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The LHCb experiment at CERN investigates differences between matter and anti-matter by analysing the behaviour of the "b" quark

credit: CERN. 12 Jan 2008; type: short; level: popular; duration: 05:21
category: particle physics; tags: astro, particle, anti-matter, lhc, large hadron collider, cern

BBC: The Sky At Night - Programme Archive

An archive of BBC Sky At Night programmes from December 2001 through August 2008.

credit: BBC. -; type: documentary; level: popular; duration:
category: astro; tags: astro

Biggg Tesla coil of Oklahoma.

The Biggg Tesla coil in Newcastle, Oklahoma.

credit: megaelectronvolt. 22 Mar 2007; type: short; level: popular; duration:
category: electricity/magnetism; tags: telsa coil, electric, magnetic

Black Holes in the Universe

The cores of most normal galaxies contain black holes that are millions to billions of times more massive than our Sun. Galaxies probably also contain millions of remnant stellar-mass black holes.

credit: NASA JPL. 16 Nov 2006; type: lecture; level: popular; duration: 1:30:25
category: astro; tags: astro, black hole

CERN: Hunting for Neutrinos

A documentary covering the CNGS project, linking CERN to Gran Sasso Laboratory (Italy) with an underground Neutrino beam.

credit: CERN. 12 Nov 2007; type: documentary; level: undergraduate; duration: 40:37
category: particle physics; tags: astro, particle, neutrino

CERN: The ATLAS Experiment at LHC

ATLAS is a particle physics experiment that will explore the fundamental nature of matter and the basic forces that shape our universe.

credit: The ATLAS team. 29 Apr 2008; type: documentary; level: popular; duration:
category: particle physics; tags: Large Hadron Collider, LHC, higgs, boson, atlas, cern, standard model

Classical Mechanics (8.01)

8.01 is a first-semester freshman physics class in Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory.

credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1 Sep 1999; type: lecture-series; level: undergraduate; duration: 35:00:00
category: mechanics; tags: vector, newton, gravity, friction, pendulum, work, kinetic energy, potential, momentum, collision, impulse, torque, oscillation

Collidonomics

Colliding Particles is a series of short films chronicling physicists jobs at the Large Hadron Collider. Collidonomics looks at funding issues.

credit: PFILM Ltd. 12 Sep 2009; type: documentary; level: popular; duration: 09:25
category: particle physics; tags: lhc, particle

Diamond Light Source - Synchrotron Applications

What is synchrotron radiation and why is useful?

credit: Diamond Light Source. 19 Aug 2008; type: briefing; level: popular; duration: 3:54
category: electricity/magnetism; tags: synchrotron, x-ray

Diamond Light Source - Synchrotron Technology Briefing

An introduction to the Diamond Light Source - and the intense beams of light it produces.

credit: Diamond Light Source. 19 Aug 2008; type: briefing; level: popular; duration: 3:06
category: electricity/magnetism; tags: synchrotron, x-ray

Electricity and Magnetism (8.02)

8.02 is a second-semester freshman physics class in electromagnetism.

credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1 Feb 2002; type: lecture-series; level: undergraduate; duration: 36:00:00
category: electricity/magnetism; tags: electric, field, flux, potential, capacitance, magnetic, superconductors

ESO: Stellar motion near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole

Ten years of painstaking measurements track the star S2 around the supermassive black hole in Sagittarius A*.

credit: ESO / Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. 17 Oct 2002; type: short; level: popular; duration: 0:19
category: astro; tags: galaxy, supermassive, black hole, Sagittarius, a*

Fusion: The Basics

A fusion introduction by David Campbell, ITER Assistant Deputy Director-General for Fusion Science and Technology.

credit: ITER. 12 Mar 2009; type: lecture; level: popular; duration: 28:34
category: nuclear; tags: fusion, ITER

Golfing with a neutron

The behaviour of neutrons in a tokamak is similar to playing golf in the woods. Michael Loughlin, Nuclear Analysis and Shielding Coordinator, explains.

credit: ITER. 16 Sep 2009; type: short; level: popular; duration: 2:06
category: nuclear; tags: ITER, fusion, Monte Carlo method

Harvard Physics 253: Quantum Field Theory

Prof Coleman introduces Quantum Field Theory.

credit: Cornell University; BBC; Microsoft. 1 Jan 1975; type: lecture-series; level: postgraduate; duration: 54:00:00
category: quantum; tags: QFT

Horizon: The Six Billion Dollar Experiment

Previewing the search for the Higgs Boson at the Large Hadron Collider.

credit: BBC. 27 May 2007; type: documentary; level: popular; duration: 28:05
category: particle physics; tags: Large Hadron Collider, LHC, higgs, boson, atlas, cern

Hubblecast: Hubble Directly Observes Planet Orbiting Fomalhaut

The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered an extrasolar planet, for the first time using direct visible-light imaging.

credit: NASA/ESA. 1 Oct 2008; type: briefing; level: popular; duration: 05:01
category: astro; tags: astro, exoplanet, hubble

Hubblecast: What Hubble Taught Us About The Planets

For nineteen years, the Hubble Space Telescope has made some of the most dramatic discoveries in the history of astronomy but it has also helped scientists learn more about our own Solar System.

credit: NASA/ESA. 9 Feb 2008; type: briefing; level: popular; duration: 0:06:44
category: astro; tags: astro, planet, hubble

Introduction to Quantum Computing

This talk series explores the enormous opportunities afforded by the emerging field of quantum computing.

credit: Google Tech Talks. 6 Dec 2007; type: lecture-series; level: undergraduate; duration: 56:28
category: quantum; tags: computation

JET Fusion Reactor - Burning Plasma

A peak inside the JET (Joint European Tokamak) fusion reactor.

credit: JET. 6 Aug 2007; type: short; level: popular; duration: 00:20
category: nuclear; tags: nuclear, fusion

Lectures on Quantum Computation

A series of lectures designed as an introduction to the quantum theory of computation.

credit: University of Oxford. -; type: lecture-series; level: postgraduate; duration: 6:00:00
category: quantum; tags: quantum, computation

MIT TechTV, Cloud Chamber

Subatomic particles create delicate trails in this cloud chamber.

credit: MIT Department of Physics Tech Services Group. 12 Jun 2009; type: demonstration; level: undergraduate; duration: 02:36
category: particle physics; tags: cloud chamber, cosmic ray

Multivariable Calculus (18.02)

An excellent second semester calculus course covering vector and multi-variable calculus.

credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1 Sep 2007; type: lecture-series; level: undergraduate; duration: 35:00:00
category: calculus; tags: calculus, vector, matrices

Mythbusters - fun with sulfur hexafluoride gas.

Adam demonstrates how (and explains why) helium turns you into Donald Duck, and sulfur hexafluoride into Satan.

credit: Discovery Network. 6 Feb 2008; type: short; level: popular; duration:
category: waves; tags: gas, sound, kinetic

Neutrino Summer School (Fermilab, 2009)

38 neutrino lectures covering phenomenology, mixing, the standard model, detectors and factories, local and cosmological sources, double beta decay, experimental history and more.

credit: Fermilab. 6 Jul 2009; type: lecture-series; level: postgraduate; duration: 38:00:00
category: particle physics; tags: neutrino, mixing, standard model, double beta decay, astro

NOVA Science: Dark Matter Mystery

We can't see dark matter but it makes up at least 20% percent of the universe.

credit: PBS; Nova. 11 Jan 2008; type: documentary; level: popular; duration: 04:40
category: astro; tags: astro, dark matter, bullet cluster

NOVA: Absolute Zero

What is cold? How do you achieve it, and how cold can we get? This excellent documentary tells the story of cold - from the early pioneers to the present day.

credit: PBS; Nova. 8 Jan 2008; type: documentary; level: popular; duration: 1:43:23
category: thermodynamics; tags: thermal, superconductors, superfluidity, bose-einstein condensate

Proceedings of Lepton Photon 2009 (Hamburg, Germany)

Conference archive of 55 lectures on various subjects including the LHC, Tevatron, QCD, nuclear structure, Higgs, neutrinos, gravitational waves, dark matter and more.

credit: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY). 17 Aug 2009; type: lecture-series; level: postgraduate; duration: 55:00:00
category: misc; tags: lhc, qcd, nuclear, particle, theoretical, tevatron, higgs, neutrino, gravitational wave, dark matter

Sixty Symbols - videos about the symbols used in physics and astronomy.

Sixty Symbols - physics and astronomy videos.

credit: The University of Nottingham. 1 Jan 2009; type: short; level: popular; duration:
category: misc; tags:

Stanford - General Theory of Relativity

Modern Physics course concentrating on the General Theory of Relativity.

credit: Stanford University. 22 Sep 2008; type: lecture-series; level: undergraduate; duration:
category: relativity; tags: general relativity, relativity

Stanford Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics

Modern Physics course concentrating on Classical Mechanics.

credit: Stanford University. 15 Oct 2007; type: lecture-series; level: undergraduate; duration:
category: mechanics; tags: mechanics

Stanford Modern Physics: Quantum Entanglements

Modern Physics course concentrating on Quantum Entanglements.

credit: Stanford University. 25 Sep 2006; type: lecture-series; level: undergraduate; duration:
category: quantum; tags: quantum

Stanford Modern Physics: Quantum Mechanics

Modern Physics course concentrating on Quantum Mechanics.

credit: Stanford University. 14 Jan 2008; type: lecture-series; level: undergraduate; duration:
category: quantum; tags: quantum

Stanford Modern Physics: Special Relativity

Modern Physics course concentrating on Special Relativity.

credit: Stanford University. 14 Apr 2008; type: lecture-series; level: undergraduate; duration:
category: relativity; tags: special relativity, relativity

String Theory, Black Holes, and the Fundamental Laws of Nature

For centuries, we have been trying to understand the basic laws which govern the universe. The most promising candidate for our next step forward is string theory.

credit: Harvard University. 8 Feb 2006; type: lecture; level: popular; duration: 1:12:41
category: theoretical; tags: astro, string theory, relativity, black hole

Superconductors and Magnetic Levitation.

A video describing the key features of superconductors in magnetic levitation.

credit: Cheng Kung University. 3 Apr 2006; type: demonstration; level: popular; duration:
category: quantum; tags: superconductors, meissner, flux, magnetic

Synchrotron Radiation for Materials Science Applications (EE290F)

Synchrotron radiation is brighter than our most powerful (compact) laboratory sources by a factor of 10^10. This course looks at theory and some applications.

credit: UC Berkeley. 13 Feb 2008; type: lecture-series; level: undergraduate; duration: 30:00:00
category: electricity/magnetism; tags: synchrotron, electric, magnetic, x-ray

Telsa cage of death.

A video demonstrating a huge Tesla coil in NY state.

credit: radiovoice37. 2 Mar 2007; type: short; level: popular; duration:
category: electricity/magnetism; tags: telsa coil, electric, magnetic

The Birth and Death of Stars

In this lecture Walter Lewin provides illuminating evidence of stars we cannot see. He describes the birth of stars, in the arms of a nebula, to their explosive or implosive ends.

credit: MIT World. 7 May 2003; type: lecture; level: popular; duration: 1:13:37
category: astro; tags: astro, stellar evolution

The Character of Physical Law

Richard Feynman offers an overview of selected physical laws and gathers their common features.

credit: Cornell University; BBC; Microsoft. 11 Sep 1964; type: lecture-series; level: popular; duration:
category: relativity; tags: relativity, quantum, probability, symmetry

The Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures

Richard Feynman offers an elementary introduction to QED.

credit: University of Auckland. 1 Jan 1979; type: lecture-series; level: popular; duration:
category: quantum; tags: photon, reflection, transmission, quantum

The Drunkard's Walk

In The Drunkard's Walk, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how probability and randomness are intrinsically part of everyday observation.

credit: The Perimeter Institute. 5 Jun 2009; type: lecture; level: popular; duration: 1:08:21
category: probability; tags: probability

The Large Hadron Collider and the Higgs particle

In an engaging talk at TED 2008, Brian Cox discusses the Higgs particle and Large Hadron Collider.

credit: TED Talks. 29 Apr 2008; type: briefing; level: popular; duration: 16:26
category: particle physics; tags: Large Hadron Collider, LHC, higgs, boson, atlas, cern, standard model

The Nobel Prize for Physics - Video Lectures

Lectures by Nobel Prize for Physics Laureates since 1999.

credit: The Nobel Foundation. -; type: lecture-series; level: popular; duration:
category: misc; tags:

The periodic table of videos.

Short videos about each of the 118 chemical elements.

credit: The University of Nottingham. 1 Jan 2009; type: short; level: popular; duration:
category: misc; tags:

The search for dark energy and dark matter

Patricia Burchat expertly sheds light on two basic ingredients of our universe: dark matter and dark energy at TED2008.

credit: TED Talks. 25 Aug 2008; type: briefing; level: popular; duration: 16:41
category: astro; tags: astro, dark matter, dark energy

The Starmakers

An animated introduction to nuclear fusion and a tour around the proposed ITER fusion reactor.

credit: Euratom / ITER. 1 Mar 2000; type: documentary; level: popular; duration: 7:10
category: nuclear; tags: nuclear, fusion, ITER

Theory Lecture, Neutrino Physics 1

Theory Lecture, Neutrino Physics 1.

credit: Fermilab. 24 Mar 2005; type: lecture; level: postgraduate; duration: 1:02:24
category: particle physics; tags: neutrino

Tour of IceCube Laboratory

A tour of the the worlds largest particle detector - the IceCube neutrino laboratory at the South Pole.

credit: CERN. 1 Feb 2008; type: short; level: popular; duration: 04:14
category: particle physics; tags: astro, particle, neutrino

Vibrations and Waves (8.03)

8.03 covers the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation.

credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1 Sep 2004; type: lecture-series; level: undergraduate; duration: 23:00:00
category: waves; tags: vibrations, waves, oscillation, electric, magnetic

What Banged?

The evidence that the universe emerged 14 billion years ago from an event called 'the big bang' is overwhelming. Yet the cause of this event remains deeply mysterious.

credit: The Perimeter Institute. 5 Mar 2008; type: lecture; level: popular; duration: 1:18:41
category: astro; tags: cosmology, cmb, big bang