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Acids and Bases: Testing Rocket CarsIn this ZOOM video segment, cast members make bottle rocket cars using lemon juice and baking soda, and experiment with different ways of launching the cars. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-8 |
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Center of Gravity: Pencil BalanceWatch the ZOOM cast learn about center of gravity by trying to balance a pencil on their fingers and noses. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-8 |
Video |
Defy Gravity! Centripetal ForceHow can you keep a ball from falling out of a jar if the jar is upside down? Watch the ZOOM cast use centripetal force to meet this challenge. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript |
3-8 |
Video |
Defy Gravity! Upside Down Ping Pong BallIn this video segment, the ZOOM cast is challenged to keep a ping pong ball in a funnel while the funnel is held upside down, seemingly defying gravity. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-8 |
Video |
The Deployable Energy AbsorberWatch how engineers stage a crash to test a new helicopter safety design technology in this video from NASA. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
Experimenting with a PendulumIn this video segment, members of the ZOOM cast experiment with a pendulum and discover what they need to do to make the pendulum complete one back-and-forth swing in five seconds. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-8 |
Video |
Force and Motion This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K explains and gives examples of Sir Isaac Newton's 3 Laws of Motion using the rides at an amusement part. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript |
4-6 |
Video |
Galileo on the MoonWatch Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott perform Galileo's falling objects experiment on the Moon in this video segment from NASA. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Galileo's Big MistakeScientists don't always get it right. This video segment adapted from NOVA looks at Galileo's failed theory for the motion of the tides. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Gravity This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K demonstrates how gravity, mass, matter, and weight are related and how astronauts can overcome earth's gravity to fly to space. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript |
2-6 |
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Gravity at Earth's CenterIn this video segment from NOVA scienceNOW, learn about the effects of gravity as astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson falls through a virtual hole through Earth's center. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Hoover DamThis video segment from Building Big: "Dams," demonstrates the basic principals at work in the Hoover Dam, a concrete gravity dam that also makes use of the properties of the arch. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-12 |
Video |
How Do You Get to the Moon?This video, adapted from NOVA, showcases the competing engineering plans designed for landing a person on the Moon for the first time. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
How Would You Turn a Bolt in Space?In this fast-paced NASA Brain Bites™ video, an astronaut demonstrates the impact of microgravity on the use of tools in space. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-8 |
Video |
Invisible Force ChallengeIn this video from Design Squad Nation, kids design and build systems that use magnets to control the speed and direction of a rolling ball. They also learn how NASA uses gravity to direct a spacecraft. Accessibility features: Caption |
4-8 |
Video |
Newton's Third Law of Motion: Astronauts in Outer SpaceIn this video segment adapted from NOVA, NASA learns hard lessons from the first American attempt to do work while "walking" in space. The video also explores Newton's third law of motion. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-12 |
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Pantheon DomeThis video segment adapted from Building Big: "Domes" illustrates how the design of the Pantheon Dome emerged out of another form, the arch. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-12 |
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Raising an Obelisk: An Engineering PuzzleThis video segment adapted from NOVA follows two teams as they each test a different engineering design in an effort to explain how ancient Egyptians raised a giant stone obelisk. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-12 |
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Segway Technology: What's Newton Got to Do with It?What do the laws of physics have to do with engineering? Find out in this video segment featuring inventor Dean Kamen and his inventions, the IBOT and the Segway. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
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Soft Landing ChallengeIn this video from Design Squad Nation, kids model NASA’s airbag landing system. They design and build protective covers made of balloons to protect an egg dropped from a height of three feet. Accessibility features: Caption |
4-8 |
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