Physics (Audio)
Guest speakers, researchers and University of California faculty explore physics to better understand and predict the world around us.
- Update frequency
- every 68 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 50
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
On Beyond: Space Dust Exploring Nanomaterials Fire Drought and Ecosystems Oak Tree Ecosystems California Agricultural Legacy
Explore the dust between the stars - and why it is so important, see how researchers explore molecules on the nanoscale to improve materials, discover why natural extremes are critical to Mediterrane…
00:29:28 |
Wed 06 Apr 2016
Spacetime Versus the Quantum
Joseph Polchinski explores the battle in physics: either quantum mechanics must break down, or our understanding of spacetime must be wrong. The latest is the ‘firewall’ paradox: if quantum mechanics…
00:55:05 |
Wed 23 Mar 2016
The International Year of the Light Symposium: Session 3
We are visual beings, and qualities such as “insight” and “vision” describe our understanding well beyond sensory input. Light and more generally, electromagnetic radiation, has dramatically changed …
00:56:01 |
Mon 21 Mar 2016
The International Year of the Light Symposium: Session 2
Blue LED and Prospects for the Lighting Industry with Shuji Nakamura. Energy Savings and Future Directions in Solid State Lighting with Steve DenBaars. Semiconductor Lasers: Vertical, Tunable, Enabli…
01:59:02 |
Mon 14 Mar 2016
The International Year of the Light Symposium: Session 1
The Double-Heterostructure Concept: How it Got Started with Herbert Kroemer. Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits with John Bowers. Light, Noise, and Darkness with Amnon Yariv. “Plastic” Solar Cells …
01:50:01 |
Mon 07 Mar 2016
Tiger Math
Patrick Sanan, who studied mathematics at UC San Diego, explains how he combined geometry and physics to devise the mathematics that made possible the visualization of the virtual tiger Richard in th…
00:08:23 |
Tue 17 Nov 2015
Space-Time Versus the Quantum
UCSB’s Joseph Polchinski speaks about the search for a unified theory of the laws of physics, and the difficulty of reconciling two of the main pieces: quantum mechanics, which governs the very small…
00:59:05 |
Mon 16 Nov 2015
Smart Puppy and TeenyTiny Dots
Holy hairball! Smart Puppy shows how small a nanodot is! Series: "UCTV Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 30081]
00:01:00 |
Fri 25 Sep 2015
Smart Puppy and Super Conductors
Smart Puppy shows why a super conductor is super! Series: "UCTV Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 30080]
00:00:52 |
Wed 23 Sep 2015
Smart Puppy and The Fantastic Frozen Flying Saucer
Hang on to your frozen butts! Smart Puppy’s kitty buds take a wild-ride on Boaz Almog’s fantastic frozen flying saucer! Series: "UCTV Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 30079]
00:01:07 |
Wed 23 Sep 2015
Invention of Blue LED Laser and Solid State Light with Shuji Nakamura
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 luminesc…
00:59:30 |
Mon 06 Jul 2015
Smart Puppy and Teensy-Weensy Magnets!
Smart Puppy’s furry friends discover teensy-weensy magnets! Series: "Not Too Serious Labs" [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 28714]
00:00:51 |
Thu 12 Mar 2015
Celebrating Nobel Prize Laser Inventor Charles Townes
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 us…
00:01:39 |
Wed 18 Feb 2015
Smart Puppy and The Tiniest Magnet!
Smart Puppy and friends find the tiniest magnet! Series: "Not Too Serious Labs" [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 28917]
00:01:02 |
Mon 15 Dec 2014
Smart Puppy and Super-what?!
Smart Puppy shows his pals when a magnet is not a magnet. Series: "Not Too Serious Labs" [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 28916]
00:01:01 |
Tue 02 Dec 2014
Smart Puppy and an Amazing Tennis Ball Trick!
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]
00:01:09 |
Mon 01 Dec 2014
Smart Puppy and Friends Play with Peanuts!
Smart Puppy and friends play with peanuts! Series: "Not Too Serious Labs" [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 28915]
00:01:01 |
Mon 01 Dec 2014
The Universe and Computers with George Smoot
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]
01:13:02 |
Mon 13 Oct 2014
Leo Szilard: The Man Behind the Bomb with William Lanouette -- The Library Channel
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 nuc…
00:49:25 |
Mon 07 Apr 2014
Cleaning Up Construction Runoff
Soil scientists are using a non-toxic chemical at construction sites to remove dirt from muddy stormwater before it reaches streams. From Inside Science TV, supported by the American Institute of Phy…
00:01:55 |
Mon 09 Dec 2013
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