AlphaPhoenix
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You can mix 10 marbles until they sort themselves. Why not 100?
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!
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How do fluids actually mix?
Просмотров 170 тыс.2 месяца назад
Visit brilliant.org/alphaphoenix/ to start your free 30-day trial, and get 20% off a premium annual subscription! This project has been kicking around in my head for years and I finally got around to building it! (Freshly inspired to make ordering/stochastic art after someone sent me a video of Ivan Miranda's awesome marble clock.) This machine separates ink from water with a reverse osmosis me...
Watch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second
Просмотров 2 млн6 месяцев назад
In this video, I measure a wave of electricity traveling down a wire, and answer the question - how does electricity know where to go? How does "electricity" "decide" where electrons should be moving in wires, and how long does that process take? Spoiler alert - very fast! I've been very excited about this project for a while - it was a lot of work to figure out a reliable way to make these mea...
An intuitive approach for understanding electricity
Просмотров 1,1 млн9 месяцев назад
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... wh...
Two ways to make asymmetric mirrors (Printing vs. Warping)
Просмотров 116 тыс.Год назад
The long-awaited sequel (lol) to my first 3D printed mirrors video, where I take your advice and switch to UV-cure resin, get great results, but not good enough results, and then cheat by silvering a chunk of regular acrylic sheet! This video is a collab with (and the idea of a saddlepoint mirror was from) Steve Mould, so check out his video about this very saddlepoint mirror after you watch th...
How does electricity find the "Path of Least Resistance"?
Просмотров 1,5 млнГод назад
Ever wonder how electrons know where they are going? Electricity is a pretty mystifying topic, because electricity seems to be able to do impossible things, or at least things that don't make sense at a normal "human" scale. In this video I use a thermal camera to show electric current through a maze made of aluminum foil. The electric current very efficiently solves the maze, which is awesome,...
IP over AC: Mmmmmm Ppppfffftttt SssshhhhhhhWOOOSH
Просмотров 79 тыс.Год назад
I needed better home internet, so I used a plastic bag and a long string. Please DON'T try this at home. It works here, but there are a lot of ways you can screw up your house doing this. Be sure to check out the subreddit: www.reddit.com/r/TryTryAgain/ Music in this video: I Dunno by grapes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) ccmixter...
A laser powered by tiny molecular springs (2^16)
Просмотров 343 тыс.Год назад
Do you ever wonder how lasers work? What makes them different from other sources of light? The answer "stimulated emission" is frequently given, but even more important is achieving "population inversion". In this video I try to explain both, starting from ground level (no pun intended). Specifically, I describe the functionality of my cnc CO2 laser cutter. I also show off a woodblock printing ...
Sweeerve (5727 OmegaBytes)
Просмотров 20 тыс.Год назад
This past spring I attended the FRC North Carolina State Championships and got to talk to a bunch of the teams. If you've never heard of FIRST Robotics, you're in for a real treat, because this competition is AWESOME. (If you haven't seen the hub video for all these interviews, check it out first! ruclips.net/video/BycqWYE3Ais/видео.html) These teams, thousands of them, have only about 2 months...
An Interview with the CHAMPS! (587 The Hedgehogs)
Просмотров 8 тыс.Год назад
This past spring I attended the FRC North Carolina State Championships and got to talk to a bunch of the teams. If you've never heard of FIRST Robotics, you're in for a real treat, because this competition is AWESOME. (If you haven't seen the hub video for all these interviews, check it out first! ruclips.net/video/BycqWYE3Ais/видео.html) These teams, thousands of them, have only about 2 months...
This robot swings like Tarzan (3737 Roto Raptors)
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This past spring I attended the FRC North Carolina State Championships and got to talk to a bunch of the teams. If you've never heard of FIRST Robotics, you're in for a real treat, because this competition is AWESOME. (If you haven't seen the hub video for all these interviews, check it out first! ruclips.net/video/BycqWYE3Ais/видео.html) These teams, thousands of them, have only about 2 months...
Playing defense with literal thin air? (8634 Bootstraps!)
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This past spring I attended the FRC North Carolina State Championships and got to talk to a bunch of the teams. If you've never heard of FIRST Robotics, you're in for a real treat, because this competition is AWESOME. (If you haven't seen the hub video for all these interviews, check it out first! ruclips.net/video/BycqWYE3Ais/видео.html) These teams, thousands of them, have only about 2 months...
The most enthusiastic programmers I've ever met (6502 Darc Side)
Просмотров 17 тыс.Год назад
This past spring I attended the FRC North Carolina State Championships and got to talk to a bunch of the teams. If you've never heard of FIRST Robotics, you're in for a real treat, because this competition is AWESOME. (If you haven't seen the hub video for all these interviews, check it out first! ruclips.net/video/BycqWYE3Ais/видео.html) These teams, thousands of them, have only about 2 months...
Rack and Pinion (2642 Pitt Pirates)
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This past spring I attended the FRC North Carolina State Championships and got to talk to a bunch of the teams. If you've never heard of FIRST Robotics, you're in for a real treat, because this competition is AWESOME. (If you haven't seen the hub video for all these interviews, check it out first! ruclips.net/video/BycqWYE3Ais/видео.html) These teams, thousands of them, have only about 2 months...
Psyche out your opponent with LEDs (8727 Glitch 2.0)
Просмотров 32 тыс.Год назад
This past spring I attended the FRC North Carolina State Championships and got to talk to a bunch of the teams. If you've never heard of FIRST Robotics, you're in for a real treat, because this competition is AWESOME. (If you haven't seen the hub video for all these interviews, check it out first! ruclips.net/video/BycqWYE3Ais/видео.html) These teams, thousands of them, have only about 2 months...
Why does WATER change the speed of electricity?
Просмотров 733 тыс.Год назад
Why does WATER change the speed of electricity?
The annual engineering puzzle with 3,225 correct answers
Просмотров 414 тыс.Год назад
The annual engineering puzzle with 3,225 correct answers
Five years in 49 minutes
Просмотров 267 тыс.Год назад
Five years in 49 minutes
50,000,000x Magnification
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50,000,000x Magnification
The most realistic eclipse timelapse I've ever taken - Spring 2022 Lunar Eclipse HDR stack
Просмотров 31 тыс.2 года назад
The most realistic eclipse timelapse I've ever taken - Spring 2022 Lunar Eclipse HDR stack
Eye vs Camera: Why it's nearly impossible to film an eclipse
Просмотров 85 тыс.2 года назад
Eye vs Camera: Why it's nearly impossible to film an eclipse
Introducing the Magneto-Turboencabulator
Просмотров 156 тыс.2 года назад
Introducing the Magneto-Turboencabulator
Are solid objects really “solid”?
Просмотров 6 млн2 года назад
Are solid objects really “solid”?
I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate
Просмотров 3,1 млн2 года назад
I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate
How to predict random numbers
Просмотров 139 тыс.2 года назад
How to predict random numbers
How does a "first surface" mirror work? (2^15 sub special!)
Просмотров 2,1 млн2 года назад
How does a "first surface" mirror work? (2^15 sub special!)
Algorithmic Redistricting: Elections made-to-order
Просмотров 415 тыс.2 года назад
Algorithmic Redistricting: Elections made-to-order
Ditch the DSLR? The 200-year-old science of my new favorite camera (2^14 sub special!)
Просмотров 242 тыс.3 года назад
Ditch the DSLR? The 200-year-old science of my new favorite camera (2^14 sub special!)
I went to a Delta IV Heavy Launch!
Просмотров 14 тыс.3 года назад
I went to a Delta IV Heavy Launch!
Growing Giant Snowflakes (Timelapse Supercut)
Просмотров 20 тыс.3 года назад
Growing Giant Snowflakes (Timelapse Supercut)

Комментарии

  • @khaloscar
    @khaloscar 11 часов назад

    You're like a very, and I mean very, stable and laid back version of Styropyro. Or perhaps, he is you crazy scientist brother.

  • @jorgecarvajal5385
    @jorgecarvajal5385 11 часов назад

    well for a fact its not electrons its the EM field you capacitated the field and the field do the magic, electrons are slow pretty slow,

  • @MRITYUNJAY1994
    @MRITYUNJAY1994 12 часов назад

    Very very good demonstration and explaination

  • @hacked2123
    @hacked2123 13 часов назад

    This comment will never be seen, but would be cool to see this experiment with EL wire instead

  • @djnor1979
    @djnor1979 14 часов назад

    "trying to send too much current first". Yes. Like a discharged capacitor would draw more amps at start ... (Wait, what, a pair of wire acts as a capaticor? Yes it is ...) Great video BTW, Thank You for making it!

  • @AdamBlack
    @AdamBlack 14 часов назад

    I think its C. ( Is that how grounding wires work?)

  • @Gravity4220
    @Gravity4220 16 часов назад

    This proves you should take your batteries out of your devices because of the passive flow

  • @milanstevic8424
    @milanstevic8424 17 часов назад

    24:12 Great that you emphasized inertia, that was my intuition here as well, it makes for a crucial difference between how water molecules and electrons behave, even though everything else seems analogous. Awesome video btw! Thanks for all this work!

  • @amac98
    @amac98 17 часов назад

    What the fuck

    • @amac98
      @amac98 17 часов назад

      Okay i just got to 10:55 What the FUCK

  • @Bobr1n
    @Bobr1n 17 часов назад

    10:45 Live footage of your nightmare

  • @rexkersley4679
    @rexkersley4679 20 часов назад

    This a load of rubbish, electrons do not travel. Go back to school!

    • @AlphaPhoenixChannel
      @AlphaPhoenixChannel 19 часов назад

      It’s the definition of current. I was in school for a long time

  • @MuskMonkey
    @MuskMonkey 20 часов назад

    It seems like thermodynamics shows that evolution is highly unlikely but has happened with regular frequency 😂

    • @AlphaPhoenixChannel
      @AlphaPhoenixChannel 19 часов назад

      Evolution doesn’t have much to do with entropy at all - it has its own driving forces and an abundance of free energy

    • @MuskMonkey
      @MuskMonkey 19 часов назад

      @@AlphaPhoenixChannel every system has something to do with entropy or it cant be a law.

  • @Guido_XL
    @Guido_XL 21 час назад

    The same wave phenomena applies to sound waves, as used in medical diagnostics and in technical testing. When a fast changing pressure pulse is exerted onto an interface of a material, the change in pressure travels at the local speed of sound. When hitting another interface, like a fissure, or the other end of the material, the wave is being reflected according to wave physics in a conservative field. Partly, the wave may travel through the interface, even at a higher pressure amplitude than the original one, which is what was really difficult for me to explain to people, to whom I was teaching ultrasound applications. Amplitude of pressure (analog to voltage) is not the same as energy-flux. It depends on the local impedance of the wave.

  • @normalaggain
    @normalaggain 23 часа назад

    high end network test equipment can very accurately measure the length of conductors in a cable even when there is nothing connected at the other end, I knew they do this by measuring the reflection as we need to manually enter the specific cables lab tested % of speed of light (can vary significantly due to copper purity). great to visually see how this actually works explained so coherently especially considering it is something I use most days.

  • @CoperliteConsumer
    @CoperliteConsumer День назад

    2

  • @DanHarkins-jk9mi
    @DanHarkins-jk9mi День назад

    Science People being really good at Science, and really bad at science communication, again. Don't get me wrong. I like it and I subbed, but quality explanation really is rare amongst us. Fascinating.

  • @JerrodLandon
    @JerrodLandon День назад

    16:17 the concept also works if you think about it as how sound waves move but are slower then light

  • @JerrodLandon
    @JerrodLandon День назад

    10:53 it would be cool to see this same experiment done with influencers like adding a Magnetic Rod, A iron or faret rod, and a aluminum/coper or golden rod in different locations! That might give a better sense of how the magnetic field that is generated influencers the electrons interact!

    • @JerrodLandon
      @JerrodLandon День назад

      Basically a rod that blocks the interface like Lead, a rod that neutral farrit material, a magnet rod that already has a field weak or strong enough that would/not be overpowered by the generated one, and a rod that would take the magnetic field and flip it by inducing a magnetic field in the rod such as copper/aluminum! Also if you replace the battery DC current with an AC one would change the frequency or flip of the magnetic field! It too would change how the voltage changes across the experiment and how fast the AC changes direction possibly show some insight into why this affects the power/volt over time.

  • @user-so8gd8yi3v
    @user-so8gd8yi3v День назад

    Dude, I love your videos. You keep my passion for science alive and well!

  • @olleassistans7467
    @olleassistans7467 День назад

    Thanks for the research, now i didn't have to try the same thing, i have been thinking of doing something like you did with the wires. i might be kindof odd but too many analogs for me, you explained your thinking very well without the analogs :) Well done :)

  • @kennedymensah6270
    @kennedymensah6270 День назад

    This is most likely the best possible model that i've ever seen. I wen't from crying over circuit theory to designing PCB's in less than a month due to this model and understanding. it isn't perfect but its SO DAMN GOOD. this should be required viewing for all engineers and physisist. Honestly this could be used in highschools

  • @matheuslopescf4416
    @matheuslopescf4416 День назад

    uau, não tenho palavras pra descrever, a mente se cala perante coisas extraordinárias

  • @MrRubix01
    @MrRubix01 День назад

    A

  • @JamesWHurst
    @JamesWHurst День назад

    A SUPERB presentation. Absolutely brilliant. Thank you, for all this work you did to create this - and for sharing it. I'd always taken this for granted but never had any notion of what actually happens.

  • @2ezee2011
    @2ezee2011 День назад

    great video

  • @cemotazca8628
    @cemotazca8628 День назад

    Just dunk it in the mixed solutions

  • @FartPanther
    @FartPanther День назад

    D

  • @stevengill1736
    @stevengill1736 День назад

    When I was a kid I used to look at turbulence by dripping fluorescent dyes into water & photographing it...I wonder how your turbulence machine would do with those? If it can filter ink it might do fluorescent dyes too....maybe try it with fluorescein, eosin Y, rhodamine, etc? Once when I was in high school I jumped into the diving pool with a plastic bag of fluorescein which created a glowing green pattern of turbulence....too bad the coach didn't appreciate it and turned on the pool filter...the most amazing part of the entire adventure was how quickly the filtration system disappeared the dye!! Amazing set-up, thank you kindly for your video!

    • @stevengill1736
      @stevengill1736 День назад

      PS: Try polarized light + filter illumination as well as UV and various colors too...cheers!

  • @davidpeters8813
    @davidpeters8813 День назад

    So what you are saying is that electricity is magic. 👍🤣

  • @skysurferuk
    @skysurferuk День назад

    Also, I've always had difficulty with the fact that electricity moves from negative to positive, but it's only fairly recently that was changed from positive to negative (all the text books had been written!). So we all think the latter, & work with that.

  • @Physics072
    @Physics072 День назад

    So hooking up wires to the battery even if not connected will drain the battery a tiny bit. Have you tried to put a cup at the end of the disconnected wires? Was able to fill two cups of elections from a 9v battery. Tastes just like chicken!

  • @Physics072
    @Physics072 День назад

    Love it! Nice job.

  • @the1spyderryder
    @the1spyderryder День назад

    You also initally have inductive and capactive reactances involved in the circuit you also must take into account the scope cables and the load of the scope which adds reactance to the circuit as well.

  • @the1spyderryder
    @the1spyderryder День назад

    You do realize that the resistance of your load does not match the resistance of your source, the battery. The resistance of your battery is far higher than that of the load including the resistance of the wire, which is not 0 ohms but is so many ohms per unit length.

  • @the1spyderryder
    @the1spyderryder День назад

    Impedance is resistance in an AC CIRCUIT. You will find in an AC circuit that the waves continue to "reflect " backward and forward until the impedance of the load matches the impedance of the source normally by changing the impedance of the load , but there are other things that has to be taken into consideration like inductive reactance as well as capactive reactance.

  • @user-xz6it7rz3p
    @user-xz6it7rz3p День назад

    Stellar demonstration and analysis - I think you got the length/density ratio of the video's content right on the nose too. Would be very curious to see the scripts that went into this - I'd be quite curious to explore adapting them to work with my own equipment to explore this first hand myself. Inspiring!

  • @dmor6696
    @dmor6696 День назад

    i think you are the nerdy guy from avatar your voice is the same!!

  • @wmike8162
    @wmike8162 День назад

    When someone brings up monkeys, Shakespeare and typewriters point out that one line takes 10 to 63 power lifetimes of the universe if every atom is a monkey

  • @wmike8162
    @wmike8162 День назад

    Excellent video

  • @wmike8162
    @wmike8162 День назад

    T Boltzmann: entropy almost always increases

  • @robertlangley258
    @robertlangley258 День назад

    It took my dumbass 12 minutes to realize I didn't understand a damn thing this guy was talking about. I think the disconnected (open) circuit sent electrons through my eye holes into my brain and out my ass so fast that it caused my tongue to wrap around my eyeballs until I couldn't see what I was saying or this fellow either. So I stopped drooling, put my tongue back in my mouth picked my chin up and moved on to a different channel wondering if I'd just experienced a flashback from my window pane (acid) years back in the late 60's - early 70's 🎵🎵🎶Sunshine came softly through my a-window today🎶🎵🎶

  • @wiremonkeyshop
    @wiremonkeyshop День назад

    Bravo! It was so cool to watch you do critical analysis with such a rudimentary setup. Really engaging presentation of your results. Subscribed. 😊

  • @TheArunawee
    @TheArunawee День назад

    very impressive !!

  • @jeremyhall7495
    @jeremyhall7495 День назад

    Really cool, thanks!

  • @kerrylittle7368
    @kerrylittle7368 День назад

    Is the pressure mediation just stabilizing as I had imagined that electrons actually do not flow as we understand them but meditate between space and counterspace making the speed of light null or instantaneous? I also thought that the pressure mediates in the form of twisting pairs of Bierkland currents in electromagnetic waves around the wires?

  • @cerealkilled3871
    @cerealkilled3871 2 дня назад

    I spent more time fast forwarding then watching this, i didnt need the same explination 6 times.

  • @brandonscott3012
    @brandonscott3012 2 дня назад

    Fantastic video 👏 thanks for the lesson

  • @a.wilson1979
    @a.wilson1979 2 дня назад

    This proof that order started from caos? like aminoacids was formed from random atoms, and then combined to form the RNA and DNA molecules, kind of nano computers, and then life evoluted against this, from disorder to order?

  • @samtux762
    @samtux762 2 дня назад

    Ney, I was a chemist bak then. PhD, papers including the Nature. We did study entropy in the second year in the U. > so, why visit my channel Well, I am curious how to explain the concept of entropy to a 5yo. Sure, I can throw some logarythms and hope that an ansamble of states sticks. That is not how it works.

  • @xSnowscopes
    @xSnowscopes 2 дня назад

    i dont understand why electrons after the infinity resistor are still flowing