American Chemical Society
Exothermic and Endothermic Reactions
What happens when chemical bonds break and form? Science scholars explore the movement of energy in a chemical system by watching a well-rounded video. The narrators illustrate exothermic and endothermic reactions in terms of temperature...
Crash Course
Thermodynamics: Crash Course Physics #23
Teach the basics of thermodynamics with an energizing video. A thorough lesson explains the First and Second Law of Thermodynamics. Scholars learn how these laws apply to isovolumetric, isobaric, isothermal, and adiabatic processes and...
MinutePhysics
Where Does Complexity Come From? (Big Picture Ep. 3/5)
Mixing milk and coffee is a complex example in the eyes of a quantum physicist. A creative lesson compares a tendency toward entropy with complexity. Learners view a mixture of coffee and milk as first simple, then complex, and finally...
MinutePhysics
Why Doesn't Time Flow Backwards? (Big Picture Ep. 1/5)
Take a ride through time as you learn about the status of the past, present, and future from a physics perspective. The video instructor explains the Big Bang Theory through the equilibrium of time. Learners connect the Second Law of...
TED-Ed
Why Don't Perpetual Motion Machines Ever Work?
It turns out that some laws were definitely not meant to be broken! A short illustrative video explains why the first and second laws of thermodynamics prevent perpetual motion machines from actually moving perpetually — and why...
Crash Course
Energy and Chemistry
Everything around you is related to chemistry and more specifically, the energy within a system. The video explores how energy, in its different forms, changes after conversion — given off as heat or absorbed as heat in...
Educreations
The Ideal Gas Law
Help young scientists connect the dots between pressure, temperature, and volume with a video on the ideal gas law. After first reviewing the formula for this fundamental law, the instructor walks step by step through nine different...
DoodleScience
Heat and Thermodynamics
Looking for a review that won't take up an entire class period? Here is a video that provides a quick review of heat and thermodynamics. It covers more than nine topics in less than five minutes.
Curated OER
STEMbite: Entropy of the Playroom
Here is a darling demonstration of the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy has increased in a toddler's playroom as he removed toys and books off shelves and left them on the floor when he moved to the next activity. Yes, microscopic...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Thermodynamics: Energy Conversion in Generating Electricity
This lesson is an introductory topic in thermodynamics, on the conversion of energy. The aim of this video is to support students in visualizing the conversion of energy and its importance in real world applications. [24:07]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Maxwell Boltzmann Distribution
Use the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution to visualize the distribution of speeds of particles at different temperatures. [9:30]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Gibbs Free Energy and Spontaneity
Introduction to Gibbs free energy. Includes information about the relationship between spontaneity and entropy, enthalpy, and temperature. [17:40]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: 2015 Ap Chemistry Free Response 2 C
Explanation of Gibbs free energy and equilibrium constant of dehydration. Example is from the 2015 AP chemistry test. [12:23]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Thermodynamics and P v Diagrams
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the First Law of Thermodynamics applies to an ideal gas in a piston. A pressure-volume graph can be used to determine the type of thermodynamic process. Included is a discussion of and P-V diagram...
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Entropy
Entropy is simply the dispersion of matter or energy. Paul Andersen begins with a series of video that show the natural direction of processes. According to the second law of thermodynamics the entropy may never decrease in a closed...
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Spontaneous Processes
In this video, Paul Andersen discriminates between spontaneous (or thermodynamically favored) processes and those that are not spontaneous. A spontaneous process requires no external energy source. If the enthalpy change in a reaction is...
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Energy Concepts
Paul Andersen explains the different forms and units for energy. A discussion of the laws of thermodynamics is also included. Sample conversion problems using dimensional analysis is also included. Utilize the practice problems and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: 1st Law: Conservation of Energy
This lesson will define the first law of thermodynamics, and use examples to illustrate conservation of energy.
Crash Course
Crash Course Chemistry #13: Ideal Gas Problems
Find put how the ideal gas "law" often becomes little more than the ideal gas estimate when it comes to what gases do naturally. But it's a close enough estimate in enough situations that it's very valuable to know. In this episode, Hank...
Crash Course
Crash Course Chemistry #12: The Ideal Gas Law
Gases are everywhere, and this is good news and bad news for chemists. The good news: when they are behaving themselves, it's extremely easy to describe their behavior theoretically, experimentally and mathematically. The bad news is...
Crash Course
Crash Course Chemistry #14: Real Gases
Hank bursts our ideal gas law bubble, and brings us back to reality, explaining how the constants in the gas law aren't all that constant; how the ideal gas law we've spent the past two weeks with has to be corrected for volume because...
Crash Course
Crash Course Physics #23: Thermodynamics
Have you ever heard of a Perpetual Motion Machine? More to the point, have you ever heard of why Perpetual Motion Machines are impossible? One of the reasons is because of the first law of thermodynamics! In this video [10:04] episode of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Chemistry: Macrostates and Microstates
A video lecture exploring the difference between macrostates, microstates, and thermodynamic equilibrium. Understand how macrostates is best defined when the system is in thermal equilibrium and describes pressure, temperature, and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Thermodynamics: Stoichiometry Example Problem 1
Figuring grams of reactants and product produced from reaction of phosphorous and chlorine.