This wouldn't be a youtube channel without a cat video - so without further ado, we present: Schrodinger's cat. I'm sure you've heard some version of this famous...
Where did quantum theory come from? It started, not as a crazy idea, but with a light bulb. In the early 1890s, the German Bureau of Standards asked Max Planck how to make light bulbs more efficient...
What I want to do in this video is give ourselves a basic introduction to the phenomenon of light. And light is, at least to me, mysterious. Because on one level it really defines our reality....
In the last couple of videos we talked about reflection. And that's just the idea of the light rays bouncing off of a surface. And if the surface is smooth, the incident angle is going to be...
Why is the sky dark at night? You might think the answer is obvious - the sun isn't up! But the only reason the sky looks blue during the day is that sunlight scatters off of the atmosphere -...
We've all been told that the colors of the rainbow correspond to different wavelengths of visible light - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Where's pink in that list?...