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Interactions of Electromagnetic Waves with Charged Particles
In this video, the presenter discusses the interaction between electromagnetic waves and charged particles. The video covers examples of radio waves interacting with electrons and how they can create alternating currents in appropriate...
Professor Dave Explains
IIT/JEE Chemistry Practice #15: Electronegativity/Ionic Radii
Practice REAL problems from actual past IIT/JEE exams with Professor Dave!
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Understanding the Components and Functions of Blood
The video is about the components of blood and their functions. It starts by introducing blood as a fluid that transports substances to and from body cells. The video then describes the different components of blood, including plasma,...
Professor Dave Explains
Practice Problem: Ionization Energy
When we learned about periodic trends, we learned about ionization energy. Just how much energy is required to remove an electron from an atom? What about a second electron, or a third? Let's compare a few different ionizations and see...
Next Animation Studio
Scientists grow embryos from three parents
Scientists at Oregon Health and Science University have grown human embryos mixing genetic material from three parents. Humans possess two types of DNAs - nDNA in the cell nucleus, and mDNA in the cell mitochondria. While a baby receives...
Curated Video
The Cell Cycle and Stem Cells: Understanding the Process and Potential Uses
This video explains the different stages of the cell cycle and how stem cells differentiate to form various cell types. It starts by discussing the structure of chromosomes and then moves onto describing the three stages of the cell...
Higgsino Physics
Why you can live in Hiroshima but not in Chernobyl
Radiation and fallout in Hiroshima vs in the Chernobyl accident. Hiroshima and Chernobyl both suffered a major atomic disaster, where radioactive atoms was released. Hiroshima was nuked by the uranium fissile atomic bomb, little boy with...
Curated Video
How Diodes Work
In this video, we're going to learn how diodes work. We're going to start by reviewing the basic properties of diodes, and then we'll move on to discuss how diodes are used in circuits. By the end of the video, you'll have a basic...
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Atomic Models - Thomson and Rutherford
It explains Atomic Models - Thomson model and Rutherford atomic model.
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Understanding Radioactive Half-Life
This video explains the concept of half-life in relation to radioactive decay of isotopes. It discusses the two ways in which half-life can be defined and how the random nature of radioactive decay gives rise to the idea of half-life....
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring the Building Blocks of Matter: Comparing Different Types of Atoms
Upon viewing the Exploring the Building Blocks of Matter video series, students will be able to do the following: Understand that the quest to better understand the building blocks of matter has transpired over the past several thousand...
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Hazards of Radioactivity: Types of Ionizing Radiation and their Impact on Living Organisms
The video is a lecture on the hazards of radioactivity. It discusses the four main types of ionizing radiation (alpha particles, beta particles, gamma rays, and neutrons), how ionizing radiation can cause tissue damage in living...
Professor Dave Explains
Practice Problem: Nuclear Reactions
We've learned about all the different types of nuclear reactions that can occur, so given this word problem, can you find the missing nuclide?
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What is an atom
What is an atom | Matter | Physics | FuseSchool Atoms are tiny particles that are so small they are not possible to see with the naked eye, and are only barely possible to make out with the most powerful microscopes. Everything that...
Professor Dave Explains
Quantum Mechanics of the Electron
We don't have to know too much physics to do chemistry, but the electron, the particle that makes all the chemistry happen, is a quantum mechanical particle, so we have to understand it just a little bit. Don't worry, no math, just...
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Group1 As An Example Of Groups In The Periodic Table
Learn the basics about Group 1, as an example of Groups in the periodic table.
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The Role of Electrons in Chemical Bonding
This video discusses the role of electrons in bonding together individual atoms to form larger, more complex structures. The video also explains how atoms achieve stability by gaining or losing electrons to form positive or negative...
Journey to the Microcosmos
Our Paramecia Are Infected
We recently discovered some Holospora infecting one of our Paramecium samples. How does that happen? How does the Holospora get in there? And how are they so successful at infecting?
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Isotopes
Isotopes | Matter | Physics | FuseSchool The periodic table divides the world into just over one hundred elements, sorted by their chemical properties. But did you know that each kind of atom is made up of a different combination of...
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Nuclear Fission
Nuclear Fission In a nuclear reactor the controlled slow release of energy is used to heat up a closed loop of coolant which passes to heat exchangers which then boil water to provide steam to turn electrical generators. The output of...
Curated Video
Introduction to Mass Number, Atomic Number, and Isotopes
The video explains the fundamental concepts of mass number, atomic number, and isotopes. It begins by presenting a diagram of an atom and the three particles contained within it - neutrons, protons, and electrons - and their charges. The...
Curated Video
How Mutations Affect Proteins and Organisms
The video discusses mutations in DNA and how they can affect the organism that carries them. It explains how mutations can occur in the coding and noncoding parts of DNA and how they can impact protein synthesis, specifically by changing...
Visual Learning Systems
The Periodic Table: Inside the Atom
This program makes the Modern Periodic Table come alive to students. Numerous real-life examples of elements are exemplified in the table. Animations and graphics illustrate concepts not easily achieved through other instructional...