CHOOSE ANY VIDEO OR READING BELOW FOR YOUR STAMPS.
Videos and Readings for FALL 2017/ SPRING 2018:
Packet 1: Skip this one
Pkt 2 Reading #1: Gravitational Waves Won the Physics Nobel Prize—Here’s Why
Pkt 2 Reading #2: Are We The Earliest Intelligent Life In The Universe?
Pkt 2 Reading #3: Q: If time is relative, then how can we talk about how old the universe is?
Pkt 2 Reading #4: Global Warming Scenarios
Pkt4 Video #1: This Spectacular Video Shows What It Would Be Like to Fly Through The Orion Nebula
Pkt4 Video #2: These Inventions Give Us Hope For the Planet in 2018
Pkt4 Video #3: This won her student’s 3 minute video about Theory of Relativity won her $400,000.
Pkt4 Video #4: Star Size Comparison 2
Pkt4 Video #5: This Gravity Experiment Will Blow Your Mind!
Pkt4 Video #6:
WE ARE IN A SIMULATION – THE SCIENCE (Elon Musk, Matrix Theory, Virtual Reality)
Pkt4 Video #7: Skip this one.
Pkt4 Video #8: Those 7 Times Lisa Randall Made Our Brains Hurt
Pkt5 Reading #1: Eratosthenes of Cyrene: Measuring the Circumference of the Earth
Pkt5 Reading #6: This $14-billion machine is set to usher in a new era of nuclear fusion power
Pkt5 Reading #7: The Mistrust of Science
Videos and Readings for FALL 2016/SPRING 2017:
Pkt 1: SKIP THESE
Pkt 2: Reading: Are We The Earliest Intelligent Life In The Universe?
Pkt 4:
Pkt 5:
Pkt 6:
Videos and Readings for SPRING 2016:
Packet 7: James Webb Video
Packet 7:Looking Beyond the Reach of the Hubble by Science Channel
Packet 7:Will This Go Faster Than Light? by Veritasium
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Packet 6: Video #1: Teenager Wins $400,000
Packet 6: Video #2: Are Space and Time an Illusion?
Packet 6: Video #3: Galactic Cannibalism:
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Packet 5: Reading #1: What came Before the Big Bang?
Packet 5: Reading #2: Fun with Asteroids.
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Packet 3: Video#1: Crowd Energy– Ocean Turbines
Packet 3: Video#2: Sea of Plastic in the Pacific
Packet 3: Video#3: What Happens When the Earth’s Magnetic Poles Reverse?
Packet 3: Video#4: Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon Power Plant
Packet 3: Video#5: Tesla’s AutoPilot
Packet 3: Video#6: Death by Rollercoaster
Packet 3: Video#7: The VOID is being built
Packet 3: Video#8: The Hawaiian Chieftain
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Packet 2: Reading #1: New York Times article about going to Mars
Packet 2: Reading #2: Tesla’s new Powerwall
Packet 2: Reading #3: Scale of the Universe
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Packet 1: Video #1: A 2014 60 Minutes interview with Elon Musk
Packet 1: video#2: Physics Girl Plays in the pool (Part 1)
Packet 1: video#3: Physics Girl Plays in the pool (Part 2)
Packet 1: video#4: Tree-Shaped Wind Turbines set to Hit Paris Streets
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SPRING 2015: PACKET 7 Readings
Reading #1: Speed Kills
Reading #2: Tesla’s Battery for your Home Terrifies Utility Companies
Reading #3: First π
Reading #4: Most Important Pie Chart You’ll See Today
Reading #5: Five Beloved Scientists who were Actually Bullies
Reading #6: Mar’s One — Would you be willing to die there?
Reading #7: Italian Astronaut Recounts Near-Drowning in Spacesuit
Spring 2015: Packet 6 Videos
video#1: Justin Hall-Tipping on Freeing Energy From the Grid
video#2: Physics Girl Plays in the pool (Part 1)
video#3: Physics Girl Plays in the pool (Part 2)
video#4: The Jet Man
video#5: Convection Currents in the Earth
video#6: Tree-Shaped Wind Turbines set to Hit Paris Streets
video#7: The Most Awesome Robots as of today
Fall 2014 Packet 4 Readings:
Article #1: The Physics of baseball
Click here for: Q: If nothing can escape a black hole’s gravity, then how does the gravity itself escape?
Click here for: Q: How can the universe expand faster than the speed of light?
Click here for: Q: What would you experience if you were going the speed of light?
Click here for: Q: Why is the speed of light the fastest speed? Why is light so special?
Click here for: Q: Does light experience time?
Click here for: Q: If a photon doesn’t experience time, then how can it travel?
Click here for: Q: If time were reversed would things fall up?
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Fall 2014 Packet 3 Videos
VIDEO #1: Plait: How to defend Earth from asteroids
VIDEO #2 William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind
VIDEO #3 Michael Pritchard’s water filter turns filthy water drinkable
VIDEO #4: Lucianne Walkowicz: Finding planets around other stars
VIDEO #5: VS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization
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Fall 2014 Packet 2 Readings:
Reading #1: One of the simplest and effective Physics animations I have seen in a while. It’s about the Higgs particle.
Reading #2: Scale of Infinity
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FALL 2014 Packet 1 Video links For Sheet 1.3:
Video #1 (13:11) : (A 2014 60 Minutes interview with Elon Musk)
Video #2 (7:20) : (TED– Captain Charles Moore takes on the Sea of Plastic in the Pacific)
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◊◊◊◊◊◊ 2013 ◊◊◊◊◊◊
WARNING: You can watch the videos below, but they may or may not be used this year.
Packet 4 (2013) Reading Links:
Reading: Life is a Braid in Spacetime
Reading: In Search of Time’s Origin
Added 12/9/13: Quarks to Quasars (Dark Energy)
Packet 3 (2013) Video: What is Space?
Video 2.1: Brian Cox on Cern’s Supercollider
Video 2.2: Bill Stone explores the world’s deepest caves
Video 2.3: Aubrey de Grey says we can avoid aging
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Reading #1: Speed Kills (NPS blocks xkcd so you will have to check this one out from home)
Reading #2: First π
Reading #3: Curiosity Finds Ancient Life
Reading #4: Five Beloved Scientists who were Actually Bullies
Reading #5: Most Important Pie Chart You’ll See Today
Reading #6: Italian Astronaut Recounts Near-Drowning in Spacesuit
Reading #7: Guy Builds Solar-Powered Death Ray In His Backyard (Yawn)
Reading #1 http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
Reading #2: (A very small slice) http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/pie-chart-13950-peer-reviewed-scientific-articles-earths-climate-finds-24-rejecting-global-warming.html
http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/49290/william-jones-first-math-teacher-use-pi
Reading #4: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20130312.html
Reading #5 http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Zurich_Notebook/index.html
Added 9/13/13: How camshafts work.
Added 9/2/13: Puffer Fish are romantic. Who knew?
Added 8/31/13: WIND (this is more of a website, but it is moving)
Added 7/1/13: Amazing bead chain experiment in slow motion (5:15) by Earthunplugged
Added 6/28/13: The phases of the moon (3:41) by History Channel
Added 6/28/13: Stuff Engineering students DON’T say (1:52) by Brandon Crooks
Added 6/28/13: The Birth of The Calculus – Part 2 (12:25) by the BBC
Added 6/28/13: The Birth of The Calculus – Part 1 (12:26) by the BBC
Added 6/28/13: Archimedes’ Secret (BBC Documentary) (47:46)
Added 6/28/13: Flatland: The Film (1:39:55)
Added 6/27/13: Brainman on Letterman (8:13)
Added 6/27/13: A short comparison of stars (2:21)
Added 6/26/13: A candid conversation with Brian Green (54:44)
Added 6/26/13: Imagining 10 Dimensions – the Movie (1:44:28) If you have the time, this is really excellent.
Added 6/26/13: Michio Kaku on Quantum Mechanics (58:38)
Added 6/26/13: Quantum Mechanics in lass than 1 hour (52:51) by Brian Greene
Added 6/26/13: The Extraordinary Genius of Albert Einstein (1:43:17) A little long. Beginning and ending are the best. Lecture part is okay . . . lots of examples, but she was a little boring after awhile.Fast forward as desired.
Added 6/26/13: Newton’s Dark Secrets (52:33)
Added 6/24/13: Einstein’s theory of gravity and spacetime (8:44)
Added 6/22/13: There were many Physics experiments (starting with Galileo) attempting to determine the speed of light. This talkes about one of them. (4:32) by Doc Physics
Added 6/22/13: Doppler effect for sound and light and red shift (4:53) by Doc Physics
Added 6/22/13: Magnitudes of Earthquakes explained in 2 minutes (2:01) by VideofromSpace
Added 6/20/13: The Collapse of Physics as we know it (11:00)
Added 6/18/13: 2500 FPS drop of water (3:33) by the Slow Mo Guys
Added 6/18/13: BIG THINK (Website full of outstanding blogs,articles,and videos)
Added 6/17/13: Dark Matter / Dark Energy (5:35)
Added 6/15/13: How will the sun die? (1:01)
Added 6/15/13: Earth 100 million years from now (3:19)
Added 6/15/13: Earth Religion 5000 Years Time Lapse Map (1:55)
Added 6/15/13: How do we know what different stars are made of? (8:21)
Added 6/13/13: The secret lives (and deaths) of stars in under 2 minutes (1:55)
Added 6/13/13: What is Dark Matter? (6:12)
Added 6/12/13: Physics Slam 2012 (1:30:49)
Added 6/12/13: Cesium in water (slow motion) (4:16)
Added 6/11/13: I WAS surprised (1:40)
Added 6/11/13: Center of Mass video (19:16)
Added 6/11/13: Sundials and the equation of time (5:22)
Added 6/11/13: AU, Ly, pc, Mpc (5:05)
Added 6/11/13: Best explanation I have seen of a Foucault Pendulum (3:21)
Added 6/11/13: Branch connects two electrical lines (0:18)
Added 6/11/13: Don’t try this! (1:46)
Added 6/11/13: More water on Europa than Earth? (3:33)
Added 6/11/13: Earth Space TIme Voetex (2:49)
Added 6/11/13: Upward Lightning (2:12)
Added 6/11/13: Secret of the Stars (3:38)
Added 6/8/13: How a 4 cylinder 4 stroke car engine works (2:45)
Added 6/8/13: The physics and chemistry of automobile exhaust gases (6:17)
Added 6/8/13: Excellent animation of the engine to the gear box to the differential (5:54)
Added 6/8/13: Gear box and clutch (manual transmission) (3:48)
Added 6/8/13: The benefits of LSD (4:44)
Added 6/8/13: How differential gears work (from the 1930’s) (9:31)
Added 6/8/13: Bose-Einstein Condensate (2:39)
Added 6/713: Why you don’t flush sodium metal down the toilet (:48)
Added 6/7/13: How to throw cards really fast (1:46)
Added 6/7/3: The Master of Business Card Throwing (2:15)
Added 6/7/13: Georg Cantor’s revenge: Different type of infinities (8:00)
Added 6/7/13: How tall can we build? (10:07)
Added 6/7/13: The Standard Model of Particle Physics (5:03)
Added 6/7/13: The Big Picture of Calculus (Integrals) (37:22)
Added 6/7/13: The Big Picture of Calculus (Derivatives) (30:05)
Added 6/7/13: The Big Picture of Calculus (Introduction) (37:47)
Added 6/7/13: Einstein on History Channel (1:29:53)
Added 6/7/13: The beauty of equations from an artists point of view (59:08)
Added 6/7/13: Video of inside of an engine showing the explosions!
Added 6/7/13: Good animation of the Earth’s orbit. I don’t totally agree with all the details, but it makes you think.
Added 6/6/13: Fibonacci sequences in nature
Added 6/3/13: Are you schizophrenic?
Added 6/2/13: History of Climate Change
Added 5/22/13 Metronome coupling
Added 5/13/13 Earth’s core is speeding up.
Added 4/24/13: If you need additional help in Physics username: normanhighschool Password: tigers
Added 4/21/13: Euler’s Disk
Added 4/9/13 (tip of the hat to Carlie): Mantis Shrimp = Awesome
Added 4/8/13: Silly putty eats a magnet
Added 4/7/13: In the top 5 coolest currently living
Added 4/6/13: 1940’s version of life on other planets
Added 3/29/13: This one just makes me happy
Added 3/26/13: Our Universe in 18 minutes
Added 3/23/13: The 10 most important #s in history.
Added 3/17/13: DO THIS!!
Added 3/17/13: The Nuclear Option
Added 3/16/13: E = mc^2 is wrong
Added 3/14/13 (Tip of the hat to Joel Deardorf for sending me this one) Sound + Water
Added 3/12/13: Einsteins Theory of Relativity explained in about 15 minutes.
Added 3/11/13: Feynman on rubber bands
Added 3/11/13: Standing Waves
Added 3/10/13: Einstein’s notebook
Added 3/8/13: Pendulum Wave Remix
Added 3/8/13: Pendulum waves
Added 2/17/13: Mosh Pit Physics
Added 2/17/13: Neil deGrasse talks about the latest asteroids
Added 2/10/13: 10 minutes of Carl.
Added 2/9/13: First World Problems
Added 2/9/13: Einstein’s Last Mystery
Added 2/8/13: Well, it was nice knowing you . . .
Added 2/8/13: Formula One Racing abuse of air
Added 2/7/13: A great one minute source of excellent science links
Added 1/28/13: We are becoming Cyborgs
◊◊◊◊◊◊ 2012 ◊◊◊◊◊◊
Added 12/31/12: The most perfect scene I have witnessed in a movie
Added 12/27/12: Last 200 years — > Next 20 years in 5 minutes
Added 12/27/12: 50 years of Nasa Missions
Added 12/19/12: Great 6 minute animation of the LHC
Added 12/19/12: The Large Hadron Collider
Added 12/16/12: Higgs field and LHC explained in a cool way
Added 12/18/12: Milky Way and Andromeda will collide in just 4 billion years
Added 12/15/12: A good reference site for our expanding universe discussion:
Added 12/15/12: Good Doppler effect website.
Added 12/11/12: Packet 3 Videos for sheet 3.10
Video #1: Big Physics Ideas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vu23EbuBVI
Video #2A: Courtenay Raia, From her UCLA course on Science and Religion http://www.academicearth.org/lectures/newton-and-enlightenment
Video #2B: Courtenay Raia, Mechanical Philosophy http://www.academicearth.org/lectures/mechanical-philosophy
VIDEO #3: Aubrey de Grey says we can avoid aging (rated PG-13)
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_aging.html
Added 11/18/12: Udacity — The future of online courses?
Added 10/23: Top ten Dragster Crashes (From the Kinematics in Drag Worksheet).
10/7/12: NASA: The Perpetual Ocean
9/28/12: A Capella Science – Rolling in the Higgs (Adele Parody)
9/16/12: Look below for the videos for Packet 1:
video#1: Plait: How to defend Earth from asteroids
video#2 William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind
Video #3 Michael Pritchard’s water filter turns filthy water drinkable
VIDEO #4: Lucianne Walkowicz: Finding planets around other stars
VIDEO #5: VS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization
8/12/12: Click here for: A good site to look at NOW if you are going to college.
7/5/12: Click here for: Brian Cox — A night with the Stars
7/3/12: Click here for: The Higgs described after today’s big announcement.
7/1/12: Click here for: The Mechanical Universe Series
7/1/12: Click here for: The Physics Classroom (an excellent tutorial)
6/30/12: Click here for: Global Warming debate laid out
6/26/12: Click here for: Slinky in detailed Free Fall.
4/8/12: Click here for: Minute Physics
2/10/12: Click here for: a cool interactive space site
2/8/12: Click here for: “Knittin” Needle on the ISS
◊◊◊◊◊◊ 2011 ◊◊◊◊◊◊
12/16/11: Click here for: The earth breathes or . . . watch the world burn:
12/14/11: Click here for: Voyager videos
12/12/11: Click here for: Curiosity landing on Mars in August 2012
