Freshwater Ecology Properties of Water Chapter 2 part a

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Summary

TLDRThe lecture discusses water's chemical and physical properties, highlighting ice formation and hydrogen bonding. Key concepts include water's high surface tension, density, heat capacity, and solvent properties, all attributed to hydrogen bonding. The lecture covers how temperature affects water density and why ice floats, stressing water's unique properties among Earth's liquids. Also discussed is how salt affects water density and stratification. Concepts like viscosity, inertia, Reynolds number, and Brownian motion are explored to understand aquatic organism dynamics. Dynamics like viscosity and temperature influence how fish, like salmon, conserve energy in cold water, and explain the swimming mechanics of both large (e.g., salmon) and small (e.g., bacteria) organisms. Finally, flow boundary layers and how they affect aquatic motion are explored.

Takeaways

  • 🧊 Ice traps atmospheric gases when it freezes.
  • 🌊 Water's unique properties are due to hydrogen bonding.
  • 🌑️ Water density decreases as temperature rises.
  • 🏊 High viscosity makes swimming harder for aquatic creatures.
  • πŸ”¬ Reynolds number explains how organisms move in water.
  • 🌍 Water's liquid state at Earth's surface is exceptional.
  • πŸƒ Ice floats due to its crystallized structure when frozen.
  • β˜€οΈ Solubility of gases in water decreases with warming.
  • πŸ§ͺ High heat of vaporization and heat capacity make water unique.
  • πŸŒͺ️ Turbulent flow means more mixing than laminar flow.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The discussion opens in Chapter Two with an explanation about bubbles seen in ice, which contain atmospheric gases like oxygen and nitrogen. It elaborates on how water freezes, trapping air due to changes in its ability to dissolve gases, and the spherical shape of bubbles is attributed to water tension and uniform pressure. The class transitions into exploring the chemical and physical properties of water, focusing on hydrogen bonding and water's high density, surface tension, and heat capacity, noting its role as an excellent solvent and its effects on global biogeochemical processes.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    In this section, the concept of maximum water density at 3.9 degrees Celsius is discussed, illustrated by a graph showing the relationship between temperature and density. It highlights how heating water reduces its density, which results in warmer water sitting atop cooler layers, an essential aspect for aquatic environments. Additionally, the unique nature of ice, being less dense than liquid water, prevents water bodies from freezing solid from the bottom, allowing life to persist beneath ice layers. Variations in density with temperature are crucial for understanding lake stratification, particularly in tropical regions.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    The discussion continues with the understanding of density variations in relation to temperature, emphasizing the unusual behavior of water as it approaches freezing. Different examples demonstrate how water’s density decreases at zero degrees as it starts forming ice. Salinity effects are also mentioned, showing how denser saline water can stratify a system counteracting temperature effects. The water strider is introduced as an example of an organism that utilizes surface tension to remain and move on water surfaces, illustrating adaptation to environmental properties.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Following up, the lecture poses questions to the class about water properties, confirming their understanding of the maximum density of water at 4 degrees Celsius and reinforcing the importance of surface tension for certain organisms. The concept of viscosity and inertia is introduced through the explanation of Reynolds number, which determines how organisms are affected by water’s properties at different scales. The example of viscosity affecting resistance in fluid dynamics is illustrated with practical analogies, such as wading through water, driving, and aerodynamics.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:28:52

    The session concludes with a deeper dive into the effects of viscosity and inertia on organisms of different sizes, exploring how temperature influences water's viscosity. Reynolds numbers provide insights into the physical and behavioral adaptations of aquatic organisms, from microscopic bacteria to large fish like salmon. Emphasis is placed on the concepts of laminar and turbulent flow, the flow boundary layer, and the significance of viscosity in various environmental and biological contexts, ending with practical examples and conceptual discussions.

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Video Q&A

  • What causes air bubbles in ice?

    Air bubbles in ice are caused by trapped atmospheric gases that are pushed out of water when it freezes.

  • Why does ice float on water?

    Ice floats because it is less dense than liquid water due to its crystalline structure formed during freezing.

  • What qualities of water are influenced by hydrogen bonding?

    Hydrogen bonding in water leads to high density, high surface tension, high heat of vaporization, and high heat capacity.

  • How does temperature affect the density of water?

    As temperature increases, the density of water decreases because the water molecules move apart.

  • Why is water unique compared to other earth liquids?

    Water is unique due to its hydrogen bonding, high heat capacity, being a liquid at Earth's surface, and its behavior when frozen. Few other compounds share these properties under standard conditions on Earth.

  • Why is viscosity important for aquatic organisms?

    Viscosity affects how aquatic organisms move through water; it requires more energy to swim in cold, viscous water than in warm water.

  • How does the Reynolds number relate to fluid dynamics?

    The Reynolds number is a unitless number indicating the relative significance of viscous versus inertial forces for different organisms or objects in fluid.

  • What is Brownian motion?

    Brownian motion is the random movement of particles suspended in a fluid, resulting from their collision with the fast-moving molecules in the fluid.

  • How do salmon differ from bacteria in terms of swimming?

    Salmon, being large and fast, have high inertia and can coast after swimming, whereas bacteria experience high viscosity and barely coast after moving.

  • What impact does the surface area of an object have in water?

    An object with a larger surface area experiences more viscosity and inertia, affecting how easily it can move through water.

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  • 00:00:09
    okay so this brings us to the start of
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    chapter two does anybody have an idea
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    what this is
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    bubbles they're bubbles oxygen
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    they are they do contain atmosphere
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    atmospheric oxygen nitrogen
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    you could see this if you paired into a
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    relatively clear cocktail
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    ice it is ice right
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    and so what are those spherical things
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    in there
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    is it trapped air like an ice core
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    exactly so when water freezes it forces
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    the air out
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    right and it can't be dissolved in there
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    anymore
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    the oxygen nitrogen can't be dissolved
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    anymore so
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    um yeah it's trapped and then the last
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    question for you
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    is why is it spherical
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    water tension go lane yes exactly
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    uniform pressure
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    both those things um the the water the
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    water tension
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    basically holds the edges of bubbles
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    together
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    and it also it's the shape that has
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    minimal it takes the minimal amount of
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    surface area minimal energy
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    for per volume so we're going to go into
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    the properties of water now
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    we'll start with chemical and physical
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    properties talk about
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    water viscosity inertia and physical
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    parameters movement of water
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    and then forces that move water
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    this class is generally organized from
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    the basic physical stuff
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    up to the more complex
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    factors associated with the organisms
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    we'll hit the organisms
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    taxonomy sort of a little bit earlier on
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    just so we know what the players are
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    in the game
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    so there's really important chemical and
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    physical properties of water water is a
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    fairly unusual
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    compound because of hydrogen bonding
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    it has high density it has high surface
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    tension
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    high heat vaporization it takes a lot of
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    energy to heat it up
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    high heat capacity it's liquid at the
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    earth's surface
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    it's an excellent solvent it's really
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    important for weathering it
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    drives global biogeochemical over
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    geological time
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    so we can talk about a few of these
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    things real quickly
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    density does anybody know what uh how we
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    define a gram
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    what a gram is isn't it one cubic centim
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    centimeter of water exactly right so one
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    of our basic units of measurements a
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    gram
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    is based on one cubic centimeter of
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    water
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    at its maximum density and we'll find
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    out what temperature that is at
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    in just a little bit
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    all of these things surface tension heat
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    of vaporization
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    all are related to the fact that that
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    there's
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    hydrogen bonding that's keeping what
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    holding water together
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    can anybody think of other compounds
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    that are liquid
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    at the surface of the earth under normal
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    uh
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    normal temperatures i mean there's a
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    lava
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    but that's not normal i mean that's
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    normal for
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    a volcano but for most places it's not
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    so it's standard atmospheric temperature
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    and pressure are there other
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    other compounds that are liquid yeah
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    mercury mercury we've got mercury yeah
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    there's another there's another class of
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    compounds that is is liquid
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    oil is good oils and alcohols right
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    so or there's organic compounds other
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    than that
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    most of them are not liquid and and
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    they're not very abundant
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    so it's really important um
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    in addition to those properties ions
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    tend to be more soluble in warmer water
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    for the most part there's a few that
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    aren't
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    and gases are less soluble so when we
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    were at the lake yesterday
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    talked about oxygen solubility in water
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    and the warmer water gets the
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    less oxygen there can be in the water so
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    that's why the amount of oxygen in water
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    is a function of the temperature
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    there's an unusual relationship between
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    temperature and density which we'll get
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    to
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    right now so here's a graph of
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    temperature
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    in degrees centigrade versus density
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    and as i said right one gram is one mil
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    but at the maximum density and so it's
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    exactly one
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    at about 3.9 degrees centigrade
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    and then as you heat up water it becomes
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    less and less dense
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    so we saw that at the lake yesterday
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    where there's a little bit warmer water
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    sitting on top of the cooler water
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    because it was it's heating the surface
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    is being heated by the light
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    and it's warmer and so it'll just stay
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    sitting on the top
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    now there wasn't a very big temperature
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    difference so if a big wind came it
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    would have
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    knocked that apart but we will talk
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    about that more in a little bit
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    so there's this break in this graph
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    right here
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    right and all of a sudden we're jumping
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    a whole bunch of units
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    and then we're right down here much less
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    dense
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    than water is at any temperature even
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    almost all the way up to boil all the
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    way up to boiling
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    so what what is that
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    what's happening at zero degrees that's
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    leading to water to become
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    much less dense
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    they're freezing exactly it's ice right
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    so ice
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    freezes and it floats it sits on top
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    and that's an absolutely essential
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    property a very unusual property that
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    that the solid form is actually
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    less dense than liquid form but it's
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    really important because if it was not
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    true
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    most of the water would be locked up uh
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    in the oceans because
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    once it froze it'd go down to the bottom
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    and just sit there frozen
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    right so it's it's a really important
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    aspect
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    of the way water works
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    the other thing we can see that this
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    curve is not straight right here that
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    it's actually falling off more and more
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    quickly as we go
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    up here right and so this next graph is
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    a percent density
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    per degree c increase right and we see
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    that what's happening is that density
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    decreases happening faster and faster
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    and this will be important when we talk
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    about stratification of lakes
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    in the tropics in particular so there's
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    the maximum density of water
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    and we can see these two rates that what
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    this graph is showing is that this rate
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    right here
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    is not as high as this rate is right
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    here
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    and here's another version of this of
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    the same graph
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    where now we're going all the way up to
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    80 degrees c i mentioned that ice
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    and no break right so ice is still less
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    dense than water when you're almost
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    all the way up to boiling right and then
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    we're zoomed in a little bit without
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    that break
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    here and we're zoomed way in right here
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    so we're going from
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    zero to ten and this is another point to
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    be made
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    is that you know the maximum density is
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    right here at about three point nine
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    or we could say four it would be fine if
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    you said that um it's standard
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    temperature
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    but what happens here is kind of curious
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    because it's as you get
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    colder it's starting to get less dense
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    right so water that's cooler than four
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    degrees can float on top of
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    four degree water and water that's
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    warmer than four degrees can float on
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    top
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    of four degree water what's happening
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    here is those hydrogen bonds
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    are basically there's weak hydrogen
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    bonding
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    between the water until you get up to
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    you know boiling and then eventually
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    it's all flying out in the atmosphere
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    and it's not there very much anymore
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    as you get cooler it gets more and more
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    dense right
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    but then if you get below 4 degrees c
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    you start getting those hydrogen bonds
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    forming the the structure that ice will
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    eventually have and it starts opening up
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    because it's starting to form that
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    crystalline structure albeit transiently
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    so it's starting to actually become less
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    dense and those hydrogen bonds are
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    starting to order things
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    more and more and and cause the density
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    to decrease
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    in addition to temperature change in the
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    density of water
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    the amount of salts also have a big
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    effect
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    and so we have right here seawater is
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    this point
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    is is this point right here
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    and we see that the density of seawater
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    is 1.00
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    or so like that right
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    so if you go back if we go back to this
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    graph so think about
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    0.01 difference in density
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    these dense differences up to 40 degrees
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    or points
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    in the point zero zero one so ten fold
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    left
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    so if you have saline water you can
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    basically stratify a system
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    and go against these temperature things
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    so that'll become important too when we
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    talk about saline lengths
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    and anybody tell me what this is
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    good abigail water strider and why is it
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    there
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    because it holds water tension allows it
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    to move across the surface of the
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    water right so it's one of a number of
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    organisms that can use water tension to
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    stay on the surface of the water and
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    it's
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    specifically adapted to using it you can
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    see it's pushing down in there but that
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    what that the hydrogen bonding is
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    holding that
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    that surface tension and sort of
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    depressing a little bit
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    so this is a spectacular picture
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    okay so i've got a question of the day
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    for you all
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    and i think you all have your names on
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    your on your um
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    screen so just go ahead and chat
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    throw your answer in the chat and i'll
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    that will record your name and i'll be
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    able to use it for
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    your attendance question of the day
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    point
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    all right so now everybody's had a
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    chance to answer
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    in the chat the first one maximum
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    density of
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    water is at about four degrees c that's
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    true
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    ice is more dense than cold water no
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    it's less dense
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    it floats density decreases an ever
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    greater rate as temperature increases
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    from four degrees c that's also correct
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    and that was the graph where i had the
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    two
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    lines as it went up the units of gram
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    are based on water at its minimum
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    density no
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    its weights based on water at its
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    maximum density
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    so that d is incorrect
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    so now we're going to get into some
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    stuff about reynolds number and this is
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    stuff
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    that perhaps you've not had in other
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    places but it's really important as far
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    as the way
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    organisms have evolved to operate
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    in their natural environment and it
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    tells us a lot about the way systems
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    work
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    and there's the reason for this is that
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    hydrogen bonding
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    tends to become more important at
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    smaller scales
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    and this alters both viscosity and
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    inertia
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    so if you think of the hydrogen bonding
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    being these little this little net thing
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    that's holding things
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    and you think of something like a fly
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    pushing through a spider web right
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    you use that as an analogy fly can't
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    push through a spider web it gets stuck
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    we just walk through a spider web right
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    it's because of the difference in scale
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    the same thing is going to happen with
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    we have a bacterium trying to swim
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    through water
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    or release them through water right it's
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    going to be more resistant and feel more
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    viscous
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    viscosity is a resistance to change in
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    form it's
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    a form of internal friction
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    and inertia is a resistance of a body to
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    a change in its state of motion
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    so you probably all know about inertia
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    reynolds number
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    incorporates both foods so reynolds
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    number is a
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    unitless number that describes
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    fundamental properties of a fluid that
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    are based on
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    scale and how the the
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    object that's moving through the fluid
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    and what the sk what um what the density
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    is
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    so here are some equations don't panic
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    um
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    because you can go look these up again
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    easily
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    the first viscosity is
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    a and this this is a function of
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    the dynamic viscosity so dynamic
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    viscosity
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    is sort of the intrinsic viscosity of a
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    fluid regardless of scale
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    and we can think of some fluids like um
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    we use corn syrup as an
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    as an analog for a very viscous
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    situation it happens at microscopic
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    microscopic scales but oil
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    oils are more viscous than water a lot
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    of heavy oils are
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    light gasoline is a little bit less
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    viscous than water
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    so the viscosity becomes higher as the
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    intrinsic viscosity is greater
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    as the surface area is greater as the
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    water velocity is greater and less
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    with a longer object so we'll think
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    about these in practical terms
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    the first is viscosity as a function of
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    surface area
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    so when you're in a car and you're a kid
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    and you're going 50 miles per hour down
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    the highway and the windows open what do
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    you do with your hand
  • 00:14:50
    stick it up window you stick it out the
  • 00:14:52
    window right
  • 00:14:54
    you stick it out the window and then you
  • 00:14:56
    do
  • 00:14:57
    one thing right you go like you stick it
  • 00:14:59
    out the window and then you turn it like
  • 00:15:00
    this
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    and two things happen one you get you
  • 00:15:03
    put more surface area
  • 00:15:05
    and the second thing is is bernoulli's
  • 00:15:08
    force
  • 00:15:08
    the air is going over faster over the
  • 00:15:10
    top and the bottom and it pushes it up
  • 00:15:11
    right
  • 00:15:12
    and then you do this and it pushes it
  • 00:15:13
    down right
  • 00:15:16
    also think about if you're waiting in a
  • 00:15:17
    stream if you're waiting upstream
  • 00:15:20
    into the water velocity right
  • 00:15:23
    you you you can
  • 00:15:27
    you have more viscosity than if you're
  • 00:15:29
    waiting downstream
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    if you're trying to pull something
  • 00:15:32
    upstream with a big surface area
  • 00:15:35
    it'll feel more viscous than if you're
  • 00:15:37
    trying to pull it down
  • 00:15:39
    okay so there's the water velocity
  • 00:15:42
    higher velocity
  • 00:15:43
    feels more viscous higher surface area
  • 00:15:45
    it feels more viscous
  • 00:15:47
    what did you call that principle where
  • 00:15:49
    it's like the wing and
  • 00:15:50
    the air goes oh that's the bernoulli
  • 00:15:53
    effect right so if you have a wing where
  • 00:15:55
    you have
  • 00:15:55
    if you have fluid flow that's faster
  • 00:15:57
    over one side of an object than the
  • 00:15:59
    other
  • 00:15:59
    it forces it towards that that's like
  • 00:16:02
    bird
  • 00:16:03
    wings birdslings airplane wings yeah
  • 00:16:06
    okay
  • 00:16:10
    and then characteristic length um
  • 00:16:13
    that what happens is if you have a long
  • 00:16:15
    object it
  • 00:16:16
    it influence it's less influenced by the
  • 00:16:19
    viscosity
  • 00:16:21
    than if you have a short object so this
  • 00:16:24
    is why we have
  • 00:16:25
    um javelins right javelins can go a long
  • 00:16:28
    ways
  • 00:16:29
    they want to minimize the viscosity of
  • 00:16:32
    the air they're going through
  • 00:16:34
    and that to do that they make themselves
  • 00:16:36
    long and skinny
  • 00:16:37
    so they have minimal surface area in the
  • 00:16:39
    front and a lot of length
  • 00:16:41
    and here's where if we're in a classroom
  • 00:16:43
    i throw the pointer sideways or
  • 00:16:45
    the other way and everyone laughs but
  • 00:16:47
    that's not going to work online so um
  • 00:16:50
    sorry about that uh the next
  • 00:16:54
    so so that gives you sort of a physical
  • 00:16:56
    description of how viscosity
  • 00:16:58
    works this the second one
  • 00:17:02
    is inertia and you can think of inertia
  • 00:17:06
    as being a function of the density
  • 00:17:09
    of the object the surface area of the
  • 00:17:11
    object and the velocity
  • 00:17:15
    so let's start with
  • 00:17:18
    a softball and a shot put assuming that
  • 00:17:21
    they are the same
  • 00:17:22
    size and i'm going to throw a softball
  • 00:17:26
    at you
  • 00:17:26
    or a shot put at you at the exact same
  • 00:17:29
    velocity
  • 00:17:30
    which one would you prefer me to throw
  • 00:17:33
    at you
  • 00:17:35
    depending how far away you are probably
  • 00:17:38
    the softball
  • 00:17:39
    right next to you at the same velocity
  • 00:17:41
    it will strike you at the same velocity
  • 00:17:44
    softball softball right why because it's
  • 00:17:47
    less dense so it's going to have
  • 00:17:48
    less inertia right that's why
  • 00:17:52
    you know you want to play with nerf
  • 00:17:53
    balls with kids not hard balls
  • 00:17:55
    hard baseballs right same thing
  • 00:17:59
    okay so the den that's how the density
  • 00:18:01
    works in that
  • 00:18:02
    surface area um you have a bigger
  • 00:18:05
    surface area
  • 00:18:06
    and you're going to have more inertia so
  • 00:18:09
    if
  • 00:18:10
    you are um in and
  • 00:18:13
    swimming in the ocean and a big wave
  • 00:18:15
    comes at you right
  • 00:18:18
    you want to dive under it dive through
  • 00:18:21
    it right
  • 00:18:21
    if you stand there it'll slap you hit
  • 00:18:23
    you with a full surface there and you'll
  • 00:18:25
    get that
  • 00:18:25
    full that that full
  • 00:18:29
    force of the wave or if you have
  • 00:18:32
    a little water balloon or a big water
  • 00:18:34
    balloon a giant water balloon hits you
  • 00:18:36
    it'll knock you over a little water
  • 00:18:37
    balloon
  • 00:18:38
    right and then velocity
  • 00:18:41
    it's a fact of
  • 00:18:45
    related to the square of the velocity
  • 00:18:49
    this is why it's so much worse to get an
  • 00:18:51
    automobile accident on the highway than
  • 00:18:53
    it is
  • 00:18:54
    you know it's not it's not a linear
  • 00:18:57
    relationship between 30 miles per hour
  • 00:19:00
    and 60 miles per hour
  • 00:19:01
    right it's squared worse it's not just
  • 00:19:04
    twice as bad because you're going twice
  • 00:19:06
    as fast
  • 00:19:08
    so you put these two things together and
  • 00:19:11
    you get the reynolds number as a
  • 00:19:13
    function
  • 00:19:13
    of the density the velocity
  • 00:19:17
    the characteristic length divided by the
  • 00:19:20
    dynamic viscosity
  • 00:19:22
    so let's talk about this in practical
  • 00:19:23
    terms about aquatic organisms
  • 00:19:29
    um so the first one is is how viscosity
  • 00:19:32
    varies
  • 00:19:33
    as a function of temperature of water
  • 00:19:37
    and so we see at 25 degrees and 30
  • 00:19:39
    degrees which is where we were
  • 00:19:41
    at the lake the willow lake yesterday
  • 00:19:44
    that the viscosity relative to zero
  • 00:19:47
    right is about 0.75
  • 00:19:51
    as opposed to 1.5 so it's almost
  • 00:19:55
    you know i'm sorry 1.5 so it's almost
  • 00:19:57
    twice as high
  • 00:19:59
    when the water is cold than when it's
  • 00:20:01
    warm
  • 00:20:02
    that means when you are a
  • 00:20:06
    fish you are much less you need to
  • 00:20:09
    extend much more
  • 00:20:10
    energy to move through the fluid
  • 00:20:13
    when it's cold than when it's warm
  • 00:20:17
    so what do most fish do around here
  • 00:20:21
    in the winter we will not talk about the
  • 00:20:22
    trout that they stock in there just
  • 00:20:24
    in the winter but we'll talk about some
  • 00:20:26
    of the native fishes what what's the
  • 00:20:28
    sort of the main
  • 00:20:30
    thing that fishes do in the winter as
  • 00:20:32
    opposed to the summer
  • 00:20:36
    lower the metabolism cassie said good
  • 00:20:40
    they don't stay in one spot
  • 00:20:43
    yeah they hang out right they don't do
  • 00:20:45
    much right why is it because there's
  • 00:20:48
    this balance
  • 00:20:49
    between stay close to the bottom right
  • 00:20:50
    they don't move much they they hide
  • 00:20:53
    they don't hunt much they don't move
  • 00:20:55
    around a lot because it takes a lot of
  • 00:20:57
    energy to move number one
  • 00:20:58
    their metabolism is lower so they don't
  • 00:21:00
    need as much energy
  • 00:21:02
    right so it'll take more energy to find
  • 00:21:04
    food and they don't need as much so all
  • 00:21:05
    they do is they
  • 00:21:06
    slow it down and that's because in part
  • 00:21:10
    because of the viscosity
  • 00:21:12
    now the trouts are are evolved to lower
  • 00:21:15
    temperatures and so
  • 00:21:17
    they specialize on that and that's why
  • 00:21:19
    that's why they
  • 00:21:20
    they do better with cool water than warm
  • 00:21:22
    water they still have the same effect
  • 00:21:24
    though
  • 00:21:24
    technically they can swim faster in this
  • 00:21:26
    warmer water and they'd swim as fast as
  • 00:21:28
    they could to get
  • 00:21:28
    colder water if you put them in
  • 00:21:34
    so we have these um these
  • 00:21:37
    various organisms here
  • 00:21:40
    that are on the reynolds number axis so
  • 00:21:44
    we're gonna
  • 00:21:44
    we're gonna talk about what the reynolds
  • 00:21:47
    number axis
  • 00:21:47
    the organisms that are found in
  • 00:21:49
    freshwater are operating on
  • 00:21:52
    so bacterium are about a micron in size
  • 00:21:56
    they are um they can go about 10 to the
  • 00:22:00
    minus fifth
  • 00:22:01
    meters per second
  • 00:22:04
    and they are
  • 00:22:08
    um really low reynolds numbers about 10
  • 00:22:11
    to minus fifth
  • 00:22:12
    on the other extreme salmon
  • 00:22:16
    right can are pretty big they're like a
  • 00:22:18
    meter bigger than a meter
  • 00:22:19
    uh can be and they can swim pretty fast
  • 00:22:23
    they can they can swim maybe 10 meters
  • 00:22:26
    per second right maybe not quite that
  • 00:22:27
    but
  • 00:22:28
    certainly more than a meter per second
  • 00:22:30
    and so their reynolds numbers are
  • 00:22:32
    running around
  • 00:22:32
    10 to the 7th
  • 00:22:37
    this leads to a bunch of different
  • 00:22:39
    characteristics of the organisms
  • 00:22:46
    what would one of the things that is
  • 00:22:48
    really obvious
  • 00:22:49
    is that the salmon has a different shape
  • 00:22:53
    than these organisms and the
  • 00:22:57
    bacterium can be almost you know almost
  • 00:23:00
    any shape
  • 00:23:00
    we'll talk about a little bit
  • 00:23:04
    so why does this cause the decrease
  • 00:23:08
    with increased water temperature
  • 00:23:14
    is there a relationship with density
  • 00:23:18
    it's related to that why does density
  • 00:23:21
    decrease with increased temperature
  • 00:23:23
    because the particles are farther apart
  • 00:23:26
    there's less to get through
  • 00:23:28
    they're farther apart yeah there's less
  • 00:23:29
    to get through and there's less
  • 00:23:31
    one other thing
  • 00:23:36
    hydrogen bonding yes exactly
  • 00:23:39
    there's less hydrogen bonding right so
  • 00:23:40
    that hydrogen bonding becomes less of
  • 00:23:42
    that
  • 00:23:42
    resistance to moving through the works
  • 00:23:45
    okay so now we're going to talk about
  • 00:23:47
    small organism and what happens
  • 00:23:49
    with varied by scale we have
  • 00:23:52
    reynolds number small organisms have low
  • 00:23:55
    grails numbers and large organisms have
  • 00:23:57
    high
  • 00:23:57
    reynolds numbers viscosity is high for a
  • 00:24:00
    bacterium
  • 00:24:01
    and it's low for a salmon inertia is low
  • 00:24:05
    for a bacterium and it's high for a
  • 00:24:07
    salmon or
  • 00:24:08
    us so for what if inertia is really low
  • 00:24:11
    you can't coast if a bacteria stops
  • 00:24:13
    swimming
  • 00:24:14
    it will coast an angstrom like
  • 00:24:18
    the diameter of a hydrogen item that's
  • 00:24:20
    how viscous
  • 00:24:21
    and low inertia things are for them
  • 00:24:24
    if the salmon stops swimming it will
  • 00:24:27
    coast for
  • 00:24:29
    i don't know 20 meters or something like
  • 00:24:31
    that right i mean that's how a lot of
  • 00:24:32
    fish get away they burst and then
  • 00:24:33
    you just you watch them they just glide
  • 00:24:35
    off so that's inertia
  • 00:24:38
    we'll talk about water movement flow is
  • 00:24:40
    going to be laminar
  • 00:24:42
    or no flow and turbulent for large
  • 00:24:44
    organisms
  • 00:24:46
    large organisms will streamline small
  • 00:24:47
    organisms don't have to we'll talk about
  • 00:24:49
    why that happens
  • 00:24:51
    we'll also talk about molecular
  • 00:24:52
    diffusion versus transport or eddy
  • 00:24:54
    diffusion
  • 00:24:55
    so this is related to turbulent flow
  • 00:24:57
    versus nod
  • 00:24:59
    small particles sink more slowly than
  • 00:25:03
    uh large particles because they're in a
  • 00:25:05
    more viscous solution
  • 00:25:07
    and the relative energy requirement for
  • 00:25:09
    motility because of this high volatility
  • 00:25:11
    is
  • 00:25:12
    very high for bacterium relative to us
  • 00:25:15
    or a salmon
  • 00:25:23
    so we talk about movement of water now
  • 00:25:26
    at the finest scales brownian motion
  • 00:25:29
    takes place
  • 00:25:29
    and brownian motion is just the jiggling
  • 00:25:32
    around
  • 00:25:33
    of particles related to the fact
  • 00:25:37
    that when you get to the very smallest
  • 00:25:39
    scale the probability
  • 00:25:41
    that a particle is being hit on one side
  • 00:25:44
    or another
  • 00:25:47
    by an uneven number of molecules
  • 00:25:51
    is higher so basically you look at under
  • 00:25:54
    the microscope of the bacterium and
  • 00:25:55
    that's doing this and that's because
  • 00:25:57
    slightly
  • 00:25:57
    more water molecules hit it at one
  • 00:25:59
    millisecond on one side than the other
  • 00:26:01
    and
  • 00:26:01
    push it that way and then around the
  • 00:26:03
    other way
  • 00:26:04
    we don't experience that at our scales
  • 00:26:08
    we're being bombarded by air molecules
  • 00:26:11
    all at the same time
  • 00:26:13
    from all directions if for some reason i
  • 00:26:17
    had all the air molecules on one side of
  • 00:26:19
    me hit me at once it's possible
  • 00:26:21
    it's highly highly improbable would
  • 00:26:23
    never happen
  • 00:26:24
    and none of them hit me on the other
  • 00:26:26
    side it would just throw me across the
  • 00:26:27
    room and splat them against the wall
  • 00:26:29
    and i'd be done right that just doesn't
  • 00:26:32
    happen with our scales because of the
  • 00:26:34
    numbers
  • 00:26:37
    um so that means that that motion
  • 00:26:40
    motion water's moving and and water
  • 00:26:43
    molecules are moving very quickly
  • 00:26:45
    but they're not going much of anywhere
  • 00:26:47
    they're just they're bouncing around
  • 00:26:48
    like crazy but they're not going much of
  • 00:26:50
    anywhere
  • 00:26:51
    that can lead to diffusion eventually
  • 00:26:53
    but we'll talk about that
  • 00:26:56
    as we get up the larger scale we get
  • 00:26:58
    laminar flow
  • 00:26:59
    where there's not mixing but there's
  • 00:27:01
    movement
  • 00:27:02
    all the way all the fluid is moving
  • 00:27:04
    together
  • 00:27:06
    and then as we get to higher scales and
  • 00:27:08
    higher velocities we get turbulent flow
  • 00:27:10
    so the flow vectors are not just in one
  • 00:27:13
    direction like in laminar flow
  • 00:27:15
    you've got this and the net movement is
  • 00:27:17
    in one direction but there's all this
  • 00:27:18
    mixing
  • 00:27:20
    and the important concepts here to talk
  • 00:27:22
    about are flow boundary layer
  • 00:27:24
    and streamlining
  • 00:27:31
    so we'll talk about the flow boundary
  • 00:27:33
    layer real quickly
  • 00:27:35
    and if we move towards a solid surface
  • 00:27:37
    the flow decreases
  • 00:27:40
    in the open channel we have turbulent
  • 00:27:42
    flow as we move into
  • 00:27:44
    this layer the flow becomes laminar
  • 00:27:49
    and it decreases so the closer you are
  • 00:27:51
    to a solid surface the lower the flow is
  • 00:27:54
    at some point you hit the no slip zone
  • 00:27:56
    where there's zero flow
  • 00:27:59
    right where the water the hydrogen bond
  • 00:28:02
    bonding is
  • 00:28:03
    interacting with the surface and the
  • 00:28:04
    water doesn't move at all
  • 00:28:08
    this is an exponential function
  • 00:28:13
    and when we get to 99 of the open
  • 00:28:15
    channel velocity then we can say we're
  • 00:28:16
    out of flow boundary layer
  • 00:28:19
    what did you call that surface water
  • 00:28:22
    thing they're saying the top of the
  • 00:28:23
    water is not moving
  • 00:28:25
    no no slip zone right at the bottom
  • 00:28:28
    so if you were walking on a wet floor
  • 00:28:31
    right if there was not
  • 00:28:32
    no slips on you you'd your feet would go
  • 00:28:35
    out from under you but
  • 00:28:36
    because the water there's so water
  • 00:28:38
    between you and the floor
  • 00:28:39
    but the hydrogen bonding is kind of
  • 00:28:41
    keeping it from from moving
  • 00:28:43
    you can walk in a wet floor and not
  • 00:28:45
    slide
  • 00:28:47
    okay um
Tags
  • water properties
  • viscosity
  • hydrogen bonding
  • fluid dynamics
  • Reynolds number
  • ice density
  • temperature
  • inertia
  • aquatic biology
  • Brownian motion