Video ClipsMost of the video clips are provided in both RealPlayer (rm) and flash video (flv) formats. Mpegs or avis are available for some clips. Download links for the RealPlayer and Flash files are given below.
RealPlayer: Open the link and click on Get RealPlayer--Free. At the end of the installation, don't click Try for Free as this will simply give you a trial period for using a version that RealNetworks will hassle you to pay for at a later date.
Flash video: Open the link and download the application playflv.exe. This is a very small program that is a plug-in for Windows Media Player and allows it to play flv (flash video) files. Double click on the downloaded application to install it.
A variety of other formats are available for some clips.
Select the video format that you prefer below. Right click on a link and download the file to your hard drive. For RealPlayer files, be sure to name the file with the extension rm (not ram). Double-click on the downloaded file to open it in whatever application you're using.
Text-based scripts for all the clips are here.
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| One-Dimensional Motion | |||||
| Measuring Frequency with a Stroboscope | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Measuring the Speed of Sound Part 1 | |||||
| Measuring the Speed of Sound Part 2 | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Two-Dimensional Motion | |||||
| Projectile Motion - Dropped and projected coins | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Projectile Motion - The ballistic cart | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Does the Horizontal Motion of a Projectile Affect Its Vertical Motion? | RealPlayer | ||||
| Shooting a Falling Target (student produced and narrated) | RealPlayer | ||||
| Newton's Laws | |||||
| Newton's First Law - Extracting a hoop from under a pen cap | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Newton's First Law - The influence of friction | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Newton's First Law - Motion of a passenger in a car | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Newton's Second Law - Pulling a card out from under a stack of glasses | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Newton's Second Law - Trimming a stack of discs down to size | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Characteristics of Forces - Normal, Tension, and Weight | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Spring Scale - What does a spring scale measure? Part 1 | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Spring Scale - What does a spring scale measure? Part 2 | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Spring Scale - What does a spring scale measure? Part 3 | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Equilibrium of Forces - Part 1 | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Circular Motion | |||||
| Centripetal Force - Bungeeman in circular motion | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Centripetal Force - Penny on a hanger | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Centripetal Force - Tennis ball on a string | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Force and Acceleration on a Turntable - Part I | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Force and Acceleration on a Turntable - Part 2 | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Acceleration on a Swing | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Forces on a Toy Airplane | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Friction | |||||
| Kinetic and Static Friction Forces | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Momentum, Kinetic Energy, and Collisions | |||||
| The Impulse-Momentum Theorem | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Happy and sad balls (student produced and narrated) | RealPlayer |
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| Momentum and Kinetic Energy in 1-Dimensional Explosions | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Momentum and Kinetic Energy in 1-Dimensional Sticking Collisions | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Measuring the Speed of a Bullet with a Ballistic Pendulum | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Center of Mass | |||||
| Finding the Center of Mass of an Irregular Object | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Center of Mass and Stability | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Rotational Dynamics | |||||
| Rotational Inertia - Race between a ring and a disc | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Rotational Inertia - Balancing a weighted stick | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Can a Falling Object Move Faster Than g? (student produced and narrated) | RealPlayer |
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| Conservation of Angular Momentum - Controlling angular velocity on a rotating stool | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Fluids and Thermodynamics | |||||
| The Concept of Pressure: Increasing Force with Area | Flash | WMV | MPEG | ||
| Fluid Pressure: The Inverted Jug | Flash | WMV | MPEG | ||
| Pascal's Principle: Dueling Syringes | Flash | WMV | MPEG | ||
| Archimedes' Principle - Measuring Buoyant Force | WMV | MP4 | |||
| Acceleration in a Fluid - Cork in a Beaker | Flash | WMV | MPEG | ||
| Acceleration in a Fluid, Part 2 | Flash | WMV | MPEG | ||
| The Mechanical Equivalent of Heat | WMV | MP4 | |||
| The Sterling Engine: An Example of a Heat Engine | WMV | MP4 | |||
| The Dunking Bird | RealPlayer |
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| Circuits | |||||
| Hot dog cookery | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Cooking a pickle |
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AVI | |||
| Simulating a fuse | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Series and parallel bulbs | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Electromagnetism | |||||
| E/M tube | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Magnetic force on a wire | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| A Simple motor | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Lenz's Law | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Eddy currents 1 | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Eddy currents 2 | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Electric meter | RealPlayer |
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| The generator | Flash | ||||
| The transformer | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
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Waves and Sound |
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| Waves on strings | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Standing waves on a string | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Helical spring | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Measuring the Speed of Sound with an Air Column | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Harmonics of open and closed pipes | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Beats | RealPlayer | Flash | |||
| Atomic & Nuclear | |||||
| The Photoelectric Effect | MP4 | ||||
| Electron Diffraction | MP4 | ||||
| Am-241 Source in a Cloud Chamber | RealPlayer |
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MPEG |