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Crash Course: Physics Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

46 Episodes 2016 - 2016

Episode 1

Motion in One Dimension

Thu, Mar 31, 2016

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Episode 2

Derivatives: Calculus Part 1

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

This episode will take our first steps into the language of Physics; mathematics. Every branch of science has its own way to describe the things that it investigates. And, with Physics, that's math. In this episode, Shini talks us through derivatives and how calculus helps us to understand the world around us.

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Episode 3

Integrals

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Continuing with last week's introduction of calculus, Shini leads us through the ways that integrals can help us figure out things like distance when we have several other key bits of information.

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Episode 4

Vectors and 2D Motion

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Continuing in our journey of understanding motion, direction, and velocity, Shini introduces the ideas of Vectors and Scalars so we can better understand how to figure out motion in 2 Dimensions.

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Episode 5

Newton's Laws of Motion

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini talks about Newton's laws of motion.

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Episode 6

Friction

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini Somara tells us about Static and Kinetic friction; how they work and how they're different.

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Episode 7

Uniform Circular Motion

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

In this episode, Shini discusses centripetal force, centrifugal force, and a few other bits of physics to help us understand Uniform Circular motion.

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Episode 8

Newtonian Gravity

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Shini discusses the apple story and the law of universal gravitation.

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Episode 9

Work, energy, and power

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Shini discusses the meaning of work, energy, and power in physics.

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Episode 10

Collisions

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

A big part of physics is understanding collisions and how they're not all the same. Mass, momentum, and many other things dictate how collisions can be unique. In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini leads us through an understanding of collisions.

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Episode 11

Rotational Motion

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Shini delves into the world of Rotational Motion.

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Episode 12

Torque

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini discusses what torque is, how it works, why it works, and what it all has to do with this thing called "Moment of Inertia."

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Episode 13

Statics

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

The Physics we're talking about today has saved your life. Whenever you walk across a bridge or lean on a building, Statics are at work. Statics is the study of objects when they're NOT accelerating. In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini talks to us about stretching, compressing, and springing as they relate to Statics.

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Episode 14

Fluids at Rest

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Shini discusses what fluids are and how they work.

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Episode 15

Fluids in Motion

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

This episode continues our exploration of fluids and fluid dynamics.

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Episode 16

Simple Harmonic Motion

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini talks to us about a particular mistake made in engineering the Millennium Bridge which allows us to talk about simple harmonic motion.

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Episode 17

Traveling Waves

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Ropes can tell us a lot about how traveling waves work so, in this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini uses ropes (and animated ropes) to talk about how waves carry energy and how different kinds of waves transmit energy differently.

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Episode 18

Sound

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini goes over some of the basics (and some of the not so basics) of the Physics of Sound.

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Episode 19

Music

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini talks to us about how music functions in terms of waves and how these waves interact with our ears.

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Episode 20

Temperature

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini talks to us about temperature and the ideal gas law. Also, we figure out how much air is in your car.

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Episode 21

Kinetic Energy and Phase Changes

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini talks to us about sea level, kinetic theory, and phase changes.

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Episode 22

Heat

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini talks about the Physics of heat.

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Episode 23

Thermodynamics

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini talks to us about Thermodynamics and Entropy. Also, we learn about Isovolumetric, Isobaric, Isothermal, and Adiabatic processes.

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Episode 24

Engines

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini talks to us about how engines work, what makes them efficient, and why they're pretty cool.

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Episode 25

Electric Charge

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Shini talks about electrostatic forces, electrical charge, Coulomb's law, and the force between charged particles.

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Episode 26

Electric Fields

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Shini chats about capacitors, conductors, electric field lines, and how objects with net charge generate electric fields.

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Episode 27

Voltage, Electric Energy, and Capacitors

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Shini discusses Electrical Potential Energy, Electric Potential, Voltage, Capacitors, Energy Storage, and Potential Energy.

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Episode 28

Electric Current

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Shini talks to us about electric current, voltaic cells, and how we get electric charge.

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Episode 29

DC Resistors and Batteries

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Shini talks about both series and parallel circuit configurations, and how the laws of conservation affect the current and voltage for each.

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Episode 30

Circut Analysis

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Shini walks us through the differences between series and parallel circuits and how that makes Christmas lights work the way they work.

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Episode 31

Capicitors and Kirchhoff

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

In this episode, we encounter junctions, loops, and capacitors.

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Episode 32

Magnetism

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Shini takes us into the world of magnetism.

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Episode 33

Ampére's Law

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Hans Christian Oersted had just discovered the connection between electricity and magnetism. Meanwhile, a French physicist named André-Marie Ampère was experimenting with some wires, trying to learn more about the connection between currents and the magnetic fields they create. Ampère would discover one of the most fundamental laws of electromagnetism: what we now call Ampère's Law.

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Episode 34

Induction

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Megneto helps Shini explain what induction is, how it works, and why magnetism is so seemingly complicated.

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Episode 35

How power gets into your house

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Shini talks to us about how power gets to our homes.

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Episode 36

AC Circuts

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Shini delves into the world of AC Circuits.

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Episode 37

Maxwell's Equations

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

In the early 1800s, Michael Faraday showed us how a changing magnetic field induces an electromotive force, or emf, resulting in an electric current. He also found that electric fields sometimes act like magnetic fields, and developed equations to calculate the forces exerted by both. In the mid-1800s, Scottish physicist James Maxwell thought something interesting was going on there, too. So he decided to assemble a set of equations that held true for all electromagnetic interactions. In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini talks to us about Maxwell's Equations and how important they are to our understanding of Physics.

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Episode 38

Geometric Optics

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Shini discusses the physics of light.

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Episode 39

Light is Waves

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Shini shows us how we know that light exists as a wave and why that's really cool.

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Episode 40

Spectra Interference

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Shini discusses what we can learn from light.

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Episode 41

Optical Instruments

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Shini talks to us about optical instruments and how they make magnification possible.

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Episode 42

Special Relativity

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Shini talks to us about perspective, observation, and how relativity is really weird.

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Episode 43

Quantum Mechanics Part 1

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Shini introduces to the idea of Quantum Mechanics and how it helps us understand light.

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Episode 44

Quantum Mechanics Part 2

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Shini attempts to explain a little more on the topic of Quantum Mechanics.

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Episode 45

Nuclear Physics

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Shini sits down to go over the basics of Eienstien and Nuclear Physics.

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Episode 46

Astrophysics and Cosmology

Sat, Jan 24, 2026

Shini sits down to talk about Astrophysics and Cosmology.

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