Video Clips

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One-Dimensional Motion

Measuring Frequency with a Stroboscope
Measuring the Speed of Sound Part 1

Measuring the Speed of Sound Part 2

Two-Dimensional Motion

Projectile Motion - Dropped and projected coins
Projectile Motion - The ballistic cart
Does the Horizontal Motion of a Projectile Affect Its Vertical Motion?
Shooting a Falling Target (student produced and narrated)

Newton's Laws

Newton's First Law - Extracting a hoop from under a pen cap
Newton's First Law - The influence of friction
Newton's First Law - Motion of a passenger in a car
Newton's Second Law - Pulling a card out from under a stack of glasses
Newton's Second Law - Trimming a stack of discs down to size
Characteristics of Forces - Normal, Tension, and Weight
Spring Scale - What does a spring scale measure? Part 1
Spring Scale - What does a spring scale measure? Part 2
Spring Scale - What does a spring scale measure? Part 3
Equilibrium of Forces - Part 1
Equilibrium of Forces - Part 2

Circular Motion

Centripetal Force - Bungeeman in circular motion
Centripetal Force - Penny on a hanger
Centripetal Force - Tennis ball on a string
Force and Acceleration on a Turntable - Part I
Force and Acceleration on a Turntable - Part 2
Acceleration on a Swing

Forces on a Toy Airplane

Friction

Kinetic and Static Friction Forces

Momentum, Kinetic Energy, and Collisions

The Impulse-Momentum Theorem
Happy and sad balls (student produced and narrated)
Momentum and Kinetic Energy in 1-Dimensional Explosions
Momentum and Kinetic Energy in 1-Dimensional Sticking Collisions

Measuring the Speed of a Bullet with a Ballistic Pendulum

Center of Mass

Finding the Center of Mass of an Irregular Object
Center of Mass and Stability

Rotational Dynamics

Rotational Inertia - Race between a ring and a disc
Rotational Inertia - Balancing a weighted stick
Can a Falling Object Move Faster Than g? (student produced and narrated)
Conservation of Angular Momentum - Controlling angular velocity on a rotating stool

Thermodynamics

The Dunking Bird

Circuits

Measuring current with a multimeter
Measuring resistance with a multimeter
Measuring potential difference with a multimeter
Measuring current as a function of potential difference
Measuring current as a function of resistance
Hot dog cookery
Cooking a pickle
Simulating a fuse
Series and parallel bulbs

Electromagnetism

E/M tube
Magnetic force on a wire
A Simple motor
Lenz's Law
Eddy currents 1
Eddy currents 2
Electric meter
The generator
The transformer

Waves and Sound

Waves on strings
Standing waves on a string
Helical spring
Harmonics of open and closed pipes

Beats

Nuclear

Am-241 Source in a Cloud Chamber