Exploding soda cans with electromagnets in SLOW MOTION ft Joe Hanson
Watch a soda can rip itself apart in a fiery explosion at 11,000fps with a Phantom high speed camera. Running a current through a coil, produces an electromagnet. Turn up the voltage in this experiment, and make that current strong enough, and your electromagnet can rip a soda can in half. Or rather, make the can rip itself in half!
Episodes
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Inside the World's Largest Science Experiment
S4 E17 - 14m 1s
Dianna from Physics Girl visited CERN in Geneva Switzerland to find out what the detectors at the LHC are looking for, and dive into the fundamental question: what are particles?
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How the Edge of Our Galaxy Defies Known Physics
S4 E16 - 10m 36s
How is it possible that you can't see 95% of the universe? The edge of our milky way defies known physics, so physicists are using the LHC at CERN to search for Dark Matter.
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Why This Stuff Costs $2700 Trillion Per Gram
S4 E15 - 10m
There’s a factory in Europe that makes antimatter! It’s the rarest, most expensive, and potentially the most dangerous material on earth. Scientists don’t know why this material is so rare. Anti-atoms took 72 years after we discovered antimatter to make. Why?
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Most People Don’t Know Wine Moves Like This
S4 E14 - 9m 42s
Wine legs aka wine tears or wine fingers are stranger than they seem.
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World’s Largest Camera Lens
S4 E13 - 9m 12s
The world's largest digital camera is currently being assembled at a warehouse in California. We caught the short window of time to see the camera's massive lens.
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The Surprising Ways Mars is Hostile to Life
S4 E12 - 10m 11s
Wanna know all the reasons Mars will kill you and how we know? I hit up my friend Raquel Nuno who's a planetary geologist to find out.
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What Happens When Black Holes Collide?
S4 E11 - 30m 22s
What happens when black holes collide? What is the speed of gravity? There are so many weird questions related to gravitational waves.
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Why Are There Giant Concrete Tunnels in the Desert?
S4 E10 - 11m 24s
The Physics Girl team visited LIGO once again. This place is Dianna's obsession.
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Testing What Exercise Actually Does to Your Butt
S4 E9 - 10m 34s
Cassey and I investigate the biomechanics of butts. What activates your butt muscles more, running or squatting? How effective are bridges as a butt workout? How much can we change the shape of our bodies with exercise?
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The Hardest Exam I Ever Took at MIT in Physics
S4 E8 - 9m 36s
Unboxing an MIT Physics Exam from the 8.012 Classical Mechanics course, plus we go over my answers on the hardest exam I took at MIT in physics (argh!) and discuss exam tips and tricks.
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This Weird Straw Effect
S4 E7 - 5m
When you look through a straw in water something strange happens as you move it up and down.
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5 Scary Physics Experiments!
S4 E6 - 7m 5s
Top 5 creepy science experiments ft. iJustine
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