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This Reversibility and Irreversibility: Crash Course Engineering #8 instructional video also includes:
Reversibility in cars isn't about driving backwards. An informative YouTube video describes how the degree of reversibility in a system determines its efficiency. It explains the concept using an example of the pistons in a car engine and how they revert to their original positions.
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Instructional Ideas
- Provide cloze notes for viewers to fill in as they watch the video
Classroom Considerations
- Understanding how car engines work would be a huge plus
- Learners should be familiar with conservation of mass and energy from the previous video (this is the eighth video in the Crash Course Engineering series)
- This video is hosted on YouTube
Pros
- Explanations are thorough and easy to follow
- Animations help aid understanding—and are interesting, too!
Cons
- None