Meteorology and Metallurgy | Szydlo's At Home Science
Andrew explores the theories of matter which eventually lead to our modern understanding of particles.
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This theories have a real relevance for the study of the weather, or meteorology. Andrew also explores the functioning of a mercury barometer, and finishes with some exciting colourful experiments with mercury.
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction to Andrew's Meteorology club
03:52 - On barometers
08:20 - Aristotle and Democritus
12:41 - Into the ancient mines
16:20 - On air
18:15 - The first barometer
21:12 - The Fortin barometer
27:08 - Lavoisier and mercury
31:55 - Experiments with mercury,
Andrew Szydlo is a chemist and secondary school teacher at Highgate School, well-loved by pupils and Ri attendees alike. He has given public lectures around the country, been featured on TV shows and has become a popular regular face on our channel.
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i like the normal content here, but i gotta say id be ok if this became a mostly Andrew channel. Love the lectures
Watching Andrew's videos, I am reminded that I learned the most from teachers who loved their subjects. Andrew's passion is "Infectious." ❤️
Impossible to be complimentary enough. Andrew, as always, is amazingly fluent, wide-ranging and informative in his presentation.
10:16 - "Atomos" does not mean very small, it means "indivisible" (from a + tomos meaning "no cut").
Ah, a fellow Greek fan
Can we still trust his chemistry?
@@fukpoeslaw3613 yes we can.
@@jkobain okay then, thanks for the confirmation, for a brief moment I started to doubt!
This man is the passion in person. I love his lectures. How I wish to have the opportunity to speak with this great man.
Another brilliant talk from Dr. Szydlo. He has a very special style and great historical knowledge.
Thank you Mr Szydlo for teaching and helping us in these hard times, i learned a lot from you, God bless you.
I'm not a student but I believe we should all be striving to learn more at all ages.. That's a lovely barometer and a bargain 👍 Look forward to your next lecture.
Thank you, I find your experiments fascinating. Way back in the 1960's when I was doing my "O" level GCE physics, I also had that book, but mine was blue so I don't know what edition it was. I brought it with me when we came to Canada 40 years ago, and we used it when my wife was home schooling our youngest son (he is now 31). Thank you again.
Wish I had had a science teacher like Prof. Szydlo.
another great video from the Szydlo team, thanks Andrew and Oscar.....60 years old and enjoying every minute of them.....and still learning....fantastic....
Once again thank you Dr. Szydlo, and cameraman Oscar, for all these videos!!! Brings a few moments of pleasure in these bleak, in so many different ways, times.
HOW IS THERE SOMEONE WHO DISLIKED THIS VIDEO?!?!?! thank you professor szydlo, i hope you keep making these videos until the end of time, you got a instant like from me before even watching
Another amazing video from Andrew and the Royal Institution
People wonder what class privilege is. Imagine being young Alex and going to Highgate School and having this wonderful man as your science teacher.
That was wonderful. I always enjoy your lectures and lessons professor Szydlo. Thank you.
Great video, as always with Dr. Szydlo. The comment "I don't know exactly what's going on but you have to admit it's interesting" sums up every chemistry video I've seen this man do. I don't know what's going on but it's interesting.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video and this whole series by Andrew! Perhaps Andrew can do some clock reactions in an upcoming video and how we can make clock reactions using at home chemicals? I’m so intrigued by them even as an adult and they are great fun!
Absolutely, it always brings a smile on your face :)
Awesome! This is why I love Chemistry. Maybe someday I can study it.
Love Dr Szydlo but when he calls someone an unbelievable character, that's an achievement that should be awarded on a plaque.
Beautiful lecture congratulations!
Yet another brilliant video from the man himself, Andrew Szydlo. He's certainly kept himself busy during lockdown and the rest of us educated and entertained.
these videos are lovely, thanks for making them folks! :)
Thanks for creating a new vid! I am missing these excellent science shows!
Yeah, I guessed it was mercury. Andrew Szydlo is with us again, and I'm happy because of that.
Growing up, Dad would often ask us to go check the barometer reading for him. Ofc always requiring a gentle tap to make sure the needle had settled properly.
Thank you for such an interesting lecture. You mentioned at about 24min into video that it was quite an undertaking to re-calibrate the barometer. I would have thought that it was simply a matter of upending the tube so that the bubble of air would float up and escape. Also for people who are transporting such a device it is advised to carry it upside down as a sudden jolt to a right upped instrument can break the glass at the vacuum end as the heavy mercury shoots upward without any resistance.
Andrew absolutely has to be everyone’s favourite teacher!! He has that brilliant ability to explain things in a way someone with a “working understanding” of the knowledge can only do. A truly brilliant mind that doesn’t dictate doctrine but explains working principles so clearly from the origins of human understanding and passes on that functioning knowledge in a way I worry many teachers are incapable of. Knowledge like a functioning machine in the mind! Would love to hear from him a larger selection of books that are crucial to understanding the evolution of scientific knowledge up to the late 20th century as I feel to many people have lost those foundations science is built on and having that knowledge is crucial to understanding not just modern times and technology but a clearer picture of what the next generation of evolution in scientific understanding is going to be. As always very much appreciate Andrew taking the time and the Royal Institute for making it available. Love the barometer, my grandfather always had a large collection of very cool well made clocks and devices collected in his travels. Scientific curiosities and puzzles. From a time when people not only made cool things but people appreciated cool well built, finely crafted things. I think I have to much in common with Andrew from being a Volvo man that has to work on my own cars and appreciates the engineering and the build quality to the economics of the lifestyle it provides to the social class that appreciates them. The pursuit for knowledge of everything from science to the arts. I’m a musician myself and a painter. I wonder if his curiosity of music ever got so far as to wonder where, when and how the instruments came from? They were the most technologically advanced things on the planet for a long time! What music is and where it comes from? How it’s able to bring people together and what it connects to😁
Thank you very much for your kind and profound observations, and analysis. Much appreciated!
Andrew = fantastic
Fabulous lecture dear Professor Andrew! Honestly, I was partially familiar with Hg barometer and most of the first half I was thinking how to fill it without trapping an air bubble in - imagine how sad I was that your has the same issue. I hope you will fix it perfectly soon. Lovely reactions, I must admit. All the best!
This was really good
Thank you for this excellent, highly interesting video.😎💚
Thank you sir. It's such a pleasure to learn from you. Kind regards from Switzerland to all British friends.
Thank you for this amazing video. But can you find out the missing reaction equations? I would appreciate it. Could the orange come from Iodine (red) mixed with the yellow of the Mercury iodide? What causes the different colours at the first flask with the sodium hydroxide? 🤔😊👏
This really mattered to me!
People, please stop complaining about the audio! It isn't being recorded with professional equipment like the other lectures you've used to watch. It's a digital camera on a tripod and it's probably Oskar recording it, like most (amateur) KZhead videos are. If one has trouble understanding, try the subtitles generated automatically by KZhead. They're not perfect but accurate enough. Thank you.
You are not only a fantastic scientist. You are also a great story teller. Unfortunately I couldn't see the last 2 minutes because gready YT decided to replace them with an advert )-:
Love his videos :)
Can you make a video on the working and design challenges of supersonic planes....
@@NerdyNEET He found it on eBay! Quite remarkable!
And after a few millenia we found out the whole thing is based on ripples of a canvas of energy like cymatic of a liquid like plasma universe. These "ripples" are the result of a cavitation process of E = 0 creating the space where energy oscillates in geometrically organised potentials (quasi crystalls). For such a long time we ask "What keeps it all together?" The reason we never found out about the resonance of space defined by a vibration. Listen to your thoughts - the information is Sound and any chemical reaction based on resonance of photons - no light without sound, no photon without a phonon and no whatsoever dynamic without the space for potentials. -- OM --
hey there finally 2nd comment but 20th view love ROYAL INSTITUTION LECTURES!!
Back in high school ' ordinary level physics' was one of my favourite physic books. Seeing it in this video brings back alot of memories. Along with this was another book called ' physics for today and tomorrow' by Tom Duncan. Anyone else who came across these books?
So U advancing (studies) wanna know the reality behind this
The Professor, if not for his undershirt, would blend in perfectly with his surroundings.
Andrew Szydlow's "At home" lectures are one of those great things I will miss after lockdown. I do hope he carries on with these, I already look forward to the next one!
Thank you for your kiinds words! They've been such a joy to us too and we'll make sure to pass on your praise.
Gotta say, I really absolutely love these lectures, and might I suggest if these are to continue for a while, to invest in a cheap lav mic? It gets hard to hear you sometimes... :).
We've got a plan... Watch this space.
Who needs a fume-cupboard when you're experimenting in your own home?
no explosions in this episode?
The densest liquid at NTP is caesium tungstate :) (i think!)
That, sir, is a beautiful barometer. Did it come with correction tables? Some of these came with tables that not only corrected for mercury and glass coefficients but the brass scales as well! In skilled hands they were accurate to one tenth of one millimetre Hg. Question. Do you know of a reasonably obtained liquid of SG approx 1.0 that will not evaporate under strong vacuum? I wish to place a 10m barometer on a building, thus being able to read barometric pressure at a 1:1 ratio. I thank you for your time.
can somebody name this painting on his right, please
Andrew could You make a KZhead about dimethyl-ether. Shawn Noyes said it would be a much better diesel-engine fuel! less NOx! What are the advantages and disadvantages? Could DME be mixed with diesel?
4:30 Hello Oskar !
Very interesting like those videos very much. Next time tell us about the pins on your collar.
WOW. I cant believe i got the answer right , Mercury. 😢 , my confidence⬆.
Someone’s been drinking the mercury again Like the video hope you do some more 🤘🤘🥰🥰
The natural first (Occam’s) assumption to explain how or why a particle like a photon (or electron, etc) might behave as an uncertain location particle while also like a polarizable axial or helical wave ''packet'', given that everything in the universe from electrons to solar systems are in orbit with something else pulling them into polarizable axial or helical apparent waves depending on the orientation of their orbits as they travel thru space, and given that we know we’re in a sea of undetectable dark matter but don’t know where it’s disbursed, is that they’re in orbit with an undetectable dark matter particle pulling them into polarizable axial or helical apparent waves as they travel where the speed of their orbit determines the wavelength and the diameter is the amplitude which would explain the double slit, uncertainty, etc. No?
I didn't expect to be barometer-shamed today
I want to hear about the character who sold you the barometer. Do share!
I can just imagine Andrew laid on the floor colouring in that picture like a kid... :D
he probably coloured it in with the differently coloured mercury compounds from the last part of the video
Heisenberg no2
👍
The last minutes of this video are the stereotype of chemistry: Slightly overexcited old man in a lab coat mixes liquids together in beakers, shakes them and comments on the colour changes. :D
Lab coat sealed the deal.
Your anneroid barometer cost £10 -- good value. Mine cost 6d!
Good video! He’s beginning to look like Doc Brown from back to the future. Nothing hair coloring can’t solve.
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You are a great Man . But, I can show here not far the fauntain of life or the liquids that make the body young. Take it for granted.
No theory 'Matter' is light
Is this supposed to be serious or a spoof of Dr Brown from Back to the Future? This guy is too much.
One thing he cant show us is high pressure next to a vacum without a barrier :) that prove we live in a closed system :) the earth is flat Norway :)
What a troll, smileyface
Norway = No way ? So: "the earth is flat No way"
@@cpawel then show me high pressure next to a vacum without a barrier :)
@@fukpoeslaw3613 show me high pressure next to a vacum without a barrier please
Please slow down sir. Not all the viewers are "native English speaker scientists". I am neither.
RI exists for two centuries and remains solvent. When challenged about the abhorrent practice of including advertisements in educational content, claims it would fiscally implode without youtube ad revenue. Funny.
Ahaha, do you think they've lasted for 200 years without the concept of money? Or without financial troubles? I'm old enough to remember when a CEO nearly bankrupted them in the early 2000s. I'm actually surprised (and kind of relieved) that they're still going. And if my 0.001 pennies I've generated by watching this video and its ads can help them survive, I'd say take my eyeballs, good sirs.
Andrew, spot on as always. Camera crew, not so much, annoying af with the rustling and movement
You keep mercury in a porous jar? 🫨
Another amazing video from Andrew and the Royal Institution