Newton’s three laws of motion are fundamental to many aspects of physics—including collisions. This clip covers the laws, explaining each and looking at how they apply to different examples of collisions. Calculations involving force, mass, acceleration, and stopping time are applied to various scenarios. It is an excellent learning resource for senior-level physics students.

We introduce students to the concept that acceleration is a measure of how quickly something changes its speed. We join James Bond as he falls out of an aeroplane without a parachute, splash into the water at 50.4 km/hr with presenter Spiro Liacos, and watch on helplessly as a truck runs off an unfinished bridge and explodes in a massive fireball.

This program travels to the home of Colossus-the world's first ten-inversion steel roller coaster-to reveal the physical, mechanical, and psychological forces that make the roller coaster the undisputed king of thrill rides. Concepting, computer-assisted track design, 3-D simulation, track construction, and car safety mechanisms are covered by some of the experts who know roller coasters best. The goal? Pulse-pounding speed and mind-blowing disorientation...

In this program, one-dimensional wonderboy Not-Quite-Bright and other experts investigate the one-dimensional quantities of displacement, average and instantaneous velocity, and average and instantaneous acceleration through skiing, swimming, and speed-walking vignettes. The kinematic equations for instantaneous velocity, displacement, and final velocity are also examined, along with supporting examples.

Can a giant hunk of chocolate be used to illustrate friction? It is in section one of this program, which describes kinetic and static friction, the normal force, and the coefficient of friction. In section two, a group of construction workers and the cartoon brothers Bumpkin Bill and Urban Tom elucidate the true nature of work, power, and energy. The Work-Kinetic Energy Principle is also addressed in an example using the "Alexandria Ferro XL" sports...

When you use baseball to demonstrate the principles of physics, your students will see science in a whole new way. Divided into four segments, this program takes a close look at the pitch (how gravity, drag, and the Magnus force are used to manipulate the path of the ball); the hit (kinetic energy, the coefficient of restitution, and Newton's Laws of Motion-and the changes that result when rawhide meets wood); the flight (the effects of launch angle,...

Ever since there has been work to do, people have looked for easier ways to complete their tasks. These imaginative videos offer fresh perspectives on how machines are used to make work easier. Animation, graphics, video, and narration are combined to vividly explain the basic physical concepts associated with work, energy, and the six simple machines. Special appearances by a hard-working caveman help put the development of machines into historical...

In this video segment, watch former astrophysicist Dr. Graham Phillips travel to Switzerland to check out the most powerful atom smasher in the world. It's about to tackle some of the most colossal questions about some of the smallest particles in our universe. Fourteen billion years later, scientists will be able to recreate the earliest moments of the Big Bang, deep underground in a 27-kilometer-long tunnel beneath the Swiss-France border. It might...

This program introduces the "plane facts" of two-dimensional kinematics via Bright-As-Light, the two-dimensional super girl. Using scenarios based on soccer and archery, the projectile motion equations for calculating initial horizontal and vertical magnitudes, horizontal and vertical velocities, and horizontal and vertical displacements are analyzed in detail.