Knocking Electrons With Light-The Photoelectric Effect

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  • @jdenseje5181
    @jdenseje5181 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1501

    Its impossible to say anything bad about this guy. Hes just so smart and wholesome

    • @Gunsandscience
      @Gunsandscience 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      Unless u hate science

    • @aaa-vx8ke
      @aaa-vx8ke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      The only thing is some of his thumbnails but otherwise he’s good

    • @MD-qs3mp
      @MD-qs3mp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Nerd?

    • @trucid2
      @trucid2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      His eyes are so close together it's weird. Once you see it you can't unsee.

    • @jdenseje5181
      @jdenseje5181 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      @@trucid2 i dont think we should judge this guy by the amount of centimeters between his eyes. Hes made it clear at this point that we should judge him from whats inside, and from my perspective this guy is extremely clever and a nice person

  • @brandonpillay9025
    @brandonpillay9025 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    I like how you don't spoon feed us with animations. You actually give us a demonstration. Thank you for putting so much of effort into what you do ❤️

    • @kazukawasaki97
      @kazukawasaki97 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I like animations but alot of them are decieving,some of them manipulate me into thinking I understand but in reality I never understood but my curiosity has been satisfied,but yhen I sit to replicate the thing and find loopholes and it makes me demotivated and restless

    • @juansinaga6470
      @juansinaga6470 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kazukawasaki97 can you give me examples of animations that are deceiving? I also love watching animations to visualize what's really happening, but I think it's better for me to know when it could actually be misleading.

    • @kazukawasaki97
      @kazukawasaki97 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@juansinaga6470 idk, I don't remember what I was referring to, but here only a very common depiction of photons as genuine balls of stuff collide aur displace electrons is a pretty common animation which is wrong
      Another common one I can remember is to show how refraction works but most of them are correct with the theory and for the wrong ones the underlying theory itself is wrongly understood
      Another stupid method of showing relative space time fabric with real life membranes and a balls is wrong as well

  • @doctorpanigrahi9975
    @doctorpanigrahi9975 3 ปีที่แล้ว +349

    What I like about this channel is that he is quite frugal when it comes to explaining complex things. The low production budget makes it more interesting.

    • @notquiteordinary
      @notquiteordinary 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Like when he built an entire room and purchased enough extremely expensive paint to paint it twice?

    • @doctorpanigrahi9975
      @doctorpanigrahi9975 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@notquiteordinary Yes.

    • @paulmaydaynight9925
      @paulmaydaynight9925 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      put another way, the best practical mentor's stip away the complicated by design elitistic lexicon's ,shows you the end results, then takes you through 'the back to basics' core building blocks reconstruction

    • @katiebarber407
      @katiebarber407 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      totally agree. working class content 💪

    • @g-division5195
      @g-division5195 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@paulmaydaynight9925 imo, that's one of the things missing in a lot of schools. Mixing theoretical and practical makes the courses easier to digest and more fun tbh.

  • @sagittario5543
    @sagittario5543 3 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    Being a JEE Aspirant, I learnt this recently but never knew how exactly it worked.

    • @davidgarrett4327
      @davidgarrett4327 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Being a NEET Aspirant, i learnt this recently but never knew how exactly it worked.

    • @prashanthm1707
      @prashanthm1707 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same bro

    • @IntrovertCoder
      @IntrovertCoder 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      kya hua bhaiya.... nit iit kuch mila kya 😭😭😭

    • @aryadebchatterjee5028
      @aryadebchatterjee5028 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@davidgarrett4327 paganini in the house

    • @uspoint6466
      @uspoint6466 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Being a Bangladeshi Engineering Aspirant, I learnt this recently but never knew how exactly it worked.

  • @Gemini-Lion
    @Gemini-Lion 3 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    I really like how he explains these super complex phenomenons in a way that simplifies it down to easy-to-understand terms. The practical way of showing it definitely helps as well.

    • @jonslg240
      @jonslg240 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This video literally deserves 100x+ more views than it has

  • @simonepernice8059
    @simonepernice8059 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This channel is great. After 30 years, I eventually understood the reason why I had to put my EEPROM with quartz window below UV light to erase it before programming again. Thank you so much!

  • @paulkocyla1343
    @paulkocyla1343 3 ปีที่แล้ว +761

    That´s exactly how a laser printer works:
    A drum is negatively charged, then a laser (or a LED bar) kicks out electrons off this drum corresponding to the printing pattern, toner is beeing released and attracted by the charge, forming a physical image on the drum, then the toner is rolled out onto the positively charged paper and finally cooked in with heat by another drum. The hairy wires at the printer´s ass discharge the paper to ground, so it won´t get sticky. That easy :)

    • @truestopguardatruestop164
      @truestopguardatruestop164 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Thanks for sharing this!

    • @MrSoldiersideBR
      @MrSoldiersideBR 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Wow. That's awesome! I never really understood how they worked. Thanks a lot!

    • @wizard_dynamo
      @wizard_dynamo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Knew it.

    • @vivekyadav
      @vivekyadav 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      :O thanks so much! Although I knew laser drum is charged or discharged using laser, but only now it finally makes sense. Hairy wires at the printer's ass rofl!

    • @snakecodm7249
      @snakecodm7249 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dope

  • @erokson9412
    @erokson9412 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'd like to give Thanks to James for showing us educational videos with layman's terms. I've always been interested in science but never to a course in school. As a 33 year old man still learning things new everyday , they are quick and simple and easy to understand. Thank you so much for your time and effort James ! You da Man!

  • @googelman
    @googelman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +665

    the electrons must be traumatized after bumping into all of those photons

    • @necaton
      @necaton 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      i dont think electrons can get traumatized because you need neurons for this. maybe there are small neurons inside an electron but im not sure.

    • @necaton
      @necaton 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@googelman but what if they really get traumatized and we just don't know it. poor little electrons :/

    • @Yusso
      @Yusso 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      What if electrons are small planets with living creatures on them? They all get traumatized.

    • @light-.-
      @light-.- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Quantum physics are so broken from our laws that anything can happen we just dont have tye technology to find it out

    • @NueUzrnem
      @NueUzrnem 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Then you're just a terrible person. Your brain is constantly humiliating billions electrons 😢. And you just humiliated few hundreds while reading this.

  • @JohnAltenburg
    @JohnAltenburg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is the best video on the internet regarding the relationship between the photoelectric effect and positive/negative charge. Thank you. I learned something.

  • @XWurstbrotX
    @XWurstbrotX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    The positive charges are electron "holes" instead of protons. The protons are always in the core and do not move.
    So touching the plate with the positively charged rod actually drains the electrons from the plate to balance out the charges, leaving a net + charge on the plate.

    • @Jagzeplin
      @Jagzeplin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      thank you. i thought that part was off

    • @johnathancorgan3994
      @johnathancorgan3994 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Indeed, I was surprised he got this wrong. In these kinds of static electricity experiments, it's always electron movement.

    • @bijeshshrestha2450
      @bijeshshrestha2450 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Was gonna ask this

    • @mayankchhaperwal4108
      @mayankchhaperwal4108 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I think he is still right because he didn't mention transferring protons, he only mentions "extra protons on the plate". Which is true because generally the plate will be neutral and electrons and protons will be equal in number. But by stripping away the electrons, we will have extra protons on the plate which are unbalanced. So he mentions only flow of positive charge and not protons.

    • @noumenon6923
      @noumenon6923 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s not correct. “Electron holes” in physics refers to positrons (anti matter),…. which is no where in this experiment.

  • @John14-6...
    @John14-6... 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ive heard the wave/particle explanation a million times but the last 30 seconds of the video was extremely facinating because I've never heard it said like that. I kept rewinding it until I could grasp its meaning

  • @martinmespiespinosa7218
    @martinmespiespinosa7218 3 ปีที่แล้ว +270

    Great practical explanation of the "quantum bounce"
    Remember always wear eye and skin protection if your in the same room with a functional UV-C light source.

    • @acrinacrin6925
      @acrinacrin6925 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      or it will blow your mind away
      oops I meant electrons away*

    • @sleeptyper
      @sleeptyper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@acrinacrin6925 "Welder's eye" is not a joke...

    • @Qaptyl
      @Qaptyl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@sleeptyper well not if it isnt a dark joke... but if you can make it funny...
      then it can become-

    • @BioTheHuman
      @BioTheHuman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yeah, it surprised that he uses it without any protection. That thing can give cancer 😅☠️

    • @Qaptyl
      @Qaptyl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@acrinacrin6925 im sorry about the inconvenience, let me mention that your joke is indeed very funny

  • @Metal_Master_YT
    @Metal_Master_YT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    this is the coolest experiment I have seen in, probably my whole life.

  • @MUMLERSIYAS
    @MUMLERSIYAS 3 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    I love Him.., he's the Best Chemistry and Physics Teacher Anyone Can Have...😃

    • @kiddbeamerboy9139
      @kiddbeamerboy9139 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Facts I learned a lot from him and I don't get tired of him I watch every one of his vids ever since the first time I subbed to him

    • @ayushnakod2092
      @ayushnakod2092 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This topic comes in chemistry bro

    • @kahe7436
      @kahe7436 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Only science interested people watch his videos

    • @kiddbeamerboy9139
      @kiddbeamerboy9139 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@kahe7436 actually I wasn't really interested in science when I started watching him before I subbed but as time went my I'm like lemmi just sub and now I watch his videos and I'm interested in these new physics and science stuff it's really cool

    • @catdisc5304
      @catdisc5304 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Weirdly I love his videos too. I think his voice is super annoying but I can't stop watching his videos lol there's something interesting about the way he delivers things, despite his annoying, cheese grating voice

  • @EricHorchuck
    @EricHorchuck 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That was the first time, in all the years I've been into this that a particle was explained this way. GREAT JOB! 👍👍

  • @ashwinsingh5805
    @ashwinsingh5805 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    This video taught me more than my high school teachers did ..It could be explained so simply but still schools dont and just keep us theoritising things

  • @sreenathjohnsonsaysnotolgbtq
    @sreenathjohnsonsaysnotolgbtq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Understanding things practically is the easiest way to understand things. Unfortunately not everyone can have all these Apparatus that's why I and many others would like to thankyou for what you are doing GOD BLESS ✝️.

  • @westonding8953
    @westonding8953 3 ปีที่แล้ว +192

    Note when he means extra protons, he means that electrons had left the surface.

    • @nicename6258
      @nicename6258 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      5:40 hes gonna "knock" these positive charges off but they're too large so it's much harder 0.o

    • @yashdiniz
      @yashdiniz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@nicename6258 at 6:00 he also says that charges from his hand will move back to the surface. He never wanted to knock off the protons from there, he wanted to move the charges from his hand...

    • @nicename6258
      @nicename6258 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@yashdiniz he meant it's much easier for the negative charge to move to the surface than knocking the positive charges off

    • @shruthisrikumar5907
      @shruthisrikumar5907 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      OK got it

    • @freexky
      @freexky 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      i don't think he's doing it right, he should wrap the uvc light bulb in tinfoil so no light can shine through and try the same. If it still has the same effect you are just watching the light bulb electric field effect

  • @ishakawade9100
    @ishakawade9100 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    thanks a lot i was so frustrated at this since months, this is a topic of chemistry in my syllabus and no teacher was actually going into the details and so even sometimes in the live demonstrations i barely get anything but i am just so happy for the first time i got something thank u!

  • @HamzaKhan-nk8hx
    @HamzaKhan-nk8hx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1150

    This guy teaches more physics than schools

    • @maxtube444
      @maxtube444 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes

    • @aashitAgrawal
      @aashitAgrawal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Only difference is schools teaches theory, he shows us practically

    • @literallyafuckingspoon8801
      @literallyafuckingspoon8801 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      pay attention in class

    • @aadarsh_chaurasia
      @aadarsh_chaurasia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Bro this topic is in high school physical chemistry syllabus

    • @maxtube444
      @maxtube444 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@literallyafuckingspoon8801 Okay I’ll pay attention to inappropriate fish parts
      *so useful*

  • @dominicestebanrice7460
    @dominicestebanrice7460 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow! I've watched literally dozens of TH-cam videos, TV documentaries and read multiple articles trying to get my head around the "wave-particle duality of light" thing and, even though I know that wasn't the central theme of this video, at the end you nailed it better than any presentation of it I've seen before. The key was differentiating the high frequency vs the lower frequency of the EMS in terms of particle & wave tendencies. Seriously insightful & helpful.

  • @damiangreen299
    @damiangreen299 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Fantastic presentation! This is the first experiment I've seen showing how you can differentiate between positive and electric charge buildup and makes the connection about how they must have determined what interacts with it (light), besides other charge.

    • @karhukivi
      @karhukivi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That is what Benjamin Franklin did back in 1775 or thereabouts. Unfortunately his choice of terms for positive and negative were called the wrong way around as later the discovery of the electron, which carries the flow of current, was negative!

    • @paradiselost9946
      @paradiselost9946 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@karhukivi it isnt the "wrong way around".
      what is "negative" but an arbitrary term to describe a phenomenon? it could just have easily been called male and female. or black and white. or anything, simply to define two opposites, give them a name.
      are electrons bad? no? well, are protons bad then? because isnt negative also a synonym for "bad"? so which are teh "good, positive" ones?
      see? negative. positive. just words. no direction.
      oh, you mean the "conventional" versus "true" current flow?

    • @karhukivi
      @karhukivi ปีที่แล้ว

      @@paradiselost9946 Perhaps in literature and the arts "negative" means something undesirable, but not in maths or science. Black and white and male and female were already being used in science. Electrical connectors are still called male and female. In Franklin's day they did talk about silk and wool charges, when static electricity was being studied, but thankfully that terminology didn't last!

  • @academicalisthenics
    @academicalisthenics 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oh wow, what an amazing physics experiment demonstration!
    I was looking for something like this for ages!

  • @CordaroRodriguez
    @CordaroRodriguez 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    This fractured my brain. And I have no regrets. Lol. Especially at the end where he answered a question I pondered for so long without finding a way to articulate it, regarding radio waves and ultraviolet particles. Of course this is generating a flurry of new questions. 🤔🤔

    • @hassaanbangash4294
      @hassaanbangash4294 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Love when that happens. The questions never stop, but that's the fun part. Hopefully you now have a bit more clarity to tackle life with :)

    • @onderozenc4470
      @onderozenc4470 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dear Corrado, what is happening in this experiment is somewhat similar to mechanical experiment to rolling beads up an height without enough kinetic energy to overcome this height. No matter what the number of the beads that you are rolling up the height without sufficient energy are, none of them will be able to make it throught the height and detected at the other side of the height unless at least one of them has the enough kinetic energy to overcome this height.

    • @errvega2705
      @errvega2705 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      well at least it now has a crease from that fracture

    • @tobyclayton2597
      @tobyclayton2597 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You beat me to it :). That same question has sort of bothered me for years.

  • @RosiePosey5150
    @RosiePosey5150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love how smart and wholesome he is. Also he really simplifies it and it help my grandma understand what interests me.

  • @L_e_o
    @L_e_o 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    I just turned in a paper on Albert Einstein yesterday!!
    This effect was one of the sections I included, because of his paper in 1905. How crazy.

    • @unitedspacepirates9075
      @unitedspacepirates9075 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Crazy is paying off student loans while information on TH-cam is better than the university teachers.

    • @L_e_o
      @L_e_o 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@unitedspacepirates9075 my professor is awesome thankfully. It's actually a class on physics in science fiction. Pretty cool

    • @illfightforfreedom2954
      @illfightforfreedom2954 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      🍀goodluck 🤞🏼🤞🏼

    • @illfightforfreedom2954
      @illfightforfreedom2954 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @red dunkey but it’s a start 😉😘

  • @darpanchoudhary5719
    @darpanchoudhary5719 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Literally studied this yesterday and here comes the practical 😀

  • @sevegarza
    @sevegarza 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    This is a science fair winner if I ever saw one.

    • @polyculeman
      @polyculeman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      This was a noble prize winner

    • @klimatsabeltand4780
      @klimatsabeltand4780 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@polyculeman By the loopy genius himself

    • @klimatsabeltand4780
      @klimatsabeltand4780 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      wait he actually mentioned Einstein in it mb. (ofc he did I am stupid)

  • @punkaj
    @punkaj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Never thought the photoelectric effect could be demonstrated in such a simple method. This guy is genius. 🔥

  • @coltrinculo703
    @coltrinculo703 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I think generally a good goal is to try and not remove or add protons to atoms, that is called nuclear fission or fusion and is generally not a good thing to do near humans

    • @megafefeBR
      @megafefeBR 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Ik right? If protons are moving (not "transforming" thats another story) its probably Alpha decay, where two protons( along with two neutros) are ejected (yeeted away) from the nucleus, and it doesnt need fusion or fission to happen, and alpha particles cant penetrate the human skin. But still, it has nothing to do with the photoelectic effect.
      The positive charge is actually caused by "holes" in the electron shell, meaning, a place where there should be an electron, but there isnt one. That "non-particle" cant be hit by photons, and therefore cant be knocked off by light, since it cant *create electrons out of nowhere*

    • @karhukivi
      @karhukivi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't worry, you won't do that with UV light or even gamma rays. The particles in the nucleus (protons, neutrons) are held by very strong forces, much larger than that which holds the orbital electrons, as demonstrated in this video.

  • @valetv2208
    @valetv2208 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It blows my mind how intelligent this man is. Always keeps me coming back to watch move. You’re amazing, keep being you!

  • @fatherson1535
    @fatherson1535 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I am reading NCERT Book about photo electric effect and you just uploaded a video ,that's awesome

  • @strangedarkmysteries4462
    @strangedarkmysteries4462 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love the way he is so excited about the experiments he does.

  • @ayantiwari5718
    @ayantiwari5718 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I literally took up the phone to study photoelectric effect but went to youtube instead and first thing I see is this video . TH-cam can read minds , it's official .

  • @paulalbares643
    @paulalbares643 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You said something that finally cleared up some confusion for me. All the time when others spoke of light as a particle, as photons, I imagined it as a discrete particle but the way you describe it, as a very short wavelength of electromagnetic energy makes more sense to me, just as a burst of high frequency pulses from a radar transmitter are represented by pulses and not the interwoven cycles of the electromagnetic energy waves that make up the pulse.
    As an aside, in the "old days" we used to use gas filled tubes such as your neon tube you used as a voltage regulator. Once the discharge potential caused the tube to conduct the voltage drop across the tube would remain the same regardless of the input, within certain parameters.

  • @janman1110333
    @janman1110333 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    In case you ever wondered, this is in a nutshell how plants make use out of sunlight. Amazing.

    • @westonding8953
      @westonding8953 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Photosynthesis.

    • @virtualguy2702
      @virtualguy2702 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@westonding8953 wow you know big words

    • @westonding8953
      @westonding8953 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@virtualguy2702 Yep. Lol. Actually, I am curious to know whether it is possible for humans to duplicate the process more efficiently.

    • @virtualguy2702
      @virtualguy2702 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@westonding8953 wait now I’m curious

    • @westonding8953
      @westonding8953 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@virtualguy2702 It's a pretty complicated process (as expected.) It also demonstrates Einstein's mass energy equivalence.

  • @RalphBrooker-gn9iv
    @RalphBrooker-gn9iv 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is absolutely excellent. Especially interesting towards the end when you discuss protocols for calling high energy (high frequency) particulate whilst low energy (low frequency radio waves) we call wavelike. This becomes important in the philosophy of science when we ask what sorts of interpretation should attribute to the background theories. Fantastic stuff. Thank you.

  • @luciferx19
    @luciferx19 3 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    I shared this excitingly to my physics teacher... Unfortunately, he read the comments.. I wonder what my grades would be now🤔

    • @StirlingLighthouse
      @StirlingLighthouse 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Hopefully your teacher also explained the dangers of playing with a UVC light too! Don't do it!

    • @nandagopalm7232
      @nandagopalm7232 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What's the issue with comments

    • @nandagopalm7232
      @nandagopalm7232 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @HyperNova lol

    • @puspamadak
      @puspamadak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @HyperNova Lol

    • @givemechoco9753
      @givemechoco9753 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @HyperNova lol

  • @melly1795
    @melly1795 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm a high school student studying the photoelectric effect, and now I understand it 1000× better than what my teacher taught in school, and it makes me love Science

  • @youractualdad9733
    @youractualdad9733 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Never knew about this item’s existence!! Thanks for teaching!!!

    • @ChessPotato49
      @ChessPotato49 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/mIRHMC3Zc2E/w-d-xo.html

  • @beepbeepgamer1305
    @beepbeepgamer1305 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In my school we are learning about the Bohr's atomic model and why it failed. Also we are learning about the einstein's explanation of photoelectric effect and black body radiation. This video is really helpful to me!

  • @chrisray1567
    @chrisray1567 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I never knew that low frequency radio waves can’t be detected as a particle. That’s really interesting.

    • @ErikBongers
      @ErikBongers ปีที่แล้ว

      @LunaticProgressMaker LOL! But if you weren't joking: a soundwave is a pressure wave, as in compressed air that travels the room from the instrument (the bass) into your ear, and makes your eardrum vibrate at that same frequency. A radio wave is an electromagnetic wave and can't be heard.

    • @LolRoboShotU
      @LolRoboShotU ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm curious, if that's the case, is the opposite true? High frequency gamma waves can't be detected as a wave?

    • @leoyousuf5509
      @leoyousuf5509 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LolRoboShotU I think so yes - cosmic rays

  • @tom_something
    @tom_something 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is an amazing demonstration. My one little nagging point is that white light is not inherently made of red, green, and blue light. The red, green, and blue buckets are man-made constructs based on how our eyes see light. If you had been using an RGB LED array, then the argument could be made, although RGB lights often emit a sort of "smear" of wavelengths. If you look at even an RGB LED emitting white light, you won't see three distinct stripes at red, green, and blue. It will be much more blurry than that.
    For example, a low-pressure sodium lamp emits yellow light. Most yellow things will appear red through a red filter and green through a green filter. Light from a low-pressure sodium lamp will appear black through both of those filters. Our eyes don't know the difference between pure yellow and red+green=yellow without an aide, but there _is_ a difference. If you had a blue laser and a low-pressure sodium lamp directing light on the same spot, in the right proportion, you might see "white". And if you looked at that light through a strict red or green filter, you'd see.... nothing. Because yellow isn't inherently red+green, either. The cones in our eyes have a broad sensitivity, which is good for seeing stuff in general, but we don't really _see_ stuff as they truly are. The universe is not bound to the RGB model of color as our eyes are.
    Our eyes and ears work on similar principles. Our eyes are sensitive to different wavelengths, and our eyes have pixels. Similarly, the interface between our cochlea and our brain is based on wavelengths. The difference is that our eyes have only three very broad wavelengths (types of cones) but lots and lots of pixels (the number of cones in the retina), whereas our ears have a huge number of wavelengths (the little hairs of different lengths) and only two pixels (the number of cochlea we have). Though we get a slight boost in spacial sensitivity because we subconsciously know which ear heard a sound first, by how much time, and also because all of those weird grooves and ripples in the outer ear filter the sound in a way that helps us learn to eke out more than just the left-right dimension.

  • @shadowoffire4307
    @shadowoffire4307 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    “Mark Twain famously said “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education(now it is TH-cam).” Is it time to reclaim our schools?

  • @Observer_Effect
    @Observer_Effect 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was the most wonderfully clean, human, and understandable description of the particle wave duality. And the behavior of electrons, and many other details of particle physics, that I've ever heard. Wow! Wonderfully done sir!

  • @joshuaprice1
    @joshuaprice1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    My school is teaching me about electricity in year 8. However, I completely understand this. Can you be my physics teacher?

    • @wizard_dynamo
      @wizard_dynamo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It's more like particle physics, but he truly makes it easy to understand.

    • @SwampDonkey225
      @SwampDonkey225 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Drop out of school while your still young son

  • @rajeshsingh-lq7hx
    @rajeshsingh-lq7hx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome, I am a student, This video clear my all doubt of photoelectric effect. THANKS A LOTS SIR 🙏🙏

  • @SaarthakVijayvargiya28
    @SaarthakVijayvargiya28 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Loved this channel... From INDIA..🇮🇳

  • @akhilnikhil773
    @akhilnikhil773 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    U made it so easy dude , i subscribed to ur channel 2 years ago and i see u r improving day by day with more experiments and their explanation theoretically
    Great work

  • @mukundanm2666
    @mukundanm2666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Also de broglie gave a nice concept for the wave particle duality

  • @duprie37
    @duprie37 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Congratulations! You're the first person ever to offer a visual demonstration of the reality of electrons. From your hair to the balloon to the plate. I could almost see them getting transferred in their little probabilistic quantum clouds. Awesome 👍😎

  •  3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    You can make a very simple electroscope with folded in half strip of aluminium foil, if I remember it correctly.

  • @itsumonihon
    @itsumonihon 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    8:53 onward was extremely enlightening. the earlier experiment was also very interesting as a practical visual demonstration of how the universe works.
    I find it totally fascinating that we can actually see the universe's physics like this with such an old-school kind of device.

  • @EzeTv813
    @EzeTv813 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I’ve been watching this guy for 5 years and I’d say he’s pretty damn good

  • @jesuiscey
    @jesuiscey 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’m amazed with your way of explaining. Well taught! I’ll make sure my classmates see this too

  • @tsarge_017
    @tsarge_017 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Me starting studying modern physics for my upcoming exam
    Action Lab : photoelectric effect
    *Coincidence?. .*

    • @YT_Admin_
      @YT_Admin_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same he always upload vdo's that i have been just studying

    • @nanafalke
      @nanafalke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A COINCIDENCE. THE FACT THAT YOU’RE WATCHING THIS VIDEO MEANS YOU’RE ENERGETICALLY ALIGNED WITH ME AND THIS MESSAGE. YOUR THOUGHTS CREATE YOUR REALITY. BUT YOU ALREADY KNEW THAT. YET, YOU STILL LIVE A LIFE THAT YOU DREAD [oh, excuse me…] 👀😳 [AAGHG] 👁👄👁 THAT IS BECAUSE, WHEN YOU VISUALIZE YOUR DREAM LIFE, YOU UNCONSCIOUSLY BELIEVE THAT IT IS UNREALISTIC.

    • @tsarge_017
      @tsarge_017 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nanafalke 👍🏻

    • @anantashrestha666
      @anantashrestha666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You should really study modern physics if you are interested and have curiosity, not just to pass for your exam.

    • @tsarge_017
      @tsarge_017 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@anantashrestha666 tf? Right now I would study according to my exam only right? And acc to u if I don't like modern physics I shouldn't study it? 😂🤡

  • @AyushGupta-lg9ob
    @AyushGupta-lg9ob 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am in class 11 and just completed this chapter yesterday ,it's give such a good practical knowledge!

  • @madhavj1320
    @madhavj1320 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Dude we just studied this at our school today!!!! Gr8 video btw

  • @akjhaenglishclasses1434
    @akjhaenglishclasses1434 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your best ever video happens to be ...like this one...as I came to fully understand the crucial things what yo u explained ..being in 10 th grade subscriber from India...!! Heartily Loved it..
    Abhinav Anand
    India

  • @ashraymodi836
    @ashraymodi836 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The topic is going on in my school thanks for sharing the same

  • @dipubalamurugan3331
    @dipubalamurugan3331 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    FINALLYY !! after 2 years i understand photoelectric effect properly
    THANKS A LOTT ACTION LAB :)

  • @NicoScorpio
    @NicoScorpio 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "Because a single photon in the radio frequency... " blew me away

    • @karhukivi
      @karhukivi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is possible that the human eye can detect a single photon, according to some sources. The faint light from distant stars is a stream of a few photons per second, how's that!!

  • @k_2187
    @k_2187 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    i was so blank with the photoelectric effect thing cuz there was no proper explaination at school, just a vague summary to kinda wrap up the topic for exams and that's it. But hey thanks to you, the video was really helpful :))

  • @dijasom
    @dijasom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is for me, the best experiment you have done so far.
    Thank you for sharing, this was very interesting to see.
    (the mirror room experiment to be fair, was equal to this one. that was cool as hell.)

  • @pollarr3240
    @pollarr3240 ปีที่แล้ว

    Omg i literally cant put my greatfullness into words right now! A bit THANK YOU ❤ Whenever my teacher teaches all this stuff and some kid asks some doubt or query, he himself doesnt know the answer and so he says just focus on the test..your weird doubts arent in the syllabus..people like u r angles

  • @_____983
    @_____983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I was studying photoelectric effect for my test and suddenly this popped up wow

    • @ChessPotato49
      @ChessPotato49 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/mIRHMC3Zc2E/w-d-xo.html

    • @ebrocoliphoto
      @ebrocoliphoto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      good luck with your test mate

    • @sabhyagoel8378
      @sabhyagoel8378 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Is your test on 11?

    • @infernogear571
      @infernogear571 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Good luck friend

    • @ChessPotato49
      @ChessPotato49 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ebrocoliphoto th-cam.com/video/mIRHMC3Zc2E/w-d-xo.html

  • @highonpotenuse3827
    @highonpotenuse3827 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is the first time I've seen photoelectric effect being demonstrated. It's amazing!

    • @jcwnnr
      @jcwnnr 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Let me blow your mind. The way that we see light coming from our phones and computer monitors is the photo electric effect. It's this idea in reverse. Electricity can emit photons too in LEDs. You've been seeing it for years and now your eyes are opened to what is happening. :D

  • @shikharkumar734
    @shikharkumar734 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I was studying this in my class

  • @Artcore103
    @Artcore103 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've heard about the wave/particle aspect of light for 20 years and I've never understood it in the way described here, this was really amazing. A whole new way (to me) of understanding that hard to grasp concept that actually makes some sense.

  • @brianlim1766
    @brianlim1766 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Jee aspirants like here🔥

  • @feelingzhakkaas
    @feelingzhakkaas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent experimental explanation.... God bless you

  • @calitts4708
    @calitts4708 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    So the Sun can discharge things just by looking at it angrily, nice

  • @antonybrun3845
    @antonybrun3845 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Incredible demonstration! I’ve never been able to visualise the photoelectric effect so well. Thank you

  • @invalidaccount6147
    @invalidaccount6147 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    When Yt is more valuable than school

    • @shashankdesai8650
      @shashankdesai8650 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sahi kaha

    • @andrew1644
      @andrew1644 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ha saccha me

    • @beepbeeplettuce848
      @beepbeeplettuce848 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ana saccah sahika

    • @deafshark9932
      @deafshark9932 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      if you've listened more in school, would've used 'than'

    • @beepbeeplettuce848
      @beepbeeplettuce848 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ur the type of person to not pay any attention in school and then complain about not learning anything

  • @shoronmondol7182
    @shoronmondol7182 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How a can person be that much practical !! Love you man 💖

  • @ccstuff83
    @ccstuff83 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    to put it simply, he pushed electrons off a plate using high energy light.

    • @the-core-experience
      @the-core-experience 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      high frequency

    • @destiny_02
      @destiny_02 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@the-core-experience high frequency = high energy

  • @RGMadu
    @RGMadu 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow.. best experiment ever! Just to clarify that positive charges are absese of electrons (holes) that makes the counting of protons higher relative to the number of electrons. There are a lot of comments about this, sounds a bit confusing, sounds like the protons are moving alone, single protons don't move freely.

  • @rupeshvyas9395
    @rupeshvyas9395 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I just studied this in my class 😳

  • @michael102387
    @michael102387 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That was your best video yet man, keep doing what your doing.

    • @michael102387
      @michael102387 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I might just buy that kit your selling if you keep making videos like this.

  • @sarchlalaith8836
    @sarchlalaith8836 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This remimds me of teslas passive cosmic generator. Only his was copper

  • @timothybeach6582
    @timothybeach6582 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've only recently discovered your videos. Great stuff! Now I'm going to have to look through you're previous videos to see what I've been missing! Keep up the good work. Much appreciated!

  • @TarunKumar-os1yl
    @TarunKumar-os1yl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I am studying in 11th and the photoelectric effect is in my syllabus and just this popped up

    • @_____983
      @_____983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wow same

    • @Terroid
      @Terroid 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, well, well
      Guess who's in 11th (CBSE) as well

    • @TarunKumar-os1yl
      @TarunKumar-os1yl 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Terroid who

    • @TarunKumar-os1yl
      @TarunKumar-os1yl 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Terroid James orgill the action lab host??

  • @medicalstudent8947
    @medicalstudent8947 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    please sir try to complete whole physics in practical this way , we all know you have such a knowledge that makes us feel the reasons behind things without even doing any revision again , we love your videos .
    Please try to take 12th standard or senior class physics like this ❤️❤️❤️ you make us love physics without any jumbo formulas and boring theories .

  • @suprith-science1441
    @suprith-science1441 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    In my entire life I have never once satisfied with the explanation of static electricity, that is rubbing of things causes exchange of electrons.

    • @westonding8953
      @westonding8953 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah. It raises a few questions such as where the electrons come from and where they go to (in terms of orbitals) and why they don't chemically react.

    • @xtratub
      @xtratub 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@westonding8953 In term of orbitals they go to high orbitals where they almost free. And they come from (zurprize!) atoms!

    • @westonding8953
      @westonding8953 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@xtratub We know they come from atoms but don't they create ions when they leave? Like why, when a Na atom loses an electron and gives to to a Cl atom, we get a reaction and explosion but we don't see any of that happen when you rub a balloon against your hair?

    • @xtratub
      @xtratub 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@westonding8953 Yes, they create ions, but not too much. And this ions neutralised with other electrons in the body and eventually with electrons from the floor and earth. There are experiments in which after rubbing two body charged in opposite charges explicitly

    • @westonding8953
      @westonding8953 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@xtratub Makes sense to an extent. But replace that with a glass rod and piece of silk that are not touching the ground. Why don't those small number of ions react? How do metals and other substances "hold" excess electrons? We don't see Na- too often in Chem. Why does rubber and other substances sometimes lose electrons and sometimes gain electrons? We didn't encounter that in Chemistry as much.
      In Chem, it seemed like every electron was accounted for (strong exaggeration but still). With electrostatics, not so much.

  • @pedrod1904
    @pedrod1904 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    That's the best demonstration of the photoelectric effect I've ever seen

  • @daikaz4376
    @daikaz4376 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    When he pulled out short wave UV bulb I literally thought about wearing sunglasses. Yes my brain sometimes evolve backwards for 2 seconds.

    • @drewaforbes
      @drewaforbes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's okay, I literally had the same thought lol.

    • @BaruchNissenbaum
      @BaruchNissenbaum 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, this radiation causes cancer.. You do need protective measures when playing with such lamps.

    • @daikaz4376
      @daikaz4376 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BaruchNissenbaum lol I meant I thought about wearing sunglasses while watching this video.

  • @vishakv9056
    @vishakv9056 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You have made this concept really easy to undertand ... I wish my schoold teachers were as good as you.

  • @prathambhardwaj2009
    @prathambhardwaj2009 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The "holy cow" never gets old lol

    • @illuminate4622
      @illuminate4622 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Appropriate for all of you Indian viewers😁 no hate

  • @Ultiminati
    @Ultiminati 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This exact experiment was asked in the "Entrance to University" exam's physics section in Turkey, AYT this year. Nice to see it in real life.

  • @devraval7957
    @devraval7957 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    "Hey everyone today I'm going to show you that light is made out of small particles"
    People who believe light is a wave-"triggered"

    • @ChessPotato49
      @ChessPotato49 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/mIRHMC3Zc2E/w-d-xo.html

    • @suprith-science1441
      @suprith-science1441 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What if I told you that it's both wave and particle

    • @maxwellsequation4887
      @maxwellsequation4887 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@suprith-science1441 Except its not, it BEHAVES as wave and particles, it doesn't necessarily imply its waves or/and particles.

    • @fgvcosmic6752
      @fgvcosmic6752 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@maxwellsequation4887 see, thats arguable
      It's a wave in the electromagnetic field, that is quantized as particles

    • @aadarsh_chaurasia
      @aadarsh_chaurasia 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Light is shit sometimes behaves as waves sometime as particle someone please give a little bit of brain to this particle
      or wave or EMR
      Whatever 🤦🏼‍♂️

  • @stangota5187
    @stangota5187 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You literally demonstate my whole physic class!!!

  • @BboyKeny
    @BboyKeny 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Soo the obvious follow up question is "Can your hair run out of electrons?"
    And if not, we have infinite energy on top of our head (sorry baldies)

    • @Klintz
      @Klintz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ;-;

    • @truestopguardatruestop164
      @truestopguardatruestop164 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Klintz lol

    • @truestopguardatruestop164
      @truestopguardatruestop164 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Modern problems require modern solutions

    • @TheActionLab
      @TheActionLab  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      yes, your hair gets positively charged. after you take the electrons. So if you aren't' grounded it becomes increasingly difficult to charge the balloon.

    • @BboyKeny
      @BboyKeny 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Shresht Kumar Thank you and @Action Lab for the brilliant explaination! The joke was set up to be funny and tickle the curiousity so you both performed brilliantly 😄
      Ps. My gf said she is also proud of me that a 3,4 million subschibers channel reacted to me. Which says more about how awesome Action Lab is! 🥰

  • @DivYT001
    @DivYT001 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    In schools all of this would be so hard but this man makes it ez to understand for everyone

  • @devraval7957
    @devraval7957 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Only if this was done when them physicists were arguing if light is a wave or a particle....

  • @ChatterboxBS1
    @ChatterboxBS1 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your real experiments are how physics should be demonstrated IMHO, so big thanks!
    Computer simulations are a nice addition, but should never replace the real experiments.
    E.g. I am searching for a good demonstration of the chained Stern Gerlach experiment (as shown with diagrams in the Brilliant course on Quantum Objects), but without success.

  • @Sahil-jh4fl
    @Sahil-jh4fl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Kon kon yaha pr science and fun ki video dekhne ke bad aaya hai
    👇

  • @seriousguy4170
    @seriousguy4170 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    *Never have I ever taken a wiser decision than subscribing to Action Lab*

  • @krishanlamba7829
    @krishanlamba7829 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    Anyone from India🇮🇳 🧐

    • @lightshadernft8156
      @lightshadernft8156 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I’m from Pakistan

    • @Optimus_prime95
      @Optimus_prime95 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@lightshadernft8156let's unite ind and pak again

    • @Optimus_prime95
      @Optimus_prime95 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Btw I know it can't happen 😂

    • @archanamishra6373
      @archanamishra6373 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yess

    • @lightshadernft8156
      @lightshadernft8156 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Optimus_prime95 it can happen bro
      It's all about the people who are brainwashed into believing that we can't be united
      We have simmilar culture and were once together
      Our political leaders use us as an excuse for corruption

  • @MichaelStoko
    @MichaelStoko 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for this amazing, time-saving demonstration, and for all the time, toil, and treasure you put into making these videos. Can do a lot of good with them, they're great!