The most exciting SciFi movies have tons of space explosions. But how effective would explosions be in outer space with no atmosphere to carry the blast wave? Could a hypothetical explosion hurt you in space? Check out Joe Hanson’s video on It’s Okay to be Smart on the physics of space battles! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFOuxAx-dkc http://physicsgirl.org/ Tweets
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Astronomers have seen light from BEHIND a black hole for the first time. I explained the discovery and results to my editor, Levi. Congrats to D. Wilkins and the astronomy team! Tap dat Patreon → https://www.patreon.com/physicsgirl Special thank you to our X-Ray tier patrons: Carlos Patricio, David Cichowski, Eddie Sabbah, Fabrice Eap, Gil Chesterton, Isabel
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What happens when you drop a perfectly balanced stack of balls? And how is the result like a supernova? The classic momentum transfer demonstration, taken to the next level. A big thank you to my nephews and niece Drew, Max and Whitney for creating the trampoline footage! Thank you to the Vlogbrothers for sponsoring this
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Holograms are photographic recordings of 3D scenes. Unlike a camera, which captures one view through a small viewer focused by a lens, holograms capture an entire light field which allows them to recreate the 3D scene. Shimmery 2D projections, like pre-recorded Pepper’s ghost illusion, are often confused with 3D holograms. Pepper’s Ghost Tutorials instagram.com/thephysicsgirl facebook.com/thephysicsgirl
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This episode is brought to you by Squarespace: http://www.squarespace.com/physicsgirl With recent high-profile security decryption cases, encryption is more important than ever. Much of your browser usage and your smartphone data is encrypted. But what does that process actually entail? And when computers get smarter and faster due to advances in quantum physics, how will encryption
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Use physics to create cool patterns on a vibrating plate. How is this like a guitar string or a singing wine glass? Instagram: http://instagram.com/thephysicsgirl Twitter: http://www.physicsgirl.org/twitter Facebook: http://www.physicsgirl.org/facebook http://www.physicsgirl.org/ Slinky standing wave animation courtesy of: The Animations for Physics and Astronomy Project at Penn State Schuylkill Standing wave interference simulation courtesy of: Walter Fendt http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/stwaverefl.htm
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Why are plants green? Is there a reason plants evolved to be green, globally? What does it have to do with the color of the sunlight coming down through our atmosphere? If you liked this video check out these: Bandaids Glow when Opening?! | EVERYDAY MYSTERIES Why Hawaii’s volcano is so UNUSUAL http://physicsgirl.org/ Tweets by
What if you went back in time and killed your own grandfather? Would you still be born? Or would you have thus killed yourself? Thanks to Google #sciencegoals for sponsoring this video! Link to the previous MinutePhysics video: https://youtu.be/XayNKY944lY If you could travel back in time, and you killed your grandfather, would you be killing
Download the PBS Video App: https://www.pbs.org/pbs-video-app/ The universe is microwaving itself. A mystery signal discovered in the 1960s led to a Nobel prize. In this video, Dianna explores one of the most mysterious discoveries in physics – a constant microwave signal that seemed to be coming from everywhere in the universe. It turned out to
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Beyond molecules and atoms, how far down can we see below the wavelength of visible light? What is the smallest possible scale in the universe? Frog animation by Matt Burns Facebook: http://www.physicsgirl.org/facebook Twitter: http://www.physicsgirl.org/twitter Updates: http://physicsgirl.org Help us translate our videos! http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UC7DdEm33SyaTDtWYGO2CwdA&tab=2 Thanks to Kyle Kitzmiller for filming. Image Credits: SEM Images: Dartmouth Electron Microscope
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You’ve probably heard the term Dark Matter, but what is it, and how do we know it exists? Instagram: http://instagram.com/thephysicsgirl Twitter: http://www.physicsgirl.org/twitter Facebook: http://www.physicsgirl.org/facebook http://www.physicsgirl.org/
Listen to “The Paradox of Choice” for free at http://www.Audible.com/minutephysics This video is about the orbital mechanics of why it’s so hard to crash into the sun – the energy it takes to get there is astoundingly high, compared with leaving the solar system. Thanks to everyone who supports MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to
Cosmic inflation is a theory that was proposed in the 1980s by cosmologist Alan Guth to answer some of the most fundamental questions of the origins of our universe. It also solved the Horizon Problem and the Flatness Problem. Help us translate our videos! http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UC7DdEm33SyaTDtWYGO2CwdA&tab=2 If you liked this video check out these: The Most
You’ve heard of E=mc²… but you probably haven’t heard the whole story. http://translate.minutephysics.com MinutePhysics is on Google+ – http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook – http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitter – @minutephysics Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics — all in a minute! Music by Nathaniel Schroeder – http://www.soundcloud.com/drschroeder Thanks to
Laser hair removal video: https://youtu.be/S20-1_XqVPM Veritasium: http://youtube.com/veritasium How can light be used to cool atoms and molecules ? Lasers are known to burn things, fix eyes, and dance on powerpoint presentations. But they can also be used to cool objects to some of the coldest temperatures in the universe. Help us translate our videos! http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UC7DdEm33SyaTDtWYGO2CwdA&tab=2
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How can just two rules of Einstein’s 1905 theory of special relativity lead to seemingly paradoxical changes in the perception of time? Want exclusive updates whenever a new video is posted? Sign up here! http://www.physicsgirl.org/signup This video was inspired by a special relativity class in high school. Special relativity was one of the first subjects
Pianos can’t be perfectly tuned – it’s a mathematical fact! Thanks to http://www.audible.com/minutephysics for supporting MinutePhysics. Equal tempered tuning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament Just Tuning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_intonation Harmonics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic Pythagorean vs Just Tuning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaYOwIIvgHg Thanks to Patreon supporters for making MinutePhysics possible! MinutePhysics is on Google+ – http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook – http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitter – @minutephysics Minute Physics provides
Surface tension holds the surface molecules of liquids tightly together and makes for some fun experiments! Instagram: http://instagram.com/thephysicsgirl Facebook: http://www.physicsgirl.org/facebook Twitter: http://www.physicsgirl.org/twitter Updates: http://physicsgirl.org Help us translate our videos! http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UC7DdEm33SyaTDtWYGO2CwdA&tab=2 Thanks to my mom for filming Music: “On the Bach,” “Bluesy Vibes,” “Good Starts”
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Skateboarding legend Rodney Mullen teams up with Physics Girl to explain the unusual physics behind skateboard tricks. Filmed with a phantom high speed camera at 1000fps, see Mullen’s tricks like never before. If you liked this video check out these: How SMOOTHNESS of a SOCCER BALL affects curve! Crazy tic tac bounce!? Created by: Dianna
Protons and neutrons are made of three quarks, right? Wrong! Explore the particle they should have told you about when you were a kid! Instagram: http://instagram.com/thephysicsgirl Facebook: http://www.physicsgirl.org/facebook Twitter: http://www.physicsgirl.org/twitter Updates: http://physicsgirl.org Help us translate our videos! http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UC7DdEm33SyaTDtWYGO2CwdA&tab=2 Colored Light Simulation courtesy from www.edumedia-sciences.com Many thanks to the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
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This problem is called the “100 Prisoners Problem”, more info on the math here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_prisoners_problem Thanks to http://www.ifixit.com for supporting us on Subbable! and to Subbable supporter @vicnice137 And thanks to my friend Dan Hoff for introducing me to this problem! MinutePhysics is on Google+ – http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook – http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitter – @minutephysics
How did the field of quantum mechanics come about in the first place? The Rayleigh-Jeans catastrophe, also known as the ultraviolet catastrophe was a prediction by the Rayleigh-Jeans law that a blackbody would radiate infinite amounts of ultraviolet light. It wasn’t until Max Planck came along and predicted that light came in packets or quanta
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Subscribe to MinutePhysics! December has the longest solar days (noon-to-noon) because of the weird way a combination of the axial tilt of the earth and the eccentricity of its elliptical orbit conspire in December. Perihelion + Solstices = Long Days. Here’s some more info about: Solar Time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_time The Equation of Time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time Milankovitch cycles:
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Link to keep watching over on Vsauce’s channel RIGHT HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYf6av21x5c What if there were a tunnel through the middle of the earth and you jumped in? Also, explore a map of the big bang! http://www.bigbangregistry.com MinutePhysics is on Google+ – http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook – http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitter – @minutephysics Minute Physics provides an energetic
Support MinutePhysics on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Three Blue One Brown: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw Why you can’t clone Schrödinger’s cat: this video presents the full proof of the “No Cloning” Theorem in Quantum Mechanics – without any fancy math! (stereotypical qubit has been replaced with Schrödinger’s cat). The full proof relies on the linearity of quantum (aka unitary) transformations, and
Guest narrator Sean Carroll of Caltech describes dark energy and the acceleration of the universe, the discovery of which was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics on October 4th. Tweet it – http://bit.ly/oCD2jo Facebook it – http://on.fb.me/oagPm3 minutephysics is now on Google+ – http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook – http://facebook.com/minutephysics Minute Physics provides an energetic and
What happens when you keep building a skyscraper higher and higher? You may run into some problems with the laws physics. The higher you build, the faster the top of the building moves around the earth, and you end up with strong centrifugal forces. What could possibly go wrong? Subscribe to Physics Girl for more
3D movies and TV are is increasing in popularity, but is any of it truly 3D? How true is the 3D in movie theaters? How do glassess-less 3D TVs work? Try catching a ball with one eye closed. If you find it easy, try having the ball thrown a couple of feet in front of
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The reverse magnus effect – Curving and bending a ball using the magnus effect is common in soccer, tennis, and baseball. The effect can be reversed though – kick the ball the same way, and it will bend in the opposite direction! FYFD Boundary Layer Transition video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roNMWE2CJxk FYFD: https://www.youtube.com/user/fyfluiddynamics Help us translate our videos!
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When you mix red and green, what do you get? White light is all of the colors, right? So, how do computer screens show you every wavelength of light? Or do they? Only some humans can see this type of light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSu0cV3fqi8 Singing this Note is IMPOSSIBLE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F64xcPKKES8 https://instagram.com/thephysicsgirl Tweets by thephysicsgirl https://facebook.com/thephysicsgirl https://physicsgirl.org Help