Introduction - Cyclotrons!

In this episode we introduce our cyclotron, provide an overview of the fundamentals of acceleration, the insight that lead to the invention of the cyclotron and the series, introduce the subsequent topic-specific episodes, and finally acknowledge all of the contributors who have played a part in making our educational cyclotron what it is today!
0:00 Opening
2:30 Basics of Particle Acceleration
5:02 Invention of the Cyclotron
9:56 Our Cyclotron
12:03 Series Overview
14:17 Photo Sequence

[@fjs1111]

Appreciate you sharing all of the internals of this system, always enjoy this stuff!!

[@markperino8295]

So many RU memories flooding back. Prof's Devlin, Halpern, and Shapiro. Your magnets and cool stuff out on the back end of Livingston. This is so cool! Thank you for doing this.

[@JulianoRocha]

Thank you so much for this masterclass in science communication.

[@AlanBCarr]

Tim, excellent video: thank you!

[@federicoboccazzi2837]

Increibles todos los videos!, trabajo hace 6 años en un ciclotron GE petTrace800 como tecnico de operacion y mantenimiento. Realmente ahora puedo decir que termino de entender claramente el funcionamiento del equipo. Un gran trabajo de divulgacion estan haciendo, felicitaciones!

[@andymouse]

I've seen the entire series and its awesome.....cheers!!!!

[@KeritechElectronics]

Hey! I just dropped in here from the Usagi Electric community and it looks like I fell down a rabbit hole for an in-depth explanation. I'm an electronic hacker (not comfortable calling myself an engineer as I don't have formal education in the field) with a MSc in chemistry, recently a space nerd too, always learning new things and admiring the gear. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." --Arthur C. Clarke

[@c12820]

I'm in my last year of highschool watching this from England for physics, this is very helpful thanks for doing it

[@maryannecummings5889]

Wow, thanks Tim! Might steal some of this in future lectures. Never saw Lawrence's mechanical demo. Great stuff

[@sammirison7755]

fantastic work. highly educational and stimulating. Well done and thank you sir.

[@sebastiangomez-melendez7913]

STEMulating lol

[@thewarrior7411]

Absolutely beautiful teaching sir

[@jimparsons6803]

Interesting and thanks. I build a very low power linear accelerator, earlier this year, and it was a lot of fun. I tracked the axial production of ionized air with my trusty Geiger Counter. The voltages that it ran off of were one or two k volts, I think. I had used a Faraday Cage with internal brushes that were running at over 1 k volts, so there you go. The initial target was a window of aluminum. I was thinking of putting a target of beryllium or titanium next to the window and then apply my counter to see if there's a change. Guess I'd have to rebuild it all. I made a couple of more, just the voltage supplies, as that seems to be the critical bit. And I really didn't think about it too much, initially. Just copying what info from Wikipedia and what I recall from High School and College Physics. Again, my thanks for the information.

[@davidrivaz]

Excelent material! I must have way to fill up my personal library with the same books that you have there

[@pargeetmehta9756]

Your channel is so underrated

[@Senbatorii]

I always hear of the legendary cyclotrons that supply us with F18 Isotopes for pet scans but never seen them in person before

[@stephenmoerlein2576]

Excellent explanation. Are there radiation safety concerns when the machine is running? Thanks for the content.

[@rio_agustian_]

Remarkable!

[@lekunberriko1]

I like the Lawrence's mechanic model al the begining.

[@mctavishmcardle6906]

is the painting at 16:12 a portrait of lawrence? it's /fantastic/, but i haven't been able to find any other photos of it phone

[@nuclearphysicslab]

it's actually a portrait of Professor Koeth!

[@teresashinkansen9402]

What is the maximum energy and beam current that it can produce?

[@rancosteel]

How are the particles collected ?

[@SciHeartJourney]

Veruza: Daddy, Daddy I want a cyclotron too! Daddy: Okay Wonka, how much do you want for it? 🤣

[@SciHeartJourney]

My Wonka joke aside, they've done an awesome job and I'm really wishing I could work with a cyclotron. Thank you for sharing with us! 👍

[@QbutNotTheQ]

1:22 I like the googly eyes. 👀

[@Valjurai]

After watching a video a while back making a case for using τ, every time I see the 2π keep jumping out at me... heh.

[@leobellantoni1559]

Gloves for the LN2, dude!

[@_specialneeds]

All I hear is Ray Stanz say "Well no point in worrying about it now. Switch me on.

[@Justrandomvideos-2023]

Ghostbusters going overhaul 😂😂😂

[@Flumphinator]

Cyclotron ASMR.

[@enspearcomputersolutions4916]

Their is literally 2 much toncompartmentalize w accelerators variable calculus and the fact that at any moment all the research can be invalidated simply because u were off by 1/1.0e11 of a fraction of the actual findings. Which can be frustrating beyond belief