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This is where I
post interesting videos
that I find (or sometimes make).
You'll also find lots of videos
embedded in the lesson pages.
This is Blue Origin’s New Shepard
space vehicle. It's a vertical landing reusable rocket,
and is quite incredible. On 23 November 2015, after
reaching 100.5 km (330,000 ft) altitude (outer space), the
booster successfully performed a powered vertical soft landing
Video credit: YouTube
This video shows an
incredible
scale model of the solar system, made by Wylie Overstreet and
Alex Gorosh. Thanks to Jon Hargreaves of Ivybridge
Community College for sharing this one!
Video credit: YouTube / Wylie Overstreet & Alex Gorosh.
This video shows you the
relative sizes of some objects in our solar system,
and then compares them to stars of varying sizes. Quite
astonishing!
Video credit: YouTube
This video shows a
Rube
Goldberg machine - an incredible and complex series of energy
transfers in motion!
OK Go's "This too shall pass" - a Rube Goldberg Machine in
action!
Video credit: OK Go / YouTube
This video shows a
bowling ball and feather being dropped in the
world's biggest vacuum chamber - first
with the effect of air
resistance, and then without!
Video credit: YouTube
Astronauts on the International Space Station!
Astronauts on the International Space Station.
Music credit: Arkist. Check out his
soundcloud page.
This TED Education
video explains
how
tsunamis happen.
Video credit: TED Education / YouTube
This video explains
ideas about space travel and rocket
science, using only the thousand most common words in
the english language. It was inspired by
this fantastic XKCD poster.
Video credit: Youtube / XKCD / MinutePhysics.
This video explains 3
ways we
could save Earth from an Near Earth Object (NEO), such as an
asteroid or comet.
Video credit: Youtube / SciShow
This video explains
ideas about matter and antimatter, in a very simple and concise
way.
Video credit: YouTube / MinutePhysics
This video illustrates
ideas about relative velocities,
galilean reference frames, and momentum.
Thanks to Stuart Ellaway of Ivybridge Community College for sharing
this one!
Video credit: Mythbusters / YouTube
This video shows
an intriguing
phenomenon called the Magnus Effect, and some of its
applications.
Video credit: YouTube
This video examines ideas about
countable infinities, in a
novel context! ideas about infinity are often used in our
models of gravity, electric fields, and many other physical
phenomena.
Video credit: TED Education / YouTube
This video shows the
oscillations
of guitar strings, captured using the video camera on a mobile
phone. The standing waves show up because of an aliasing effect
caused by the low frame rate of the video camera.
Thanks to Chris the lumberjack for sharing this one with me!
Video credit: YouTube / Link-Wall
This TED Education video looks at
how simple ideas and questions
can lead to profound scientific discoveries. A
little bit of inspiration for aspiring A-Level physicists!
Video credit: TED Education / YouTube
This is Reggie Watts'
TED talk. He does some
INCREDIBLE beat boxing and
constructs music from nothing more than his voice, a loop
sampler, and some effects units. Find this interesting?
Check out the Key Stage 5 section of the site! There's
some great work on signal processing
and manipulation of audio waveforms in the G491
module of the Advancing Physics
A-Level course. You'll find some
fantastic free audio editing software and activities
to try out. There is also some great free image
manipulation software and video editing software.
A fantastic, funny, awesome TED Talk - by Reggie Watts.
Video credit: TED Education / YouTube.
Warning: this content is quite silly.
This video, from the TED
talks, is aimed at teachers and educators - but
students and aspiring teachers might enjoy it too. It is Sir
Ken Robinson's famous talk about creativity in schools
:) It looks at education in
general, rather than science or physics education specifically. I found it to be
an inspiring and thought provoking watch - hopefully you will
too!
Sir Ken Robinson's famous TED talk about creativity in schools.
Video credit: TED Education / YouTube
More to come soon...!
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