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Volcano Explodes Nice before-to-during video of a volcanic eruption. Car-sized boulders are launched into projectile motion. Sound makes its way from volcano to observers. And—at the moment of eruption—an adiabatic expansion cloud. So many physics: what's not to love? |
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of Phyz entry Student Worksheet @ TPT Projectiles / Sound / Thermo |
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| Understanding Car
Crashes: It's Basic Physics What happens to vehicles and their occupants in crashes is determined by science. "You can't argue with the laws of physics," says Griff Jones, award-winning high school physics teacher who goes behind the scenes at the Institute's Vehicle Research Center to explore the basic science behind car crashes. Using a series of vehicle maneuvers on a test track plus filmed results of vehicle crash tests, Jones explains in anything but lecture style the concept of inertia, the relationship between crash forces and inertia, momentum and impulse, and a lot more. |
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Earth from Michael König on Vimeo. |
EARTH Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at an altitude of around 350 km. All credit goes to them. |
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| Honda Cog One of the finest Rube Goldberg machines ever filmed. But at what cost? Purportedly over £6M and the dismantling of two of the six hand-built Honda Accords. It apparently took months to shoot and the whole sequence worked without fail on take 606. No trick photography. No CGI. This one's for real. Enjoy. |
Blog of Phyz entry Free-form Workshett (event list) 1st Semester Mechanics |
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| Danny MacAskill: Inspired
Bicycles - April 2009 Scottish stunt cyclist extraordinaire shows an amazing intuition for physics as he rides his trials bike through Edinburgh. Motion, energy, momentum, rotation: it's all in there. First-rate stunts, cinematography, and soundtrack (Band of Horses) make this 5:38 clip a must-see! Over twenty-seven million views as of October, 2011. |
Blog of Phyz entry* YouTube Physics: DANNY MACASKILL Conceptual Physics 11th Ed. Lab Manual Hewitt/Baird: The Bicycle Dancer of Edinburgh 1st Semester Mechanics |
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| OK Go: This Too Shall Pass -
Rube Goldberg Version I don't have any curriculum for this one. But it's not to be missed! |
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Newton's Cradle Telekinesis An ordinary Newton's cradle. But how can all balls mutually repel? |
Blog of Phyz entry 1st Semester Mechanics |
| Mind-Expanding Spiral: Vanilla Version Take this illusion for a spin: it will mess with your eyes! Stare at the red dot while the spiral spins. When the spiral disappears, look at something (or someone) who is not moving. Mind-Expanding Spiral: Alfred E. Newman Version Enjoy it while you can. |
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| Dodge Nitro: Auto Launcher A hip, good-looking Nitro driver offers assistance to a balding, doughey non-Nitro motorist in distress. The jump-start was more than was expected. The clip lends itself to invocations of some classic one-dimensional kinematics equations. The Blog of Phyz entry has more info. |
Blog of Phyz entry Student Worksheet @ TPT Advanced Kinematics |
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| Car Bowling Fail I'm not sure what the hoped-for outcome of this experiment/stunt was. But it didn't end well for the vehicle owner. Still though, there is an object lesson in inertia here. See if your srudents can identify where this one went wrong and the multilple ways that the unhappy outcome might have been avoided. |
Blog of Phyz entry Student Worksheet @ TPT Motion & Inertia |
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| Tablecloth Trick XXXL BMW shows their motorcycle pulling the tablecloth out from under an elaborate table setting. Tablecloth Trick XXXL Debinked by the Mythbusters This is what they do. |
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Michel & Sven's
Tablecloth Trick 1 Too much time, boys. Michel & Sven's Tablecloth Trick 2 Too much pot, Sven. Michel & Sven's Tablecloth Trick 3 Too many pots, Michel. Michel & Sven's Tablecloth Trick 4 Poor Michel. He will be missed. Michel & Sven Full Video |
Blog of Phyz entry Inertia and Impulse |
| Target Shopping Cart Fail A body will persist in its state of rest ... unless compelled to change that state by unbalanced forces impressed upon it. Bamboo Delivery Truck Win Inertia can be your friend if you know how to leverage it. |
Blog of Phyz entry Student Worksheet @ TPT Inertia |
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| The Amaz!ng Jump 2010 There was nothing difficult about the jump. Watching the video of the scary Charles Manson look-alike explain that you can't sue the company if they kill you on purpose was off-putting. The fee was steep. The flairs worked on your tummy a bit. But the ride was great and the landing was easy. Poor Scotty was a captive audience for the breif physics lesson that I gave hime (and he cut from the final video). Good times! |
Blog of Phyz entry Forces |
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| What Revolves Around the Earth? The French version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire featured dramatic footage of a contestant clearly stumpted by a seemingly simple astronomy question. The drama takes an unexpected turn when he asks the audience for help. The Blog of Phyz entry has more info. UPDATE: The original hotlink went dead, but the newly embedded video has subtitles for non-Francophones. |
Blog of Phyz entry UCM & Gravity |
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| Mercedes Tunnel Barrel Roll Good fun, despite its apparent lack of truthiness. My recommendation is that you download the clip and watch it frame by frame during the barrel roll. The hard corners are ramped at just the right places. (I can believe it for entering the roll, but not so much for the exit.) And the light fixtures disappear in strategic locations as if by Photoshop! |
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Science and the FedEx
Superbowl XLI Ad The good people at Federal Express paid their $2.4M per 30 seconds for an ad that could aptly be described as a catalog of physics and astronomy misconceptions. The Blog of Phyz entry has more info. Don't forget to pre-quiz your students with the student worksheet (see link to the right). |
Blog of Phyz entry Student Worksheet @ TPT UCM & Gravity |
| Hammer and Feather Drop on
The Moon Apollo 15's David Scott drops a falcon feather and a hammer. The Lunar Module on Apollo 15 was the Falcon just as the LM on Apollo 11 was the Eagle. |
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| OK Go - Upside Down
& Inside Out This time the band takes flight in a Russian "Vomit Comet" courtesy of S7 Airlines. As you might suspect, zero-g shenanigans ensue. The Making of OK Go's Upside Down & Inside Out How the video was designed, shot, and edited. |
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Entertaining with Equilibrium True power balance! |
Blog of Phyz entry Energy / Equilibrium |
| Diet Coke and Mentos Eepybird Demos Mythbusters |
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Firewalkers Put to the Test British psychology professor Richard Wiseman challenged the paranormal explanation of firewalking. The results were not without humour. Spoiler alert: there are no energetic force fields accessed through meditation that can save your feet from being burned by hot coals. The Blog of Phyz entry has more info. |
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Leidenfrost "Bubbleball" Paul Robninson's serendipitous discovery that a glowing brass ball dipped into hot water makes for a dramatic demonstration of the Leidenfrost Effect. The Blog of Phyz entry has more info and more video clips, including an embarrassing blooper! |
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| Time Fountain This is just very groovy. I found it while gearing up for ExploratoRio. It's reminiscent of the Exploratorium's Strobe Fountain and ExploratoRio's Dancing Drops. But--wow--seriously engineered! The Blog of Phyz entry has more info. |
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| I Blew My Top I used the high-speed to record pie tins flying off my head (like you never did!). Notice that the tins (made of aluminum, of course), repel one another and they are repeled by me. I know, I know; so what else is new? |
Blog of Phyz entry Electricity |
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| Stay with the Pump! I don't recall where I heard it (sadly), but I recall that gas hos nozzle flares like this one happen more to woment than to men. Triboelectrictricity is without pity. |
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| Electroman Tesla Coil
Imperial March Those crazy kids at ArcAttack. Will they never learn? |
Blog of Phyz entry Electricity |
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| Electricity Lesson NOT Safe
for Students No thumbnail here. The link will take you to the download site, designed by physics teacher Dick Heckathorn. The clip includes particularly unsavory scenes from the "Electricity" edition of the Tell Me Why series. Watch it and you'll see why my comment is, "Oh, the humanity!" Don't forget to deploy the student worksheet before viewing this disaster in class. Oh, you can show it in class, but not as a lesson in correct content. |
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Human Circuits It's true, the Marquis de Sade might approve of the tactics seen in this clip. Still though, there's good physics to be enjoyed. And who doesn't like seeing otherwise intelligent people accepting electric shocks? It's a far cry (!) from the Milgram Experiment. |
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| ArcAttack on America's Got
Talent The Troubadours of Tesla take there talents to television with an electrifying rendition of "The Imperial March." Sharon Osbourne somehow manages embarrass herself. |
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In Space No One Can Hear You
Scream What better way to introduce the importaqnce of a medium in mechanical wave propagation? |
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| Honda's Musical
Road You're picking up good vibrations in Lancaster, California. |
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Sheldon Cooper and The
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Waves at YouTube The classic no-sound (but highly visual) clip. The title link above will take you to a fruitful YouTube search. |
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| MythBusters - Fun with Gas! The helium- and sulfur hexafluoride-voices of Adam Savage. There are distinct dangers in both these demonstrations. If you don't know what they are, you really shouldn't attempt them. Isn't nice to have video of someone else doing them? |
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MythBusters - Breaking Glass
with a Human Voice A MythBuster's World First Exclusive! A heavy metal vocalist summons the pitch and power to shatter a wine glass with his unamplified voice. |
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| Tacoma Narrows Bridge
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Blog of Phyz entry Harmonic Motion & Resonance |
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| Volgograd Bridge - The New
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| Victoria Phyz Falls
- Baird's Bungee Bounce While on the best and most complex trip of my life (so far), I traveled to Zimbabwe's Victoria Falls to shoot it to the best of my ability, and to jump off the bridge. The resulting video was rich in physics. So physics I did. See the Blog of Phyz entry to find a shorter version of the video. |
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| Color Mixing -
here's The Octopus? Cephalopods are masters of disguise. They use a biological form of color-mixing via their chromatophores. |
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| Colour Mixing – The
Mystery of Magenta A physicist explains how we fabricate the magneta in our minds. I'm still processing this a bit; I don't think he's referring to violet here. |
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| Reflected Color
& Color Subtraction Illuminating colored objects with colored light yields some surprising results. Reflected Color on Duplos Once more, with Duplos! |
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| Alkali Metals Make Big Boom Yeah, this is more chemistry than physics. But remember: in the end, it's all physics. And this is what happens when the Brainiacs get hold of some rubidium and cesium. As Mr. Tickle so eloquently puts it, "Warning warning warning! Extreme danger; clear the area!" Note: The last two explosions were fabricated, and did not involve actual alkali metals. |
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