Video lecture demonstrations for an online class

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A user is seeking a comprehensive collection of open-source or licensed physics video demonstrations suitable for a calculus-based class, specifically covering topics from the latter part of the Halliday, Resnick, Walker textbook, including EM waves, optics, special relativity, and introductory quantum physics. While familiar with resources like MIT OpenCourseWare, the user finds compiling videos and referencing them time-consuming and is looking for a single, well-organized resource.Several recommendations are provided, including the YouTube channel PhysicsDemos, which features playlists organized by chapter and is used by educators for similar coursework. Additional resources include UCSB Physics Lecture Demonstrations, a collection from the University of Maryland, and a site from the University of Minnesota. The discussion also introduces the PIRA classification scheme, which could aid in searching for specific demonstrations, although a comprehensive video resource using this classification is not readily available.
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I'm looking for a collection of physics video demonstrations (open sourced or licensed) for an online calculus-based class at the level of Halliday, Resnick, Walker textbook, covering EM waves, optics, special relativity, intro to quantum, and so on, basically the last third of the textbook.

I am aware of the resources such as MIT OCW and such, however, it's taking me too much time to compile videos available out there, reference them properly and so on, so I'm rather looking for a single resource where everything has been done, and there is a collection of standard demonstrations ready to be used in a lecture setting. I have considered the Ztek Physics videos collection (available at http://www.ztek.com/) with an appealing list of demonstrations at this level, however, it's a bit too old and way too expensive for me.

Thank you.
 
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check out this You Tube channel called PhysicsDemos, our physics teacher used them while covering the material of Halliday, Resnik and Walker. Under Playlists you can find the demos for each chapter complied properly.
https://www.youtube.com/c/physicsdemos/playlists
He also used demos from WalterLewins 8.01 and 8.02
 
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Here is another set:

Demonstration videos (UCSB Physics Lecture Demonstrations)
https://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~lecturedemonstrations/Demonstration Videos.html

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGImELmE_zlPqmRbbvZ1MjWnbFovcwBBO


Here is a small collection from the University of Maryland
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfPn3mnJFN7-ztv6IQKUicQ/videos
Here is a list of their demonstrations (at UMD):
https://lecdem.physics.umd.edu/demonstration-services/demonstrations.html

There is a classification scheme that was developed
called PIRA ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_Instructional_Resource_Association ). It might make it easier to search for certain demos.
(I haven't found a comprehensive website for videos using this classification scheme.)

Some websites also try to include references to the literature.
I'll just provide URLs here:
 
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