SciShow
How to Date a Dead Thing
SciShow explains radiocarbon dating, the best way to date a dead thing!
SciShow
The Past, Present, and Future of Carbon Dating | Compilation
Carbon dating is a lot more than just getting the age of a dinosaur bone. We can learn a lot about the world through its use, and it turns out, we have.
Curated Video
GCSE Physics - Radioactive Decay and Half Life #35
This video covers: - How radioactive decay works - What activity means - The two definitions of half-life - How to show radioactive decay on a graph - How we can find the count rate with a Geiger–Müller tube - Example calculation for...
FuseSchool
Hazards From Radioactive Material
Hazards From Radioactive Material | Radioactivity | Physics | FuseSchool Nuclear power stations produce electricity, which of course is extremely useful. However, they also make radioactive waste. When items have no further use and have...
FuseSchool
Half life
Half life | Radioactivity | Physics | FuseSchool This atom has an unstable nucleus. Any moment now it may undergo radioactive decay. Any time now... Or it may not! We just don’t know, as decay is a random event. We cannot predict when...
Curated Video
Half Lives: Quantifying Radioactive Decay Over Time
This video is a lecture on half-lives and how to quantify the number of radioactive decays that occur over a given time period. The video explains that radioactive decay is a random process with equal probabilities for each outcome. The...
Hip Hughes History
Muckrakers for Dummies -- Muckraking and the Tradition of Investigative Reporting
Don't get stuck in the muck, let HipHughes guide you out with understanding, love and a green screen.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Radioactive Tracers
Overview of the use of radioactive isotopes in medicine to diagnose certain ailments.
FuseSchool
PHYSICS - Radiation - Hazards From Radioactive Material
Nuclear power stations produce electricity, which of course is extremely useful. However, they also make radioactive waste. When items have no further use and have radioactivity above certain levels, they are known as radioactive waste....
Professor Dave Explains
Radiometric Dating: Carbon-14 and Uranium-238
When you read about the ages of certain ancient artifacts, or even the age of the earth itself, how do we know such numbers? How can we know that a fossil is precisely 250 million years old? The key technique here is radiometric dating....
Crash Course
Nuclear Chemistry
Radioactivity and nuclear chemistry, transmutation of elements and isotopes, calculating half lives and radioactive decay. Introduce these concept and more with a video on carbon dating. The show concludes with an explanation of...
Flipped Math
Linear vs. Exponential
Linear or exponential?. Learners watch an informative video comparing situations that may be modeled by either a linear or exponential relationship. Pupils determine the type of relationship and then create a function that models the...
American Chemical Society
TV Forensics: What Do CSIs Actually Do?
TV dramas tend to exaggerate the forensic science components. Learn what true forensic chemistry looks like in an installment of a larger series covering reactions. Viewers see that chromatography, mass spectrography, and methodical...
American Chemical Society
How Do We Know the Half Life of Uranium and Can You Collect Gold Once It's Dissolved in Acid?
Participate in a little chemistry Q and A! Part of a larger series on reactions, an informative lesson takes questions from viewers and crafts responses. The video explains how we arrive at an accurate half-life of a radioactive...
JFR Science
Isotopes and Half-Life: What Are Medical Isotopes?
How do medical professionals use radiation without doing more harm than good? Budding nuclear chemists begin their study of all things radioactive with a video from the JFR Science playlist. Topics include differences between isotopes,...
Krista King Math
Finding Half Life
When will half of the substance be gone? Using the exponential decay formula, the video finds the half-life of radium-226. The 29th installment in a 31-part series goes on to discuss that the calculations are the same independent of the...
Teacher's Pet
Radiation and Radioactivity
Explore the science of radioactivity! A very thorough video lesson begins with an explanation of the chemical structure of radiation. It includes descriptions of benefits of radioactivity and half-life calculations.
Bozeman Science
Radiocarbon Dating
Radiocarbon dating is only effective in dating objects that are less than 50,000 years old. In the video, scholars learn how Carbon-14 differs from Carbon-12 and Carbon-13. The instructor then explains how Carbon-14 is made and how it...
DoodleScience
Half-Life
What is half-life and how can decay be used to date items? Viewers find out in this video that details half-life and radioactive decay, as well as the difference between alpha and beta decay.
Educreations
Half Life Problems
Does a radioactive cat have 18 half-lives? An understanding of half-life is important in both chemistry and biology, so start your young scientists off the right way — with the good foundation provided by a video that begins with a graph...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Chemistry: Half Life
A video lecture discussing radioactive decay and half lives. Understand how half life and the mass of the compound remaining is calculated by following the examples given in the lecture. [12:31]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Chemistry: Exponential Decay Formula Proof
A video lecture showing how a general function of time can give you the amount of the decaying substance. The video derives the function and explains the logic along the way. Some calculus is involved. [12:22]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Chemistry: More Exponential Decay Examples
Do you need some more practice on half life problems? This video lecture will give you more examples of how to solve exponential decay problems. The video is easy to follow with step-by-step explanation of how to find the half life or...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Chemistry: Introduction to Exponential Decay
A video lecture showing how to apply the exponential decay equation to solve for either the amount of atoms left at a particular time or the half life of a compound. Video gives a detailed explanation of problems as they are being...