I Calculated Absolute Zero With Vodka
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Published 2020-06-18
You can find absolute zero experimentally by taking a fixed amount of gas and measuring it's volume at different temperatures while keeping the pressure fixed. It makes use of the ideal gas law (pv=nRT) or Charles's Law.
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All Comments (21)
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1) OK, so I didn't know there was such a thing as "absolute hot" or Plank Temperature. Interesting! 2) There's a typo in the footnote. It should read "trippple point of watter". The sponsor is NordVPN. Get 70% off a 3 year plan with this link: nordvpn.com/steve and use the promo code "steve" to get 1 additional month free.
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My lab professor used to say "a week in the lab can save you an hour in the library!"
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10:59 one bottle for calculating absolute zero, another bottle for reading the comments after the video goes up.
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You know, I am a bit of a scientist myself. I remember that time I used vodka and got to the point when I stopped moving or even jiggling about.
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I'm so glad you didn't get -273.128 or something like that. So many videos make it seem like the first go was perfect, but I love how you explained your experimental errors, tried to rectify it etc. Otherwise future potential scientists might feel put down when their experiments doesn't work out 100%
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“Not on the Fahrenheit scale, that is stupid.” - Made my day
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great choice, vodka has been helping people achieve absolute 0 on the scale of dignity for ages
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I did something like this at Physics A-Level, I got 0K=-600°C 😭
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Steve, love your nerdy videos - you’re basically fitting a line: y = ax + b using two points which gives you both a and b, thus a graph would have helped the explanation.
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"No such thing as negative jiggle" you've never seen me dance. Well, attempt to dance.
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"...if you're trying to work out something for yourself, it's helpful if someone has already done a much better job." said no Fellow of the Royal Society ever.
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"There's no such thing as negative jiggle." This is my new favorite phrase. I need this on a t-shirt with the lattice of molecules and Steve's face to go with it.
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"There are a number of ways to improve this experiment" Yeah, drink the vodka.
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I can just imagine the huge grin on Steve's face when he went to the bottle shop to purchase some vodka for this experiment and saw the bottle of Absolut Vodka.
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When your wife finds your Vodka bong and you have to devise a story that it's all for "an experiment"
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I love this as it goes through the trial, error and improvements that people can make in experiments.
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"...if you're trying to work out something for yourself, it's really helpful if someone else has done a much better job". Words to live by.😁
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So -297 C is Absolute Zero on the Parker scale, also known as Parker Zero
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"Not Fahrenheit. That's stupid." Americans: angry pingu face
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Really done nicely. Very informative, very demonstrative 👍
