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.
A Physics Professor Bet Me $10,000 I'm Wrong
Veritasium recounts a $10,000 bet with a UCLA physics professor over whether a vehicle can travel downwind faster than the wind.
How to Properly Heat a Pan
A two-minute Rouxbe cooking-school demo of how to heat a pan properly before cooking.
Magnetohydrodynamics - Propelling Liquid Metal with Magnets!
Tech Ingredients explains the principles of magnetohydrodynamics and builds several demonstrations, including propelling liquid metal and electrolytes with magnets and a railgun-style setup.
Why Figure 8 knot is NOT hard to untie!
Hard Is Easy runs experiments to show that a correctly tied figure 8 knot is not hard to untie after loading.
How Smoking vs Vaping Affects Your Lungs ● You Must See This ! !
A demonstration comparing what a month of vaping versus a month of smoking cigarettes does to the lungs, using a filter to show the residue.
Complete Solution To The Twins Paradox
A minutephysics explainer on the twins paradox in special relativity.
This Is Your Brain On Stale Air
Tom Scott features Kurtis Baute inside a sealed homemade biodome as carbon dioxide builds up, showing how stale air with elevated CO2 affects cognitive function.
How a TV Works in Slow Motion - The Slow Mo Guys
The Slow Mo Guys film a TV and screens with a high-speed camera to show how displays build an image.
Jet Fuel VS Diesel VS Gasoline how they burn and what color are they.
A hands-on comparison of how jet fuel, diesel, heating oil, kerosene, avgas and gasoline burn and what color they are.
No Body Steering Bike of the California Superbike School
California Superbike School demonstrates its 'No B.S.' bike, which has fixed handlebars so riders can only steer with body lean.
MOLTEN GLASS VS Prince Rupert's Drop - Smarter Every Day 285
Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day explores molten glass and Prince Rupert's drops with a glass artist, including a process that freezes the moment glass shatters and an artisan who makes the drops.
Thermoelectric cooling: it's not great.
Technology Connections explains in 33 minutes why thermoelectric (Peltier) cooling is far less efficient than compressor-based refrigeration.
Can You Fool A Self Driving Car?
Mark Rober tests whether self-driving cars can be fooled, comparing a lidar-equipped car with a camera-only Tesla in scenarios including a painted Wile E.
Defeating Microwave Weapons! - Part 1
Tech Ingredients demonstrates how microwaves work and how they affect objects at range, then shows ways to defend against them.
High speed camera reveals why sodium explodes!
Thunderf00t presents high-speed camera footage of alkali metals such as sodium and NaK reacting with water.
Liquid Sand Hot Tub- Fluidized air bed
Mark Rober builds a hot tub filled with sand fluidized by air blown from below, so that the sand behaves like a liquid.
Copper vs Pex vs SharkBite - Freeze Testing
Builder Matt Risinger freezes water-filled copper and PEX piping capped with SharkBite fittings to see which survives.
Olympic Cyclist Vs. Toaster: Can He Power It?
Olympic track cyclist Robert Forstemann tries to pedal hard enough to power a 700 W toaster and toast a slice of bread.
The simple, clever sensor behind automatic windshield wipers
Technology Connections explains how automatic windshield wiper rain sensors work, using an infrared light source and total internal reflection in the glass.
How Do Night Vision Goggles Work?
Veritasium visits the US Navy's Crane facility to test top night vision goggles.
What if you could only see the world in UV?
Veritasium shows what the world looks like through a UV camera.
New vs Old Room Fire Final UL
A short NIST-based demonstration places a room furnished with old natural-material furniture beside one with modern synthetic furnishings and burns both.
Experiment! How Does An Owl Fly So Silently? | Super Powered Owls | BBC
A BBC Earth clip from Super Powered Owls in which the team uses sensitive sound equipment to compare owl flight with other birds.
Planes clouds and vortices
A short compilation of aircraft flying through clouds and moist air, showing the spiraling vortices that wings leave behind.