Physics (Audio)

Smart Puppy shows why a super conductor is super! Series: "UCTV Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 30080]

Shuji Nakamura discusses the way in which his invention grew to be what it is by starting with the work of growing high-quality gallium nitride (GaN) crystals in 1991 to demonstrating highly luminescent, blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in 1994. The resulting revolution in generating white light has had a tremendous impact on society by providing highly efficient, robust, portable, non-toxic, battery-operable light sources. Series: "Scientific Horizons" [Science] [Show ID: 29750]

Smart Puppy’s furry friends discover teensy-weensy magnets! Series: "Not Too Serious Labs" [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 28714]

Charles Hard Townes, a professor emeritus of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, who shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for invention of the laser and subsequently pioneered the use of lasers in astronomy, died at the age of 99 on January 27, 2015. This video was produced on the occasion of his 99th birthday on July 28, 2014. Series: "UC Berkeley News" [Science] [Show ID: 29299]

Smart Puppy and friends find the tiniest magnet! Series: "Not Too Serious Labs" [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 28917]

Smart Puppy shows his pals when a magnet is not a magnet. Series: "Not Too Serious Labs" [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 28916]

Smart Puppy and friends play with peanuts! Series: "Not Too Serious Labs" [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 28915]

Smart Puppy and friends do an amazing trick with a really teeny-tiny tennis ball! Series: "Not Too Serious Labs" [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 28715]

George Smoot, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, describes the research that led to his Nobel Prize in physics in 2006. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 28608]

The UC San Diego Library Channel presents a talk by William Lanouette, author of “Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard.” Lanouette explains how Szilard’s fear of German dominance of nuclear research in the 1930’s inspired the Manhattan Project, which led to the creation of the atomic bomb used by the United States in World War II. Szilard could see its potential for mass destruction in the wrong hands and became a strong advocate for nuclear arms control and disarmament. Szilard spent his final days as a founding member of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego. Series: "Library Channel" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 28013]