Commentary Lecture One: The Chemical History of a Candle - The Sources of its Flame

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  • Опубликовано: 27 июн 2016
  • Bill Hammack & Don DeCoste highlight the key points of Lecture One of Michael Faraday’s lectures on The Chemical History of a Candle. A free companion book helps modern viewers understand each lecture - details at www.engineerguy.com - as does a commentary track and closed captions for each lecture.
    ►Free Companion book to this video series
    www.engineerguy.com/faraday
    Text of Every Lecture | Essential Background | Guides to Every Lecture | Teaching Guide & Student Activities
    In these lectures Michael Faraday’s careful examination of a burning candle reveals the fundamental concepts of chemistry, while at the same time superbly demonstrating the scientific method. In this lecture Faraday focuses on the physical changes occurring in the candle, for example, how the wax moves from the candle into the flame.
    LINKS TO OTHER VIDEOS IN THIS SERIES
    ► Lectures
    (1/6) Introduction to Michael Faraday’s Chemical History of a Candle
    • Introduction: The Chem...
    (2/6) Lecture One: A Candle: Sources of its Flame
    • Lecture One: The Chemi...
    (3/6) Lecture Two: Brightness of the Flame
    • Lecture Two: The Chemi...
    (4/6) Lecture Three: Products of Combustion
    • Lecture Three: The Che...
    (5/6) Lecture Four: The Nature of the Atmosphere
    • Lecture Four: The Chem...
    (6/6) Lecture Five: Respiration & its Analogy to the Burning of a Candle
    • Lecture Five: The Chem...
    ► Bonus Videos: Lectures with Commentary
    Lecture One: A Candle: Sources of its Flame (Commentary version)
    • Commentary Lecture One...
    Lecture Two: Brightness of the Flame (Commentary version)
    • Commentary Lecture Two...
    Lecture Three: Products of Combustion (Commentary version)
    • Commentary Lecture Thr...
    Lecture Four: The Nature of the Atmosphere (Commentary version)
    • Commentary Lecture Fou...
    Lecture Five: Respiration & its Analogy to the Burning of a Candle (Commentary version)
    • Commentary Lecture Fiv...
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    COMPANION BOOK DETAILS
    The companion book is available as an ebook, in paperback and hardcover - and for free as a PDF. Details on all versions are at www.engineerguy.com/faraday
    Michael Faraday’s The Chemical History of a Candle
    with Guides to the Lectures, Teaching Guides & Student Activities
    Bill Hammack & Don DeCoste
    190 pages | 5 x 8 | 14 illustrations
    Hardcover (Casebound) | ISBN 978-0-9838661-8-0 | $24.95
    Paper| ISBN 978-1-945441-00-4| $11.99
    eBook | ISBN 978-0-9839661-9-7 | $3.99
    Audience: 01 - General Trade
    Subjects
    SCI013000 SCIENCE / Chemistry / General
    SCI028000 SCIENCE / Experiments & Projects
    SCI000000 SCIENCE / General
    EDU029030 EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Science & Technology
    This book introduces modern readers to Michael Faraday’s great nineteenth-century lectures on The Chemical History of a Candle. This companion to the RUclips series contains supplemental material to help readers appreciate Faraday’s key insight that “there is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of science than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle.” Through a careful examination of a burning candle, Faraday’s lectures introduce readers to the concepts of mass, density, heat conduction, capillary action, and convection currents. They demonstrate the difference between chemical and physical processes, such as melting, vaporization, incandescence, and all types of combustion. And the lectures reveal the properties of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide, including their relative masses and the makeup of the atmosphere. The lectures wrap up with a grand, and startling, analogy: by understanding the chemical behavior of a candle the reader can grasp the basics of respiration. To help readers understand Faraday’s key points this book has an “Essential Background” section that explains in modern terms how a candle works, introductory guides for each lecture written in contemporary language, and seven student activities with teaching guides.
    Author Bios
    Bill Hammack is a Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois-Urbana, where he focuses on educating the public about engineering and science. He is the creator and host of the popular RUclips channel engineerguyvideo.
    Don DeCoste is a Specialist in Education in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois-Urbana, where he teaches freshmen and pre-service high school chemistry teachers. He is the co-author of four chemistry textbooks.
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Комментарии • 32

  • @GStarGoku3
    @GStarGoku3 8 лет назад +20

    I think it's really great that you released the book under a creative commons license and thank you for putting these, and your other, videos together.

    • @engineerguyvideo
      @engineerguyvideo  8 лет назад +21

      +James Ward just to be clear the videos are released Creative Commons the book isnt, but we have made a PDF available for free.

    • @hcwcars1
      @hcwcars1 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@engineerguyvideoyou are such a awesome person

  • @zeromailss
    @zeromailss 8 лет назад +27

    Studying is really fun if you do it for the sake of learning
    not test 😐
    awesome video,ima watch all

  • @davidcrouch3226
    @davidcrouch3226 7 лет назад +2

    As I listened to your commentary, I couldn't help but think of the oft used phrase "we stand on the shoulders of giants". Thanks for bringing Michael Faraday's work to life for me... as compared to the dry, textbook versions I have read before.

  • @zoffinger
    @zoffinger 7 лет назад +4

    Hearing this explanation of the physical world spoken so articulately gives me hope for the human race. It puts my mind at ease to know that not everyone attributes such things to magic and supernatural explanations. Kudos to all those involved in this production.

  • @syntaxerorr
    @syntaxerorr 5 лет назад +2

    I know Faraday from an electrical background. I am surprised at how much he touched the whole community.

  • @christopherfitch7705
    @christopherfitch7705 5 лет назад

    You almost sound like Carl Sagan. Faradays language and observations are spot on. Your keeping him alive is good

  • @danbantic8357
    @danbantic8357 7 лет назад +3

    youtube needs a super like button after this

  • @briang2238
    @briang2238 7 лет назад +1

    This is working poetry, well done. Your knowledge and articulation are inspiring.

  • @johnquealy7527
    @johnquealy7527 2 года назад

    Wonderful, thank you

  • @65gtotrips
    @65gtotrips 10 дней назад

    I would have liked to hear what exactly the chemical properties of the wax and what the properties of the wick are.

  • @justashadow126
    @justashadow126 8 лет назад

    i have no clue how i found this, but i like it, great video

  • @rdeEKINS
    @rdeEKINS 7 лет назад

    Is there any chance for more lectures in the future? Listening to the longer videos is fascinating

    • @engineerguyvideo
      @engineerguyvideo  7 лет назад +1

      +EkinsOnTrack I am not sure. Faraday gave other lectures and we have considered them, but no firm plans.

    • @valuetainmentshortclips3886
      @valuetainmentshortclips3886 3 года назад

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  • @JessicaTrosclair-jx9kq
    @JessicaTrosclair-jx9kq 18 дней назад

    This is remarkable. You're doing God's work.

  • @anjuk6255
    @anjuk6255 5 лет назад

    Who is Faraday by the way

  • @chickylord
    @chickylord 11 месяцев назад

    Let's imagine we are inside a room, there is no electricity, no light, and no windows, there is only one door to enter and exit from. In the room, there are three pipes on the walls that are like faucets. The first has active magma flowing down from it. Can you see the magma? The flow of the magma is stopped and the next faucet is turned on. It has molten iron flowing from it. Can you see it? The second faucet is turned off and the third one is turned on. Molten glass flows from it. Can you see it? That is also turned off. Remember that the room has no electricity and no light, it is completely pitch black. Will these illuminate their surroundings? If the answers to these questions are yes or no, could you scientifically explain how and why?

  • @hugothompson5158
    @hugothompson5158 8 лет назад +1

    So early

  • @politicallyretarded
    @politicallyretarded 8 лет назад +1

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      @valuetainmentshortclips3886 3 года назад

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  • @HunterRodrigez
    @HunterRodrigez 8 лет назад +2

    did you had to flood my sub box like that ?

    • @engineerguyvideo
      @engineerguyvideo  8 лет назад +4

      Sorry about that -- as I've mentioned to a few others we get complaints if we release an interlinked series one by one and if we release them at once ... do you have a recommendation?

    • @HunterRodrigez
      @HunterRodrigez 8 лет назад +1

      well i think the best solution would be for youtube to stack videos uploaded by one channel on the sub page... but other than that i dont know how you could solve that problem

    • @engineerguyvideo
      @engineerguyvideo  8 лет назад +6

      That would be nice! Our problem is this: if we leave them unlisted -- so the links from the intro video work, for example -- then they are not part of RUclips's search. I would like an option of "unlisted, but searchable." If it helps: we KNEW we would get complains ... so I tired to warm people in a video where I announced they were coming all at once.

    • @plumdumpster
      @plumdumpster 8 лет назад +7

      You can upload the videos as private, do everything you would normally do, and go to advanced, uncheck "notify subscribers", second option from the bottom on the left. Then make it public.

    • @engineerguyvideo
      @engineerguyvideo  8 лет назад +5

      I did not know this: I would have loved to have known that at 6am this morning! That is very useful. Thanks so, so much for this.