Thermodynamics: Crash Course History of Science #26

It's time to heat things up! LITERALLY! It's time for Hank to talk about the history of Thermodynamics!!! It's messy and there are a lot of people who came up with some ideas that worked and other that didn't and then some ideas that should have come first actually were figured out second.
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[@cryptocoinkiwi8272]

1:28 "In fact Ether was the explanation for many unknown phenomena in the 18th century." The year 2215: "In fact Dark Matter was the explanation for many unknown phenomena in the 21st century"

[@declan765]

" In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics"

[@gravityvertigo13579]

"What did you do on your honeymoon?" "Man you KNOW I forced water through a perforated cylinder." "Niiiiiiice"

[@marinarosario8855]

The romance nowadays is so... Cold

[@BillySugger1965]

Love the animation of Joule’s honeymoon. Great work guys! 😂😂😂

[@hedgehog3180]

This episode makes it more understandable how scientists at the time thought that they were just on the brink of solving science and creating a unified theory of everything. Like thermodynamics just showed up and suddenly made a ton of connections, it seemed only a matter of time and experimentation before we'd have a working theory of everything. However ovens happened.

[@thejesuschrist]

Science!

[@armorsmith43]

It looks like Joule’s wife wanted to measure the heat produced by reciprocating linear motion.

[@LuisSierra42]

She wanted to study friction

[@oldcowbb]

piston motion

[@ice9743]

I thought of an idea for a new little side series: Crash Course Spotlight. It would be a series where people who were talked about in different crash course series get their own videos to be talked about in more depth. So for example Hank Green and Dr. Somara would have an episode where they talk about Nicolas Carnot (as he was talked about in both the Engineering series and here on the History of Science series). They would go over his importance to both of those series, and then go into more detail about his life and work. It could even just be added material for the Crash Course Recess series as well. Either way I think it would be nice to give light to how the work of different people have shaped many fields in multiple ways.

[@rubaiyattasnim1297]

This is such a great idea! I second this

[@85aksiznarf]

I know this comment is a little bit older but yes!!! I'd love this.

[@SomethingStrange1579]

Wishing everyone a wonderful week

[@voldlifilm]

Same to you!

[@patelkashyap1708]

Same to you..

[@swapnilkagane1307]

How diverse topic you teach...... From ethics to thermodynamics..... To the point ... Cristal clear .... Hats off.... Love from India......

[@lipton1cetea]

What a feeling when you get a video from both John and Hank on the same day

[@SakurabaAyane]

yo who's John? asking for a friend.

[@jsly621]

AngerinDoll John is both a particle and a wave, but is neither until observed.

[@apocalypseofoto]

Thermodynamics... That's lit ! 🔥

[@flamedragon07]

I love the new History of Science of series. Hank you out did yourself again. Keep it up.

[@TheTechnicalNirl]

Such a wonderful series, thank you very much for that extra bit of knowledge!

[@Qrow022]

just spent a marathon watching his videos from 6 years ago, and hes so old now! So precious :)

[@Leyshire]

This series is so good! Thank you!

[@djb903]

This series is the best crash course yet

[@rtt1961]

I love this guy. Great presentation style.

[@seanmortazyt]

so well written & presented!

[@kimberlymartinez4067]

It's so interesting to learn about the history of all sciences, especially the laws of thermodynamics and how they came to be.

[@perfectplayingplaids]

Working on his honeymoon... Joule was on his grind gotta respect that ☺️🙂

[@JohnSmith-nc9ep]

I love this series :D

[@unleashingpotential-psycho9433]

This channel is amazing.

[@jacoblepley9966]

I needed this last week wtf

[@MinaHaroun]

I hope by the end of this series you guys would have managed to produce a timeline wall ornament, I would definitely buy a dozen.

[@bindusrireddy1928]

loved it !

[@aspiahmacaurog4354]

This video explain on how thermodynamics works. As of now, we all know that the branch of physical science that deals with the relations between heat and other forms of energy such us mechanical, electrical, or chemical energy and by extension of the relationship between all forms of energy is the thermodynamics. Altoine Lavoisier used the caloric theory which he explained heat transfer as an either colorless fluid that migrated from a body at a higher temperature to one another. Thanks for this video. What a brilliant idea!

[@ericBorja520]

I always find it interesting how the language of science changes over time. In these videos, Hank says things like "X scientist called this phenomenon Y, which we today know as Z".

[@nicolasoliveira1305]

Great video! Greetings from Brazil

[@mrseanpaul81]

Can't wait for you to get into the "black body problem" ! :) (yes I am "History of science" nerd, been studying this stuff on my own time for years!!!)

[@kjonesusmc]

Can Crash Course please do a series on International Relations?!?!?! It would be so perfect if CC would help teach us how different people have explained the interactions between nations, how economics play a part in our decisions, or even how the international institutions such as the UN are "supposed" work.

[@zidani.s6712]

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[@aaaaaaaaaa4097]

Perfect, i took this exam yesterday :)

[@SakurabaAyane]

More thermodynamics!!! MORE!

[@IIGrayfoxII]

Homer: Lisa get in here, In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics

[@aBigBadWolf]

The unfixed/fixed collar has me go crazy!

[@Kayclau]

I just realized that, since this is both a science series and a history series, shouldn't it be hosted by both Hank and John Green?

[@johnblunt6693]

It would have been cool

[@vita2791]

“He did cool research on some pretty hot topics” I see what you did there😌

[@entropyz5242]

7:51 his wife is livid. Wonder what she wants?

[@hannahc3317]

Well, he's conducting actual science expriments during their honeymoon. That's probably why she's mad.

[@rendezvousonmemorylane]

Maybe she wants him to experiment with her! ;)

[@harpsitardo]

Some friction of her own, no doubt...

[@24680kong]

He's not scoodlipooping like he's supposed to be doing on his honeymoon.

[@archmageluk5086]

She wants some THERMO DYNAMIC action

[@geoffreywinn4031]

Educational!

[@michealmoody9734]

8:23 "well that escalated quickly"

[@masontromero]

Can you do something on Pictorialism--the history of Fine Arts Photography???

[@Senio6667]

Merry Pizzamass Dank-o Hank-o

[@SunriseFireberry]

Thermo- and then electro- and then quantum electro- and then.... Dynamism, gotta love it!

[@donavanblue9247]

Is it bad that I soooo excited & interested with this video? as I live in a rural city in ky I am almost a freaking unicorn

[@LetsTakeWalk]

I’m patiently waiting for the heatdeath of the universe.

[@ryuuzaki24]

explaining thermodynamics without mentioning Boltzmann; had no idea that this was possible ;)

[@zippyanimations2287]

Wow, what a *hot* topic.

[@mollydugan6144]

Could you guys please do a whole series on Marie Lavoisier?

[@wesleyrm76]

So, Joule's experiments yielded four of...himself? I'm guessing the unit hadn't been named after him yet. What unit was he actually using for work, foot-pounds?

[@lindavilmaole5003]

"Thermodynamics united Chemistry and Physics the way Principia united united mathematics and astronomy!" Thanks, Hank Green!

[@skylight6820]

Linda Vilma Ole This video very means alot to all of us. Especially fir those students:) thanks to mr.hank:) Now, we are aware that the first Law of Thermodynamics or Conservation states that energy is always conserved, it cannot be created or destroyed. In essence, energy can be converted from one form into another. As of now we all know that the branch of physical science that deals with the relations between heat and other forms of energy such as mechanical, electrical, or chemical energy and, by extension, of the relationships between all forms of energy is the Thermodynamics. Im addition to, during my CBP I've for my physics instructor that the dynamis is the causes of motion, so definitely the energy movement is caused by the thermodynamics, the word dynamics.

[@janalmamogcaraoador3287]

"The musconception of many regarding air-conditioned room were they said that if the door will be open, the cold temperature will go out, so it should be closed otherwise." It is badly a big mistake. It is actually because of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics which states that the cold temperature will never flow on hot temperature, thus it is the heat temperature that flows on. In this reason, it wrong that the cold temperature from a air-conditioned room will go out, yet it is the heat temperature that goes in, physically. The discovery of Thermodynamics enjoined the different chemists, physicist, mathematicians and engineers to engage on this field. Rumford who contributed on how heat was made where he used to bore a Canon and identify heat as a Calory. It was then recognized as a wrong idea since heat is actually energy. The idea on steam also were actually used to make objects move like the used of machines with steam engines. Thanks to this ideas. They're unexceptional brilliant people.

[@ainiebaldecasa8800]

Thermodynamics or the physics of heat temperature energy and and work doesn't really have a Darwin and Wallace. Antoine Lavoisier used the caloric theory which he explained heat transfer as an ether or colorless fluid that migrated from a body at a higher temperature to one. However, the video inspires me because I don't have any background regarding heat. But now thankfully I saw the video. Thanks to the brilliant ideas.

[@jeamilainidal714]

How ironic to think on how they study this thermodynamics, If i were in their time i am absolutely dumb founded, just imagine HEAT will gave importance to study? But well anyway due to their curiousity we have huge knowledge about this thing. If they dont study this, we will not know about temperatures which is somehow very important for us to our health and safety. I am very much proud of those people who contributed in this topic.

[@klay3994]

We are so lucky that we havent the people who are in that time that Thermodynamics werent discovered yet. Very thankful to the scientists who discoverd it. and also this video is so amazing.

[@joryjones6808]

This is the best food for my Boltzmann brain. 🧠

[@nantukoprime]

Wish they had covered Maxwell's Demon. Would have been easy to animate the concept. Plus, you could connect 19th century Thermodynamics to modern computing. I understand though, as the research into Thermodynamics is complicated enough without bringing in theories trying to discredit the Second Law.

[@ahobbitstail7022]

Love the content. Please adjust the theme volume. The lecture is one level and the title and credit music is dramatically louder. Not so nice with my headphones.

[@mikerich32]

Why isn't episode 25 available to watch?

[@jokertokyo7145]

I'm in high school in Turkey and were studying this stuff

[@felipeecheverria3675]

Where are Boltzmann and Maxwell, and statistical mechanics? I think that’s very important if you want to talk later about Quantum Mechanics!!

[@gogolplex8576]

Yes, statistical mechanics was very important in showing, that the new field of thermodynamics is still connected to classical mechanics

[@felipeecheverria3675]

@@tumbleddry2887 I mean that both were cruccial in this discipline, but yeah, Maxwell is best known for mathematical formalization

[@beatnik09]

No mention of Gibbs. 0/10 try again. Just kidding, great episode!

[@camiloiribarren1450]

Thermodynamics, what we need for winter. Pun definitely intended

[@feynstein1004]

Hey no shoutout to my boi Adam Smith? Economics is a science too. Well, sort of.

[@user-bd4ei9lq6w]

a messy room isn't caused by entropy until you set it on fire

[@thatonemajin3578]

2:49-2:54 2 hours? *PFFT!* amateur. Drilling holes happen to be my specialty.

[@macpollen]

Can I print this video out please

[@AndrewPeddie]

In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

[@sombal1999]

I remember every name from class!

[@jorgecuervo24]

Im taking thermodynamics this semester.

[@Daddyiscool450]

jorgecuervo24 good for u

[@Froggeh92]

Press F to pay respect

[@nehemyah6986]

6:45 - 6:47 NANI!!!

[@jrsydvl7218]

2:53 ha, barrel twist.

[@tweaker1bms]

And here I thought the First Law of Thermodynamics was that "You do not talk about Thermodynamics"? :P

[@Ngamotu83]

So when I opened this video there were zero likes or dislikes. So rather than waiting til the end of the video, I had to upvote it, just to get things going. :D

[@Garland41]

Episteme? Perhaps a nod towards Foucault?

[@LateNightPoetry]

Why did you chuckle when mentioning how tragic it was that Carnot died at 36? Lol

[@metallipwn]

Water boiling doesn’t make it less of a great insulator cuz it actually is an amazing insulator

[@fionafiona1146]

But it's 25x worse than air, defining our understanding of insulation.

[@metallipwn]

fiona fiona In what regard? In terms of specific heat capacity, no. Water isn’t an excellent insulator but it does have a higher specific heat capacity than air at atmospheric conditions. If you leave air open to the atmosphere it isn’t a great conductor but if you keep it contained it’s a better conductor than water

[@fionafiona1146]

@@metallipwn So that's why there is air in my halogen light bulbs and water between 3 layers of window? I am pretty sure lighting strikes are as straight as they are because they happen to prefer rain water for conducting over open air.

[@metallipwn]

fiona fiona Electrical conductance isn’t energy conductance. Halogen lightbulbs work because inert gases aren’t as chemically reactive as air.

[@metallipwn]

fiona fiona It should be noted that pure water is a terrible electrical conductor. Ionic impurities allow water to act as a conductor of electricity.

[@maria-lz3he]

This episode doesn't have english subtitles :(

[@GuilhermeVieiraSechat]

No Boltzmann ? Well, I hope you guys have reserved an introduction in quantum mechanics chapter...

[@memento896]

hmmm @9:39 i think it Celsius with an S sound not K

[@roof2093]

8:46 Kelvin was sort of Scottish, but he was probably more Irish, despite his association with Glasgow

[@XpnLef]

I would be included Boltzmann.

[@yanchen9796]

3:26 “...of umm the ...”

[@ms.rstake_1211]

WHAT'S HAPPENING TO CC THEATER⁉ 😕😞

[@davedevosbaarle]

No mention of the zeroth law and the third law. But perhaps this is intentional, because these date from in 20th century (resp. 1912 and 1935).

[@zhubajie6940]

Thermo Huzzah!!!

[@fantasticmio]

Galileo, Newton, Watt, they were geniuses all / without them we'd be freezing in the dark at the mall...

[@Omega3131]

Nah. Liebnitz did a lot of the work Newton did and everything these guys discovered would have been discovered by someone else not long after if not at the same time.

[@wedfrest]

*sigh* the old entropy is the measure of disorder trope

[@rgaleny]

IN THE BEGINNING OF THE UNIVERSE , ENTROPY TENDS TO A MINIMUM

[@LiamWarlord]

Why no boltzman

[@Loremastrful]

Skipped over the zeroth law? That's a shame. It is really instructive on how we build on assumptions. And some times the most obvious and intuitive can escape our notice even in modern times.

[@koalabean3]

Turn on the captions for a lot of talk about "car nose"

[@Marylandbrony]

The frist law of Thermodyamics is that we don't talk about about Thermodyamics.

[@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself]

The first rule of Math Club is don't talk about Math Club. The second rule of Math Club is multiplication distributes over addition.

[@shanelackey5871]

😂😂😂 Damn

[@alohathaxted]

But you can hum Electrohydrodynamics.

[@DaDunge]

First law of thermodynamics is about which order you assume/justify them, the second law is nonsense without the first law. A mere observation. It's not about the order they were discovered.

[@EdwardCree]

Wot, no Gibbs?

[@NicksSkillz]

Exspearamints

[@pharaujojr]

Forgot bout our man Boltzmann

[@lancethrustworthy]

Monsieur Carnot's notes, buried with him, should be recovered.

[@retsz]

No free lunches.

[@bowVance]

Does Hank’s collar not bother anyone else?!

[@kucsabri]

I dont even have class on thermodynamics, why am i here

[@josephhargrove4319]

On why it took so long for the theory of caloric to be abandoned, remember (to paraphrase Max Planck): Science progresses one funeral at a time. richard hargrove -- 10² + 11² + 12² = 13² + 14²

[@shane1489]

Lord Kelvin or Lord Calvert?

[@germanenriquez8891]

Is it me or Hank's voice sounds deeper or just different?

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

Not a single mention of Maxwell? You're just messing with me now,