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Professor Dave Explains
Herbert Hoover: The Great Depression Begins (1929 - 1933)
Herbert Hoover's name may be best remembered for the Hoover Dam, but his presidency will always be remembered as the start of the Great Depression. The 1930s would be an extremely difficult decade, so let's jump into this time period now.
Sustainable Business Consulting
Lean Manufacturing
Defines lean manufacturing and how to implement lean manufacturing in product and service companies as well as the difference between lean and green waste
Professor Dave Explains
Routes of Viral Transmission
Now we know a bit more about how viruses interact with cells, whether those are bacterial cells, or animal cells, such as ours. But how do they gain access to our cells in the first place? How do viruses get inside the human body? Let's...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Science in Focus: Energy: Heat, Work, and Efficiency
Video workshop explores how heat is generated and harvested to do useful mechanical work. Video also describes efficiency of an engine, expansion and compression of gases, and friction's relationship to heat. [56:54]
The Economics of Seinfeld
The Economics of Seinfeld: The Chinese Restaurant
Video clip [4:12] from Seinfeld season 2 in which Elaine wonders why restauarant seating isn't allocated based on "level of hunger" demonstrating with humor the economic terms of efficiency and rationing mechanisms.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Chemistry: Carnot Efficiency 3
A video lecture proving the Carnot engine is the most efficient engine. The video starts by explaining the basics of heat engines and the Carnot engine. Then the video compares the efficiency of the Carnot engine and a proposed super...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Chemistry: Efficiency of a Carnot Engine
A video lecture defining efficiency for a heat engine and the efficiency of a Carnot engine. Using the area under the PV diagram, the lecture explains how the efficiency of an engine could be calculated. [14:04]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Chemistry: Carnot Efficiency 2: Reversing the Cycle
Learn how the Carnot engine is the most efficient engine in this video lecture. The lecture begins with describing a heat engine and the steps of Carnot cycle. The video also explores how the engine would need to be frictionless and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Efficiency & Conservation of Energy
This lesson explains how efficiency is related to conservation of energy.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Efficiency Defined Mathematically
This lesson gives a mathematical relationship for efficiency.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Calculating Efficiency
This lesson demonstrates how to calculate efficiency.