The optimist sees the glass half full. The pessimist sees the glass half empty. The chemist sees the glass completely full, half with liquid and half with air. The viewers of this video will see the many ways liquids, like the one the glass, are just weird. Beginning with the London Dispersion Forces and dipole-dipole forces, the show then moves into hydrogen bonds, cohesion, adhesion, and viscosity, and concludes with an explanation of capillary action and surface tension. 

Concepts

liquids, dipoles, hydrogen bonds, cohesion, adhesion, viscosity, capillary action, surface tension

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Create an outline for note-taking using the topics and time stamps listed in the video description on YouTube

Classroom Considerations

• Be aware that YouTube comments are open to the public
• Requires prior knowledge of solids and gases
• The 26th installment in a series of 46 chemistry videos

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Video has been updated to correct previous errors
• Highlights vocabulary
• Includes closed captioning

Cons

• None