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The basics of chemistry - Best Video contest

Yttrium2 - 20-6-2020 at 19:09

I'm a little rusty on chemistry. I found a video that looks like it is good to watch.

If anyone has a better one, recommend it.



Also, where should I go from this after watching this set of videos?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSyAehMdpyI&list=PL8dPuu...


It might be a good primer for a lot of people.





[Edited on 6/21/2020 by Yttrium2]

j_sum1 - 20-6-2020 at 19:11

How is this a contest?

B(a)P - 20-6-2020 at 19:38

I highly recommend this youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiGxYawhEp4QyFcX0R60YdQ
Look at his playlists, he has a huge number of chemistry topics.
Do I get first prize?

Yttrium2 - 20-6-2020 at 19:46

Quote: Originally posted by j_sum1  
How is this a contest?




Whomever has the best video/series that teaches chemistry wins. :D

wg48temp9 - 21-6-2020 at 02:16

Quote: Originally posted by B(a)P  
I highly recommend this youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiGxYawhEp4QyFcX0R60YdQ
Look at his playlists, he has a huge number of chemistry topics.
Do I get first prize?


Well you would from me because of the broad range and detail of its topics.

One which caught my eye was a video describing Kalman filters. I spent a significant portion of my engineering life working on Kalman filters and in particular fixing ones that had not been designed or implemented correctly. Probably because they are difficult to understand and in effect are mostly treated like a magic method. I only watched the first video and the fortieth video of the apparently 55 videos in the series on the subject but it looked to me like the presenter did not understand the under laying principals of Kalman filter but he does know how to implement one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaCcOwJPytQ&list=PLX2gX-...

Chemorg42 - 21-6-2020 at 09:09

@Yttrium2, I would second the series you linked to in your first post, crash course is how I taught myself chemistry (as well as economics and philosophy.) Do this course, then simply research more advanced topics that interest you (Lewis acids, organic mechanisms, practical synthesis, electron movements, etc.) This is how I learned chemistry.
Best of luck!

ThoughtsIControl - 21-6-2020 at 13:52

UCI Open Courseware
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngehmCV-65FikHYUV1_qXA

Bob Trenwith, Harvard University Open Courseware
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpviBv-De2_oeuSU_b968BQ

MIT OpenCourseWare is my favorite youtube channel. It's got good information on immunology and other more advanced classes. Marc Scurrah also has a good immunology playlist..

My absolute favorite course I've ever listened to is by a man named Robert Sapolsky. Robert Sapolsky, Stanford, has an EXCELLENT lecture series. I HIGHLY recommend listening to the whole thing.. It could change your life.

LuckyWinner - 6-7-2020 at 13:32

in my opinion the most condensed easy to understand chemistry youtube channels for beginners are

Leah4Sci
Prof Dave Explains

then
Khan Academy

(use playback speed 1,5 or 2x)


crashcourse series does not teach properly its more for entertainment.

[Edited on 6-7-2020 by LuckyWinner]

CharlieA - 6-7-2020 at 16:53

I second Khan academy...it covers a wide variety of subjects, not just chemistry.
Unfortunately, I don't know how to play back the video's at a higher speed, which would be handy.

mayko - 17-3-2022 at 14:21

The World of Chemistry is a great series, both for the educational angle and for the wide variety of well-executed demonstrations. Sadly it's also made itself quite scarce. You used to be able to stream it from the annenberg website but that's been taken down, and I never found it on any video platform..... until now!! Says Roald Hoffman himself:
Quote:

Here’s the good news: The World of Chemistry videos are back, all 26 episodes. We are all grateful to Ben Horton and Karl KIstler for finding usable DVDs and uploading them.



The videos are available on YouTube: links to all 26 from https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOivxsJAJhU5WOumgm-sNYb5... If you wish to search for individual programs, I found “Program Title World of Chemistry” works best.



And on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/TheWorldOfChemistry which gives access to all 26 videos. Searching on them individually is less easy; they are under the Community Video category.



http://www.roaldhoffmann.com/world-chemistry