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Mathematical Physics

  1. What is a Tensor? Fleisch 
  2. What makes the natural log “natural”?
  3. A Brief History of Pi  
  4. Some stuff about beautiful number Pi   
  5. Zero Factorial = 1.  Dr James Grime tries to explain why this is the case 
  6. How many chess games are possible? Dr James Grime talking about the Shannon Number and other chess stuff.
  7. Klein Bottles. What are they? 
  8. YouTube channel Numberphile 
  9. YouTube channel Oxford Mathematics 
  10. Youtube channel TED-Ed 
  11. YouTube channel 3Blue1Brown 

Mechanics

  1. Newton’s Second Law of Motion Demonstrated in Space Station 
  2. Newton’s Third Law of Motion Demonstrated in Space Station 
  3. Kinetic & Potential Energy Demonstrated in Space Station 
  4. Conservation of Angular Momentum Demonstrated in Space Station 
  5. Gyroscope (Angular Momentum, Torque)
  6. Intermediate Axis Theorem (Tennis Racket Effect) 
  7. How Earth Moves 
  8. Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the Tides
  9. Coriolis Effect 
  10. Spinning

Relativity

  1. What is Relativity all about? 
  2. Einstein’s clock 
  3. What do you never learn about Mass 
  4. Is Relativistic mass real? 
  5. The origin of Mass 
  6. Relativity’s key concept: Lorentz Gamma 
  7. How to travel faster than light? 
  8. Relativistic velocity when 1+1=1 
  9. Length contraction: real explanation 
  10. Relativity: how people get time dilation wrong 
  11. Twin paradox: the real explanation (no math) 
  12. Twin paradox: the real explanation 
  13. The real meaning of E=mc2 
  14. How to understand the black hole image?
  15. GPS, How does it work?  

Oscillation & Waves

  1. Understanding Young’s Modulus  
  2. Watch The World Turn (Foucault pendulum) 
  3. Singing plates – Standing Waves on Chladni plates 
  4. Ultrasound (acoustic) levitation

Fluid Dynamics

  1. Divergence & Curl by 3Blue1Brown 
  2. Non-Newtonian fluids 
  3. How do wings generate Lift? 
  4. What is the Coanda effect? 
  5. Why do spinning balls deflect (Magnus effect)?  
  6. Rotational & Irrotational flow 
  7. Visualizing Turbulence 
  8. Surface Tension demonstrated in space 
  9. 7 Science Tricks with Surface Tension 
  10. Does Hot Water Freeze Faster Than Cold Water? (Mpemba effect)

Heat and Thermodynamics

  1. Second Law of Thermodynamics 
  2. Heat Engines And Second Law Of Thermodynamics
  3. What is entropy? 
  4. Kinetic Molecular Theory and the Ideal Gas Laws 
  5. Gas Laws – A-level Physics
  6. Using Gibbs free energy 
  7. Heat Diffusion with Chocolate Lava Cakes 
  8. Solving the heat equation | DE3  

Optics

  1. Visualizing video at the speed of light — one trillion frames per second 
  2. The Original Double Slit Experiment 
  3. Optical fiber cables, how do they work?  
  4. Single photon interference  
  5. Why does light slow down in water?  
  6. Why does light bend when it enters glass? 
  7. Why is glass transparent?
  8. Visualizing video at the speed of light — one trillion frames per second
  9. Optics: Fraunhofer diffraction – adjustable slit | MIT Video 
  10.  Optics: Fraunhofer diffraction – multiple slits 
  11. Optics: Polarization rotation using polarizers | MIT Video  

Electricity & Magnetism

  1. What is Electromagnetic Radiation? 
  2. The beauty of LC Oscillations! 
  3. Magnetron, How does it work? 
  4. Understanding Electromagnetic Radiation!
  5. Lithium-ion battery, How does it work? 
  6. Quantum electrodynamics: theory 
  7. How Special Relativity Makes Magnets Work 
  8. Is Earth’s Magnetic Field Reversing?
  9. Can Humans Sense Magnetic Fields? 
  10. How does an Induction Motor work ?

Nuclear & Particle Physics

  1. Fusion Power Explained – Future or Failure 
  2. Is Nuclear Fusion The Answer To Clean Energy?
  3. Types of Nuclear Radiation
  4.  Why is the Weak Force weak? 
  5. The Weak Nuclear Force: Through the looking glass 
  6. The Strong Nuclear Force 
  7.  QCD: Quantum Chromodynamics
  8. Quantum Color 
  9.  Quark-Gluon Plasma 
  10.  The Higgs Boson Was Just the Start: Fermilab and the High Luminosity LHC
  11. Why is There More Matter Than Antimatter in the Universe? 

Quantum Mechanics

  1. Complex number fundamentals (You should attend this excellent lecture to understand complex numbers. Many physics, especially, quantum mechanics requires this understanding)
  2. Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle Explained 
  3. The more general uncertainty principle, beyond quantum
  4. Schrödinger’s cat: A thought experiment in quantum mechanics 
  5. What can Schrödinger’s cat teach us about quantum mechanics?
  6. Is This What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like?
  7.  Practical applications of quantum mechanics for more more curious minds: nanoHUB-U Atoms to Materials L1.2: Quantum Mechanics & Electronic Structure – Why Quantum Mechanics?
  8. How Does a Quantum Computer Work?  

Statistical Physics

  1. Entropy (MIT OpenCourseWare)- what is micro & macro states 
  2. Maxwell’s demon by  Khan Academy
  3. What is NOT Random?

Atomic and Molecular Physics

  1. The 2,400-year search for the atom – Theresa Doud 
  2. Models of the Atom Timeline