Crash Course
3D Graphics: Crash Course Computer Science
Today we’re going to discuss how 3D graphics are created and then rendered for a 2D screen. From polygon count and meshes, to lighting and texturing, there are a lot of considerations in building the 3D objects we see in our movies and...
Curated Video
Light
Investigating different light sources. The world around us - Light and sound - Light Learning Points An object that gives out (emits) light is called a light source. A Twig Junior Film - Core science concepts explained in an easy way for...
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST Vision Science Lab: Illuminating the Way to Better Lighting
In a unique laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), vision scientists can simulate lighting from virtually any source, including incandescents, fluorescents or LEDs. With this capability, they can test...
Curated Video
Rate of Photosynthesis Experiments: Analyzing the Relationship between Light Intensity and Photosynthesis
The video is a lecture presentation on the results of an experiment investigating the relationship between light intensity and the rate of photosynthesis in pondweed. The experiment involved placing pondweed in a dilute solution of...
Curated Video
UK's Largest Science Investment: Diamond Light Source and European Collaboration
The video describes the construction of the Diamond Light Source, the UK's largest investment in science in 30 years. This synchrotron will provide the most powerful source of X-rays in the world, allowing researchers to study a wide...
Curated Video
Exploring Light: Natural and Man-Made Sources
Join us in this MightyOwl video and learn all about light. Natural light, like the sun, provides us with light so that we can see in the daytime. At night, when there is no sun, we can use manmade light like flashlights and lamps to be...
SciShow
Why Solar Eclipses Create Those Crescent-Shaped Lights
Everyone is watching the sky during a solar eclipse, but but if you look down, you'll catch another kind of light show.
SciShow
The Strange Scourge of Light Pollution
Light pollution -- it's not just the bane of light sleepers and frustrated astronomers. It also is tinkering with the biological cycles of all kinds of living things, including us! SciShow takes you behind the glare to understand the...
Curated Video
Wavelength and Color: Understanding Visible Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
This is a lecture video on the topic of wavelength and color. The video focuses on the visible light portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, which can be split into different colors. The video explains the relationship between...
Curated Video
The Science of Seeing - Part 1
Part 1 of a 2-part series, this animation teaches that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen. The animation features scenario-based learning to portray the science of seeing, such as headlamps to...
Curated Video
The Function and Evolution of the Light Bulb
This video provides a concise explanation of how a light globe, or light bulb, works. It discusses the invention and history of the light bulb, as well as the science behind its operation. Understand how electricity passes through a...
Curated Video
Understanding the Inverse Square Law in Regards to Light Intensity and Photosynthesis
This video explains the relationship between light intensity and photosynthesis in plants. The concept of direct proportionality and a linear relationship between light intensity and photosynthesis rate is discussed. The video then goes...
Curated Video
The Science of Seeing - Part 2
Part 2 of a 2-part series, students will continue to learn that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen. This animated sequel expands on the original experiment set out in Part 1. Students will make a...
Curated Video
Rate of Photosynthesis Experiments: Investigating the Relationship between Light Intensity and Oxygen Production in Pondweed
The video is a lecture presentation on the rate of photosynthesis experiments. The presenter explains the process of photosynthesis and introduces the hypothesis that the rate of photosynthesis in a plant depends on light intensity. The...
Curated Video
Practical - Light Intensity and Photosynthesis Rate
Practical - Light Intensity and Photosynthesis Rate
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Is light a particle or a wave? - Colm Kelleher
Can we accurately describe light as exclusively a wave or just a particle? Are the two mutually exclusive? In this third part of his series on light and color, Colm Kelleher discusses wave-particle duality and its relationship to how we...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: What light can teach us about the universe - Pete Edwards
Humanity has long been looking at the universe and asking the big questions: How did it begin? How will it end? Cosmologists are searching hard for the answers, but where do they even start? The answer is light. Pete Edwards outlines the...
FuseSchool
PHYSICS - Waves - Shadows
It’s important to remember that light travels in straight lines.Transparent materials allow light to pass through them… translucent materials allow some light through, but not all and opaque objects don’t let any light pass through, and...
SciShow
Why are Insects Attracted to Light?
You know how moths like to fly into lamps or crawl all over your tv screen at night? Why do they do this?! The answer is more complicated than you might think...
PBS
The Cosmic Dark Ages
In astronomy we study things that are very far away. It’s a powerful challenge because even the brightest objects are almost impossibly faint when you view them from the other side of the universe. But there’s an up side. If the light...
Catalyst University
Detecting Proteins at 280 nm by UV-Vis Why How
Detecting Proteins at 280 nm by UV-Vis Why How
Bozeman Science
Doppler Effect
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the perceived frequency of a source depends on the motion of both the source and the observer. As a source approaches an observer the frequency will increase and as it moves away it will decrease....
NASA
What Is NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)? (Mission Overview)
Soon to be operating from the International Space Station, NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission will comprehensively measure the mineral composition of Earth’s mineral dust source regions to help...