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The title says it all: this blog features physics videos found everywhere on the web: animations, demonstrations, lectures, documentaries.
Please go here if you want to suggest other nice physics videos, and here if I mistakingly infringed your copyrights. If you understand French, you'll find a huge selection of physics videos in French in my other blog Vidéos de Physique.

Thursday, 31 May 2012

Momentum, Magnets & Metal Balls - Sixty Symbols

Looking at momentum with the aid of steel balls and a neodymium magnet. Featuring Professor Roger Bowley.

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Science off the Sphere: Space Soundwaves II- Electric Didgeridoo

In his off-duty time, NASA Astronaut Don Pettit likes to explore scientific curiosities of his own design. Sometimes that means cutting his shirt up and playing the space station vacuum cleaner like a didgeridoo.

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Saturday, 26 May 2012

Falling with Friction

With a low mass and a large surface area, the coffee filters reach terminal velocity very quickly. When a falling object reaches terminal velocity it stops accelerating and moves at constant velocity. Analyzed by Vernier Video Physics.
Kibae Lee, Tara Lamb, Caleb Williamson, Jessica Gales.

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CERN News - Neutralino back from Space

ESA astronaut and former CERN physicist Christer Fuglesang returns a symbolic neutralino particle to CERN after flying it to the International Space Station on the occasion of his STS128 mission in 2009.

 

Monday, 21 May 2012

Petabytes of data at Large Hadron Collider - Sixty Symbols

This question is posed on behalf of many Sixty Symbols viewers who asked about it. With thanks to David Barney and Steven Goldfarb, from CMS and ATLAS respectively.

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