There are channels you just know you need to hit the like button before you even watch the video. This is one of those channels...

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

So, were you happy with your pre-judgement? (Thanks by the way)

@alansmithee183

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kathy_Loves_Physics Delighted!

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

@@alansmithee183 aww thanks (again).

"The best way to understand Physics is to learn the true history of how and why it was discovered". This is so true ,I completely agree with you......

Best. Science. Channel. Full stop.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

Aww, thanks Jack

Wow Kathy, is amazing at this. Now more than ever we need skilled science communicators, and I'm very happy to have found another one. I'm sure in some way she will help inspire the new generation.

One of the best physics documentary channel

Excellent work. Your presentations mix good science with insight into the personalities of all the many players. Science is the thinking of people and no one thinks alone. Your offerings display the ecology of scientific progress. I have read that M Curie was thinking of the radial spokes of a wagon wheel to express the omnidirectional nature of her minerals emanations.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting, I haven't read that but it makes sense.

I'm almost two years late, so maybe you've since learned these things, but I've got some pronunciation advice. German: >In German is pronounced like an English long E, as in "cookie" or "chief," but never as in "die." >German is often pronounced as /z/ (a thing English does too). A single before a vowel (so not at the end of the word or before a consonant) is read as /z/ >The easy way to remember both of these is by thinking of a German name you probably didn't know you know: Diesel As an aside, the "long I" sound is written as in German, think like "Einstein" ("INE-shtine"). EI = "I" while IE = "E." It's kind of the opposite of English; when it comes to words with we read "see," and lots of words use for "long I" (die, lie, cries, flies, ties, etc), although we do have words like "chief, achieve, grief" too. French: > I actually know a lot less about French pronunciation, but one thing I do know is that you never pronounce an at the beginning of a word. Think like the English words: honor, herb (unless you're British), honest, hour. All of these come from French and thus do the same thing of dropping the /h/ at the beginning. > Thus, "Henri" should be pronounced more like "enri," except I also happen to know this name, having heard it many times, and know that the is not like an English E, but rather more like "uh." "Henri" is more like "unRI." >Obviously, I wouldn't expect you to do the French R-sound correctly. The same goes for German. English R is good enough. I hope this info will help you not fumble new names as they come up in your videos. If you understand how these languages use the alphabet differently, you don't have look them up or make silly guesses based on your own English understanding of the Alphabet.

So Marie was the first woman to win a Physics Nobel, and this year we had only the 4th, with Andrea Ghez for her work on the super-massive black hole in the centre of or galaxy. I have been meaning to get hold of a copy of Curie's thesis. I have read the story many times as it has been retold, but I had never noticed the Gamma Ray bit. That really needs to be more widely known. Another excellent video.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

It is surprisingly easy reading but you’re going to think I lied about the gamma ray bit because because she said that it’s in the manner of Rutherford because Rutherford named alpha and beta. I’ll explain more in my next video.

2 or 3 things about Marie Curie: She worked doggedly for about 10-12 years in very sub-optimum conditions to get to her final conclusions and discoveries about radium and thorium and radioactivity in general. From my brief readings, she had to wear her wedding dress (and indeed, almost all the clothes she owned) to stay warm in her lab. The last thing I'll say is that the writeups of her conclusions seem so much more logical and concise than most of the other "discoverers" of the era. She was a very clear thinker/theoretician.

I am captivated by every video you make..your wonderful way you present them and the joy you have doing it is infectious and i learn a great deal..Thank you!

FYI I have taken radiation safety training which describes both of the radioactivity units Becquerel and the Curie and their mathematical relationship.

What an enjoyable way of learning the incredibly difficult subject of chemistry.....!

Thank you again ! This had to be explained ! And your way is the best :-)

I had to take time out time out to thank you for these videos. Whenever I look at science videos they always talk about how scientists knew this or that but never how they came to that conclusion. These videos are IMPORTANT to those of us that know the end of things but not the middle. We know and understand general relativity but not how it came to pass. We know that there is a speed of light and what that number is but not exactly what lead to the discovery of that number. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THESE VIDEOS!! THEY ARE SO ENLIGHTENING.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

Жыл бұрын

I’m so glad you like them. I feel like there is so much power in knowing where things came from that we are missing out by just displaying science as a series of disconnected facts that we have to memorize.

@TeamHarrisonMachine

Жыл бұрын

@@Kathy_Loves_Physics YES EXACTLY. That’s exactly why I appreciate your videos. Thanks again!

Wow..! I knew it in my mind that someday You will surely make Vidoe on this topic of Why Name Radioactive. Thanks, Madam. Keep Going.

great explanations.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks as usual Simon. Cheers.

Just love these fascinating, insightful, well researched and brilliantly presented videos!

Excellent presentation. Keep up your good work. 👏👏

Miss Kathy, thank you again for your research on this fascinating subject.

Ever informative always so interesting ..!! Thank you !!

These are really great videos, thank you for making them!!

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

You are quite welcome.

Awesome as always!

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

Aww thanks

Absolutely fabulous as usual and so well researched .

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Great effort, as usual, Kathy

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Great video! Thanks

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it

Excellent work

Your pronunciation of Skłodowska is perfect.

Love ur lectures;they make me think of the universe.

Love this video

Excellent video !

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you liked it

I love these videos !! x

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

2 жыл бұрын

So glad

I was born in 1953. And I've never understood this "Great Divide", the gape, so to speak between the basic Equality of all human beings. Not just the MALE/Female division. It is still, to me, incomprehensible! So proud of her husband! Refusing to let his wife's incredible contribution to be forgotten.

Very enjoyable .. thanks

Re: 10:56 Giesel's death from lung cancer No doubt Giesel was exposed to all manner of dangerous airborne radioactive aerosols in the course of his work, but his lung cancer is certainly consistent with exposure to radium-226's progeny -- the noble gas radon-222 and especially radon's short-lived progeny, polonium-218 and polonium-214.

@ciprianpopa1503

Жыл бұрын

What about his smocking habit?

@kevinstewart2572

Жыл бұрын

@@ciprianpopa1503 Good point! It's certainly important to recognize that kind of thing. I wasn't focused on any smoking history here, but in addition to smoking's direct harm, it is well known to act synergistically with radon progeny.

interesting presentation , very lively i like it

How absolutely fascinating

Pani Maria nazywała się SKŁODOWSKA - CURIE, była Polką. Pierwiastek POLON nazwała na cześć swojej ojczyzny Polski 🇵🇱 W 8 lat 2 Nagrody Nobla z fizyki i chemii - była geniuszem ❤

I really like what you're doing.

Interesting, but doesn't get at the root of the etymology (which, BTW, has nothing to do with radix in the sense of "root") of "radio". The way I explained it to my students is to think of the radius of a sphere. A sphere has radii extending from the center in all directions. This is the characteristic of radiation: emission from a point in all directions. We refer to radiation in other contexts, too, as when the pain of a heart attack radiates from there into the arm, for instance.

What a great research. I know I commented this awhile ago in another video of yours, but at the 1903 Nobel’s ceremony in Geneva, there was no chair for Marie Curie, but only for Pierre (and the other men), so she had to stood behind Pierre 🙄... Anyway, can’t wait for your next video.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

I never heard that before! Could you give me a reference? That is fascinating.

@NicleT

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kathy_Loves_Physics that’s funny because I find several occurrences about this in French ( france-amerique.com/fr/marie-curie-une-femme-deux-nobel/ ) but not in English (?). I think my mother (who was a writer) told me this first, I can’t even recall when. But this fact is something I bumped into a couple of times. I’ll try to find a better link...

@NicleT

3 жыл бұрын

I see I also deformed some details of this episode: _Lors de la remise du prix, assise dans lassistance - on navait pas pensé à lui installer une chaise sur lestrade!- Marie écoute son mari présenter leur découverte commune._ “At the award ceremony, sitting in the audience - they hadn't thought of putting a chair on the platform! - Marie listens to her husband present their joint discovery.” So she wasn’t even behind Pierre, but in the crowd because no chair was prepared for her on stage. Also, it was in Stockholm, not Geneva as I said before 🙄🤦

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

@@NicleT wow! Thank you. And hot damn what were they thinking?

@martinsoos

3 жыл бұрын

As a long ago pro photographer, you just don't put short people on chairs. You put them in front sitting on the floor, standing behind a chair, or held up in the air if you are in need of an odd arrangement.

Even today Maria's cookbook, her notes are still radioactive. She is buried in a lead coffin because her remains were a radiation risk

Ms.Kathy ,If I only had a science teacher like you back in my high school days science would've been more interesting and I might have become a scientist. You make it more interesting to learn science. Your the best👍👍👍👍👍

@Iridium43

2 жыл бұрын

I had Stanley Briggs in Wyandotte MI in 1960. He was fabulous but I had already gone off the cliff. (Timing is everything)

Marie was offered three possible PhD projects, two of which were about x-rays which had only recently been discovered and were the most popular choice of research topic. Fortunately (for us) she chose the more puzzling one suggested by Henri Becquerel about the mysterious "uranium rays" as he called them. The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize and the only person ever to have received two!

"and it's not sexism" is the biggest cliff hanger I've ever experienced

Wonderful💓💓💓

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

Danka

I'm so nervous the whole time about the radiation 😬🤦‍♂️🤷 Amazing!

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

2 жыл бұрын

I know what you mean. Like that stuff is dangerous!

@karhukivi

2 жыл бұрын

You are surrounded by all kinds of radiation, from radio waves (radio TV, phones) to infra-red (heat) to visible and even some ultra-violet from the Sun. Then there is some alpha, beta and gamma radiation from the air, the ground, and even our own bodies - about 8000 Bq from the C14 and the K40 in our bodies. There is also cosmic radiation from the galaxy. Lastly, if you have a medical examination there are x-rays and sometimes even gamma radiation (Tc99m) and those unfortunates receiving radiotherapy could have proton radiation as well as very strong gamma radiation almost to lethal doses but in stages, not all at once. No reason to be nervous, it is a natural part of life.

Hello Kathy! I love that you also love physics and history:) I am actually intrested in physics and I want to understand it thoroughly and what I think is I ought to also go through how the concepts were developed so that I can be clear what the world has an understanding about that concept. You know what I mean "Understanding the concept from beginning" I am a high school student and enthusiastic for physics. So I do want to search for relevant history of concepts so would you mind helping me with that? I have watched your videos and your information is perfect. I loved them.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad that I have helped you in your search for the origin of concepts. Please tell me how I can help you in your journey.

@rusics4098

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kathy_Loves_Physics Thank you for your kind reply! I want to to study the books or articles that were originally written. I want to know " What did they actually think about when they had written it?" I want to know how it evolved and got modified and finally came to our books that we read today so that it will be easy grasping concepts and analyzing information. I want help regarding the "resources". Where and how can I approach to the study materials that I want to study? In fact, how do you search for the materials while preparing videos? I actually want more information.

Polonium....I understand goes well with tea.....

Marie to Pierre: Got to concentrate Don't be distractive Turn me on tonight 'Cause I'm radioactive

Marie Curie was an early heroine of mine - a woman scientist who had done something *FAMOUS* (even though it eventually killed her). I wanted to emulate her when I grew up. Didn't happen

could you indicate any sources that show that the radium burns didn't hurt? it doesn't makes much sense to me why that is. Thank you

In the elliptical orbit of planets we apply the standard elliptical equation. Is there history on this subject on the differences of Ovals, Egg Curves, Conic Sections, and ellipses. I had a calk text book describe all as ellipses and gave only one math equation. I have never seen an equation for an egg, or conical ellipse. Something I have never been able to ferret out but not sure it would make a good topic.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, math history isn’t really my thing

@martinsoos

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kathy_Loves_Physics I was hoping it was physics history but after doing some searches of my own I found it's not even history. If I can wrap my head around it I will try to put it on my channel. My channel was support to be on permaculture farming. Oops

"Kath" ode rays! I get it!

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

2 жыл бұрын

Ha!

Please can you make a video about the myth or truth in first nuclear reactor could have been uranium or thorium based but was based on uranium to build the atom bomb during WW2

subscrubing mam...very nice narration....

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot 😊

One documentary on Madam Curie said she traveled with an X-ray machine during WWI to help doctors working on war wounds. They claimed that additional exposure may have killed her. Any truth to that?

Rockin the AnCom flag

@goodmaro

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, I didn't even notice from what she's wearing! Think it was intended that way?

I enjoyed her presentation. But I'm wondering if she could talk if she lost her arms? 😂

Giesel, since he was German is pronounce Geesel not G-eye-sel

Host: *wears black on red clothing* Those in the know: So you have chosen anarcho-syndicalism.

Air slightly conductive, basis of smoke detectors.

Nice dress

Pretty sad that the Nobel Prize has gone from being a significant and important award to being a meaningless joke.

And today one radioactive disintegration is called a 'Bequerell'. Sorry I can't spell it.

Given that you put "etymology" in the title, it was disappointing to me that you didn't actually talk about the etymology that much. Thus I want to give more detail here: "radi," as in "radio," "radiation," all come from Latin "radius." You probably have an idea of what "radius" means from mathematics, the "radius" of a circle right? "Radial" means going out from a center, like radii of a circle, like rays of the sun...hmm... like spokes of a wheel... Sure enough, a "radius" is originally not an abstract mathematical word, but an ordinary one. It meant the spoke of a wheel. From that meaning, it came to metaphorically mean a ray of light, bursting out from the axle of the sun. "Ray..." hmm, that word again; there's something interesting about it, isn't there? It kinds of sounds like "radi" doesn't it? Aha!!! "Ray" is the French descendent of the Latin word "radius." "Rays" are things shooting out from a central source, like light from the sun, like spokes from an axle. "Radiation" is just a more Latinate way of saying "rays." That is the etymology! That's the reason "radio/ radiation" was chosen to describe these different "ray" phenomenon.

Madame curie needs cheering up badly .☹️

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@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry to hear that. My old microphone started making a lot of buzzing noises so I got a new one 3 videos ago. Will look into improving it.