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Physics of Food Demo: Cryofrozen Coconut Shell
In the video above, Professor Rama Bansil demonstrates three principles of physics by making a cryofrozen coconut shell using a party balloon and liquid nitrogen. Delicious!
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BU Classroom: Lessons From The X-Men
Physics professor Andy Cohen gives you a tour of his latest Boston University undergraduate course, Cinema Physica. In the class, Professor Cohen uses Hollywood movies to introduce and illustrate physical laws and concepts. Cohen uses The Abyss to [...]discuss fluids and pressure, for instance, and X-Men to talk about electricity and magnetism. In this clip, Cohen suggests that Speed 2, while highly entertaining, might not have gotten all its physics right.
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Parabolic Pumpkins
What do you get when a gaggle of physics students, faculty, and staff test gravity with more than 30 liquid-filled pumpkins? A mess, yes, but more specifically, the fifth annual Pumpkin Drop.
Read the story on BU Today:
[...]/today/campus-life/2009/10/30/parabolic-pumpkins
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What is a Neutrino? with Professor Ed Kearns
Boston University particle physicist Ed Kearns attempts to demystify the mysterious neutrino.
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Journey of a Gravitational Wave
LIGO scientist David Reitze takes us on a 1.3 billion year journey that begins with the violent merger of two black holes in the distant universe. The event produced gravitational waves, tiny ripples in the fabric of space and time, which LIGO [...]detected on September 14, 2015, as they passed Earth.
Image Credit: SXS, the Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) project (http://www.black-holes.org)
Video Credit: LIGO/SXS/R. Hurt/T. Pyle
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Graphene and the Undergrad: A Love Story
“Mind blowing.†“Amazing.†“Weird.†Descriptions like these are usually reserved for the latest indie band to rock BU Central. But for Claire Thomas (CAS’10), they’re the perfect way to convey her [...]love for physics and a certain two-dimensional carbon material called graphene — a small piece of graphite commonly found in pencils.
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/today/science-tech/2010/04/13/graphene-and-undergrad-love-story
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Eyewitness to the CERN Experiments
Talk a walk inside the ATLAS experiment with BU physics graduate student Jeremy Love.
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Pursuing the Elusive: Amyloidosis Research & CERN
Researchers on the MED campus fight a devastating and intractable disease—and make major progress.
Meanwhile, BU contributes to the search for the “God particleâ€â€”and one undergraduate speaks to its effect on her life.
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Acceleration - thinking about signs
In this video, we focus on what a sign means when it is associated with the acceleration.
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