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This playlist provides clips that convey key concepts in Physics.

Beakman's World: Basketball and Circuits

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Beakman explains how the prongs of cords are needed to complete the circuit of electrons flowing (electricity). He then does a skit where each member of a basketball team is an electron. They stand in a circle (to be a circuit) with Beakman as the battery. Beakman starts passing the ball (charge) around the circle and when the ball gets to the hoop, it goes in and lights the lightbulb. A player is removed and the circuit is broken so the bulb goes out. Beakman then explains how this relates to plugs, and then he demonstrates how a cord is actually two wires side by side to create the circuit to power an appliance.

Clips

The Big Bang Theory: Sheldon Teaches Penny Physics

Sheldon gives Penny an introduction to Physics from the Greeks to Isaac Newton to Dutch researche...

Animated Hero Classics: Marie Curie

This clip highlights some of Marie Curie's greatest contributions to science: the theory of radio...

Pinky and the Brain: Christopher Walken and the Brain Discuss Physics

The Brain explains the Fermi-Dirac function during a court trial with Christopher Walken.

3rd Rock from the Sun: Guns Don't Kill People; Physics Kills People

Dr. Solomon explains the variables that contribute to the force of a gunshot. He then proclaims t...

Pi: Archimedes

Sol Robeson tells a story about Archimedes to explain how to identify the volume of an object by ...

3rd Rock from the Sun: It's Physically Impossible

A cop suspects a thief of jumping a fence and stealing the money. The suspect claims that it is p...

Newton: A Tale of Two Isaacs: Gravity Presentation

Newton presents his findings on gravity to a group of scientists. Among the attendees are Sir Rob...

Newton: A Tale of Two Isaacs: Laws of Motion Fight

A fight breaks out, and Isaac Newton watches the quarrel and draws conclusions about forces based...

Newton: A Tale of Two Isaacs: Sir Isaac and The Apple

Sir Isaac Newton ponders why the planets orbit the sun and what allows them to maintain that orbi...

The Theory of Everything: Tide and Fluorescence

Stephen explains to Jane that Laundry detergent glows under UV light because phosphor is added to...

Powers of Ten: The Scale of an Atom

Starting from the hand of a sleeping man at a picnic, this clip investigates the structure of a c...

The Big Bang Theory: Helium Prank

Sheldon is invited to explain magnetic monopoles to the listeners of the NPR radio channel, and B...

Liv and Maddie: Brain Olympics

Joey, Liv, and Artie represent Ridgewood High School in the Brain Olympics. They are tasked with ...

The Magic School Bus: How Water Changes

The class goes to Water Land and learns about how water changes when it is exposed to different a...

Mission: Impossible III: Pendulum Swing

Ethan thinks of a stunt involving a pendulum to get from one building to another. He sketches out...

The Big Bang Theory: Schrodinger's Cat

Penny asks Sheldon for advice on whether or not she should date Leonard, and during the conversat...

The Big Bang Theory: Lifting a Heavy Package

Sheldon and Leonard use the stairs as an inclined plane to decrease the force required to lift th...

Back to the Future: 1.21 Gigawatts

In 1955, Doc can't think of a way to generate the 1.21 gigawatts needed to power the DeLorean so ...

MythBusters: Phone Book Friction

Adam and Jamie have bound two phone books together by interleaving their pages. They attempt to p...

Sid the Science Kid: Inclined Plane and Simple

Susie sings a song about inclined planes. In the song, she highlights a scenario in which they ar...

Bill Nye, the Science Guy: Potential and Kinetic Energy

Bill Nye explains potential and kinetic energy and uses a bowling ball to demonstrate the concepts.

Pee-wee's Big Adventure: Pee-wee's Breakfast Machine

Pee-wee starts off the morning with some breakfast made using his elaborate Breakfast Machine. Th...

The Road Runner Show: Pendulum

The coyote gives a small push to the steel ball, and it misses the roadrunner because the roadrun...

The Sandlot: Retrieval Suction

The boys use the suction of three vacuum cleaners to retrieve a ball that is out of their reach. ...

The Road Runner Show: Spring Punch

Wile E. Coyote attempts to knock out the roadrunner with a spring loaded punch. His attempt backf...

Rocket Power: Sam Rides Down the California Incline

Sam makes a daredevil move and skateboards down the California Incline. As much as he enjoys the ...

Growing Pains: Today's Subject is Gravity

Mr. Seaver begins teaching the class a lesson on gravity out of the textbook. He is especially co...

Bill Nye, the Science Guy: Electricity Is A Form Of Energy

Bill Nye illustrates how electricity is generated using a small generator.

Malcolm in the Middle: Dewey's Dominoes

Dewey is sick at home and creates a dominoes masterpiece. The dominoes illustrate the conversion ...

Sid the Science Kid: Moving the Heavy Basket

Teacher Susie challenges her students to move the basket from the ground to the top of the slide....

Bill Nye, the Science Guy: It's Like a Ramp and a Ladder, Combined

Bill climbs down a firepole and wants to get back up. He uses simple machines such as ramps and l...

Schoolhouse Rock!: Electricity, Electricity

This clip illustrates the modern-day uses of electricity and explains how electricity is generate...

The Road Runner Show: Fan-powered Sail

The Coyote attempts to outrun the Road Runner with his new device, but unfortunately it doesn't a...

The Road Runner Show: Outboard Motor

The Coyote unintentionally launches off of a cliff, and he realizes that he could have made it to...

October Sky: Homer Proves His Innocence

Homer Hickam is accused of starting a fire by his teacher. He solves a kinematic free fall equati...

The Simpsons: Principal Skinner saves Ralph

Principal Skinner uses the principle of conservation of angular momentum to turn the container an...

The Big Bang Theory: The Problem with Teleportation

Sheldon states that teleportation would not act as a method of transportation; rather, it would d...

Angels & Demons: Antimatter Explosion

Antimatter collides with ordinary matter, causing an enormous outburst of energy, and consequentl...

Numb3rs: Surface Tension Explanation

Charlie talks about surface tension in water and why it makes drops of water try to be spherical ...

Numb3rs: Brownian Motion Explanation

Charlie compares the shooter's path to a cue ball in pool: it moves until it hits and obstacle an...

Sesame Street: Grover Uses Force

Grover explains and demonstrates the concept of force by pulling a rope. He also illustrates how ...

Galileo: On the Shoulders of Giants: Two Balls

Galileo explains to his student that, if two balls are dropped at the same height, they will both...

Ernest Goes to Jail: Ernest Becomes Charged

Ernest is sentenced to death and somehow survives the electric chair. He gains electrical powers ...

Ed, Edd n Eddy: Static Electricity

Double D shuffles along a rug and shocks Ed with his finger. He then explains static electricity ...

Bill Nye, the Science Guy: Light, Bending, & Bouncing

Bill describes refraction and illustrates it using three beams of light and a piece of plastic.

Galileo: On the Shoulders of Giants: Sink or Float

Water's density is 1 g/cm3. When an object with a lower density than this enters water, it floats...

The Right Stuff: Breaking the Sound Barrier

Chuck Yeager finally breaks the sound barrier while piloting an aircraft. The people on the groun...

Sid the Science Kid: Big Basket Investigation

Sid and his friends learn that wheels make things easier to move. They write down their observati...

Bill Nye, the Science Guy: Atom

Bill Nye explains that an atom is composed of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Protons and neutr...

Schoolhouse Rock!: A Victim of Gravity

This clip explains that gravity is the reason objects fall when you drop them. It also illustrate...

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Billy Shocks Everyone

Billy gets shocked when he touches the doorknob at home and discovers that he can produce a stati...

MythBusters: Massive Newton's Cradle

The MythBusters create a massive version of Newton's cradle and try to achieve as high level of e...

Bill Nye, the Science Guy: Momentum

Bill Nye goes bowling and explains how momentum plays a role in knocking down the pins. This clip...

The Simpsons: Static Generator

The Simpsons lose electricity during a winter storm, and Bart learns about the appliances he cann...

The Road Runner Show: Balloon Anvil

Wile E. Coyote flies in a hot air ballon and attempts to hit the Road Runner from above with an a...

Sid the Science Kid: How Wheels Work

Sid's dad shows him how wheels work on the computer. As a result, Sid figures out what he needs t...

Bill Nye, the Science Guy: Friction

Bill Nye explains that friction is the force we feel when things rub against each other. He then ...

The Road Runner Show: Rolling Boulder

In an attempt to harm the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote rolls a boulder in his path. His attempt is...

The Road Runner Show: Giant Rubber Band

Wile E. Coyote ties two boulders together with a giant rubber band, and the result is not what he...

The Road Runner Show: Human Cannonball

In a violation of the conservation of momentum, Wile E. Coyote launches himself out of a canon wi...

The Road Runner Show: Log Tunnel

The Coyote is outsmarted again when he tries to catch the Road Runner at the end of a log, which ...

The Road Runner Show: Rock Fall

A ploy to outsmart the Roadrunner backfires when Wile E. Coyote does not realize the effect that ...

The Road Runner Show: Spring Launch

The coyote uses a spring as a launcher to catch up to the roadrunner. Unfortunately, it does not ...

Malcolm in the Middle: Acceleration vs. Velocity

Malcolm explains to his brothers the difference between acceleration and velocity while watching ...

MythBusters: Moon Flag Waving Hoax

The MythBusters conduct a test at NASA to determine whether a flag on the moon would wave as it d...

Bill Nye, the Science Guy: Sound Waves

Using an oscilloscope, electronic keyboard, and piano, Bill Nye shows what the waves look like fo...

The Magic School Bus: Sound Is Vibration

Ms. Frizzle and her class learn about vibrations and sound by playing with instruments and hittin...

Bill Nye, the Science Guy: Granny Tug of War

Hazel Fanny the Science Granny demonstrates balanced and unbalanced forces using a game of tug of...

Dexter's Laboratory: Lightning Is Not Scary

During a lightning storm, Dexter cannot sleep because he is scared of the lightning. He explains ...

Agora: Relative Motion Experiment

Hypathia incorrectly guesses how a sack will fall when it is dropped on a moving boat. She observ...

The Magic School Bus: Jumping In Low Gravity

The students and Ms. Frizzle travel to Mercury, the first planet in our solar system, and learn t...

Bill Nye, the Science Guy: A Big Static Electrical Charge

Bill Nye uses a Van de Graaff generator to demonstrate how static electricity works and why it re...

The Big Bang Theory: The Big Bang Theory Intro

This intro song to The Big Bang Theory covers topics such as the origins of the universe, univers...

Ed, Edd n Eddy: Galileo's Experiment

Double D and Ed attempt to perform Galileo's experiment on the effects of gravity on objects of d...

Beakman's World: How Fireworks Work

Demonstrates what is inside of fireworks and conceptually how they work and that there are differ...

Beakman's World: Demonstrating Newton's Laws

Beakman explains Newton's Third Law of Motion and plays a video that offers some examples of it i...

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Young Sheldon: Sheldon's Train

Sheldon explains how he uses a toy train and a ball to prove Newton's first law of motion. As the...

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A Christmas Story: He Nearly Shoots His Eye

On Christmas morning, a very excited young Ralphie goes to his backyard to shoot his Red Rider BB...

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Beakman's World: Creating a Rocket

Beakman explains what rockets are and acts like Robert Goddard (father of modern rocketry) to exp...

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Beakman's World: Egg Experiment

Beakman sings a song about Isaac Newton and inertia and pretends to be Newton to explain his Laws...

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Beakman's World: Harmonicas and Sound

Beakman explains how harmonicas work. He starts by explaining what sound waves are and their prop...

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Ice Age: Collision Course: We're Just Too Attractive

Neil deBuck Weasel and the opossums are happy to find space rocks, which consist of iron, carbon,...

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Beakman's World: Constant Collisions

Beakman explains collisions and how all of the energy from the collision needs to go somewhere. T...

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Ice Age: Collision Course: Too Much Gravity

Scrat enters a spacecraft and accidentally increases the intensity of the gravity so much that he...

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Ice Age: Collision Course: No More Friction

After finding a negatively charged asteroid fragment on the ground, Buck orders the group to not ...

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Beakman's World: How Cars Move

Beakman explains how gas is explosive and causes the combustion engine in the car to work. He use...

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Dirty Dancing: Dancing in Nature

Baby and Johnny practice different dance moves in nature to improve their dancing. They use a log...

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Beakman's World: Tightropes and Inertia

Beakman uses someone walking on a tightrope with a long pole to explain rotational inertia and sh...

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Beakman's World: Rotation Speed

Lester and Phoebe have a contest to see who can rotate an apparatus the fastest. The two apparatu...

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Beakman's World: Basketball and Circuits

Beakman explains how the prongs of cords are needed to complete the circuit of electrons flowing ...

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Mr. Bean: Mr. Bean Becomes Charged

Mr. Bean is excited by a Van der Graaf generator and uses it after he sees how it affects a woman...

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National Geographic: Electromagnetism

Electromagnetism is one of the four fundamental forces of nature. Learn about the relationship be...

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Miss Congeniality: Water Glass Music

For the Miss United States pageant, Gracie shows off her talent of creating music using water gla...

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How It's Made: Making An Acoustic Guitar

This clip details the construction of an acoustic guitar. Throughout the process, it explains how...

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Beakman's World: Piano Amplification

Beakman explains how a piano works to amplify sound waves. He covers amplification and vibration ...

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Beakman's World: Creating Music

Beakman explains what sound waves and vibration are and explains how these create music. He then ...

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Beakman's World: Searching with Sonar

Beakman explains how ships use sonar to find sunken ships and archaeologists can use these findin...

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Beakman's World: Sound and Amplification

Beakman explains amplification and how sound is generated. He mentions that certain sounds are lo...

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Journey to the Center of the Earth: Glowstick Drop

Professor Anderson leads the group through the underground cave. He almost falls down a deep chas...

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Beakman's World: Seeing Sound

He describes what sound is verbally and then uses an oscilloscope to "see" it. He goes on to do a...

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Science Max: Visualizing Sound

Phil demonstrates how to see sound in action using plastic wrap, a bowl, and table salt. The salt...

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WKRP in Cincinnati: Venus Explains the Atom

Venus gives Arnold a 2-minute lesson on the atom. He makes allusions to inner city life (gangs, t...

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Beakman's World: Radiation Discovery

Josie acts like Madam Curie to explain how she discovered radiation and how it works. Beakman tal...

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Science Max: The Atom Explained with Kittens

Phil explains the structure of an atom in 60 seconds using a fence, different colored balls, and ...

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10 Things I Hate About You: Golf Balls onto Football Field

Several students hit golf balls into the football field. As they hit the balls, there is another ...

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Apollo 15 Mission Footage: Hammer and Feather Experiment

During the Apollo 15 space mission, astronaut David Scott decides to test Galilleo's theory that ...

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Beakman's World: Karate Chopping a Board

Beakman has Lester try to karate chop a board and it doesn't break. Phoebe comes and does it and ...

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National Lampoon's Animal House: Practicing Golf

Otter and Boone practice hitting golf balls and discuss their trajectories. Otter gives Boone adv...

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The Big Bang Theory: The Doppler Effect Costume

Sheldon dresses up as the Doppler Effect for Penny's Halloween party. When Penny asks about his c...

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Beakman's World: The Wonder of Microwaves

Beakman explains how microwaves work by first explaining what electromagnetic energy is, that it ...

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Beakman's World: How Landline Phones Work

Beakman explains how landline phones work by turning sound waves into electricity and back into s...

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National Geographic: Gravitational Waves

What are gravitational waves and how are they detected? These ripples in space-time, sometimes ca...

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StarTalk: Discovering Gravitational Waves

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how Albert Einstein correctly predicted the existence of gravitation...

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Beakman's World: Visible Light

Beakman explains that light is made up various colors using ROY G BIV and a prism. He then explai...

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Beakman's World: How Mirrors Work

Beakman explains how light rays reflect off of smooth vs. bumpy surfaces. Since a mirror is smoot...

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Beakman's World: Refracting Light

Beakman explains how refractions works then he turns off the lights to show that we see light bou...

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Beakman's World: Disappearing Jar

Beakman puts a small jar into a larger beaker and pours glycerin in both jars. As he does this, t...

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National Treasure: Deciphering the Riddle

Riley finds the next clue, and the group tries to decipher it. They come to the conclusion that i...

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A Christmas Story: The Triple Dog Dare

Flick's classmates triple dog dare him to stick his tongue on a frozen metal pole. When he does, ...

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Beakman's World: Sink or Float

Beakman demonstrates that marshmallows are less dense than the same amount of water and therefore...

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Beakman's World: Demonstrating Hydraulics

Beakman explains that construction equipment is "strong" because of hydraulics. He demonstrates t...

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Science Max: Buoyancy Experiment

Phil demonstrates buoyancy using different types of fluids and different objects. He defines flui...

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The Big Bang Theory: The Oobleck

Sheldon, Leonard, Howard, and Raj create an oobleck using corn starch and water. Initially, it's ...

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Brainiac: Science Abuse: Custard Walk

The team fills a pool with Custard to test whether someone can walk across without sinking as the...

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham: Car Window

Byron kisses his reflection in a frozen car window and gets his lips stuck to it. He pleads to Ke...

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Beakman's World: Tomatoes and Liquid Nitrogen

Beakman smashes a tomato with a mallet. Then puts another tomato in liquid nitrogen to show it wa...

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Beakman's World: Glider Planes

Beakman explains how glider planes use gravity to fly by taking advantage of potential and kineti...

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The Simpsons: The Matter Transporter

Professor Frink is having a garage sale, and Homer buys a Matter Transporter from him for $0.35. ...

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The Big Bang Theory: Finding Subatomic Particles

In this clip, Leonard explains on the radio how the Large Hadron Collider is being used to find s...

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The Big Bang Theory: How Hard Can It Be?

Sheldon tells Penny that he is still interested in String Theory because it is elegant. He gives ...

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Science Max: Chemical Change or Not?

In this Science Max Quiz, Phil explains how to differentiate chemical and physical changes. He me...

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Crash Course: Physics: Calculating Dervatives and the Power Rule

This video explains the main focus of derivatives. This Crash Course Narrator, Shini, defines how...

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Crash Course: Physics: Trigonometry and Derivatives

In this video, the Crash Course expert, Shini, explains how trigonometry plays a role in derivati...

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Crash Course: Physics: Physics and Integrals

This integration video uncovers an example to help explain how you would go about finding an inte...

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Crash Course: Physics: Integral Examples using Physics

This video gives an example of someone trying to find the height of their bedroom by using accele...

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Crash Course: Physics: Fractional and Negative Exponents and the Power Rule

This Crash Course video gives different explanations of derivatives. She iterates how to use the ...

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Crash Course: Physics: Limits and Derivatives

This section of the Crash Course explains what Limits are and why they are useful. Shini (the wom...