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A 26-minute video from The Efficient Engineer's catalogue; the title names its topic.

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Understanding Laminar and Turbulent Flow The Efficient EngineerEngineering1.36M views

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Understanding Laminar and Turbulent Flow

The Efficient Engineer1.36M views

Laminar and turbulent flow, the Reynolds number and boundary layers.

11:05

Understanding the Area Moment of Inertia

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The area moment of inertia and why I-beams are shaped the way they are.

But what is a neural network? | Deep learning chapter 1

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Builds up what a neural network actually is — neurons as numbers, layers, weights and biases — using handwritten-digit recognition as the running example.

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A visual introduction to the Fourier transform: winding a signal around a circle to find its frequencies.

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MIT OpenCourseWare4.93M views

Gilbert Strang's first lecture of MIT 18.06: the geometry of linear equations.

Math's Fundamental Flaw

Veritasium30.8M views

Gödel's incompleteness, Turing's halting problem and the limits of mathematics.

The Most Misunderstood Concept in Physics

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Entropy, the arrow of time and why the Sun is a source of low entropy rather than just energy.

AT&T Archives: Similiarities of Wave Behavior (Bonus Edition)

AT&T Tech Channel474K views

Bell Labs' J.N. Shive uses a mechanical wave machine to show reflection, standing waves, resonance and impedance matching — the ideas behind transmission lines.

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MIT 8.04 Quantum Physics I, lecture 1: superposition, introduced through experiments with 'hardness' and 'color'.

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Robert Sapolsky's opening lecture on human behavioral biology — and on avoiding categorical thinking.

Doug McLean | Common Misconceptions in Aerodynamics

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Boeing aerodynamicist Doug McLean dismantles popular wrong explanations of lift and explains what really happens.

25:10

How an Atomic Clock Really Works: Inside the HP 5061A Cesium Clock

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CuriousMarc opens an HP 5061A caesium beam clock and explains, module by module, how it locks to an atomic transition.