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 Surprising Secret of Synchronization
Veritasium explores how synchronization arises spontaneously in nature, with metronomes, fireflies and bridges, drawing on Steven Strogatz's work on chaos and complexity.
Experiment: Coca Cola and Drain Cleaner
A short experiment dissolving the aluminum of a Coca-Cola can with drain cleaner to reveal the clear plastic film lining inside.
The Weird World in RGB
Technology Connections explains how RGB light and color work, from hue and saturation to color vision and how objects appear under different lighting.
How to Make/Build a Lifter or Ionocraft
A step-by-step guide to building a lifter, a small triangular ionocraft made from balsa wood, aluminum foil and thin wire, powered by a high-voltage supply.
Feynman: How the train stays on the track FUN TO IMAGINE 7
A short clip from the 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine in which Richard Feynman explains how a train stays on the track.
Controlled Demonstration of a Tank Trailer Vacuum Collapse by Wabash National
A controlled demonstration by Wabash National of a tank trailer collapsing under vacuum, staged at an industry expo.
The Glass Age, Part 1: Flexible, Bendable Glass
A Corning-sponsored video in which Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman introduce flexible, bendable glass.
Superheating of water (Mythbusters)
A short clip of the Mythbusters demonstrating superheated water in a microwave, which can erupt violently when disturbed.
Bullet vs Prince Rupert's Drop at 150,000 fps - Smarter Every Day 165
Smarter Every Day films a bullet hitting a Prince Rupert's drop with a high-speed camera at 150,000 fps.
New World Record RC Airplane Speed 548mph
A GoPro-recorded flight of an RC glider setting a 548 mph dynamic soaring speed record at Parker Mountain, California, using only wind gradients.
Why all solar panels are secretly LEDs (and all LEDs are secretly solar panels)
Steve Mould shows that LEDs and solar panels are both diodes made from semiconductors, so a solar panel can emit light and an LED can generate electricity.
chernobyl 2013: radioactive ant bites & 115 mSv/h of pure gamma radiation
A YouTuber explores the Chernobyl zone in 2013, takes a gamma spectrum of a hot reactor fuel fragment, and jokes about a radioactive ant bite.
Filming the Speed of Light at 10 Trillion FPS
The Slow Mo Guys visit a lab with a camera capable of filming at 10 trillion frames per second, fast enough to see light travel.
Delta P
A short video illustrating the hazard of pressure differentials (delta P) in commercial diving, where a pressure difference creates enormous force on a diver.
Synchronization of Metronomes
A Harvard lecture demonstration in which five metronomes on a movable board gradually fall into synchronization through coupling.
New Laser Zaps Mosquitoes in SlowMotion | National Geographic
A short National Geographic piece showing a laser system that tracks and kills mosquitoes, filmed in slow motion, as part of anti-malaria efforts.
Shepard Tone
A five-minute demonstration of the Shepard tone, an audio illusion made from octave-separated tones that makes pitch seem to rise endlessly without ever getting higher.
Negative Ion/Anti-5g Products Are Actually RADIOACTIVE
The Thought Emporium tests so-called negative ion and anti-5G wellness products and finds they are radioactive, with some coated in powdered thorium.
World's Second Best Speakers!
Tech Ingredients builds a pair of large Voigt speakers and explains ported, transmission line and horn designs.
RC KFC bucket aeroplane (magnus effect)
Peter Sripol builds and flies an RC aeroplane whose wings are rotating KFC buckets, using the Magnus effect (Flettner rotors) for lift.
Space Suit Testing
Short footage from a NASA space suit test in which a technician is exposed to near-vacuum after an accidental depressurization.
Waterseer -BUSTED!
Thunderf00t debunks the Waterseer, a crowdfunded device that claims to condense drinking water from the air using cool ground.
Drinking Heavy Water
Cody's Lab obtains pure heavy water (D2O) and drinks it as a taste test, reporting its flavor and feel.
FASTEST RC AIRPLANE IN THE WORLD! Transonic DP -- 545mph!!
A one-minute clip of Spencer Lisenby setting a 545 mph speed record in an RC glider, the Transonic DP, using dynamic soaring.