Sixty Symbols
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Sixty Symbols is a series of popular science videos created by the University of Nottingham. The series started on April 9, 2009, and has been frequently updated since. Sixty Symbols attempts to familiarize the viewers with concepts and symbols used in Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics via the use of experimentation and often how these concepts relate to current events or everyday life. Originally the series was only planned for a total of sixty videos, but later extended due to popularity.
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| Name of video | Description and additional information | Date of release |
|---|---|---|
| Speed of Light | April 9, 2009 | |
| Mass to Light Ratio | April 9, 2009 | |
| Imaginary Number | April 9, 2009 | |
| Hubble Constant | April 9, 2009 | |
| Frequency | April 14, 2009 | |
| Eigenvalues | April 14, 2009 | |
| Fine Structure Constant | April 14, 2009 | |
| Propulsion Efficiency | April 20, 2009 | |
| Gravity | April 22, 2009 | |
| Entropy | Entropy - Professor's Response | April 23, 2009 |
| Speed of Rotation | April 24, 2009 | |
| Planck's Constant | April 24, 2009 | |
| Transistors | May 6, 2009 | |
| Degrees of Angle | May 6, 2009 | |
| Magnetic Field | May 8, 2009 | |
| Big Numbers | May 12, 2009 | |
| Density | May 12, 2009 | |
| Mass | May 12, 2009 | |
| Photons | May 13, 2009 | |
| Brazil Nut Effect | Sorting of randomized objects by size | May 17, 2009 |
| Charge | May 19, 2009 | |
| Beer Levitation | Magnetic Susceptibility | May 20, 2009 |
| The Sun | May 21, 2009 | |
| Fourier Analysis (and guitar jammin') | May 24, 2009 | |
| Atom Bombs and Dimensional Analysis | May 26, 2009 | |
| Inductor | Electrical Induction | May 27, 2009 |
| Schrödinger's Cat | Overlap of Quantum states, with special appearance of Prof. Martyn Poliakoff | May 27, 2009 |
| Pluto | May 29, 2009 | |
| A Magic Number | Feigenbaum Constant | May 30, 2009 |
| The Professor's Brain | Prof. Martyn Poliakoff's brain under an MRI | June 2, 2009 |
| Vectors | June 2, 2009 | |
| Chladni's Plate | June 11, 2009 | |
| The coffee-powered engine | June 11, 2009 | |
| Venus | June 15, 2009 | |
| Dust Bunnies and Fractal Dimensions | June 15, 2009 | |
| Electrons | June 16, 2009 | |
| Magnetic Moment | June 16, 2009 | |
| Energy | June 16, 2009 | |
| Jupiter | June 22, 2009 | |
| Bouncing Balls | Coefficient of restitution | June 23, 2009 |
| World's Biggest Telescope | June 23, 2009 | |
| Uncertainty Symbol | June 24, 2009 | |
| Drinking Bird | June 26, 2009 | |
| Black Holes | June 26, 2009 | |
| Reynolds Number | June 26, 2009 | |
| Antenna | June 30, 2009 | |
| Mercury | The planet | June 30, 2009 |
| Redshift | Spectral analysis of moving stars | July 17, 2009 |
| Solar Eclipse | Extra footage | July 25, 2009 |
| Angular Momentum | July 29, 2009 | |
| Mysterious new spots on Jupiter and Venus | August 4, 2009 | |
| Magic Squares | August 7, 2009 | |
| Wave Function | Extra footage | August 8, 2009 |
| Plus or Minus | Margins of error | August 9, 2009 |
| Hanny's Voorwerp | August 11, 2009 | |
| Theremin | August 11, 2009 | |
| Infinity | August 12, 2009 | |
| Nano | August 13, 2009 | |
| Pi | August 13, 2009 | |
| Polarisation | August 13, 2009 | |
| Sixty Symbols - Physics and Astronomy | Highlight reel | August 13, 2009 |
| Nobel Prize for Physics 2009 | October 6, 2009 | |
| Temperature and Ultra-cold atoms | October 13, 2009 | |
| Saturn | October 20, 2009 | |
| Kelvin | October 27, 2009 | |
| Total internal reflection | November 4, 2009 | |
| Creating the elements | November 16, 2009 | |
| Large Hadron Collider (and small hotrod collider) | Extra footage | November 4, 2009 |
| Extra Dimensions | December 1, 2009 | |
| Christmas Star | December 18, 2009 | |
| Mirages | January 4, 2010 | |
| Earth's radius (and exoplanets) | January 6, 2010 | |
| Uranus | January 13, 2010 | |
| Isaac Newton | February 4, 2010 | |
| Hearts in Space | February 10, 2010 | |
| Random Force & Brownian Motion | February 17, 2010 | |
| Touchscreens and Quantum Tunneling | February 24, 2010 | |
| Pressure | Extra footage | February 26, 2010 |
| Neptune | March 20, 2010 | |
| Work | March 24, 2010 | |
| Observing Hawaii | March 29, 2010 | |
| Dark Matter | April 6, 2010 | |
| Mars | April 12, 2010 | |
| Volcanic Ash and Jet Engines | April 16, 2010 | |
| Gigayear | April 19, 2010 | |
| The Electric Cannon | April 27, 2010 | |
| Earth | The Planet | May 6, 2010 |
| Foam Physics | May 18, 2010 | |
| Quarks | May 28, 2010 | |
| Focault's Pedulum | June 1, 2010 | |
| Feynman Diagrams | June 7, 2010 | |
| Neutrinos | June 15, 2010 | |
| Parsec | June 25, 2010 | |
| Jabulani Football physics | Aerodynamics of the 2010 World Cup ball, Scientists shoot-out | June 30, 2010 |
| How can you filter out the Vuvuzela | Wave analysis | June 30, 2010 |
| Planck Length | July 12, 2010 | |
| Vacuum Cannon | More on Vacuum's | July 19, 2010 |
| The shrinking Proton | August 5, 2010 | |
| Laser Cooling | August 23, 2010 | |
| Physics and Astronomy Questions | Call for questions from viewers. | August 26, 2010 |
| Asteroids | August 30, 2010 | |
| Answers Part 1 | First round of answering questions from viewers, involving string theory, gravity, magnetism, etc. | September 8, 2010 |
| Putting your hand in the large hadron collider | September 16, 2010 | |
| Do Physicists believe in God? | Also answering what the favorite astronomical feature of the physicists is. | September 26, 2010 |
| Nobel Prize 2010 | October 5, 2010 | |
| Star Classification | October 12, 2010 | |
| What are Special and general relativity | Also answering what physical constant the physicists would change if they could. | October 19, 2010 |
| Hall Effect | October 25, 2010 | |
| Do electrons move at Absolute Zero | November 4, 2010 | |
| E=mc² is wrong? | November 9, 2010 | |
| What happens if Black Holes collide? | November 16, 2010 | |
| Tycho and the Toilet | The circumstances of Tycho Brahe's death | November 19, 2010 |
| Green's functions | November 30, 2010 | |
| Writing on a snowflake | December 4, 2010 | |
| Vacuum Tube | December 14, 2010 | |
| Early stages of Lunar Eclipse | December 21, 2010 | |
| Antihydrogen | December 22, 2010 | |
| Who is your favorite scientist? | January 2, 2011 | |
| Cosmological Constant | January 8, 2011 | |
| Why is Glass Transparent? | February 1, 2011 | |
| Right Ascension and Declination | February 9, 2011 | |
| Four Forces | Extra footage | February 13, 2011 |
| What confuses a physicist? | February 21, 2011 | |
| Time Dilation | March 7, 2011 | |
| Atomic Switch (moving individual atoms) | Extended version | March 12, 2011 |
| Millisieverts and Radiation | March 17, 2011 | |
| The Alpha Beta Gamma Paper | Extra Footage | March 24, 2011 |
| What is the shortest time possible? | April 1, 2011 | |
| Yuri Gargarin and Orbits | April 8, 2011 | |
| Gold Nanoparticles | April 15, 2011 | |
| Crash Test Creme Eggs | April 19, 2011 | |
| Coupled Pendulums | April 20, 2011 | |
| The Sixth Dimension | April 20, 2011 | |
| Eggs MRI | April 21, 2011 | |
| Wormholes and Portal 2 | April 28, 2011 | |
| de Broglie Waves | May 17, 2011 | |
| Confessions of a Tetris Addict (short version) | Full version | May 23, 2011 |
| Watching Paint dry | June 2, 2011 | |
| Tides | June 7, 2011 | |
| Spherical Elextrons | Extra Footage | June 13, 2011 |
| Solstice and Equinox | June 16, 2011 | |
| Milky Way's Twin | June 27, 2011 | |
| The Cavendish Experiments | July 6, 2011 | |
| Spiral galaxies | Extra footage | July 15, 2011 |
| Chaos and Butterfly Effect | July 25, 2011 | |
| Guinness Science | August 1, 2011 | |
| Water in Space | August 9, 2011 | |
| Wobbly Earth | Axial procession | August 16, 2011 |