Top ten amazing physics videos

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Wired Magazine recently published a list of some of the best physics videos on the web. Featuring tesla coils, superconductors, raps and superfluids - the list proves that there's plenty of videos out there that will make many people go wow-wow-wow in wonder at what physics is all about. It's also a great resource for teachers looking for short video clips to impress the kids. Here's just a few of them:

Steve Ward can tune his Tesla coil so that the crackle of each spark sounds
like a musical note:


Everyone knows that helium can make your voice sound high like a chipmunk, but what will happen when Adam Savage inhales some gas that is over five times denser than air?:


Japanese astronaut Takao Doi proves that a boomerang will always return to the person who threw it -- even in outer space:


Superconducting levitation: A fantastic lesson about exotic materials and magnetism in just over six minutes:



Check out their user comments section also for other great videos that Wired didn't feature.

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