PickVidsBest Everyday physics & science demos Videos
The 166 Everyday physics & science demos videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 6 introductory, 20 intermediate, 139 for a general viewer, and 1 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include Veritasium, SmarterEveryDay, Technology Connections.
The Backwards Brain Bicycle - Smarter Every Day 133
Destin of Smarter Every Day learns to ride a bicycle whose steering is reversed, taking about eight months, and compares it with how his young son learned much faster.
Is This What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like?
Veritasium shows silicone oil droplets bouncing on a vibrating bath, a physical analogue of pilot wave theory that reproduces quantum-like behavior such as double-slit patterns.
Single particle creates interference after double slit - Wave particle duality at the workshop
A short demo of a walking droplet on a vibrating silicone oil bath passing through a double slit and producing interference, a macro-scale analogue of pilot-wave behavior.
The Future of War, and How It Affects YOU (Multi-Domain Operations) - Smarter Every Day 211
Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day explains Multi-Domain Operations through footage from his last mission at RIMPAC 2018.
Where Do Trees Get Their Mass?
Veritasium asks people where a tree's mass comes from, then explains that most of a dry tree's mass originates from carbon dioxide in the air.
Why Machines That Bend Are Better
Veritasium explores compliant mechanisms, devices that move by flexing rather than using hinges and joints, with researchers at BYU.
The Incredible Sounds of the Falcon Heavy Launch (BINAURAL AUDIO IMMERSION) - Smarter Every Day 189
Smarter Every Day shares a binaural audio recording of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch made by Trevor Mahlmann, with explanations of the sounds including the sonic booms of the landing boosters.
Doug McLean | Common Misconceptions in Aerodynamics
Retired Boeing Technical Fellow Doug McLean walks through common misconceptions in aerodynamics, drawing on his book Understanding Aerodynamics.
Neutron movie of coffee making
A short film made with cold neutron imaging at the Paul Scherrer Institut showing a moka pot brewing coffee, sped up four times.
Why Do Reversing Trucks Not Beep Any More?
Tom Scott stands by a construction site and explains why reversing vehicles now use a white-noise hiss instead of beeping.
Feynman: Mirrors FUN TO IMAGINE 6
Richard Feynman, in a clip from the BBC series Fun to Imagine, takes on the puzzle of why mirrors seem to swap left and right but not top and bottom.
Why It's Impossible to Tune a Piano
A minutephysics video explaining why a piano cannot be perfectly tuned, comparing equal temperament with just intonation and the math of harmonics.
Bed Bugs- What You've Been Told is Totally False
Mark Rober digs into bed bugs, testing popular beliefs about where they come from and how to get rid of them.
Backspin Basketball Flies Off Dam
A short Veritasium video showing how far a backspinning basketball would travel dropped off a dam.
How does a whip break the sound barrier? (Slow Motion Shockwave formation) - Smarter Every Day 207
Smarter Every Day uses high-speed and Schlieren photography to show how a whip crack is a supersonic shockwave formed at the tip.
Why does light slow down in water?
Fermilab's Don Lincoln explains why light travels slower in water and glass.
You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game Of Life Wrong
Veritasium explains why many real-world systems follow power laws rather than normal distributions.
Slow Motion Flipping Cat Physics | Smarter Every Day 58
Destin of Smarter Every Day films a cat falling in high-speed slow motion to show how cats right themselves in midair, and introduces the physics behind it.
How big is a visible photon?
Huygens Optics shows through a laser interference experiment that the question of a photon's size is really about coherence length.
Light Waves Visualized using Photon Sieves.
Huygens Optics shows how DIY photon sieves shape a laser's wave front, explaining how they differ from zone plates and how aperture count affects the focal point, with time-resolved visualizations of the diffraction.
Risking My Life To Settle A Physics Debate
Veritasium investigates whether a wind-powered vehicle can travel directly downwind faster than the wind, driving the Blackbird craft himself.
DIY mass spectrometer measures potassium in dietary salt substitute
Ben Krasnow of Applied Science builds and operates a simple mass spectrometer, using it to measure potassium isotopes in a salt substitute.
Turning Waves Into Particles
Huygens Optics explores the idea that space is a non-linear elastic medium, and uses simulations to show how wave energy might be confined locally into particle-like objects.
Reynolds Number - Numberphile
Numberphile with Tom Crawford of Oxford explains the Reynolds number, the second of three videos on Navier-Stokes and fluid flow, with demonstrations of laminar versus turbulent behavior.