The Critical Point is Not the end of the line (VDW Eqn. of State pt. 1)

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  • @MrDino1953
    @MrDino1953 Рік тому +333

    It was totally worth watching the extra bit at the end as you successfully unified the 2 different worlds of comedy and science.

    • @imacds
      @imacds Рік тому +18

      Traversed the void between them.

    • @bepispaul2419
      @bepispaul2419 Рік тому +21

      he crossed the critical point, where comedy and science become one

    • @1st2nd2
      @1st2nd2 Рік тому +13

      I would contend it is a triple point between science, science communication, and comedy.
      Or a triple line, or a triple state, or a triple line seg- oh crap!

    • @randommm-light
      @randommm-light Рік тому +1

      Please! The second vid!! Amazing depth, new signal appreciated.

  • @Alorand
    @Alorand Рік тому +4

    I love it when the UA-cam Algorithm recommends me exactly the kinds of videos I would want to watch, even though they have very little views for their quality.

  • @itsowenstylez3857
    @itsowenstylez3857 Рік тому +65

    woah, it blew my mind the way to see the chart not in 2d but 3d. It does make a lot of sense if you view that way

  • @TesserId
    @TesserId Рік тому +10

    Oh when you mentioned the phase diagram of water, I was so hoping to see this 3D plot for the various crystalline phases of water, even just a few of them to get a sense of what benefit the 3D plot might have for that.

  • @brunscus
    @brunscus Рік тому +37

    Wow, you just clarified for me the part of my masters degree that I couldnt get my brain around (or actually I did get my brain -around- it, and hoped I could BS my way around it in the exam as well, which I barely did). Video format helps I guess, but still very well explained, thank you!

  • @ilessthan3bees
    @ilessthan3bees Рік тому

    Oh wow, I subscribed right before your rant about pedants at the end. It's a good thing too because if I waited until after the pedant rant, I would have broken the subscribe button by smashing it too hard.
    Pedants are usually people who misunderstood the point and are very proud of it.

  • @georhodiumgeo9827
    @georhodiumgeo9827 Рік тому

    That was really good. Thanks for the explanation of the phase diagram and also how to not be a smug jerk.

  • @StainlessHelena
    @StainlessHelena Рік тому +17

    Fantastic video. That 3D diagramm just clicked so neatly in my mind. It's also great that you touched on the ways in which to communicate knowledge. A point I find to be super critical.

  • @m13253
    @m13253 Рік тому +2

    The first video that finally made me understand phase transition and critical points!

  • @yaduk7710
    @yaduk7710 Рік тому +1

    The greatest thing ive seen in a while. I feel my mind expanding in size. I didnt realize pvt diagrams were a thing

  • @xXxLolerTypxXx
    @xXxLolerTypxXx Рік тому +5

    10:18 Just a thought, is this why water ice is slippery? That it partially melts and creates a liquid layer when pressure is applied?
    This is so cool.

    • @nosy-cat
      @nosy-cat Рік тому +3

      Yes, that's the traditional reasoning. But it seems there's some disagreement on how much this effect really contributes to creating the liquid layer, as opposed to other effects like friction heating...

  • @andst4
    @andst4 Рік тому +5

    The 3D diagram is brilliant. I've been amazed by the critical point once I first saw the video of transition. This video let me see the phenomenon from a wholly new perspective.

  • @as-qh1qq
    @as-qh1qq Рік тому +8

    Though a bit advanced, the in passing mention of failure of theory near criticality could be a great seague into Landau Wilson theory , RG flows, non-zero non-local correlation and so on. That could be a whole separate video

  • @spasdimitrov6728
    @spasdimitrov6728 Рік тому

    Omg! I wanted to know what the diagram would be for water and was wondering how I'd find it on the internet, bit he showed it in the video. Really good video explaining everything very well and intuitive

  • @tanchienhao
    @tanchienhao Рік тому +7

    U deserve more subscribers!!

  • @antoniolewis1016
    @antoniolewis1016 Рік тому +2

    Thank you. This has bothered me for 10 years and you helped me understand it.

  • @Oberon4278
    @Oberon4278 Рік тому +16

    Can confirm, I am no longer friends with someone who did nothing but try to be smarter than everyone by contradicting everything all day long.

  • @MrKyltpzyxm
    @MrKyltpzyxm Рік тому +17

    This is very interesting. I love seeing all the myriad layers of reality peeled back to reveal the granular details.
    Trying to be mindful of all of the various "dimensions" of characteristics interacting in any given cubic centimeter of reality gets overwhelming quickly. (For me at least 😂)
    It's reassuring to see it all laid out so clearly. I especially liked the side by side of the three different graphs showing the way each relationship changes in relation to the others. Theres even the added bonus of a video of that change happening in a practical demonstration. It's a nice reminder that we really can know detailed things about complicated stuff.

  • @the27th81
    @the27th81 Рік тому

    The 3d diagram was new to me, thank you for this video!

  • @litterbox019
    @litterbox019 Рік тому +1

    12:56 my based detector is going off the charts!

  • @fanthomans2
    @fanthomans2 Рік тому

    Fantastically good educational video. Good job.

  • @FoxDog1080
    @FoxDog1080 Рік тому +1

    I like how it ends abruptly

  • @pauln07
    @pauln07 Рік тому +1

    How da hell did a 13minute video explain it better than half a year of uni

  • @fibbooo1123
    @fibbooo1123 Рік тому +5

    Great video!

  • @Mikelaxo
    @Mikelaxo Рік тому

    That's awesome, I feel like I've unlocked a new realm of knowledge

  • @christophergilbert5988
    @christophergilbert5988 Рік тому

    This is an amazing video! I never really understood the critical point, and it makes so much more sense now!

  • @nlo114
    @nlo114 Рік тому

    I immediately thought of Magma and volcanoes. This all makes sense to me now, and it looks as though the core of the earth is not molten, but a solid lump that gets 'squidgier' as it approaches the surface. Well explained, thank you! 🙂

  • @Drad_
    @Drad_ Рік тому +1

    Oh yeah baby, we better be going to 4d next!

    • @wep6433
      @wep6433 Рік тому +1

      Right, I wonder how many complex relationships between variables could be made clear if we could conceptualize 4D graphs intuitively

  • @Speed001
    @Speed001 Рік тому

    11:00
    12:45
    Thanks to @pbsspacetime for motivating me to finish this video sooner. One minor point of contention: dragons don't live in the supercritical region, they live at the phase boundaries.
    Thanks for linking sources.

  • @Javie3
    @Javie3 Рік тому

    Yo this video has been a rollercoster of emotions, and I think the only thing I've leaned is that people can get irritated when trying to make sense of confusion graphs,and that nothing good happens after the youtuber says the video is over xd

  • @FurryEskimo
    @FurryEskimo Рік тому +1

    This was very helpful, thank you! I really enjoy highly educational, visual videos.

  • @antonioldesma
    @antonioldesma Рік тому

    This video would have been so useful just a couple of years back. Amazing fully understanding it now nonetheless

  • @as-qh1qq
    @as-qh1qq Рік тому +6

    Patient and clear explanation. Keep it up.

  • @realGBx64
    @realGBx64 Рік тому

    Thanks, I will show this video to my students.

  • @VaraNiN
    @VaraNiN Рік тому

    Great video! Subscribed! More pls

  • @justinchang6763
    @justinchang6763 Рік тому

    Bro do a great job explaining it. Imagine learning this on a thermo textbook with out video with only diagrams and words 😂

  • @He110ter
    @He110ter Рік тому +1

    Man, I should send my kid to whatever grade school this guy went to with teaching phase charts, I'm sure they also touch on partial differential equations and general relativity (tongue in cheek).

  • @c64cosmin
    @c64cosmin Рік тому +1

    Gosh this was such a great and clean explication, thank you very much!

  • @PamSesheta
    @PamSesheta Рік тому

    Excited to see fractal mixing math soon.

  • @cube_cup
    @cube_cup Рік тому +5

    amazing video!
    The algoritm works in weird ways. The only comment older than 2 weeks is 1 month, and the video is 6 month olds.
    Anyway, this video deserves to be picked up. It was very insightful. In reality the PT diagram is the most practically useful one, but you really need the full system in order to understand what actually happens, why lines are traced, and why the critical point is what it is.

  • @feuermurmel
    @feuermurmel Рік тому +4

    Why do you only upload in 480p? Would love to see the animations in higher quality! :)

  • @plopgoot5458
    @plopgoot5458 Рік тому +1

    Nice Pratchett reference

  • @tsingtak642
    @tsingtak642 Рік тому

    it blows my mind

  • @chranenaveverka3537
    @chranenaveverka3537 Рік тому

    Great video

  • @nosy-cat
    @nosy-cat Рік тому

    For once the YT algorithm came up with something good. Awesome video, thanks!

  • @A.I.rchist
    @A.I.rchist Рік тому

    This is super well explained. And your voice is good don't worry.

  • @louisrobitaille5810
    @louisrobitaille5810 Рік тому +1

    4:00 Isn't this physically impossible? No matter how slowly you push down on the piston, you will necessarily increase the pressure in the tube which will raise the temperature 🧐.

    • @itzachan3201
      @itzachan3201 Рік тому +1

      You are right, it is an "ideal assumption". Scientists love to work with models wich are smoother than the real world, because it allows to focus on one phenomenon. Otherwise explaining the world really can get overwhelming

  • @DarthBlazer.
    @DarthBlazer. Рік тому

    I do wonder if we could use the transitioning of states, particularly, the critial point opalescence to efficiently seperate gas/liquid in processing. admittedly it's not easy to maintain the environment needed, but that layer separation appearing is pretty freak. Seems like it doesn't agree with entropy lol

  • @wep6433
    @wep6433 Рік тому

    It’d be awesome to have a rotating 3D diagram of this so I can fully grasp it.

  • @gavinkemp7920
    @gavinkemp7920 Рік тому

    Ultimately it's a case of diagram usefulness over explaining how the world works.
    The traditional phase diagram is most useful because it contains most the most useful information provided you understand the physics and whilst I couldn't have explained it like you did, I sort of knew this.
    The one with volume is nicer for understanding the equilibrium but doesn't contain the most useful information m.

  • @KrasBadan
    @KrasBadan Рік тому +2

    That's so cool

  • @chavita4321
    @chavita4321 Рік тому

    This video is so fucking good in so many levels lol. Cheers m8. Bravo.

  • @Axacqk
    @Axacqk Рік тому

    Before it was explained, I thought V would be for velocity, and the whole video would be about phases of moving fluids (within the boundary layer). Are there interesting phenomena there? Does the phase diagram get distorted in the boundary layer at high velocity gradients?

  • @AndrewJing-wp3vq
    @AndrewJing-wp3vq Рік тому +1

    This guy’s based. Subscribed.

  • @davec2751
    @davec2751 Рік тому

    Thanks very interesting!

  • @tompw3141
    @tompw3141 Рік тому

    1) You showed P/T and T/Vm diagrams for when the solid is more dense and less dense than the liquid... what would they T/Vm diagram look like if they were the *same*?
    2) You showed diagrams where the densities are S>L>G and L>S>G... what about the other four orders? (S>G>L, L>G>S, G>S>L, G>L>S)

  • @rubenayla
    @rubenayla Рік тому

    If you have a material mostly liquid with a bit of gas, and you increase the temperature under fixed volume, according to the diagram, all the gas would become a liquid (right at the left of the critical point). Is that right?

  • @Filip_Wessman
    @Filip_Wessman Рік тому

    The last bit was best.

  • @caetanogarelli6657
    @caetanogarelli6657 Рік тому +1

    Amazing video! It was very interesting

  • @KaiHenningsen
    @KaiHenningsen Рік тому

    Smartass: "You cut a bit too early at the end of the video!"
    Audience: "r/Whooosh"

  • @rubberduck2078
    @rubberduck2078 Рік тому

    Can you show how this kind of 3d graph looks with the metastable regions?

  • @peteraschubert
    @peteraschubert Рік тому

    What would be happening if there were four spatial dimensions?

  • @RolandTitan
    @RolandTitan Рік тому

    Badass video buf

  • @jack504
    @jack504 Рік тому

    Really enjoyed the video.
    Gave me a similar vibe to the asianometry channel. Maybe crossover in style and humour 👍

  • @Gabriel-cf3bw
    @Gabriel-cf3bw Рік тому

    To be honest, i want to show the end of this to my professor, so he can understand why he has no friends.

  • @Chrisazy
    @Chrisazy Рік тому +59

    Honestly a great video, and a great channel. I'd recommend that since your videos have low views, you should avoid the explicit "Pt. 1" and (Part 2) in your titles. Even if it's unconscious bias, people are less likely to tend toward these videos for subtle reasons like that, and as the comments say, you deserve WAY more subscribers than you have.

    • @tricky778
      @tricky778 Рік тому +5

      If I see a part or chapter in the title of an educational video i get excited, i guess someone's thought about their content carefully.

    • @viliml2763
      @viliml2763 Рік тому

      Why would stupid people need to watch science videos?
      Not everything needs 100 billion views.
      Don't bend your knees to the Algorithm.

    • @vaakdemandante8772
      @vaakdemandante8772 Рік тому +3

      To me it's actually encouraging because I know it's material that has been deliberately partitioned and hence is easier to digest and more structured than one long video or a bunch of videos with various titles that to a novice may seem like a disjointed mess.

    • @tricky778
      @tricky778 Рік тому +2

      @@vaakdemandante8772 it would be even better if it were 1 of 3 and suchlike so we know when we're missing something too

  • @Daniel_lebieR
    @Daniel_lebieR Рік тому

    Awesome Video. Made me remember a lot of things I had forgotten.
    I (especially) liked the end.
    ...back when I was in University there were always those "special" students who pointed out edge-cases/special terminology in the most basic lectures (which included medical students, biologists, ...). And then acted as if the professor had done some sort of "Science Heresy/Sakrileg". Interestingly enough most of those guys dropped out after 1-3 semesters.
    There is a big difference between beeing a (committed) student/scientist and beeing a smart-mouth.

  • @crawkn
    @crawkn Рік тому

    I watched a whole lot of liminal spaces videos and I never saw any dragons. Does that mean the videos were fake?

  • @Kram1032
    @Kram1032 Рік тому +2

    It's kinda weird that the volume somehow determines the behavior as, unlike temperature and pressure which can be given per point (they are intensive), volume is a property of the whole thing and changes (by construction, duh) if you look at smaller sub sections.
    EDIT: ⬆this is nonsense: The unit used is molar volume, which is volume per mole (or specific volume which is volume per mass) which is an intensive quantity which also means ⬇this isn't quite right either
    What happens if you look at other types of quantities? Like, say, does anything interesting happen if you take pressure, density, and, as a third thing, entropy?
    Clearly you ought to get the same phases overall. But perhaps the phase transitions would look different somehow?
    And the picture also becomes way more complex if you add more materials into the equation, rather than having something pure. Perhaps you can achieve quadruple points (where two substances are matched such that they both are on their triple line at the same time)?

    • @MrKyltpzyxm
      @MrKyltpzyxm Рік тому

      I'm glad the edit was done as an addition rather than an erasure. It's always interesting to get an glimpse into the thought processes of others. I often find myself doing this very thing where it's only after considering additional implications of what I've written down that I realize that my prior train of thought was lacking some critical insight that alters the cascade of logic.
      Sometimes it feels like having a debate against myself. 😂

  • @nice3294
    @nice3294 Рік тому

    I had so many oohhhhh moments watching this video

  • @mahxylim7983
    @mahxylim7983 Рік тому

    Well made vid with love...Share the love❤❤❤❤

  • @beatricebortoli3264
    @beatricebortoli3264 Рік тому

    thermo sharpness blesssu

  • @angelmarauder5647
    @angelmarauder5647 Рік тому

    Enthalpy and mollier diagrams are important for steam engines.

  • @jucom756
    @jucom756 Рік тому

    Hey you don't get full extra credit, because as it turns out, water is even weirder than just a less dense solid... there are multiple different ice crystal structures, of which some are actually mire dense than water, each with their own region on the PTV graph!

  • @gutwrenchingdeaths
    @gutwrenchingdeaths Рік тому

    this guy's voice is uncannily similar to animator Domics

  • @sifilo
    @sifilo Рік тому +1

    I don't get it but I think I'm learning something

  • @cswalker21
    @cswalker21 Рік тому

    Oooooooh. This whole time I thought it was "super critical" because the fluids were like really, really important, not because they are beyond the critical point. Gee. I'm dumb.

  • @sock7896
    @sock7896 Рік тому +2

    ACKSUALLY thats a triple line SEGMENT a tripele LINE implies it extends to each infinity alongs its AXIS
    edit ah frick you predicted this. CURSES

  • @shodanxx
    @shodanxx Рік тому

    As a heat pump, air liquefaction, organic ranking cycle, seasonal temperature storage, thermal sonar enthusiast I find all this fascinating. More please! Well earned subscription
    Question for you, is there an open source repository of these 3d diagrams for all know substances and is there a good open source 3d thermal simulation software to explore them?
    Thanks !

  • @nekodjin
    @nekodjin Рік тому

    fix the captions plsssssssss 🥺

  • @Maric18
    @Maric18 Рік тому

    im so confused about what to think about the american education system if 10 year olds are learning about phase diagrams and molar definitions of ideal gas laws

  • @crackedemerald4930
    @crackedemerald4930 Рік тому +1

    Erm, actually, it's called triple point's monster 🤓

  • @Kapomafioso
    @Kapomafioso Рік тому +1

    WELL AKHCHYUALLY YOU'RE WRONG, iT's NoT a TrIpLe PoInT, iT's A tRiPlE LiNe!!!11!!
    Did I do it right? 🥺🥺🥺

  • @rafgam
    @rafgam Рік тому

    got a bit personal in the end

  • @corrompido7680
    @corrompido7680 Рік тому

    here be dragons
    :')

  • @liquid2499
    @liquid2499 Рік тому

    Weird misreading or misunderstanding of why people excitedly share things they’ve learned that add extra context or nuance to things, even though sometimes they may do so thoughtlessly or recklessly. Not sure if you’ve just adopted the use of that dismissive and disdainful characterization as a social integration strategy, or this is some kind of externalized negative self-talk, or you’ve just not been exposed to the private thoughts, experiences, and feelings of the so-called “freindless” people, but it does come as a bit of a surprise. I can understand why that kind of behavior can come off as disruptive or pedantic and annoying, particularly to instructors with timelines and lesson plans to keep, but the assumption of self-righteousness and grandiose self-appraisal or strategic intent to inflate one’s perception as motivating factors is, I believe, misplaced and can be a harmful set of biases to carry, not only for the specific people targeted by them, but also for the broader relationships even the quality of work of those carrying them. Hope you at least take the thought to heart and consider it for a moment, and thank you for the excellent work you do.

  • @cefcephatus
    @cefcephatus Рік тому

    Water is weird because most material relies on 1 dominant force in their molecules.
    Water however, has bratty personality and stop listening to Van der Waals force and starts listening to electromagnetic force instead. Curse you Hydrogen bond.

  • @dckatyx9577
    @dckatyx9577 Рік тому

    Triple point and PV=nRT in elementary school?!? Not in the US. But they do learn that they may have been assigned the wrong sex at birth!

  • @Konomi_io
    @Konomi_io Рік тому

    caption jumpscare

  • @Sibula
    @Sibula Рік тому

    Is it just me or that 3D diagram for water kinda sucks?

  • @Praecantetia
    @Praecantetia Рік тому +1

    In grade school? excuse me?

    • @FenrizNNN
      @FenrizNNN Рік тому

      English is not set in stone. You have to remember that.

  • @aleksitjvladica.
    @aleksitjvladica. Рік тому

    Density, volume, pressure, nothing makes sense, volume is useless, density and pressure are the same.

  • @drivingforgiraffes
    @drivingforgiraffes Рік тому

    In my experience, PBS spacetime frequently misrepresents scientific topics in minute, but irritating ways. I try to avoid them.

  • @digdigdigo
    @digdigdigo Рік тому

    what

  • @ChristianConspirator
    @ChristianConspirator Рік тому

    Wrong. I have no friends because I hate everyone

  • @JainZar1
    @JainZar1 Рік тому +1

    Supercritical water is probably my most loved state of water. Yes I am an engineer working in thermofluids and aerothermodynamics.

  • @georhodiumgeo9827
    @georhodiumgeo9827 Рік тому

    That was really good. Thanks for the explanation of the phase diagram and also how to not be a smug jerk.