Do you wonder about the symbols? Want to know that if specific symbol is just define as is or it was any logic behind that? For example the symbol of eclipse (as it is very famous and you can remember it without seeing). There are many such symbols we use in our routine, without even notice. And of course there are many more, which are used by scientists and those who are studying science, and all other who are linked to the field of science in any way. We may have some questions arise regarding the famous equation “E=mc2“. We got curious to know more about the “Dark Matter” etc.. How and where to get authentic information about the same? is the bigger question.
Well, a nice job is done by University of Nottingham” for the enthusiasts. Initially intended for explaining “sixty symbols” they have expanded the repository a lot. All the videos fall in a must watch category. The expert’s talk along with the site visits wherever applicable, and most importantly in the language of layman, are the key factors that appeal. The site is available at http://sixtysymbols.com
Here is the list of some of the symbols explained via videos, on the site.
- Eclipse
- Vacuum and Pascals
- Orbits and Yuri Gagarin
- Neutrinos
- Asteroids
- Large Hadron Collider
- E=mc2
- Atomic Switch
- Random Force and Brownian Motion
- Dark Matter
- Time Dilation
- Hall Effect
- Polarisation
- Energy Gap
- Wave Function
- Quarks
- Uranus
- Planck Length
- Easter Egg Experiments
- Dimensional Analysis
- Magnetic Field
- Green’s Windmill
- de Broglie
- Alpha Beta Gamma
- Vectors
- Four Forces
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- Feynman Diagrams
- Reynolds Number
- Pressure
- Viewer Questions
- Saturn
- Feigenbaum Constant
- Gold Nanoparticle
- Schrödinger’s Cat
- Pi
- Antihydrogen
- Summation (Fourier Analysis)
- Work (and Rubber Bands)
- Mercury
- Right Ascension and Declination
- Vacuum Tube
- Laser Cooling
- Proton Radius
- Touch Screens and Quantum Tunnelling
- Millisieverts and Radiation
- Uncertainty
- Isaac Newton
- Extra Dimensions
- Mass
- Wormholes and Portal 2
- Fractal Dimensions
- Angular Momentum
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- Neptune
- Parsec
- Star Classification
- Tetris Addict
- Electrical Conductivity
- Internal Reflection
- Cosmological Constant
- Foucault’s Pendulum
- Planes and Volcanic Ash
- Gravity
- Jupiter
- Frequency
- Hubble Constant
- Speed of Light
- Gigayear
- Large Numbers
- Entropy
- Infinity
- Telescope Observing Trip
- Hearts in Space
- Propulsion Efficiency
- Photons
- Lambda
- Nano
- Energy
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As the site is continuously updated. Keep visiting it periodically to get updated with knowledge about not only the symbols exist on the site, but also for the newly added symbols after your previous visit.Their YouTube channel is available at http://www.youtube.com/sixtysymbols.
One more important information, if you are associated with an educational institution and YouTube is blocked there, as part of the policy; and you want to provide the access to these great education videos to your students and colleagues. Here are the direct links to these educational videos, which may be provided to your webmaster, to unblock the access.
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Have happy browsing, and good luck for the treasure of knowledge you are going to hunt for.
And words of “Many Thanks” to the people who took all the pain and done efforts to create the videos and made them available to the public, for free!, and of course to the “University of Nottingham” as well.