PickVidsBest Fundamental physics Videos
The 164 Fundamental physics videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 12 introductory, 23 intermediate, 122 for a general viewer, and 7 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, PBS Space Time, Christopher Sykes.
FREE water from AIR device: BUSTED
Thunderf00t critiques the MIT and Berkeley metal-organic framework device that claims to pull water from air using only solar heating.
5 REAL Possibilities for Interstellar Travel
PBS Space Time surveys five realistic options for interstellar travel, from conventional rocket fuel to antimatter and nuclear pulse propulsion.
Horizon: Richard Feynman - No Ordinary Genius (full version)
The 1993 BBC Horizon documentary on Richard Feynman, using interviews with colleagues and Feynman's own storytelling.
Does Hot Water Freeze Faster Than Cold Water?
Sciencium examines the Mpemba effect, the claim that hot water freezes faster than cold water.
Airflow across a wing
A one-minute clip from Cambridge's Prof.
The NEW Warp Drive Possibilities
PBS Space Time explains how general relativity permits warp drive in principle and covers recent theoretical advances toward solving the negative energy problem.
Richard Feynman: The Beauty of the Flower
A two-minute 1981 interview clip in which Richard Feynman answers an artist friend who claims science takes the beauty out of a flower.
Why Do You Make People Look Stupid?
Veritasium answers criticism that his videos make people look stupid, explaining that teaching must address learners' misconceptions and that holding common beliefs inconsistent with science is not stupidity.
Double Pendulums are Chaoticn't
A short explainer from 2swap on the chaotic behavior of double pendulums.
World's Strongest Magnet!
Veritasium visits the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory to see the world's strongest magnets and demonstrate effects like eddy currents.
Gauge Theory and Inflation: Enlarging the Wu-Yang Dictionary
A talk by Eric Weinstein on gauge theory and its possible application to economics and inflation.
Spinlaunch: BUSTED (Part 2)
Thunderf00t's second video critiquing SpinLaunch, the company that proposes flinging rockets and payloads into space with a giant centrifuge.
Richard Feynman - Names Don't Constitute Knowledge
A short excerpt from a 1973 Yorkshire TV film in which Richard Feynman explains that knowing the name of something is not the same as knowing it.
The Counterintuitive Physics of Turning a Bike
A two-minute minutephysics video explaining why turning a bicycle requires first steering briefly the other way.
The '5kg in 50 days' Diet!
Thunderf00t applies a simple energy mass balance to weight loss, showing how much exercise is needed to burn off extra calories compared with eating less.
A laser pointer at 2 billion fps makes the speed of light look... kinda weird
AlphaPhoenix shows off a new camera that films at two billion frames per second and uses it to film a laser pointer pulse.
Crazy pool vortex
Physics Girl shows a vortex phenomenon (a falaco soliton) that can be reproduced in a pool on a sunny day.
Murray Gell-Mann talks about Richard Feynman
In a short interview clip, physicist Murray Gell-Mann talks about working alongside Richard Feynman at Caltech.
Microwaving Grapes Makes Plasma
Veritasium explains why a halved grape in a microwave makes plasma: the grape traps microwaves, and the fields of two halves interact to concentrate energy where they touch.
Moving Atoms: Making The World's Smallest Movie
A short IBM behind-the-scenes documentary on how researchers moved individual atoms to make the world's smallest movie.