Videos for PHYS 1501L and 1601L

Lab 1: Problem Solving

• One Weird Math Trick Estimates ANYTHING (Fermi problems) – YouTube
• Calculating the odds of intelligent alien life – Jill Tarter | TED-Ed

 

Lab 3: Position, Velocity, and Acceleration in One-Dimensional Motion

• Introduction to Optimization and Curve Fitting

 

Lab 5: Static and Kinetic Friction

• The Big Bang Theory | Leonard Hofstadter Chicken Joke – YouTube

 

Lab 6: Scaling and the Properties of Elastic Materials

• What Happens If We Throw an Elephant From a Skyscraper? Life & Size 1 – YouTube

 

Lab 10: Damped Driven Harmonic Motion

• How I broke a wine glass with my VOICE (using science!) – YouTube

 

Lab 11: Fluid Pressure

• Nurse Training – How to Take Blood Pressure – YouTube

Videos and Simulations for Wave Lab (1601L / 1501L, lab 12)

• Lecture 2 (Preview) – What is sound? – YouTube
• Fourier Series: Modeling Nature
• But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction. – YouTube

 

Videos for PHYS 1502L and 1602L

Videos on Electrostatics (1602L/1502L, lab 1)

• What’s in a Candle Flame?
• Electric Sparks from Falling Water
• Kelvin’s Thunderstorm

Geometric Optics – Reflection and Refraction (1602L / 1502L, lab 2)

Lenses (1602L / 1502L, lab 3)

• Lens Tutorial
• Lens animation

Building and Analyzing Simple Circuits I (1602L / 1502L, lab 4)

Videos on Magnetism (1502L / 1602L, lab 7)

• Magnets: how do they work?
• How special relativity makes magnets work

Videos on Induction

• Exploding soda cans with electromagnets
• How to shrink a quarter with a high voltage electromagnet

Videos on Resonant RLC circuits

• A damped mechanical oscillator
• Inductors, Capacitors, and their Mechanical Analogies
• The Physics of the Weird and Wonderful Theremin

Videos on Wave Optics (1501L / 1602L, Lab 10)

• Waves and Diffraction
• The Original Double Slit Experiment

Videos on the Photoelectric Effect

• Photoelectric Effect Demonstration
• Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer?

 

Super-Cooled Water: Clip 1, Clip 2, Veritasium’s explanation

LIGO talk at Vanderbilt University, February 2016