Fireworks and Waterworks - with Andrew Szydlo
Andrew Szydlo returns with a visually spectacular performance explaining the science along the way. Fiery reactions, colour-changing liquids and gunpowder.
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Andrew Szydlo is one of the best presenters with such infectious enthusiasm. If you weren't thinking about the wonders of chemistry, you are now!
That is so true
I now want to do chemistry
@Darius Kang I agree Professor Bishop's lectures are well thought out and are very slick where as Prof Szydlo's come across as disorganised, however, he still has an "infectious" enthusiasm about him and I think this is important to encourage those who might consider chemistry as a degree. I remember I had both sorts of lecturers during my undergrad days and they can complement one another. Of course you can end up with some lecturers who may babble on and not say anything and quickly lose the respect of the students, we had one guy like this for genetics- it was paper aeroplanes every lecture almost, until the dean was called in and ALL lectures for that year turned into tutorials. And yeah, we do indeed follow Chris Bishop's lectures.
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Haha this guy makes me laugh. He is so intensely excited about what he does every single time and I love it.
The world is a better place for having this great man in it. His exhuberance and keeness, his child-like joy of the world is inspiring. I am not his age but have not half the energy it seems! Always wonderful to watch and listen. Captivating!
Andrew Szydlo is a chemistry _ROCKSTAR!!!_ ....and self confessed pyromaniac
it never ceases to amaze me that this professor still has all his digits, must be a great deal of fun to be in his labs.
Ross Betts I know. Immense jealousy is present du to my schools lack of a fume hood for doing experiments.
Ross Betts “)(
Not quite like Prfessor Bunsen Burner, eh?!
I love Andrew Szydlo's videos, I started watching his videos and I recommended them to my dad, and within a month... my father finished watching every Andrew Szydlo's videos. I'm 12 and I had no interest in chemistry, and after watching his videos... I know what aldehydes are. Thank you so much Andrew Szydlo!
I just LOVE this guy! He's kinda hyperactive, which absolutely fits my brain. I'm easily bored, but not with him; probably because he vocalises his thoughts, letting me participate in what's going on inside such an intelligent head.
This is a great example how emotion can play a role in successful education. An engaged teacher is much better than a disillusioned one. I had a similar one in primary school (chemistry as well), unfortunately we didn't have the buck to fund all the cool experiments he does here, but she was very good and I've learned a lot from her. Big kudos to Andrew Szydlo for being more energetic and engaged than I am in spite of being more than twice my age.
You could have told your teachers name. Gave her a shout out... = )
This guy is a joy to watch. We all wish that our school teachers had the same passion with Andrew Szydlo. Thanks RI.
I absolutely love how frazzled he is, this is a fantastic lecture if thats even the right word to describe it. He's absolutely into what he's talking about and that makes a great lecture. Full marks and I love this channel!
Kyle Richards the lovely thing about Andrew Szydlow, and I really respect him for this, is the fact that even though he's got a BSc, and a Masters MSc, and a PhD, CChem, FRiS, and he's a fellow of the Royal Institution, and about as well educated as one can possibly be in chemistry and physics.. .. he has taught children from his earliest career - without wanting to, or feeling the need to, go into industry, or go on to become a university professor. He cares so much about children's education that he has stayed as a children's lecturer for the better part of his career. Hats off Sir. Total respect.
So many thoughts…how many don’t make it out.
Andrew gives the distinct impression of being on speed
+mramazingfuntime Somehow he makes me nervous and is quite unpleasant to watch lol
+mramazingfuntime Well, speed + friction = fire. :)
+mramazingfuntime This made me laugh a lot! It is so true. The last time I was that enthusiastic about anything I was on cocaine. I think he's good though
+Markus Birth (mbirth) Speed + friction = heat. The fire comes after you add combustible and oxygen to the equation.
+mramazingfuntime You should watch the video in 1.5x or 2x speed its amusing haha
As with almost every video, I watched this too at a playback speed of 1.5, and Prof. Szydlo's breathless enthusiasm is truly accentuated! :)
My three favourite things on KZhead: Donovan’s “Catch the Wind”; Pushkin’s poems; Andrew Szydlo.
I really enjoy watching and listening to this man. There's a constant flow of information streaming from this gentleman that keeps your attention fixed so you don't want to miss a thing.
This is the type is man who can really make an impact on children or learners of any age really. He is passionate about his subject, provides practical applications of the theory, and makes learning exciting. It doesn't matter what field you are in, there are many lessons you can learn from him beyond chemistry.
These kids are the luckiest. Never seen someone passionate, humble and talented.
I cannot imagine chemistry without Andrew Sir 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Imagine having this guy as a teacher in school. Amazing!
I can see and hear just how passionate Prof. Szydlo is about his field of study. Cheers to the Royal Institute!
What a great show of chemical skill, the history of the art of fire, and no time to be bored. Reminds me of my high school chemistry teacher, also quite a show if students lost attention. Great display of knowledge, across the spectrum from biology, chemistry through physics, and very clear, concise explanation of everything he was doing. It's been fifty years since my high school, but I remember those classes clearly, and used all the knowledge in electronics, mechanics, and truly, my whole life. Thank you very much for some truly splendid chemistry lessons, and your assistant is incredible as well, kudos on the violin duet, that too, was awesome.
I have never been so excited watching a video in my life .Chemistry is amazing as Andrew!
Wish my chemistry teacher was as engaging and likeable as Andrew Szydlo!
Gary Card I know right? A man with a Bachelor's, a Master's, a PhD doctorate, A fellow of CCHem, felliw of CSi, A fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and A fellow of the Royal Institution, and a man who wants to give back so much, that he has preferred not to go into industry, or lecture as a university professor.. ..which he would have had every right to do. Instead, he has stayed as a High School lecturer because he cares about children's education more than anything else. I love that.
Luckily I had a teacher like this in high school. Made me study biology and chemistry
Dr. Szydlo's presentations should be shown once a month in every high school science class. Fascinating stuff.
this guy gives me so many wiki tabs
Kallan Si Sounds like some made up video game illness lol
I know right. I have to keep stopping every 2 minutes to open another wiki tab to look up words that he's saying and fully immerse myself in the meaning of them.. I started with the word adiabatic.. and by the end of his lecture I had about 14 wiki tabs open lol.
you gotz the wiki tabs too?!? stay strong bro someday there will be a cure.
Andrew Szydlo is so very multi-talented. Great presenter.
I love watching and listening to this brilliant man! You can tell he definitely lives and loves what he does, And that energy gets transferred to the audience. Bravo 👏 Sir Andrew, Bravo!
Out of all the videos I've seen, Andrew is by far the best.
this guy is my favorate of enyone that has been on this chanel
I love his presenations always great fun to watch.
I can't stop laughing. Love Professor Andrew Szydlo so much!
I'm amazed by the presentation! Wonderful work. Glad that we have such people and the organizations like this. Thanks Ri.
what a legend this man is. i find it easier to learn from him than others, having ADHD. i dont know why. great video
Really great and informative videos. Thanks for taking the time to make the videos and share them. 😊
*BIG EXPLOSION* "This is the last experiment!"...I sure hope so, because topping that would probably entail blowing off the roof off the RI's amphitheater! Love this teacher!!!
Andrew Z. Szydło is as amazing as the chemistry itself! I've just watched his lecture at University of Technology in Łódź, Poland and I'm even more amazed at how awesome this man is. I thought that the lecture was gonna be in English since he was born in UK and lives there, but he was speaking Polish like a native, with no foreign accent at all! What a great guy
I want new Szydlo vids! He's amazing!
These videos have been helping me sleep, they're so informative and well explained I love this
What a cutie! His energy is so adorable! :D It's always nice to hear a lecture by someone who cares about being there!
I love him style and music. I what country was he born and is the music from there? He seems as passionate about it as his science. I admire that. It is beautiful
If Andrew was my instructor when I was a kid I would definitely be a chemist today. What a brilliant teacher. 👍
I always enjoy anything with Andrew Szydlo. He is an amazing presenter, I can't help but wonder what a class taught by him would be like.
I absolutely love Andrew's lectures. His enthusiasm is infectious and the children present are clearly really enjoying the experiments. I wish my science teachers at school had been such fun.
This is exactly the kind of lecture that got me interested in science. Exciting, fast paced and packed full of information. It makes me eager to learn more. So many people demonstrating science make the most interesting subjects dull but I could probably listen to Andrew Szydlo lecture about paint drying.
Andrew Szydlo, you are brilliant! I have the greatest respect for you. Your performances are beyond expression. I found myself either saying the name of a thing along with you, or learning an aspect that I'd never thought of. Thanx so much.
I frickin love this entire dude, I really wish I had him in my family, I'd make sure to harvest as much of his knowledge as possible. I can easily picture myself ending up like that, have I had the source of knowledge and access to the required means to do so!
Thoroughly enjoyable. And I especially liked his on stage interaction with his assistant.
I'm sure Michael Faraday would be sat in the audience loving Andrews lectures, saying that this is what this lecture theatre was built and designed for. I'm sure when he's teaching, that these experiments and explanations would each last about an hour or so on each, he's just trying to reduce all that time into one hour, but he always runs on longer, but who cares because he's passionate about his subject and look forward to more in the future. Those of you complaining about the speed of his speech and rushing the experiments. You can find all these experiments in greater detail on KZhead but you'll spend a lot longer than 1 1/4 hrs watching them all, but then you can watch these videos and then decide what you want to go into more, this is an introduction to chemistry almost
I love watching great minds at work. Great Work
Professor Szydio is superb! His enthusiasm, intelligence and presentation style make for an engaging and entertaining lecture, indeed!
Dr.Szydlo is really funny and enthusiast, I would have loved a teacher like him when I was at school
Explosions sprinkled through a lecture. Outstanding!
I must stop clicking on Mr Szydlo's lectures because once I start I cannot stop watching . This is the fourth I've watched in two days.
I love watching this guy, Andrew Szydlo is the greatest imo.
Andrew Szydlo students from India. Love you sir
The best professor of all times... I love this man.
This was great and hilarious, watched the whole thing
Such enthusiasm ! Fantastic !
This guy rules, no quit in him, one of the best KZhead vids ever
He's good, I like him, he has a lot of energy for a older man
Its really awesome to see someone love their job so much. He makes people who hate science become interested in it.
Crazy fun science, thank you so much Andrew.
Fascinating ! Thanks for that Andrew !!
just one word for this: FANTASTIC !!!
Hes brilliant. Inspiring the next generation. Vital skill. Well done Andrew + Ri
What fun! I hope these stimulate kids to explore further!
I’m a graduate level student in the midst of a career change towards medicine and i am addicted to prof syzdlo’s lecturers during this global lockdown social distancing period...... thank the lord for prof syzdlo ... ;)
Professor's Szydlo charisma is just amazing!
He is too humble for his own good. Such an amazing human
This is a lesson in perseverance for a good experience with experiments. Well done. ✔
Wonderful as always
I appreciate sir for his enthalpy, adiabatic & thermodynamic approach in teaching
i had almost forgotten how much i loved this channel
Szydlo is a marvelous product from the combination of classical ettiquite and enthusiasm with modern vulnerability and openness
love this guy! always engaging!
This was a wonderful demonstration
OMG, when does Andrew even take a breath. haha. There is still good info in his ramblings. I also like his bumbling and honest discourse. He humanizes both science and scientists. He is totally engaging with his bumbling and honesty. This is what can excite a young person to become excited about science, engaged and go further in their own discovery of science, perhaps leading to a career. Students should be exposed to all the different sciences as they just might be inspired to head down that road, not even knowing it existed. The same goes for exposing students to the arts and social sciences as well.
1:01:00 Now I'm recalling the footage of the Hindenburg disaster, except that everyone escaping and running from the airship yelling and screaming, each one sounding like a chipmunk.
Respect
after the bike pump, he continues at a million miles an hour...I'm out of breath listening to him...Brilliant Showman
that man's a riot :) interesting and entertaining at the same tim .. quite unique .. thanks Professor :)
Thanks very much for this video
Fantastic.
he is very energetic with a brilliant experience in them esspecially Fire hah , u r a great presenter with a typical unique way of presenting...
I love this guy!!!
Hats off to a great pioneer of teaching in chemistry and a bit of history too
Thank you my friend grate show
Brilliant, just brilliant.
Great lecture. I learned a lot!!
Brilliant!
I wish my chemistry teacher was as amusing as this guy.
I could watch Andrew Szydlo all day :)
45:01 that kids is how I react when I see one of Andrew Szydlo’s videos I haven’t seen before!
I had a physics teacher much like Andrew at Boarding School. I would love to be taught Chemistry by Mr. Szydlo even now at 53. He's brilliant, older, fantastic and brilliant. I love his sheer lack of health and safety, exactly like it should be with no Namby-Pambying around, filling in questionnaires and risk assessments. That is how science should be. I wonder if he would teach me an "A" Level...……...Pretty please. He reminds me very much of the late Dr. Magnus Pike
Szydlo never disappoints!
This guy is a absolute legend!!
Light fuse, fly up, go BOOM! That’s the technical description of a firework. You’re welcome.
I was a little worried when he started mixing pyrotechnic compositions fast and carelessly, but other than that it was a phenomenal demonstration.
+dstnlockwood77 and when he handled acids without gloves!!
+za7v9ier You honestly don't need gloves to handle acids
+dstnlockwood77 depends on the molarity and degree of dissociation, of course. strong acids will give you a real bad time, but citrus acids from fruit give no hassle.
+Not my real name Look up Nile Red's video of him pouring acids on his hand.
well shit, so much for ochem lab safety procedures
I love this
Things I learned from this lecture: When giving a lecture like this, I need to: - prepare things in advance - place demonstrations in front of the desk, visible to audience (not hidden behind clutter) - speak clearly and slowly. Finish all sentences before starting another one. Think beforehand about what I want to say. - Don't select experiments that wil have the public sit through minutes of just watching you nervously disassemble and reassemble it, or manually spin a propeller around.
If that's all you learned, it's highly unlikely that you'll be giving any lectures like this any time soon.
This guy and Chris bishop are the best English lecturers I've ever seen
Andrew ? He's not an English lecturer, he's a chemistry lecturer. Lol, but I knew what you mean 😊
"So while we wait for the three explosions to occur at any time, I will prepare to set off a mortar." ~ I love this guy.