Lecture 2

Question from a Student

How many of you have been lighting candles more since this class started? We have!


Watch Faraday's Lecture 2, Brightness of the Flame

Read or Watch

What is the Periodic Table?

Watch this video:


Chemical Equations

Pyrolysis ("cutting by fire") of wax to carbon ("soot" or "smoke") and hydrogen gas:    

Convince yourself that this equation is balanced.

• Read this poem
Figures of Thought, Robert Nemerov

(Wondering what a logarithmic spiral is? Click HERE, and look at the section entitled "In nature".)

Can you name at least two phenomena that obey an inverse-square law?


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Commentary on Lecture 2
by the producers of the video series

• Watch this video, an episode of Crash Course Chemistry: