Curated Video
Introduction to Catalysts and Investigating Catalytic Activity with Hydrogen Peroxide Decomposition
This video provides an explanation of what a catalyst is and how it can increase the rate of chemical reactions. The concept of activation energy is introduced, and it is explained that catalysts lower activation energy, allowing more...
Mazz Media
How Catalysts Work
Through animation and video footage students will learn that there are two basic types of catalysts, heterogeneous and homogeneous. Students will come to understand that catalysts have many practical applications and that scientists use...
Catalyst University
Calculating Activation Energy on Excel (from Arrhenius Equation)
Calculating Activation Energy on Excel (from Arrhenius Equation)
FuseSchool
Collision Theory & Reactions - Part 2
In Part 2, learn the basics about Collision Theory and Reactions. Different reactions can happen at different rates. What is a collision theory and how does it relate to reactions? Find out more in this video!
Curated Video
How Catalysts Work
Through animation and video footage students will learn that there are two basic types of catalysts, heterogeneous and homogeneous. Students will come to understand that catalysts have many practical applications and that scientists use...
Curated Video
Catalysts and Enzymes: Enhancing Chemical Reactions
This video explains catalysts, exploring the concept of activation energy and how catalysts can lower it to speed up reactions. The video covers the use of catalysts in industry and domestic applications, including the catalytic...
Curated Video
Visualizing Energy Changes in Chemical Reactions through Reaction Profiles
The video discusses how diagrams of reaction profiles can be used to show the energy changes that occur during chemical reactions. It explains the concept of energy conservation in chemical reactions and how the transfer of energy to or...
FuseSchool
What Are Catalysts?
Learn the basics about Catalysts. What are catalysts? How do catalysts work? Using catalysts in industry? Find out more in this video!
Professor Dave Explains
Enzymes: Nature's Factory Workers
What are enzymes? Why they're nature's little factory workers. They chop up certain things! They build up others! Pretty amazing the kind of chemistry nature can do given enormous polypeptide chains with unfathomable variability and...
Professor Dave Explains
Ortho/Meta/Para Directors
A discussion of ortho/para directing and meta directing behavior amongst substituted benzenes.
Professor Dave Explains
Energy Diagrams, Catalysts, and Reaction Mechanisms
It's time to learn a little more about a chemical reaction. How do molecules have to be arranged and how much energy do they have to collide with? What's a catalyst? Lots of great tidbits in this one.
Crash Course
Kinetics: Chemistry's Demolition Derby
Make kinetics interesting with a video that compares kinetics to a demolition derby. The presentation information about collisions, activation energy, writing rate laws, equilibrium expressions, reaction mechanisms, and...
Khan Academy
Introduction to Kinetics, Energy and Enzymes, Biology
The focus of this chemistry video is kinetics, which is the study of precisely what happens to compounds when they react together. Specifically, kinetics is the study of the rate of chemical reactions and the forces that affect that...
JFR Science
Reaction Mechanisms
Why do chemical reactions move at different rates? Chemistry scholars examine the intricate workings of reaction mechanisms with a video from the JFR Science playlist. They watch as the narrator diagrams reaction intermediates and...
JFR Science
Potential Energy (PE) Diagrams
Can your class explain the changes in energy during a chemical reaction? Map them out with a video from JFR Science's playlist. The narrator discusses in detail how to create, manipulate, and use a potential energy diagram.
JFR Science
Factors Affecting Rate: Controlling the Rate of a Reaction
Why was neon mad at fluorine? Because it was always overreacting! Science scholars discover how scientists control chemical reactions thanks to a video from the JFR Science playlist. The example-filled resource explains why not all...
Teacher's Pet
Factors Affecting Reaction Rates
You can speed up or slow down a reaction when you know these factors. Learners explore the factors affecting reaction rates such as catalysts and inhibitors, temperature, surface area, and concentration. The video provides examples for...
Teacher's Pet
Collision Theory
Teach the three components of the collision theory through a video lesson. The narrator explains what it takes for a reaction to occur. A perfect combination of collisions, energy, and orientation and a reaction is underway.
Bozeman Science
Gibbs Free Energy
Energy is neither created nor destroyed, but what about free energy? Where does that fit into thermodynamics? In the video, learners explore simple the spontaneous reaction examples of enthalpy, entropy, and temperature, and then apply...
Berkeley University of California
Chemical Reactions
Learn about how chemical reactions require energy to activate and how to draw energy diagrams for chemical reactions. After watching the video, learners discuss why mixing hydrogen and oxygen gas in a balloon won't result in water.
Ricochet Science
Enzymes and Activation Energy
How can you quickly demonstrate the concept of enzymes and their activity within a cell, specifically increasing the timeliness of a chemical reaction? Individuals view a short video that demonstrates this concept in graphic animation...
TED-Ed
What Triggers a Chemical Reaction?
Chemical reactions are happening all around us every second of every day, but what exactly causes these changes to occur? Using easy-to-understand analogies, this video explains how the concepts of enthalpy and entropy determine the ways...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Energy and Enzymes: Introduction to Kinetics
This video discussed kinetics which is the rate of the reactions. Learn about activated complexes and activation energy. Learn variables that affect the rate of reaction like adding a catalyst, increasing the concentration of molecules,...