the First Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana. Jonathan uses systems of design to experiment with new materials and processes, and his assignment for you invites you to do...
Science360
Sea spray: Complex chemistry with big effects on climate
Take in a deep breath of salty ocean air and more than likely you're also breathing in naturally occurring sea spray aerosols. But, there's much more in each of those tiny bursting ""bubbles"" than salt. They're also bursting with ocean...
Institute of Art and Ideas
Is randomness in quantum theory an illusion?
God does not play dice with the universe' Einstein famously argued. Yet contemporary physics embeds just such dice playing at the core of its account. Is the universe really unknowable even to itself? Or as Einstein implied is this...
Physics Girl
NEW RESULTS! Cosmic Quantum Bell Test
How do you test quantum mechanics with ancient stars? A new experiment aims to close loopholes to the iconic "Quantum Bell Test", with new results published in Feb. 2017!
Curated Video
Establishing Causation through Experimental Design
In this video, the teacher explains how medical researchers determine if medical interventions really work. They discuss the importance of random assignment in experiments and how it helps establish causation.
Visual Learning Systems
Your Science Fair Project: Steps in the Scientific Method
The scientific method is the foundation of work for scientists. In this video the scientific method is explained in detail serving as the basis for your science fair project. The process of creating a science fair project along with...
Neuro Transmissions
Sex, Psychology, and Potato Chips
Potato chips - you can never have just one. But why? Why do I eat an entire bag while sitting on the couch by myself? Well, in this video, we learn about what scientists (and advertisers) have discovered about the potato chip and what...
FuseSchool
Measuring For The Loss Of Mass In A Reaction
In this video, we’re going to learn about the loss of mass in a chemical reaction, how it happens and why we measure this. The total MASS of reactants will be the same as that of the products, as mass is always conserved in a chemical...
Visual Learning Systems
Observations and Data: Recording and Organizing Data
One of the most important processes in science is the art of observing. This video highlights different ways observations are made, emphasizing methods by which students can observe their world. Different types of data, how data is...
Curated Video
Investigating the Effects of Adding Resistors in Series and Parallel
The video discusses two experiments related to the effects of adding resistors in a circuit in series and parallel. The equipment and circuits used in the experiments are shown and explained, along with the steps required to carry out...
Mazz Media
Controlled Experiments
n this live-action program viewers will learn experiments are a key step in the scientific process and to conduct a successful experiment, the scientist must know how to design, plan, and execute an experiment. Students will come to...