For the last few months I've been experimenting with ways to grow ice crystals, and while there's a lot to come on that front (Subscribe for the rest!), welcome to Episode 1: The Sound of Freezing! The vacuum-evaporation setup I used to freeze water in this video was one of the first I tried, and it wasn't until recently I realized that I had inadvertently recorded the SOUND of freezing water - I didn't think it was possible (and I thought freezing water wouldn't make a sound). In this video I explain dendritic growth of crystals, freezing water ice from supercooled liquid, and propose a source for the crackling noise that seems to accompany the formation of ice crystals! Enjoy!
I'm working on a random number generator based on background radiation (True quantum-random numbers). This is the circuit working for the first time. Radiation is passing through a Geiger-Muller tube, stopping a counter and displaying the result on a Nixie Tube.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTjmuii5boA
This is my incarnation of Wilhelm - and he does nothing but scream when he falls. This robot has an accelerometer it uses to detect when it's falling, and a re-recordable audio chip to yell when he hits the ground.
In this video:
I dunno
grapes
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Mission Bucharest
Pharaos
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Wilhelm Scream compilations used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YDpuA90KEY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf8aBFTVNEU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gl989nb1Jc
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This video has been 4 years in the making… In undergrad I started work on a random number generator that used a geiger tube to generate random pulses and a nixie as the primary display (here's the ancient "it almost works" video: https://youtu.be/dTjmuii5boA). Unfortunately, I couldn't prove it was actually working back then because I couldn't make the geiger tick faster with the test alpha source I had (alpha particles get blocked super-easily). I rebuilt the thing this past summer, and FINALLY got to making the video! I hope you enjoy it!
If you're interested, here's a nice relatively-plain-English summary of the many-worlds-hypothesis (Rick and Morty) and it mentions the competing Copenhagen interpretation (Schrodinger's cat).
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/manyworlds/original.html
#Random #Physics #Maker
Music in this video:
I Dunno by grapes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
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Images in this video:
Rick and Morty from Rick and Morty on Adult Swim
1925 Model T from ModelTMitch
The Rocinante from The Expanse on Syfy/Amazon Prime
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwIGnATzBTg
This is a sequel to my last "ink tube" video, but this time I explain the title of the project, "the entropy of mixing". Entropy is a super weird topic, so I hope this makes sense, and I hope you enjoy!
Special thanks to my top Patreon supporters!
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Bonus thanks to Patreon supporter PJC, who reminded me that "closed" and "isolated" systems are technically very different!
Media Credits:
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Pink Lemonade by Silent Partner is licensed under a Creative Commons license
0:00 Intro / The arrow of time
2:52 The second law of thermodynamics
3:36 Flipping coins
10:08 Marble tracking analysis
13:58 Osmosis
21:31 Microstates, multiplicity, and entropy
23:49 REVERSE osmosis
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCXqELB3UPg
How a photogate-based magnetic levitator works and how to build one! I started this project during the spring semester and just got it all working.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72WDH7B7_I4
As the holiday season draws near (or almost misses me this year with how fast everything's moving) I took the time to make a batch of AlphaPhoenix-branded Christmas cookies!
#Baking #3Dprinting #Christmas
Music in this video:
I Dunno by grapes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
http://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOdWyncMDYw
Extra note: I'm starting a Facebook page for AlphaPhoenix with video updates and info about projects I'm working on! https://www.facebook.com/AlphaPhoenixChannel
In this video I take a trip to Thistle Dhu, the famous putting course at Pinehurst and write a matlab program to simulate a million putts at once, all in an effort to map "Phase Spaces" of golf. There's a common scientific mindset normally referred to as a phase space or parameter space, where you express everything that could happen in an experiment in terms of the variables you can control. In the case of putting a golf ball, the ball can go in the hole, or it can miss completely - if it misses, we also care how far from the hole it stopped. You only actually have control of two variables while putting a golf ball, the initial speed and initial direction. After you hit the ball, physics takes over!
By popular request, here's some code!
https://github.com/BrianHaidet/AlphaPhoenix/tree/master/Golf_green_Verlet_simulator_phase-space
Music:
I Dunno by grapes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
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Graphic based on plot from McSkimming et al., (2014) 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2013.10.013
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-pLRX3L-fg
I constructed the Veritasium electricity thought experiment in real life to test the result.
If you were watching my community posts a month ago, the day that Derek over on Veritasium posted his video about electricity misconceptions, you saw me obsess over that problem a bit too much and immediately use it as the excuse I've been looking for for years to own my own oscilloscope. Instead of two light-seconds of wire, I used about 3 light-microseconds of wire, but it was PLENTY to resolve exactly what is happening in this circuit. I hope you enjoy the analysis!
Music Credits, etc.:
I Dunno by grapes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vrhk5OjBP8
In this video, I try to explain electricity Ohm's Law… using a LOT of different demonstrations and analogies. I've been working on this script for like a year and a half now - this took SO long to assemble because electricity is an absolute pain to learn and to explain. I crammed every analogy to describe electricity I could think of into this video (which is why it's... oof... 40 minutes... who's going to watch this?).
When I learn something hard, it's normally after I've seen it a few times before, so with a tough topic in this video, I'm trying to scatter-shot and hope that at least one demo clicks for everybody! If it DOESN'T click for you, let me know what's weird! There will be an FAQ about this video posted on the second channel in a few weeks. If you want to ask a question, drop it in the comments here, or if you want to make sure I see it, leave a note on the new Patreon Discord server!
The biggest intentional omission in this video is not addressing radial charge distribution in a wire, and I know that's going to annoy some of the commenters here. I only talk about 1D wires so I don't have to confuse people by making them imagine different families of electrons at different parts of the wire when at the end of the day they can all get squished and move the same way - so please consider all of my diagrams with electrons getting "more concentrated" to be looking all the way through a wire, including the surfaces :)
Also: I'm starting a Patreon! https://patreon.com/AlphaPhoenix
And a second channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3GrRPAydgBn42lab2izBlg
Thanks to the VERY FIRST Channel Superfans from Patreon!
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro to Ohm's Law
04:18 Current
06:18 Resistance
08:30 Voltage
19:43 The water Channel Model
25:06 Power and Energy
31:32 Clarifications
Media Credits:
Heavenly Choir, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Move Ya by Max Surla/Media Right Productions is licensed under YouTube Music
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Vespers by Topher Mohr and Alex Elena is licensed under YouTube Music
Switched on Carcassi by Brian Bolger is licensed under YouTube Music
Way Out West by Chris Haugen is licensed under YouTube Music
Urgent Mission, Randall Monroe, XKCD https://xkcd.com/567/
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