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MinutePhysics

100 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 8 years ago - ★★★★★ - 464 ratings

Cool physics and other sweet science - all in a minute!

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Episodes

Why You Should Care About Nukes

March 29, 2016 21:58 - 3 minutes - 34.3 MB Video

Aliens: Are We Looking in the Wrong Place?

March 24, 2016 18:01 - 4 minutes - 48.7 MB Video

Transporters and Quantum Teleportation

March 15, 2016 20:56 - 2 minutes - 18.6 MB Video

The Limb of the Sun

March 11, 2016 20:28 - 2 minutes - 13.9 MB Video

How Do We Know What Air is Like on Other Planets?

February 24, 2016 20:46 - 2 minutes - 17 MB Video

Concrete Does Not Dry Out

February 10, 2016 20:17 - 2 minutes - 24.4 MB Video

How To Discover Weird New Particles | Emergent Quantum Quasiparticles

February 01, 2016 22:07 - 3 minutes - 30.9 MB Video

Why December Has The Longest Days

December 22, 2015 20:04 - 2 minutes - 16.5 MB Video

The Physics of Car Crashes

December 14, 2015 23:15 - 3 minutes - 26.9 MB Video

Why Isn't It Faster To Fly West?

November 20, 2015 21:42

Why Do We Put Telescopes in Space?

September 27, 2015 04:55

Why It's Impossible to Tune a Piano

September 17, 2015 22:04 - 4 minutes - 41.9 MB Video

How Long Can You Balance a Pencil?

August 07, 2015 14:00 - 3 minutes - 32.6 MB Video

Learn and try to balance.

A Brief History of Everything, feat. Neil deGrasse Tyson

July 20, 2015 19:48 - 8 minutes - 84.3 MB Video

The Counterintuitive Physics of Turning a Bike

July 17, 2015 16:04 - 1 minute - 32.8 MB Video

How Do Bikes Stay Up?

June 30, 2015 02:00

How To Detect A Secret Nuclear Test

June 25, 2015 21:49 - 3 minutes - 37.8 MB Video

Upside Down Mountains in Real Life

May 31, 2015 23:11 - 2 minutes - 24.1 MB Video

Why Raindrops Are Mathematically Impossible

May 20, 2015 19:44 - 2 minutes - 22.9 MB Video

How to Find an Exoplanet

May 06, 2015 14:00 - 2 minutes - 30.3 MB Video

Watch and learn how we detect exoplanets.

How to Subtract By Adding

May 01, 2015 21:37 - 3 minutes - 28.6 MB Video

How Big is The Sun?

April 25, 2015 18:16 - 2 minutes - 11.3 MB Video

How Do Airplanes Fly?

April 08, 2015 23:53 - 3 minutes - 18.9 MB Video

Computer Color is Broken

March 20, 2015 01:00 - 4 minutes - 20.6 MB Video

What IS Angular Momentum?

January 22, 2015 01:00 - 3 minutes - 28.4 MB Video

Astronomically Correct Twinkle Twinkle

December 22, 2014 01:00 - 2 minutes - 22.1 MB Video

A Simple Proof of Conservation of Energy

December 20, 2014 01:00 - 3 minutes - 34.7 MB Video

How An Airplane Is Made

December 19, 2014 01:00 - 5 minutes - 82.6 MB Video

Why is it Harder to Drive Backwards?

December 15, 2014 01:00 - 3 minutes - 37.9 MB Video

Solution to The Impossible Bet

December 09, 2014 01:00 - 3 minutes - 35.3 MB Video

An Impossible Bet

December 08, 2014 01:00 - 1 minute - 14 MB Video

Should you take the bet?

Why Isn't The Sky Purple?

November 11, 2014 01:00 - 3 minutes - 26.7 MB Video

This is Not a Rainbow

October 28, 2014 22:21 - 3 minutes - 33.3 MB Video

Why is the Sun Yellow and the Sky Blue?

October 19, 2014 13:00 - 2 minutes - 29.3 MB Video

Antimatter Explained

September 21, 2014 01:14 - 3 minutes - 41.3 MB Video

Why are Stars Star-Shaped?

August 27, 2014 01:48 - 3 minutes - 39.1 MB Video

Henry explains the shape of stars.

Pot Theft (A Radiolab Adventure)

June 13, 2014 23:27 - 4 minutes - 45.5 MB Video

A collaboration with RadioLab

Is the Universe Entirely Mathematical? Feat. Max Tegmark

May 26, 2014 21:48 - 2 minutes - 28.5 MB Video

Thanks to Max Tegmark for writing & narrating this video.

How to See Without Glasses

April 27, 2014 22:00 - 3 minutes - 35 MB Video

This cool trick allows you to see without glasses.

When Insanity Becomes Normal - Venezuela

April 11, 2014 01:14 - 6 minutes - 71.4 MB Video

This has nothing to do with physics, but I thought it was important so I made a video about it: uprisings in Venezuela. 

A Polarizing Discovery About the Big Bang!

March 19, 2014 20:53 - 2 minutes - 28.3 MB Video

Explanation of a NEW DISCOVERY about the Big Bang!

How Modern Light Bulbs Work

February 16, 2014 02:53 - 3 minutes - 34.2 MB Video

How do Modern Light Bulbs Work?

Evolution vs Natural Selection

January 22, 2014 22:35 - 3 minutes - 33.1 MB Video

Why is the Solar System Flat?

January 10, 2014 01:56 - 3 minutes - 35.7 MB Video

Why The Full Moon is Better in Winter

December 17, 2013 21:06 - 2 minutes - 27.4 MB Video

Why winter has the best full moons.

What is Sea Level?

November 25, 2013 22:22 - 3 minutes - 38.8 MB Video

When we say Mt. Everest is 8850m tall, how do we know what sea level would be beneath the mountain? 

3 Simple Ways to Time Travel (& 3 Complicated Ones)

October 26, 2013 20:39 - 3 minutes - 36.6 MB Video

Henry looks at 6 ways to Time Travel.

Magnetic Levitation

October 18, 2013 21:10 - 2 minutes - 24.9 MB Video

A look at diamagnetism and levitation.

How to Destroy a Magnet

September 28, 2013 21:44 - 2 minutes - 29 MB Video

Magnets are amazingly strong... but there's a very easy way to destroy them. All you need to know is a little bit about ferromagnetism, paramagnetism, and temperature!

How Do Magnets Work?

September 23, 2013 22:07 - 6 minutes - 69.4 MB Video

Why do they attract and repel at long distances? Is it magic? No... it's quantum mechanics, and a bit more.

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