How Electricity Actually Works
Veritasium conducts an experiment to see how electricity actually flows.
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How did the Enigma Machine work?
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Frank
- December 12, 2021
- 3d animation
- alan turing
- b3d
- Battery
- blender3d
- bletchley park
- bombe
- Breaking of Enigma
- Caesar Cipher
- circuit
- code breaking
- Computer
- Cryptography
- decryption
- Electricity
- Encryption
- Germans
- how it works
- index wheels
- input wheel
- keyboard
- keyboard mechanism
- lampboard
- light bulb
- machine settings
- mechansim
- Nazi
- pawl
- plugboard
- plugboard settings
- ratchet
- ratchet and pawl mechanism
- reflector
- ring setting
- rotor step
- rotors
- starting position
- typewriter
- wiring
- WW2
- WWII
This video uses 3D animation to go inside the legendary Enigma Machine, which encrypted German military secrets during World War II. Time stamps: 1:01-Encryption 2:42-Engima Machine 4:23-Simple Circuit Example 5:23-Inside the Machine 6:15-Rotors 8:51-Plugboard 10:08-Keyboard Mechanism 12:14-The Circuit 13:15-Circuit Recap 14:38-Rotor Mechanism 17:06-Machine Settings 18:14-Brilliant
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Lightning on Jupiter Explains Unsolved Mystery
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Frank
- March 13, 2021
- ammonia
- astronomy
- Astrophysics
- atmosphere
- becky smethurst
- clouds
- college life
- dr becky
- Electricity
- female physicist
- female scientist
- great red spot
- hail
- juno
- jupiter
- lightning
- methane
- mushballs
- observations
- phdlife
- Physics
- planets
- rebecca smethurst
- Research
- science
- science mystery
- solar system
- space images
- space mission
- static electricity
- storm
- thunder
- unsolved mystery
- Water
- water on jupiter
- Weather
- women in science
- women in STEM
Ammonia and water mix in Jupiter’s atmosphere to give some pretty epic lightning and giant hail that’s been dubbed “mushballs”. Dr. Becky explains.
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Inside The World’s Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor
In an otherwise unremarkable-looking cluster of industrial buildings somewhere in the southeast of France, a team of engineers is attempting to tackle one of science’s most intractable problems – how to summon the power of a star. If they pull it off, they’ll solve mankind’s greatest existential problems in one stroke.
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What the First Room Temperature Superconductor Means For Us
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Frank
- November 22, 2020
- american superconductor
- anton petrov
- astronomy
- Astrophysics
- carbonaceous sulfur hydride
- efficient electricity
- electric age
- electric grid
- Electricity
- electrification
- high temperature super conductor
- holbrooke superconducting
- Physics
- quantum effect
- room temperature superconductor
- royal observatory of belgium
- science
- space engine
- steven universe
- superconductor
- Technology
- Universe
- universe sandbox 2
- what are superconductors
- what da math
- whatdamath
- zero resistance
Anton Petrov examines the new possibilities that a the recent discovery of a room temperature superconductor opens up.
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The US Electrical System is Not 120V
Technology Connections explains that the US electrical system is more than 120V, despite what you may have heard. As for me, I rather enjoy central air.
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World’s Largest Batteries
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Frank
- November 3, 2019
- electrical grid
- electrical infrastructure
- Electricity
- engineer
- engineering
- fossil fuels
- generate electricity
- generate power
- global warming
- grady
- grid
- hydroelectricity
- Power
- power grid
- power plant
- practical engineering
- pumped storage
- solar energy
- thermal energy
- turbine
- wind energy
Practical Engineering explores a scalable (and unexpected) means of mass energy storage. Electricity faces a fundamental problem that comes with pretty much any product that’s provided on-demand: our ability to generate large amounts of it doesn’t match up that closely with when we need it. The storage of electricity for later use, especially on a […]
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BBC Click Explores Battery Technology
Technology show BBC Click looks at all things battery: from how to keep your smartphone charged to the mountain storing energy in lakes.
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