Science | July 02, 2009 | 2 comments

60 Symbols - Videos about Physics and Astronomy

source: http://www.sixtysymbols.com/

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The University of Nottingham released a website with sixty symbols with videos behind them explaining what that symbol means. Not all letters have a video behind them quite yet, but it should prove interesting for space-nerds like myself.

The first video goes on to explain "c"-- the speed of light, 670,616,629 miles per hour, the universal speed limit.

Tilzy.tv recently covered the website, and they're probably better with words than I am:

http://www.tilzy.tv/sixty-symbols-makes-physics-and-astronomy-accessible-fun.htm

For many of us, it’s been years since we sat in a science or math classroom and explored the material bases of our universe. And then, even if we were engaged by the material being studied, the seemingly esoteric language of symbols posed a daunting barrier to further progress. In other instances, poor instruction may have been behind a former student’s lost interest in mathematics or physical sciences.
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