See also my complete set of lecture clips on introductory physics.
Session 1: Newton's Laws
Force.
First Law.
Inertia.
Demo: Inertia of hammer.
Quiz: Inertia of wooden block.
Constant velocity.
Quiz: Car going uphill.
Quiz: Ball going in circle.
Second Law.
Third Law.
Horse and wagon.
Demo: Third law.
Crosswalk.
Rocket.
Session 2: Buoyancy
Buoyancy.
Quiz: Steel and wooden balls.
Archimedes' principle.
Ship.
Quiz: Dip finger into water.
Demo: Dip finger into water.
Quiz: Object hanging on string.
Balloon.
Cartesian diver.
Demo: Cartesian diver.
Changing lead to gold.
Session 3: Music
Standing waves.
Demo: Standing waves on a cord.
Standing waves on a violin string.
Hear the harmonics.
Demo: Standing waves on a violin string.
Animation: Violin string harmonics.
Harmonics in the human voice.
Pipe organ.
Harmonics on the pipe organ.
Higher quality video of organ harmonics.
Higher quality video of organ chord.
Session 4: Relativity
Relative velocity: airplane.
Einstein's postulates.
Michelson-Morley experiment.
Relative velocity: cars.
Standard of time in moving reference frame.
Time dilation.
Half-life of radioactice particles.
Atomic clocks and GPS.
Space travel and length contraction.
Advanced topic: Mathematical treatment of time dilation.
Advanced topic: Mathematical treatment of twin paradox.
Gravity and equivalence principle.
Session 1: Angular momentum: Things that go round and round
Rotating rod.
Moment of inertia.
Two rods with different moments of inertia.
Angular momentum.
Ball going in circle at end of string.
Hoberman sphere.
Student on rotating chair with weights in his hands.
Spinning ice skater.
Student on rotating chair with wheel first rotating about a horizontal
axis.
Explanation.
Train on a circular track.
Student on rotating chair with wheel first rotating about a vertical
axis.
Explanation.
Session 2: Doppler effect: Caught by speed radar
Animation.
Ripples.
General rules.
Moving speaker.
Music.
Bats. (Graph of the threshold of hearing of a bat is from
J. F. R. Hallett, Physics for the Biological Sciences,
4th Edition (Cengage 2003), p 13.)
Speed radar.
Changing red light to green light.
Red shift of distant galaxies.
Record-breaking red shift (Figure from the Hubble Space Telescope
is from HubbleSite NewsCenter, January 26, 2011.).
Detection of extrasolar planets.
Session 3: Standing waves: Waves that break things
Animation.
Long spring.
YouTube: Metal plate.
Tube.
Singing tube.
Ear.
Session 4. Electricity and magnets: Invisible stuff that's real
Electric current produces magnetic field.
Magnetic field produces a force on electric current.
Changing magnetic field produces electric current.
Electric generator.
Playing music with oscillating magnetic field.
Magnet falling down a conducting tube
Maxwell's equations
Animation of electromagnetic waves
Spectrum of electromagnetic waves