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Amazing Physics Videos

 

Musical Tesla Coil :-

Steve Ward can tune his Tesla coil so that the crackle of each spark sounds like a musical note.

 

Myth busters Play with Sulfur Hexafluoride :-

Everyone knows that helium can make your voice sound high like a chipmunk, but what will happen when Adam Savage inhales some gas that is over five times denser than air?

 

Boomerang in Zero Gravity :-

Japanese astronaut Takao Doi proves that a boomerang will always return to the person who threw it — even in outer space.

    

Helium Super fluid :-

At extremely low temperatures, some liquids stop playing by their usual rules.

 

Halo of Water Vapor Appears Around Supersonic F-14 Jet :-

The shockwave surrounding a supersonic jet can compress air so much that the ambient moisture will form a cloud.

 

Sound Waves on Fire :-

Reuben’s tube is a classic way to demonstrate the concept of a standing wave. Pump some flammable gas into one side of a tube, and attach a speaker to the other side, and watch what happens to the columns of flames that issue from small holes along the top.

 

 

Water Droplets in Zero Gravity :-

An amazing set of experiments performed on the international space station.

Fun with Ferrofluid :-

Magnetic fields creating dynamic sculptures.     

  

How Superconducting Levitation Works :-

A fantastic lesson about exotic materials and magnetism in just over six minutes.

Large Hadron Collider Rap :-

Kate McAlpine and her friends filmed this amazingly informative song within the caverns of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.