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Fiber Optic Bundle

Fiber Optic Bundle

MIT Department of Physics Technical Services Group

Added 1 year ago | 00:01:20 | 2982 views

The image of printed words is transmitted through a bundle of approximately 25,000 coherent optical fibers and projected onto a screen.

Tuning Forks: Resonance & Beat Frequency

Tuning Forks: Resonance & Beat Freq...

MIT Department of Physics Technical Services Group

Added 1 year ago | 00:01:51 | 2563 views

Two identical tuning forks and sounding boxes are placed next to one another.  Striking one tuning fork will cause the other to resonate at the same frequency.  When a weight is attached to one tuning fork, they are no longer i...

MIT-henge

MIT-henge

Videos by Dan Falk

Added 1 year ago | 00:03:19 | 2903 views

A light-hearted look at the phenomenon of "MIT-henge," the twice-a-year alignment in which the setting sun lines up with the "infinite corridor" at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.

Barkhausen Effect

Barkhausen Effect

MIT Department of Physics Technical Services Group

Added 1 year ago | 00:01:02 | 2582 views

A soft iron core is placed inside a solenoid having several hundred turns of fine wire. The coil winding is connected to a loudspeaker. Audible results of the Barkhausen Effect are produced by slowly moving a permanent magnet toward the ...

Weighted Hacksaw Blade

Weighted Hacksaw Blade

MIT Department of Physics Technical Services Group

Added 1 year ago | 00:00:54 | 2799 views

A hacksaw blade has a weight attached to each end. The center of the blade is tightly held in a vise. The two halves of the blade then behave like coupled oscillators.

Simulation of Magnetic Domains

Simulation of Magnetic Domains

MIT Department of Physics Technical Services Group

Added 1 year ago | 00:01:54 | 2948 views

A large number of compass needles are mounted on a Plexiglass sheet. A bar magnet is used to set the needles in motion. When the needles come to a stop, interaction between the needles simulates magnetic domains.

Planets Not Our Own

Planets Not Our Own

Knight Science Journalism at MIT

Added 1 year ago | 01:44:09 | 1466 views

Knight seminar with Josh Winn, MIT professor of physics and researcher of "extrasolar planets" September 30, 2010

Talkback 360 - Visualizing Science: The Changing Arctic Ice

Talkback 360 - Visualizing Science:...

MIT Museum

Added 1 year ago | 00:00:00 | 2299 views

Recorded on 4/17/12

Gyroscopes Made Easy

Gyroscopes Made Easy

MIT Department of Physics Technical Services Group

Added 1 year ago | 00:29:09 | 3137 views

The motion of a gyroscope in response to an applied force is analyzed.  TSG's gimbaled gyroscope is used to demonstrate.

Curie Point of Iron

Curie Point of Iron

MIT Department of Physics Technical Services Group

Added 1 year ago | 00:01:23 | 2880 views

A piece of iron is suspended with a copper wire at the height of one pole of a magnet. At first the iron is attracted to the magnet. The iron is then heated with a torch and eventually falls from the magnet. As the iron cools it will aga...