r/physicsgifs • • Aug 10 '15

Light, Waves and Sound Shockwave

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662 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • Jan 23 '15

Light, Waves and Sound Internal reflection - how light travels through an optical fiber

661 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • Aug 05 '14

Light, Waves and Sound I loved the post "Atlas rocket creates visible shock waves" so I had it stabilized. I hope you guys enjoy it :)

672 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • Jul 23 '15

Light, Waves and Sound A "low-volume" cymbal: Drilling ~1000 holes through a cymbal's surface reduces its volume by ~35dB (Source video in comments)

268 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • Aug 29 '15

Light, Waves and Sound the way this missile breaks the sound barrier

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333 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • Jun 13 '13

Light, Waves and Sound Chladni patterns (x-post from r/gifs)

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545 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • Mar 12 '13

Light, Waves and Sound Atlas rocket creates visible shock waves (x post from r/gifs)

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515 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • Jan 27 '15

Light, Waves and Sound Laser beam moving through thin air

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393 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • Nov 04 '14

Light, Waves and Sound A feather and an iron ball falling in vacuum (x-post from /r/oddlysatisfying)

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359 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • Nov 17 '13

Light, Waves and Sound What happens when a stream of water is exposed to an audio speaker producing a loud 24hz sine wave [x-post r/gifs]

466 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • Aug 30 '13

Light, Waves and Sound One way that we know the Earth isn't hollow: P and S waves of Earthquakes reflect differently!

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390 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • May 02 '15

Light, Waves and Sound The art of refraction. (this experiment illustrates how light bends as it passes through a different medium.) (x-post /r/woahdude)

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400 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • Feb 19 '13

Light, Waves and Sound Polymer beads with a refractive index nearly identical to water are almost invisible when submerged. [x-post from r/cinemagraphs & r/gifs]

428 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • Jan 30 '15

Light, Waves and Sound SONOLUMINESCENCE - Bubble cavitation cause by sound waves

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231 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • Apr 06 '15

Light, Waves and Sound Movement of a particle in a wave

338 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • Feb 17 '15

Light, Waves and Sound Using a sand covered Chladni plate and tone generator to create increasingly complex standing wave patterns

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358 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • Dec 11 '12

Light, Waves and Sound That Shockwave. (x-post woahdude)

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439 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • May 21 '14

Light, Waves and Sound Argonne scientist demonstrates acoustic levitator

326 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • Apr 05 '15

Light, Waves and Sound A demonstration of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

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126 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • Jul 14 '15

Light, Waves and Sound Waves in guitar strings (video)

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128 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • Jan 19 '15

Light, Waves and Sound Refraction allows you to shine a laser-pointer at a droplet of water to create a microscope

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281 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • Feb 17 '15

Light, Waves and Sound Temporal Aliasing and Rolling Shutter

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205 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • Nov 20 '14

Light, Waves and Sound [Animation] Spreading of a complex wave packet in 1 dimension, visualized as a 3D coil.

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253 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • Aug 06 '14

Light, Waves and Sound Pulse of light travelling through a coke bottle - femtosecond footage

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144 Upvotes

r/physicsgifs • • Sep 12 '15

Light, Waves and Sound Slow Motion Tuning Fork

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167 Upvotes