Resources by Veritasium

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.

Three incorrect laws of motion

This video explains how our preconceived ideas of how objects move can distort our understanding of Newton’s laws of motion, creating misconceptions.

1.            An object with no unbalanced force acting on it will naturally come to rest.

2.            An unbalanced force causes an object to move...

To make graphene

This video explores graphene and explains how it can be made simply using sellotape and graphite from a pencil.  It also mentions some of the applications of graphene.

Transistors and the end of Moore's law

This video reviews how transistors work and introduces Moore’s law, i.e., the number of transistors fitted onto a chip increases exponentially with time. 

This means that the size of the transistor must reduce significantly.  However, as the buffer zone (prevents current flowing) between n-type...

What are atoms and isotopes?

This video explains how atoms are the fundamental building blocks of all matter and that they are made from sub-atomic particles (proton, neutron and electron). The simple structure of a hydrogen atom is made from plasticine. The video explains how adding a neutron to the hydrogen atom does not change its...

What causes the seasons?

Much of this video shows how many people do not understand how the seasons are caused.  There is a small section at the end that attempts to clarify the cause.  

What is electricity?(Are you gonna be my girl?)

A song that explains what electricity is and states some of its uses.