The science is one thing, but the presence, communication and performance is what brings this show home. Shout-out to the production crew behind the scenes too. Bloody brilliant.
i like that since they didn't have any digital long-distance thermometers like we have today, they couldn't just point the thing at the air can or bike pump, but they had to physically hold a wall thermometer that is decorated with ducks near the tire to see it working.
@@BoleDaPole Nope.. very little has changed in fact . It's simply manipulating pressure and temperature. Learning the difference between latent and sensible heat and how pressure effects them.. it becomes common sense rather than something complex
I wish there were still shows like this nowadays. I'm 22 and I've always wondered how a fridge works! Thank goodness for this show, explaining in such simple terms :)
I have watched modern videos a lot but with this, for the first time i was able to understand the actual reason why it cools. Compression and Rarefaction.
I am an mechanical engineer but, never understood refrigeration this well. Nobody tried to simplify the explanation to this level. Hats off to you guys! Thank you
Dude! I miss these kind of good quality shows, now a days everything is too much complicated and videos are too long to increase view time for sake of money. We need these shows back!
Thank you so much for this excellent experiment and explanation! I have to present the topic Refrigerator to class next week and this is the PERFECT experiment! Thank you again!
+NONI58505 Thanks for your kind remarks. I am glad you enjoyed the Curiosity Show segment about refrigerators and I hope your presentation to class goes well. Please tell your classmates about the Curiosity Show UA-cam channel. Deane.
El video es muy impecable para la explicación de los refrigeradores y cualquier otro electrodoméstico enfriador ya que todos trabajan por el mismo principio.
I didn’t realise until now how incredibly quite my 10 month old fridge is. I remember hearing my childhood fridge click on and off during the night, very loud.
It is because one side is higher pressure than the other side so when it comes to low pressure side it absorbs heat and then compressed and heat is released outside in what is called a condenser coil because hot gas vapour is condensed down under higher pressure
latex and surgical stuff things that a lot of people in my generation learned while I was working trying to pay come up with money to pay for a house and a hotel not just a house
I was an academic for 15 years. I was a lecturer in Educational Technology at the South Australian College of Advanced Education (which became the University of South Australia). Prior to that, I had been a high school science teacher. Deane.
Many people mistakenly explain that the heat coming from the condenser is heat actually heat being removed from the inside of the refrigerator. That just isn't so.
How was the bike pump getting warmer if it releases air molecules just like the car tire. I get that they are being compressed but they are also being released
A refrigerator in the room will always heat up the room. Even if you leave the door open the room still gets hotter because the compressor and refrigerator process are not 100% efficient.
The fridge is by FAR the most reliable machine in your house. A fridge’s compressor motor will spin around several billion times in its life without service, cleaning or oiling.
I work in refrigeration and it's fairly accurate. The coil on the back of the fridge could be explained a bit further. It's called a 'condenser'. The compressor pressurises the regrigerant gas. This makes it hot and high pressure. The condenser takes the heat - caused by compression - out. This causes the high pressure hot gas to condense to a cool liquid. Rather like steam from a kettle condensing to a liquid on a cool window. This high pressure cool liquid arrives at the evaporator. And it is literally quirted through a tiny nozzle into the much wider tubing of the evaporator. This causes the liquid to expand into a gas. The transition from liquid to gas requires heat so it takes heat from its surroundings - your food. Your food cools, the cool gas gets a bit warmer from the heat from your food. As it expands it becomes a low pressure warmer gas. This is then sucked back into the compressor to repeat the process. Forever.
god i love how non perfect but also perfect this is, he actually drag rotates the fridge and aims the tires air at the thermometer, todays videos are too polished
Dear Rob and Dean, I am a 57 year old physicist who loved your show so much as a kid. My scientific career started with trying to replicate many things you did on the show. I have nothing but fond memories of you both. Thank you both so much.
Dont do what I did when I was a kid and grind through the pipes of an old fridge with an Angle Grinder only to find out the refrigerant is flammable. Burnt off a large portion of my hair and had no eye brows for a bit. Love the curiosity show. It was so cool
the propane-butane mix is often still used, seems to work quite good and kinda safe. thats how i found (smelled) we had a leak in our 2 compressor fridge. (one for the freezer, one for the upper cooler section)
R600a gas is used in some modern fridges. It's an isobutane mix same as a bic lighter. Need to be a gas fitter to work in fridge. R134 is the most common refrigerant used.
Like I said, I was a young man when I cut through the tube that had the refrigerant in it. I should not have been scrapping the fridge if I'm honest at the time I had no idea that I was about to loose my hair. Rest assured, I never made a second attempt lol. Just for trivia it would have been the old gas.
0:25 - "Have you noticed when you're pumping up your tyre, running late for school..." Kids these days don't as they're all mollycoddled and driven everywhere in SUVs, ironically making it more dangerous for the few that actually DO ride a bicycle to school... or anywhere for that fact. I'm glad I'm a 70s kid... who rode a bike everywhere. Kids these days are really missing out.
People used to ride bikes to work too, but then people decided they wanted to experience an obesity epidemic that made them die younger than their parents, so they invented cars and drive-thru McDonald's.
Schools and universities should be closed permanently. We can learn everything we need by watching the television and UA-cam in our dungeon-like basements.
I was playing hide and seek as a kid and hid behind the fridge, the tubes on the back of the fridge were hot and I don’t know why but it shocked the hell out of me😄
Due to my job, I know very well how refrigerators, air conditioners, etc. work. . . . And there is something important to understand that he has not explained: There is no way to directly create cold, the way these devices work is not by creating cold but by extracting heat. Any chemical or physical reaction generates heat, and the way to cool something is to put it in contact with something else that has a lower temperature and thus they tend to equalize their temperatures. The point is that both a refrigerator and an air conditioner actually generate more heat than the "cold they produce". If all that system were contained inside the refrigerator, the interior of the refrigerator would be warmer than the environment outside. With what the "trick" is precisely in all the components that are on the outside of the refrigerator (in addition to the explanation he gave). Due to the movement of its motor and the electricity it receives, the compressor heats up, and a lot, and that is why it is outside the refrigerator, but the key is in what he explained and added to the kind of radiator that is in the outside of the fridge. That "radiator" is much hotter than the "radiator" inside the fridge, and that's because the radiator inside the fridge is used to extract heat to the outside of the fridge. An air conditioner is exactly the same except that to enhance that heat extraction, a fan is added to the device that is left outside the house to extract heat faster (greater heat extraction = more cooling).
It's kind of mad, really, isn't it? To keep our food cool, we have to use electricity (often produced by burning fossil fuels) to move the warmth from the inside to the outside of the box. At a micro level, we make the inside of the fridge cooler by making our kitchens warmer, and at a macro level, we keep our houses and factories cool by setting fire to the rest of the planet!
@@GiantsWS Oh look, it's one of those idiots that either thinks he knows better than 99% of climate scientists, or is a bot working for the oil industry. If you want people to treat you with any level of seriousness I recommend you stop watching Alex Jones disinformation videos and stop acting like the village idiot. You've been lied to by grifters. Climate change has been caused by humans. It's not a controversy or a debate. It's accepted as fact by anyone with a working brain. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climate_change
@@benji274 thats absurd! 1. They wouldn't have known UA-cam existed back then. 2. It wouldn't be economically feasible to wait so long! It would have been easier to just dress up and record it than to record it in the 70's and 80's then wait 30 or 40 years to upload it. Look at Stranger Things! Do you think that was recorded in 1984? No! I got two words for you. Tech Nology.
@@benji274 Na, that sounds wrong. Why would they record a show in the past, then in 2023, upload it the present time but made it seem like it was the 2010's? That is a lot of effort and time management and patiences. Plus they would have had to know that someone at UA-cam had to fake the dates showing this was uploaded in 2010.
@@bizim_eller partly. not sure. but im pretty sure that the contact of the object at high speeds against air results to friction regardless of air compression
I'm a 24 year old Computer Science student and this is the first time that I fully understand how a refrigerator works. This stuff isn't just for kids imo :D
I don't much like the distinction. Explain everything for an intelligent 10-year-old and you can't go too wrong for everybody - it also helps you to remember to avoid jargon, keep it simple etc etc - Rob
Great job Deane & Curiosity Show. I'm curious ; with the amount of compressed air in all kinds of things from tires to refrigerators, and more. Does these small burst of temperature change (plus the energy used) have a mild/medium effect on the surrounding environments ?
The science is one thing, but the presence, communication and performance is what brings this show home. Shout-out to the production crew behind the scenes too. Bloody brilliant.
Incredibly well done, it still holds up all these years later.
Nah man it’s all about the _style_
Well, that's a refrigerata
Starkly uncanny presences and communications showcased throughout the entire duration
Lol, how does a refrigerator work? It’s a question I didn’t actually ask, but am glad the algorithm showed me!
Best explanation I've found online. The bike pump and aerosol can demonstration made it easy to understand. Love it!
i like that since they didn't have any digital long-distance thermometers like we have today, they couldn't just point the thing at the air can or bike pump, but they had to physically hold a wall thermometer that is decorated with ducks near the tire to see it working.
This is also old science, it's the 21st century and I'm sure most of this dutff is better understood by scientists not 20th century alchemists
@@BoleDaPole
Nope.. very little has changed in fact . It's simply manipulating pressure and temperature.
Learning the difference between latent and sensible heat and how pressure effects them.. it becomes common sense rather than something complex
I wish there were still shows like this nowadays. I'm 22 and I've always wondered how a fridge works! Thank goodness for this show, explaining in such simple terms :)
Check out the UA-cam channel called Lesics, they explain every technology simply.
I have watched modern videos a lot but with this, for the first time i was able to understand the actual reason why it cools. Compression and Rarefaction.
The ability to watch this stuff at will is invaluable. Thank you for these.
School should start teaching like this. Easy and direct to the point.
This is by far the best documentary I have ever seen and that moustache boy that moustache! World class acting right here.
Brilliant tv program! Still ahead of many of the self appointed experts on UA-cam even though decades old now.
I grew up with this show in Australia, so glad the UA-cam algorithm found it for me! It is as great now as it was then!!!
I am an mechanical engineer but, never understood refrigeration this well. Nobody tried to simplify the explanation to this level. Hats off to you guys! Thank you
This helped me understand Hvac in a few minutes far better than 2 years of college did
Man, the off-white beige plastic of the inside of the fridge takes me back to my childhood lol
I always thought I was smart. Now I realize it’s because I watched curiosity show as a child.
You lucky because Japan and America didn't have this show
@@Viper300000000000000 They would not be able to understand it anyway.
Just had experienced the best of all explanations of all time
Thanks a lot.
We should petition the appropriate network to get this show back on TV.
Rob and Dean bought the rights. They could sell the episodes to any channel.
@@mattmcguire1577 yes I half realised that, but that doesn't mean networks are still interested.
Dude! I miss these kind of good quality shows, now a days everything is too much complicated and videos are too long to increase view time for sake of money. We need these shows back!
'Watching at 4am
'This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen'
best explanation ever!!!!
+guibelson yaras Thank you very much for your kind remarks. I had a lot of fun designing this visual explanation. Deane.
The explanation was very simple to understand if everything was taught like this humanity would be living in mars already...
Thank you so much for this excellent experiment and explanation! I have to present the topic Refrigerator to class next week and this is the PERFECT experiment! Thank you again!
+NONI58505 Thanks for your kind remarks. I am glad you enjoyed the Curiosity Show segment about refrigerators and I hope your presentation to class goes well. Please tell your classmates about the Curiosity Show UA-cam channel. Deane.
Thanks for sharing these videos! They are awesome.
That is a lovely thermometer and would look great in the kitchen window. Maybe I will find one when I go to town.
Even its old, its still feel satisfying
damn that intro song is smokin
Idk why ytb recommended me this at 1AM in the morning, but, damn am i glad it did
This is wonderful, thanks for sharing!
El video es muy impecable para la explicación de los refrigeradores y cualquier otro electrodoméstico enfriador ya que todos trabajan por el mismo principio.
I already knew how it works but still watched the whole video
I swear man yesterday I was wondering how the compressor works in refrigerator
Looks like UA-cam is reading my thoughts now 💀
This is such a great explanation! Thank youu
They don't make shows like this anymore. I'm 24, and we had shows like this even when I was young.
Fascinating. Never knew about this.
Nice presentation .
Thanks a lot - Rob
I didn’t realise until now how incredibly quite my 10 month old fridge is. I remember hearing my childhood fridge click on and off during the night, very loud.
Lovely explained
Finally some decent recommendations
Thanks Deane
It is because one side is higher pressure than the other side so when it comes to low pressure side it absorbs heat and then compressed and heat is released outside in what is called a condenser coil because hot gas vapour is condensed down under higher pressure
Dont know why this was recommended to me but I ain't complaining
That's one loud fridge!
Still crazy to think how not so long ago we were still using CFCs in fridges
We still use them in fridges and air con. The problem was we were using them in the spray cans too
Me: *Searches for drone footage videos
UA-cam: Today, you will learn about refrigerators, ok?
Me "Oh, ok then..."
0:10 samba de Gamba by parry music
latex and surgical stuff things that a lot of people in my generation learned while I was working trying to pay come up with money to pay for a house and a hotel not just a house
Thank you.
He must not be an academic because he explains it too well.
I was an academic for 15 years. I was a lecturer in Educational Technology at the South Australian College of Advanced Education (which became the University of South Australia). Prior to that, I had been a high school science teacher. Deane.
@@CuriosityShow you people are a find.
@@CuriosityShow wow, it is amazing to see, that you seem to read all these comments.
@@CuriosityShow I was wondering what your background was.
Great vid
Thats not a refrigerator, Now this is a refrigerator !
Many people mistakenly explain that the heat coming from the condenser is heat actually heat being removed from the inside of the refrigerator. That just isn't so.
The vast majority of it is. Any heat that did not come from inside the space is heat that was added due to inefficiencies in the compressor.
How was the bike pump getting warmer if it releases air molecules just like the car tire. I get that they are being compressed but they are also being released
Its funny seeing them talk freely about freon even though now it is banned throughout the world.
good explanation
Pressure temperature relationship. Pressure goes up temperature goes. Pressure goes down temperature goes down.
Why doesn’t a modern version of this show exist?
we need this show back
Spare wheel from the back of the ol’ Datto
I have never believed in science and I won't start now.
I'm not gonna watch this video, because I enjoy the mystery of the unknown.
Awesome
Chilling!!
Damn that must be the most loudest frigerator I've ever heard
Fridger inside bedroom gets cold or hot the room or mimick an A/C?
A refrigerator in the room will always heat up the room. Even if you leave the door open the room still gets hotter because the compressor and refrigerator process are not 100% efficient.
The fridge is by FAR the most reliable machine in your house. A fridge’s compressor motor will spin around several billion times in its life without service, cleaning or oiling.
Inaccurate
A simple machine like a crowbar for example will work infinite times as long as you don't break it
Crowbar isn't a machine
@@frankiephenomanal A crowbar is a lever
A lever is literally a simple machine
@@hiyukelavie2396 I'm assuming he meant automated machine, but could be wrong ...
Actually there is oil circulating with the gas that lubricates the compressor.
I work in refrigeration and it's fairly accurate.
The coil on the back of the fridge could be explained a bit further.
It's called a 'condenser'.
The compressor pressurises the regrigerant gas.
This makes it hot and high pressure.
The condenser takes the heat - caused by compression - out.
This causes the high pressure hot gas to condense to a cool liquid.
Rather like steam from a kettle condensing to a liquid on a cool window.
This high pressure cool liquid arrives at the evaporator.
And it is literally quirted through a tiny nozzle into the much wider tubing of the evaporator.
This causes the liquid to expand into a gas.
The transition from liquid to gas requires heat so it takes heat from its surroundings - your food.
Your food cools, the cool gas gets a bit warmer from the heat from your food.
As it expands it becomes a low pressure warmer gas.
This is then sucked back into the compressor to repeat the process.
Forever.
I’ve worked in refrigeration for 37 years and you’re a bit off
@@stephaniecoomey2356 Can you explain how a bit off?
Thanks - this was the info missing in the video 😊
@@garethwilliams9695 hahaha I was trolling to see what you’d say, good day sir.
@@stephaniecoomey2356 we do a little bit of tomfoolery
The fridge sounds like a diesel truck
yup at 4:00
The engines canna take nae' more o' this, Cap'n!
I was thinking exactly this lol
70s technology
The fridge has a Hemi in it
Doesn't matter how old a show is, science is science. It's still really well explained. It's done so simply I'm going to share with my daughter.
@Chloe Walker-Hamlin you're welcome Chloe. Keep up with your reading ❤️
The best feature of science is that it's continually being updated as our understanding changes, so it kind of does matter how old it is.
@@polus2494 not fundamental science. That's what this is.
This is more engineering than science though
@@SavedbyHim Now you are trying to start a pointless argument with this.
I found out the reason for global warming........bicyclist pumping them dayum pumps....
For every bicycle that is pumped up I'm going to let one tyre down to equal it out.
I just stress the cyclist out and make em sweat by swerving my car towards them.
Keeps the world in equilibrium
god i love how non perfect but also perfect this is, he actually drag rotates the fridge and aims the tires air at the thermometer, todays videos are too polished
Dear Rob and Dean,
I am a 57 year old physicist who loved your show so much as a kid. My scientific career started with trying to replicate many things you did on the show. I have nothing but fond memories of you both. Thank you both so much.
Very kind of you - appreciated - Rob
Brilliant. I sincerely hope that a new generation of kids watch this channel, and become just as inspired as you did.
This was awesome, wow. Exceeded my expectations. Why is this show not on T.V these days?
Because casting shows and commercial stuff is considered more important! :/
@MichaelKingsfordGray It's hard to imagine a show with a lower budget than this!
Because they doesn't whan thinking people never more...
Ismi yuLov because they need ur children to be dumb as fuck
People nowadays like dumb stuff like the kardashians. Even Discovery chanel isn't educational anymore and only have shows like pawn shop 😖
how have i gone this far in my life without knowing any of this. ive had a fridge my whole life and not once did i question how it worked.
I had always wanted to know how fridges worked. This has been the best video I've seen, thank you so much.
Dont do what I did when I was a kid and grind through the pipes of an old fridge with an Angle Grinder only to find out the refrigerant is flammable. Burnt off a large portion of my hair and had no eye brows for a bit.
Love the curiosity show. It was so cool
Daniel White good old propane refrigerant!
the propane-butane mix is often still used, seems to work quite good and kinda safe.
thats how i found (smelled) we had a leak in our 2 compressor fridge.
(one for the freezer, one for the upper cooler section)
R600a gas is used in some modern fridges. It's an isobutane mix same as a bic lighter. Need to be a gas fitter to work in fridge. R134 is the most common refrigerant used.
Like I said, I was a young man when I cut through the tube that had the refrigerant in it. I should not have been scrapping the fridge if I'm honest at the time I had no idea that I was about to loose my hair. Rest assured, I never made a second attempt lol. Just for trivia it would have been the old gas.
@@coco21585 appliance technicians work with r600a you don't need to be a gasfitter just need to be certified in refrigeration
The power of simplicity. The explanation for a refrigerator couldn’t be easier than this.
Thanks a lot for this informative video! It is the best explanation how fridge works I have ever seen
Thanks for your kind remarks. You will find many more science activities and stories on our UA-cam channel ua-cam.com/users/curiosityshow Deane
How many videos explaining how a fridge works have you seen?
Well, that's a refijeryder, but how does it wok?
Lewis Back rehfrejarayta
sit dain inside the cah
Lewis Black I’ve always loved your comedy.
That’s some quality stuff. Very simply and concisely explained with easy to understand examples.
True as hell, if only education was like that too...
well that is indeed a refrigerator but where's the beer ?
Perfect explanation - no patronising of the target audience either! Awesome job, thanks for sharing...
0:25 - "Have you noticed when you're pumping up your tyre, running late for school..." Kids these days don't as they're all mollycoddled and driven everywhere in SUVs, ironically making it more dangerous for the few that actually DO ride a bicycle to school... or anywhere for that fact.
I'm glad I'm a 70s kid... who rode a bike everywhere. Kids these days are really missing out.
People used to ride bikes to work too, but then people decided they wanted to experience an obesity epidemic that made them die younger than their parents, so they invented cars and drive-thru McDonald's.
When you can learn a term worth of science in 6 minutes
Schools and universities should be closed permanently. We can learn everything we need by watching the television and UA-cam in our dungeon-like basements.
I want this man to teach me everything. I feel like I learn so much easier when explained like this
I was playing hide and seek as a kid and hid behind the fridge, the tubes on the back of the fridge were hot and I don’t know why but it shocked the hell out of me😄
In winter, the spiders in my kitchen hang out behind the fridge because it's nice and warm.
That's one noisy fridge, everyone will know I eat at night..
Sundaland Please Unite :its got a diesel engine it.
I bought a very nice, quiet fridge. So I can snack at night without judgement!
Amazing, although the video is over 6 minutes long, I completely understood refrigeration in about 3 minutes. Excellent video.
Had that exact model fridge freezer (Although mine wasn't THAT noisy!). Kept my beer frosty cold, year in, year out. :-)
This is one of the best explanations of refrigeration I have ever seen. This is an absolute gem thanks for sharing.
Imagine if they taught us like this at school? It's as if they deliberately made us useless..
Thanks very much for sharing this 👍
Less-educated people are easier to manipulate and control.
@@Somethin_Slix 💯
School = UA-cam now
@@Somethin_Slix great theory there slix. You really called out the evil cabal of middle school science teachers. 🤦🏻♂️
Sorry but the dissolution of sexual identity takes precedence over real science. This is what's important today.
I would've went to school every day if I had teachers like this 😅
It was awesome sir...It helped me a lot to polish my concepts out...You are a fair dinkum Australian..I am fond of this aussie accent...
Due to my job, I know very well how refrigerators, air conditioners, etc. work. . . . And there is something important to understand that he has not explained: There is no way to directly create cold, the way these devices work is not by creating cold but by extracting heat.
Any chemical or physical reaction generates heat, and the way to cool something is to put it in contact with something else that has a lower temperature and thus they tend to equalize their temperatures.
The point is that both a refrigerator and an air conditioner actually generate more heat than the "cold they produce". If all that system were contained inside the refrigerator, the interior of the refrigerator would be warmer than the environment outside. With what the "trick" is precisely in all the components that are on the outside of the refrigerator (in addition to the explanation he gave).
Due to the movement of its motor and the electricity it receives, the compressor heats up, and a lot, and that is why it is outside the refrigerator, but the key is in what he explained and added to the kind of radiator that is in the outside of the fridge. That "radiator" is much hotter than the "radiator" inside the fridge, and that's because the radiator inside the fridge is used to extract heat to the outside of the fridge. An air conditioner is exactly the same except that to enhance that heat extraction, a fan is added to the device that is left outside the house to extract heat faster (greater heat extraction = more cooling).
It's kind of mad, really, isn't it? To keep our food cool, we have to use electricity (often produced by burning fossil fuels) to move the warmth from the inside to the outside of the box. At a micro level, we make the inside of the fridge cooler by making our kitchens warmer, and at a macro level, we keep our houses and factories cool by setting fire to the rest of the planet!
@@AutPen38 Wrong. We have zero impact on the planet. Don't be a fool.
@@GiantsWS Oh look, it's one of those idiots that either thinks he knows better than 99% of climate scientists, or is a bot working for the oil industry. If you want people to treat you with any level of seriousness I recommend you stop watching Alex Jones disinformation videos and stop acting like the village idiot. You've been lied to by grifters. Climate change has been caused by humans. It's not a controversy or a debate. It's accepted as fact by anyone with a working brain. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climate_change
I love how these guys do a modern show in the 2010's but make it look like the 70's and 80's - really well done vintage effects!
Even the hair and clothing and crazy pastel background, along with the ancient refrigerator and tires with inner tubes.
Or they could have filmed this in the 70s/80s (like they did) then uploaded it to UA-cam in the 2010s - much easier 😉
@@benji274 thats absurd!
1. They wouldn't have known UA-cam existed back then.
2. It wouldn't be economically feasible to wait so long!
It would have been easier to just dress up and record it than to record it in the 70's and 80's then wait 30 or 40 years to upload it.
Look at Stranger Things! Do you think that was recorded in 1984? No!
I got two words for you. Tech Nology.
They bought the original videos back then uploaded it to UA-cam in the 2010s
@@benji274 Na, that sounds wrong. Why would they record a show in the past, then in 2023, upload it the present time but made it seem like it was the 2010's? That is a lot of effort and time management and patiences. Plus they would have had to know that someone at UA-cam had to fake the dates showing this was uploaded in 2010.
always loved the show when it was on telly. thanks
That fridge must have weighed a ton back then. Great explanation as always
We have to watch this for science in high school
ur examples made it so easy. thumbs up!
This is the same reason why things burn up when entering our atmosphere from space. The objects compress the air below them as they fall.
I only have a rudimentary grasp of physics, but I believe friction might have something to do with it as well.
that's friction. air molecules hitting metal at high speeds.
@@jimville2003 sounds like he was right, when the object compresses the air around it creates friction. No?
@@bizim_eller partly. not sure. but im pretty sure that the contact of the object at high speeds against air results to friction regardless of air compression
@@jimville2003 yes, also makes sense🙂
I'm a 24 year old Computer Science student and this is the first time that I fully understand how a refrigerator works. This stuff isn't just for kids imo :D
I don't much like the distinction. Explain everything for an intelligent 10-year-old and you can't go too wrong for everybody - it also helps you to remember to avoid jargon, keep it simple etc etc - Rob
Great job Deane & Curiosity Show. I'm curious ; with the amount of compressed air in all kinds of things from tires to refrigerators, and more. Does these small burst of temperature change (plus the energy used) have a mild/medium effect on the surrounding environments ?
Only temporary and local. Remember that the cooling of any released compressed gas only balances the heating during compression - Rob
@@CuriosityShow Thanks for the reply Rob, your a legend.
@@CuriosityShow 1981
I remember watching this episode and trying to make my own fridge, I think I was about 10 at the time :)