The Tabletop Explainer

The Tabletop Explainer

10 episodes

Quasi-weekly answerers to science questions, along with brief lessons and ideas for teachers and students.

Podcasts

How to Navigate by the Sun

Published: Aug. 12, 2008, noon
Duration: 5 minutes

Listed in: Science

Nomenclature -- Special Relativity (2 of 5)

Published: April 21, 2007, noon
Duration: 3 minutes 7 seconds

Listed in: Science

Two Postulates -- Special Relativity (1 of 5)

Published: April 11, 2007, noon
Duration: 7 minutes 12 seconds

Listed in: Science

How to Build a Paper Quadrant

Published: April 2, 2007, noon
Duration: 1 minute 50 seconds

Listed in: Science

What is quantum tunneling?

Published: March 25, 2007, noon
Duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds

Listed in: Science

Could that really happen? Phylm examines the bus jump from Speed

Published: March 20, 2007, noon
Duration: 4 minutes 2 seconds

Listed in: Science

What is the conservation of angular momentum?

Published: March 10, 2007, noon
Duration: 2 minutes 18 seconds

Listed in: Science

How to build a simple electric motor, plus how it works.

Published: March 3, 2007, noon
Duration: 2 minutes 17 seconds

Listed in: Science

Electricity and Magnetism Hand Rules (part one)

Published: Feb. 25, 2007, noon
Duration: 3 minutes 51 seconds

Listed in: Science

What is the magnetic field?

Published: Feb. 18, 2007, midnight
Duration: 2 minutes 30 seconds

Listed in: Science