The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies, Explained
AdultsConstructionCreativitySciencePhysics Spinning objects have strange instabilities known as The Dzhanibekov Effect or Tennis Racket Theorem - this video offers an intuitive explanation.
Making Liquid Nitrogen From Scratch!
AdultsEducationPhysicsScienceExperiments I used a nitrogen membrane and Stirling cryocooler to liquefy nitrogen out of the air. For this video I partnered with Starbucks to celebrate their Nitro Cold Brew.
Can You Swim in Shade Balls?
AdultsEducationIndustrySciencePhysicsFun I bought 10,000 shade balls and tried to swim in them. They appear to act like a non-Newtonian fluid: rigid under high shear stress, but they flow like a liquid under low shear.
World's Lightest Solid!
AdultsConstructionMediaSciencePhysicsSpace Aerogels are the world's lightest (least dense) solids. They are also excellent thermal insulators and have been used in numerous Mars missions and the Stardust comet particle-return mission.
How Hard Can You Hit a Golf Ball? (at 100,000 FPS)
AdultsMathMediaPhysicsScience We used a pressurized vacuum cannon to get the golf ball up to speeds of over 500 miles per hour.
Can You Survive An Elevator Fall By Jumping?
AdultsHumanPhysicsScienceSurvival Your monthly dose of hypothetical physics scenarios is here, and today we’re dropping Stu, several times, from the top of skyscraper.
The physics of surfing - Nick Pizzo
AdultsNatureScienceSportsPhysics Wondering how you can catch the perfect wave? Dive into the fascinating and complex physics of surfing.
Why Earthquakes Are So Hard To Predict
AdultsFutureNaturePhysicsScienceNatural Disasters Scientists are trying to figure out if they can predict big earthquakes by simulating small quakes in labs and studying big quakes under the ocean. Thanks to the University of Rhode Island for sponsoring this video.
How Microwaving Grapes Makes Plasma
AdultsNaturePhysicsScience A bisected grape in the microwave makes plasma. But how does it work? A grape is the right size and refractive index to trap microwaves inside it.
The Inverse Leidenfrost Effect
AdultsMathPhysicsScience Droplets levitate on a bath of liquid nitrogen and are spontaneously self-propelled.
How does a whip break the sound barrier?
AdultsMediaPhysicsScienceEngineering April Jennifer Choi is a Mechanical Engineer and Professional Whip Artist from Peoria, IL. She has a Master's Degree in Computational Fluid Dynamics as well as several Guinness World Records in Whip Cracking.
The Best Test of General Relativity
AdultsDesignPhysicsScience A launch mishap led to the best experimental confirmation of gravitational redshift.
Wormholes Explained - Breaking Spacetime
AdultsScienceSpacePhysics Are wormholes real or are they just magic disguised as physics and maths? And if they are real how do they work and where can we find them?
COLD HARD SCIENCE: SLAPSHOT Physics in Slow Motion
AdultsFilmScienceSportsPhysics I shot the skaters with a Phantom MIRO LC320S made by Vision Research.
Which Way Is Down?
AdultsPhysicsScienceSpace Vsauce host Michael Stevens digs deep into the ever-changing concept of the direction "down," what causes things to fall, and digs into how masses really, really want to pull towards each other in our universe, thanks to gravitational forces.