Derek MullerÕ videos that include na•ve 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, NEWTONÕS 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.