Interesting Science videos

[Snake_Baker]

*** Post interesting science/technology videos here ***

WARNING: These links are posted for educational purposes and many of these experiments should not be undertaken by a novice. They can be dangerous and potentially lethal.

NileRed



NurdRage



Doug's Lab



mabakkan



The Modern Rogue

 

[Snake_Baker]

Chem Player



Astral Chemistry

 

[Werewolf]

A "void" discovered inside the Great Pyramid from an excess number of muons detected inside over about a year:

 

[Bush_Chook]

Probably the best chemistry related channel on youtube, also recommend numberphile.

 

[Werewolf]

Hope this doesn't spoil everything for the science fiction lovers!

 

[volcboy]

Not fancy, but a simple and interesting video on the erratic motion of the Earth:

 

[footyfan1978]

Watched Particle Fever today.
Little parts of what it is about.

 

[Werewolf]

This is awesome; here's a link: https://www.x20.org/color-night-vision/

 

[Werewolf]

 

[Pie eyed]

 

[Werewolf]

A scary case of mercury poisoning. Also a learning point on the difference from elemental mercury:

 

[Snake_Baker]

A great introductory video on the chemistry of coal featuring the infectious Dr Szydlo.

 

[Snake_Baker]

When a shipping container of ammonium nitrate explodes:

 

[Werewolf]

Lessons on ballistics - and old video, but still relevant and interesting:

 

[Snake_Baker]

 

[volcboy]

This is a great YouTube channel if you're in to physics (along with other physics channels such as MinutePhysics). This is a relatively straightforward episode, but they aren't afraid to go into some pretty high level physics either.

 

[Tassie27]

I show this video to my students every trimester which demonstrates very effectively the highly oxidative properties of hexavalent chromium. I love it when he states that "nothing may happen because it is an old sample" ...... then whoosh!!

 

[Snake_Baker]

I show this video to my students every trimester which demonstrates very effectively the highly oxidative properties of hexavalent chromium. I love it when he states that "nothing may happen because it is an old sample" ...... then whoosh!!

I hope you teach them about toxicity also!

 

[Werewolf]

Pretty good video (there's a small mistake early on, keep your ears peeled) about the Chernobyl disaster:

 

[Snake_Baker]

(there's a small mistake early on, keep your ears peeled)

234U?

 

[Werewolf]

234U?

At 3:20 he talks about Uranium-235 being "hit by Uranium" instead of "hit by a (slow) neutron" in the fission process.

 

[Snake_Baker]

DIY magnetic implants.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Check this out.



Imagine trying to film an event that was over and done within a mere 125 trillionths of a second. It's something that molecular physicists have long been dreaming of, and at last it seems they've achieved their goal.Using precisely tuned pulses of laser light, an international team of scientists from four different institutions has managed to film the ultrafast rotation of a molecule.

"We recorded a high-resolution molecular movie of the ultrafast rotation of carbonyl sulphide as a pilot project," said molecular physicist Evangelos Karamatskos from DESY, Germany's largest accelerator centre.

"The level of detail we were able to achieve indicates that our method could be used to produce instructive films about the dynamics of other processes and molecules."

Together, the video below represents 651 pictures, assembled sequentially to cover one and a half rotations of the carbonyl sulphide molecule. The final product is a 125 picosecond film of the molecule, slowed way down for your enjoyment.

There's no denying its beauty, but the footage is even more magnificent when you understand what precisely you're looking at.

When a substance is in a gaseous state, the molecules are relatively far apart and therefore free to undergo rotation around their axes. This rotation is subject to the rules of quantum mechanics.

As a simple and common sulphur gas, the rod-shaped carbonyl sulphide - whose molecules consist of one oxygen, one carbon and one sulphur atom - is therefore the perfect twirling model.

But the head of the research team, physicist Jochen Küpper, says you shouldn't think of this molecule rotating like a stick.

"The processes we are observing here are governed by quantum mechanics. On this scale, very small objects like atoms and molecules behave differently from the everyday objects in our surroundings," explains Küpper, who works at the University of Hamburg and DESY.

"The position and momentum of a molecule cannot be determined simultaneously with the highest precision; you can only define a certain probability of finding the molecule in a specific place at a particular point in time."

Even when the molecule points in multiple directions at the same time, each of these has a different probability according to quantum mechanics.

"It is precisely those directions and probabilities that we imaged experimentally in this study," says molecular researcher Arnaud Rouzée from the Max Born Institute in Berlin.

"From the fact that these individual images start to repeat after about 82 picoseconds, we can deduce the period of rotation of a carbonyl sulphide molecule."

Physicists Just Captured The First-Ever Footage of a Molecule's Spectacular Rotation

Physics, Astronomy, Space news,Nasa news ,Quantum Physics and Technology,

www.physics-astronomy.org

 

[Snake_Baker]

 

[footyfan1978]

This popped up on my youtube so only must have been done recently.
Worth checking out if you layman and want to know a little about Quantum Mechanics and how much we understand of it since around 1920's to now.