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Veritasium
Veritasium
A selection of films suitable for use in the classroom presented by Derek Muller the from the ever popular Veritasium YouTube channel .
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The most amazing thing about trees
This video applies physics to explain how trees can move water up their trunks over 10m, which is the natural limit of sucked water. The ideas of transpiration, osmotic pressure and capillary attraction are considered. The explanation shows how a negative pressure is be obtained from the intermolecular forces and...
The original double slit experiment
The video explores people’s understanding of what light is. A wide range of misconceptions and incorrect ideas are given. Newton thought that light consisted of particles, whereas Huygens thought light was a wave. Using a cardboard box to recreate Thomas Young’s double slit experiment the wave properties of light...
The truth about toilet swirl - southern hemisphere
This video demonstrates the Coriolis effect. However, explains that much of what we see in terms of rotating water in either the northern or southern hemispheres is mostly due to other angular momentum sources in the body of the water.
An explanation of the Coriolis effect uses a scientific model (thought...
This will revolutionize education
This video explores how technology has always been expected to replace teachers. It concludes that a teacher’s purpose is not to transmit information, but to guide the social process of learning. To challenge, inspire and excite their students to want to learn.
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| Subject(s) | Science |
|---|---|
| Age | 14-16, 16-19 |
| Published | 2010 to 2019 |
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| Direct URL | https://www.stem.org.uk/cx6xvw |
