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how do you do ladies and gentlemen I am
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juliia Suna Miller and physics is my
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business and my special business today
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is this subject the transfer of heat
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energy by
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convection convection on an earlier
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program I talked about conduction and
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here I have taken a piece of clothesline
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and set it a fire so to say in a burner
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and then shut out the flame so it is
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giving me a lot of smoke abundant smoke
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and I've got a real Smoke Stack there as
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you see now let's look at this mechanism
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here in this chamber is a candle a
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lighted candle and smoke is coming out
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of here at a vast rate
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fantastic I think you can see it now I'm
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going to put some covers on a cover on
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that chimney and the smoke is trying to
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come out here but not so well and if I
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let this stay for a while I'm sure the
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candle would go out most assuredly it
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would go out if I I if I covered both
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now watch I'm going to take both
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off do you see not quite as well as I'd
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like it but I'm going to do it again
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watch it now watch
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it watch it now I'm going to take this
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one off this cover
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watch I assert that the smoke is falling
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down very little if it is coming up very
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little of it this is a little different
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oh there it is let me do it again I'm
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going to fill this stack now watch it
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watch it now I'm going to take that
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cover
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off watch it yeah yeah there it is there
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it is so you saw smoke go down fall down
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this a wonderful thing I'm going to pose
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a little problem for you here is a house
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with a smoke stack I say that on some
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days I see the smoke come out and go up
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up up up up then there are other days
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the smoke comes out just out of the
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chimney and falls down down down to the
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Earth question on what kind of day does
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it do the one and on what kind of day
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does it do the other well I'm going to
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help you a little bit because it's a
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strange business it goes up up up on a
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dry day on a dry day and it falls down
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on a damp
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day what does this tell us it tells us
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that damp air is not as heavy as dry air
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and therefore does not provide the
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buoyant effect necessary to lift the air
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up uh the smoke up and this is a
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fantastic thing to say that that wet air
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is lighter than dry air it has water
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vapor in it wouldn't you think that it
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would be heavier but it is not now while
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that's smoking here is another I have a
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framework a closed rectangle of glass
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with some water in it I am going to put
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some food
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coloring in this corner of the
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framework while watch it now some food
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coloring there it is and you will see it
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drift down diffuse down gravitate down
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in a wonderful way look at it look at it
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look at it coming down it's coming down
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it's coming down now I'm going to apply
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some heat to this tube watch it now you
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see the coloring which is heavier than
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water drifting down and diffusing now
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I'm going to apply some heat energy here
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and I say color go back color go back
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that's what I command it to do oh it's
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coming down it's coming down but I say
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it should go back watch it now watch it
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aha there it's going up it's going up
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and it's going to come down here so I'm
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going to play the burner the flame on
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this side and I say coloring do not come
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down do not I say do not well it's
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coming down somebody says oh you cannot
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fight nature Professor no I am not
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fighting nature I am collaborating with
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her and now it is migrating back there
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it is and I could drive it the other way
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so we are talking about
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convection
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convection the
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transfer of heat energy by actual
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transfer of stuff remember in an earlier
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program I talked about
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conduction which takes place in solid
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things like metal rods and wooden rods
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and the like now I am talking about
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convection which takes place in fluids
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because something must flow and fluids
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is the generic name for gases and
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liquids so we have this strange business
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of convection another illustration of it
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an imaginary experiment imagine that I
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sitting here smoking a cigarette which I
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don't do because I don't smoke so this
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is the real part of the experiment and
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here I have a reading lamp throwing some
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light on a physics book and the lamp is
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lighted question where does the smoke
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from my cigarette go up here no
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strangely enough it does not go up here
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it goes up under the lamp and out from
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under the shade why because the heat of
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the lamp gives rise to a reduction in
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the density of the air and a convection
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current is set up now regarding this
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convection I would remind you a massive
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piece of business because when we have
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convection in large scale on large scale
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in nature what do we have Gales and
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hurricanes and tornadoes fantastic
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energy in the moving air and yet
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consider the moving air I tried to grab
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it as I am led to say there ain't
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nothing there
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but oh it is amazing there are three *
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10 listen to this 3 * 10 to the 19
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molecules of gas in a cubic centimeter
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of air
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incredible an illustration of how big
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this number is supposing you and I and a
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million other people went to the
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Oceanside and picked up that many grains
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of sand and we pile them all up in a
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pile how big a pile do you think we'd
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have we'd have a pile that is one
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mile wide one mile one mile long and one
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mile deep a cubic mile of sand and as I
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am given to say further so you get an
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idea how big this number is you know I'm
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talking about there ain't nothing in air
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three times 10 the 19 grains of sand
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supposing you could count 10 per second
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1 3 5 10 1 10 how long do you think it
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would take to count that many grains of
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sand answer 100,000 million million
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years and I say ain't that something and
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there is nothing here to grab incredible
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more on convection a beautiful
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demonstration I'm going to light a
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candle here I'm going to light a
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candle and here I'm going to and it rest
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in a in a in a little saucer I'm going
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to put this glass tube on top and now
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nowh can get in at the bottom and the
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candle flame will soon expire it will
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asfixiate for want of air to breathe
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watch it it's getting light it's getting
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dimmer dimmer dimmer now I'm going to
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put in a partition watch
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it well I'm having a
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little there it is there it is it has
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been
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revived it has been revived let me take
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it out and I assure you the candle flame
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will go out without this partition
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watch it watch it it's on the verge of
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going it's on the verge of going out on
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the verge of going out yeah yeah and
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I'll catch it now and give it a new
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lease on life there it is and what must
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we say well the physics is clear I put a
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petition in this chamber in this chimney
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so that cold air could fall down and the
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hot air come up now don't ever say that
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hot air rises because that ain't so
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there ain't no Hindu levitation in this
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business what happens is that the less
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dense air is pushed up by the colder air
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convection conviction oh a beautiful
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thing to witness have you not seen
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seagulls especially seagulls soaring at
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certain places in the sky I once did
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this in class and I'm led to tell you I
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said to the class how many see that I'm
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a bird on the wing a bird on the wing
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and one fellow not so poetic minded said
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Professor you look quite like a vulture
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I thought that was true the fellow had
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an idea didn't he right all
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right so much for convection actual
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transfer of heated stuff as compared
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with conduction which is transfer of
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heat energy alone now on an earlier
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program I spoke about conduction and got
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a little uh uh cut off because of time I
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want to go back to one of those
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experiments here is a metal hub from
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which m Min Ates a number of spokes of
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different materials brass copper iron
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aluminum zinc nickel and so on and here
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is a wonderful experiment to do here's
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what I do I take a little steel
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ball a little steel ball and with a
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little bit of soft wax fix a ball to the
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end of each Rod a ball to the end of
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each Rod now what do I do I apply some
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heat energy from a burner to the hub
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the different rods conduct the heat
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energy at different rates and obviously
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the little balls fall off in an inverse
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order to the
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conductivity but an interesting question
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arises I have here two identical kinds
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of rods an iron Rod an iron Rod they are
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absolutely alike in their composition
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but they differ as follows and this is a
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wonderful exercise they are identically
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long identically long but one is
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skinnier than the other as a matter of
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fact one has that diameter and the other
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that diameter this is a diameter D and
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that's a diameter 2D and the problem is
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as
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follows supposing I put a little ball on
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the end of each and what do I have I
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heat The Hub I heat The Hub and in what
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order do they fall off well I'm going to
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tell you let's look at them because it's
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very difficult problem this has twice
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the diameter therefore it has four times
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the cross-sectional area four times
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therefore it conducts heat away four
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times as fast but because it is twice
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the diameter it has twice the
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circumference and therefore it radiates
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from the surface at twice the rate so
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this one does not gain over this one
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four times but rather only two times so
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what do I do if I put a little ball on
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the end of this one
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no correction in the middle of this one
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and on the end of that one they will
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fall off at the same time and I hope
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I've said that correctly but I got a
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little filed up indeed if I said it
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wrong then you will write me a letter
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saying Professor what you said was not
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right what you said was not
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right notice I've got a little
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perspiration in my eye that is as uh
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sort of saline and it is not pleasant
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more on this business of conduction a
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wonderful demonstration which you can do
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a silver dollar nice and clean you put
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it tightly under a handkerchief so
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tightly under a handkerchief there it is
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tightly now I wish I had a cigarette we
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will imagine that I have a lighted
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cigarette this will pce of close
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on lighted cigarette I put the lighted
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end of the cigarette tightly down on the
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the the handkerchief on the coin
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question what happens nothing why
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because the clean silver underneath
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takes the heat energy away as it did in
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a certain experiment I did with a wood
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and metal rod and the handkerchief is
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untouched this is a beautiful little
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experiment to demonstrate to your kin
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Enchanting
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Enchanting next demonstration
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this one you can do remember I said what
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happens first when you put a thermometer
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into hot water it shows a diminution in
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the column take a flask like this fill
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it with water put some food coloring in
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it fit it with a one hole stopper in a
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glass tube and the level is right here
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more easily seen than the action of a
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thermometer submerge this in a vessel of
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hot water and what do you see down it
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goes for the reason that the glass
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vessel is heated first and expands this
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concludes my recitation and I thank
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thank you for listening
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