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NASA Student Pages


Measurement and Physics

The Story of Physics

Hubble Deep Field

Defining the Kilogram

The Incomprehensible 52! 


Motion: Kinematics and Dynamics

Stringless Yo-yo

Gravity Illusion 

Supersonic Car 

Going Supersonic 

Giant Feather Drop

Free Fall from Space 

Raindrops Aren't Raindrop-Shaped 

Heated Snowboard

Momentum Helicopter

Throw Needle Through Glass 

Crazy Rocketman 

Rocketman 2 


Energy

History of Electric Cars 

Propellor Craft 

Human Powered Helicopter

Energy-Free Cooling 

A Very Fast Golf Ball

How Do Wind Turbines Work?

How Do Solar Panels Work?


Circular Motion

How to Make a Bowling Ball 

Spin It Up at the Imperial College

Anti-Gravity Wheel?

Rotating Objects

In the Globe of Death!

Magnus Effect

Magnus Explained

Loop the Loop in a Real Car

Unrideable Bike 

The KFC Bucket Aeroplane: Magnus Redux

Spinning Disc Trick

Free Fall from Space

Exploding Apples!


Statics

Straighten the Tower of Pisa

Mile-High Skyscraper?

What If Concrete Could Fix Itself?

Suction Pumps

How High Can We Build?

Cannonball in Mercury

Is Glass a Liquid? 


Waves and Sound

Why Do Buildings Fall in Earthquakes?

How Swings Work

Sonic Boom 

Watch Those Nodes!

Resonance in Violin String

Galloping Gertie

24 Hz Wave vs. 24 Hz Camera

Nodes and Acoustic Levitation

Metronome Resonance

Slow Motion Glass 

The Apprehension Engine 


Light

How Lasers Work

Faster Than Light?

Why the Speed of Light is Unmeasurable

The Shadow Illusion

A Room Made of Mirrors

Schlieren Optics

Polarization of Light 

Single Photon Interference

There Is No Pink Light

Solar Death Ray!

Green Lasers!

The Speed of Dark

The Brightest Thing in the Universe


Heat

Black Body Radiation 

Liquid Nitrogen Underwater 

Spinning Sphere of Sodium

The First Celsius Thermometer

Fahrenheit Scale

Ping Ping Balls vs. Liquid Nitrogen

Aerogel

Water Vapor Condenses in a Can!

Freeze Liquid Nitrogen

Liquid Nitrogen and Hot Water

Prince Rupert's Drops 

Make Frozen Bubbles

Heat Transfer 

Superfluid Helium

Stange World of Superfluids 

Balloon in Candle Flame 

Russian Winter

Misconceptions About Temperature


Electricity and Magnetism

Spinning Sphere of Sodium 

How Was TV Invented? 

Microwave Grapes 

Magnet Car vs. Mini Car

Magnetic Accelerators

Ferrofluid and Superconducting Magnets

Sparks from Falling Water

Lightning Strike

Australian Lightning

Lots of Lightning

Play Songs on a Tesla Coil!

Battle of the Tesla Coils

Copper and Magnetic Fields

World's Simplest Electric Train


The Atomic Scale

A Boy and His Atom


Rockets, Space and Time

Timelapse of the Future?

Parallel Worlds 

Journey to Pluto

Apollo 11 Launch:        TV Footage from 1969

Apollo 11 Launch:        Official NASA Footage

Apollo 11 Launch:     Apollo 11 at 500 frames per second

Homemade Rocket:    Mini-Saturn

Portal to a Fifth Dimension

Our Ignorance About Gravity 

Washcloth in Space 

Travel Inside a Black Hole

Gravity Visualized

Blue Horizons Launch 

Blue Horizons Launch Analyzed

Three ISS Discoveries

The Future of Space Telescopes

Who Owns the Moon? 

Webb Telescope 2022 

Apollo 17 Flight Plan 


Miscellaneous Oddities

Giorno's Theme on Calculators

Rube Goldberg Machine

Science Toys 4 

Should This Lake Exist? 

Newton's Cradle

Three Perplexing Problems

How Kodak Exposed the Atomic Bomb

Make Your Own Liquid Nitrogen!

Watery Houses

DaVinci Machines

Five Fun Physics Phenomena

Seven Science Gadgets

Flying Squid!

250,000 Dominos 

Human Powered Machines 

Discovery That Transformed Pi 

The Deadly Mantis Shrimp

How Old Can We Get? 

The Rocket-Powered Wheel

Ice Ages 

Automation 

Slow Motion Mousetraps

Slinky Drop