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Physics Girl

Join host Dianna Cowern as she puts her MIT physics degree to the test. With experiments, demonstrations, and cool new discoveries, Physics Girl sheds new light on the fun, adventurous side of physical science.

Exploding soda cans with electromagnets in SLOW MOTION ft Joe Hanson

7m 55s

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

  • Experiments with $100,000+ Speakers: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Experiments with $100,000+ Speakers

    S4 E5 - 6m 37s

    Join Physics Girl and PBS Digital Studios' new show SoundField as they experiment with giant $100,000 speakers and aim them at your body parts looking for resonance, at oobleck, at google eyes, and at candles to explore the physics of sound.

  • How Magnet Paper Works ft. MKBHD: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    How Magnet Paper Works ft. MKBHD

    S4 E2 - 6m 56s

    With MKBHD, Dianna explores how magnetic paper works, what devices look like with the paper, and a mystery magnet.

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