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So I just got back from an amazing trip. I was visiting Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where I was invited to give a speech about science education at an awesome conference hosted by Shell. I talked about how we need to make science education fun, and to make some of my points, I played rock and roll piano up on stage, and I think people really enjoyed it--I certainly did. But one of the coolest parts was that they set up essentially an entire science museum about energy and how we use it. After I gave the talk, I got to hang out at this Energy Lab with some kids who’d been invited to be participants at the conference. We got to play with Van der Graaff generators, and race cars with direct current generators. So I wanna show you some of the stuff we got to mess around with, and explain a little of the science behind these cool demonstrations.

Is a version of the law of conservation of energy, specialized for thermodynamical systems

This video takes a fairly in-depth look at the formation of sigma and pi bonds in carbon compounds. It addresses both sp3 and sp2 hybridisation, using them to explain the shapes and stabilities of the molecules involved: methane, ethene and benzene.

A relation which described the power radiated from a black body in terms of its temperature

Covering how energy in electrons is related to its position and calculated by quantum energy changes. Also covered is quantum numbers, how they are assigned, and what they mean.