Bozeman Science
Driving Nonspontaneous Processes
In this video Paul Andersen explains how you can drive non spontaneous processes by adding external energy (like electricity or light) or by coupling it to a spontaneous process (like the conversion of ATP to ADP)
Crash Course
Why It's So Hard To Make Better Batteries: Crash Course Engineering #32
There are batteries powering so many parts of our everyday lives, so today we’re going to talk about how they work and how we can make them better. We’ll explain how they provide power by discharging ions between a cathode and an anode,...
SciShow
The Future of Driving | Compilation
Self driving cars and self-repairing roads: the future of driving is bright, or at least less aggravating.
SciShow
How Do I Make My Batteries Last Longer?
Do you wait to charge your phones battery until it's close to dying? If you do- surprise! You're doing it wrong.
SciShow
3 Things You Didn't Know About Voyager
Hank tells us three things we probably didn't know about the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
SciShow
Synthetic Life & The Science of E-Cigs
Welcome back to SciShow News. We are working on creating organisms with a minimal genome to sustain life as well as researching what and how much we inhale with e-cigs.
TED Talks
Jonathan Drori: What we think we know
Starting with four basic questions (that you may be surprised to find you can't answer), Jonathan Drori looks at the gaps in our knowledge -- and specifically, what we don't about science that we might think we do.
Crash Course
Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement learning is particularly useful in situations where we want to train AIs to have certain skills we don’t fully understand ourselves. Unlike some of the techniques we’ve discussed so far, reinforcement learning generally...
Crash Course
The Nervous System, Part 2 - Action! Potential!: Crash Course A&P
What do you and a sack of batteries have in common? Today, Hank explains. -- Table of Contents: Ion Channels Regulate Electrochemistry to Create Action Potential 4:51 Resting State 3:22 Depolarization 6:09 Repolarization 7:35...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: How do fish make electricity? - Eleanor Nelsen
Nearly 350 species of fish have specialized anatomical structures that generate and detect electrical signals. Underwater, where light is scarce, electrical signals offer ways to communicate, navigate, find, and sometimes stun prey. But...
Bozeman Science
Thinking in Energy - Level 6 - Conservation of Energy
In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on the conservation of energy. Two examples are included in the video and two additional examples are included in the linked thinking slides. TERMS Energy - the...
Crash Course
DC Resistors & Batteries: Crash Course Physics
Batteries power much of your daily life, so today we're going to talk about how they work. We're also explaining how terminal voltage results from the natural internal resistance of every real battery. We'll get into both series and...
SciShow
Batteries: A Big Idea That Turned on the World
Even though they power many of our modern conveniences, batteries have a long history. Hank explains how and why these marvels work and what they've been used for over the past 2,000 years!
SciShow
The Future Of Back To The Future
We're going back to the future! The real-life 2015 looks a little different than the movie version, though.
SciShow
Victorian Pseudosciences: Shocking People Back to Health
As 18th-century science and medicine brought properties of electricity to light, some Victorian doctors decided that putting sick people in a bathtub and shocking them might be a good idea.
SciShow
Get Charged Up for the Gigafactory
Hank shares the latest ambitious project from SpaceX and Tesla entrepreneur Elon Musk: The Gigafactory. Learn more about how batteries work, what the big deal is about lithium, and why people are getting so charged up. See what we did...
SciShow
Is the Power Grid Ready for Green Energy?
Despite the rise of renewable energy, the backbone of the power grid is fossil fuels. Adapting the grid to green energy sources is more complicated than flipping a switch.
SciShow
Why Are Smartphone Batteries Combusting
Why did some of Samsung's Galaxy Note7 phones explode? And what can Tardigrades teach us about protecting our DNA?
Crash Course
How Engineering Robots Works: Crash Course Engineering #33
In this episode we looked at robots and the engineering principles of robots. We learned how robots use sensors to interpret their environment, how actuators and effectors allow a robot to manipulate the objects around it to accomplish a...
SciShow
Why Haven't We Built a Better Battery?
Improving batteries is a tough problem, but it’s also an important one because in many ways the future of our planet also depends on the future of batteries. Luckily, scientists are on the case, figuring out ways to give this essential...
Bozeman Science
Kirchhoff's Junction Rule
In this video Paul Andersen explains how Kirchhoff's Junction Rule can be applied to series and parallel circuits. Kirchhoff's Junction Rule is an application of the conservation of charge. The current into a junction will always equal...
SciShow
How Michael Faraday Changed the World with a Magnet | Great Minds
From a blacksmith's son, to one of the most repeated names in physics textbooks, Michael Faraday epitomized the spirit of scientific exploration
SciShow
How to Make a Lemon Battery
Hank shows us another SciShow: Experiment! This time he's tackling what may be the most cliche, well-known and misunderstood experiment of all time: the lemon battery. The take home message in this one is: the electricity is NOT in the...
Bozeman Science
Electrochemistry
In this video Paul Andersen explains how electrochemical reactions can separate the reduction and oxidation portions of a redox reactions to generate (or consume) electricity. The half reactions can be analyzed to determine the potential...