Derek Muller’ videos that include naïve conceptions

Derek Muller earned a doctorate in Physics Education Research at the University of Sydney. His doctoral research shows that videos can be effective tools for learning. His Ph.D. dissertation is entitled "Designing Effective Multimedia for Physics Education." You can download it at http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/super/theses/PhD(Muller).pdf

As a follow-up to his dissertation work, Muller created and distributed a series of videos via the web under the label of VERITASIUM. These can be viewed on YouTube.

His YouTube website is http://www.youtube.com/1veritasium. On that website, his playlists are organized by misconceptions, experiments, etc. -- rather than concepts. I find it helpful to organize his videos by concept, for class use, so I made a list of almost 60 of his basic videos as of April 2012. They are useful for middle school and high school students, and adults. I find them delightful: good-humored, insightful, thought-provoking. – Jane Jackson

HIS MOTIVATION AND EXPERTISE:

Khan Academy and the Effectiveness of Science Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVtCO84MDj8&feature=related

MATTER:

Atomic Theory (the first Veritasium video by Derek Muller) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2g1H5wPmUE&feature=related

Atoms and Isotopes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeDaOigLBTU&feature=related

What Is Water Made Of?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJrmR-RGjUM&feature=related

States of Matter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCL8zqjXbME&feature=related

Supercooled Water - Explained! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph8xusY3GTM&feature=relmfu

Where Do Trees Come From? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KZb2_vcNTg&feature=related

Are You Lightest In The Morning? (Daily Weight Fluctuations) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL2e0rWvjKI&feature=related

Candle Trick http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tXPVTIisl0&feature=related

How To Make Graphene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PifL8bAybyc

Grape + Microwaves = Plasma http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwTjsRt0Fzo&feature=relmfu

FORCE AND MOTION, NEWTON’S LAWS:

What is a Force? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmlMV7bA0TM&feature=relmfu

The Forces On You (Introducing Normal Force) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJc4DEkSq4I&feature=relmfu

The Difference Between Mass and Weight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z0X0yE8Ioc&feature=related

Egg Experiment to Demonstrate Inertia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LGi-Dlb8Vs&feature=relmfu

Why Does The Earth Spin? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=TQxeutcYP6I

Inertia (Why Earth Spins Part 2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zso7ChaQXQ&feature=related

Three Incorrect Laws of Motion http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=Yf0BN0kq7OU

Best Film on Newton's Third Law. Ever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=8bTdMmNZm2M

What Is Gravity? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mezkHBPLZ4A

Why Does the Moon Orbit Earth? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN6kCa6xi9k&feature=related

Is There Gravity In Space? (Why Are Astronauts Weightless?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d57C2drB_wc&feature=relmfu

Calculating Gravitational Attraction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN1Q5ru2fI0

Misconceptions About Falling Objects http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mCC-68LyZM&feature=relmfu

Eye Tracking and Acceleration http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=YJbKieEC49M

Galileo the Scientific Parrot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxbeLdXnaGU&feature=related

(somewhat more complex physics)

How To Curve A Baseball Or Swing A Cricket Ball

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-3jnOIJg4k&feature=relmfu

The Magnus Force http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23f1jvGUWJs&feature=relmfu

Spool Trick Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwf3msm7rqM&feature=relmfu

Spinning Tube Trick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQTVcaA3PQw&feature=related

Spinning Tube Trick Explained

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rAiZR_zasg&feature=relmfu

(He has more videos on AP-B & C level mechanics; not included here.)

EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE CONNECTIONS:

How Far Away is the Moon? (The Scale of the Universe) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz9D6xba9Og&feature=relmfu

How long does it take for the earth to go around the sun? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU2dZz18P0c&feature=relmfu

What causes the seasons? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3TRUDKpoAs&feature=related

Eclipses vs Phases Of The Moon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jip3BbZBpsM&feature=related

How Old Is The Earth? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yFnO2O6XPM&feature=relmfu

Where Did The Earth Come From? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuMjnP1YbPw&feature=relmfu

SCIENTIFIC NOTATION:

Scientific Notation - Explained! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwmJ5nMmigQ&feature=related

Scientific Notation - Example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vomqiURUgA&feature=related

ENERGY SOURCES, NUCLEAR RADIATION:

What Powers Australia? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmI_9Hty-Lw&feature=fvwrel

How Damaging is Radiation? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQmnztyXwVA&feature=relmfu

Radiation vs Radioactive Atoms http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sehKAccM8p0&feature=relmfu

Types of Radiation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYmMtSWPQEI&feature=relmfu

PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE:

Comparing Temperatures http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNGJ0WHXMyE&feature=related

Why Is Ice Slippery? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stx6kLd9dYI&feature=relmfu

Regelation of Ice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM3zP72-rJE&feature=related

Regelation Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iIv1SuS164&feature=fvwrel

Regelation Comparison http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQCVnjGUv24&feature=fvwrel

Fire Syringe (pressure & temperature) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qe1Ueifekg&feature=related

AIR PRESSURE:

Imploding Drum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3b9pK-O6cE&feature=related

World's Longest Vertical Straw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUmZrtiXDik&feature=related

WAVES:

Sound + Fire = Rubens' Tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZcOusmB4Ls&feature=related

LIGHT:

Deceptive Shadows (an image of the sun) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liqF6EamiE4&feature=related

THE SPEED OF LIGHT IS THE UNIVERSAL CONSTANT:

Can We Go the Speed of Light? (The Principle of Relativity) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVKFBaaL4uM&feature=relmfu

CHEMISTRY CONNECTIONS:

What Is Chemistry? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRSDxGtcsxE&feature=related

JJ Thomson's Plum Pudding Model of the Atom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUJPyQtoB5E&feature=fvwrel

Cathode Rays Lead to Thomson's Model of the Atom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xKZRpAsWL8&feature=related

Atomic Rant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=357_DHp3Nys&feature=relmfu

THE BOTTOM LINE:

A Human Being Is A Part Of The Whole http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMnQWn1rkAA&feature=related

This document is at http://modeling.asu.edu/modeling/weblinks.html.