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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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.
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AMAZING underwater vortex rings!
S4 E4 - 5m 48s
DIY Science - Make a colored vortex ring in the pool
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Singing this note is IMPOSSIBLE!
S4 E3 - 6m 27s
Try to sing up the scale of notes into a pipe, and you’ll find certain notes are impossible to sing. WHY?!
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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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Stephen Hawking's Final Theory on Black Holes
S4 E1 - 6m 57s
What does Stephen Hawking's last paper on black holes with soft hair say about the black hole information paradox?
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