Yttrium2
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The basics of chemistry - Best Video contest
I'm a little rusty on chemistry. I found a video that looks like it is good to watch.
If anyone has a better one, recommend it.
Also, where should I go from this after watching this set of videos?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSyAehMdpyI&list=PL8dPuu...
It might be a good primer for a lot of people.
[Edited on 6/21/2020 by Yttrium2]
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How is this a contest?
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I highly recommend this youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiGxYawhEp4QyFcX0R60YdQ
Look at his playlists, he has a huge number of chemistry topics.
Do I get first prize?
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Yttrium2
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Whomever has the best video/series that teaches chemistry wins. 
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Well you would from me because of the broad range and detail of its topics.
One which caught my eye was a video describing Kalman filters. I spent a significant portion of my engineering life working on Kalman filters and in
particular fixing ones that had not been designed or implemented correctly. Probably because they are difficult to understand and in effect are mostly
treated like a magic method. I only watched the first video and the fortieth video of the apparently 55 videos in the series on the subject but it
looked to me like the presenter did not understand the under laying principals of Kalman filter but he does know how to implement one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaCcOwJPytQ&list=PLX2gX-...
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@Yttrium2, I would second the series you linked to in your first post, crash course is how I taught myself chemistry (as well as economics and
philosophy.) Do this course, then simply research more advanced topics that interest you (Lewis acids, organic mechanisms, practical synthesis,
electron movements, etc.) This is how I learned chemistry.
Best of luck!
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UCI Open Courseware
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngehmCV-65FikHYUV1_qXA
Bob Trenwith, Harvard University Open Courseware
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpviBv-De2_oeuSU_b968BQ
MIT OpenCourseWare is my favorite youtube channel. It's got good information on immunology and other more advanced classes. Marc Scurrah also has a
good immunology playlist..
My absolute favorite course I've ever listened to is by a man named Robert Sapolsky. Robert Sapolsky, Stanford, has an EXCELLENT lecture series. I
HIGHLY recommend listening to the whole thing.. It could change your life.
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in my opinion the most condensed easy to understand chemistry youtube channels for beginners are
Leah4Sci
Prof Dave Explains
then
Khan Academy
(use playback speed 1,5 or 2x)
crashcourse series does not teach properly its more for entertainment.
[Edited on 6-7-2020 by LuckyWinner]
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I second Khan academy...it covers a wide variety of subjects, not just chemistry.
Unfortunately, I don't know how to play back the video's at a higher speed, which would be handy.
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The World of Chemistry is a great series, both for the educational angle and for the wide variety of well-executed demonstrations. Sadly it's also
made itself quite scarce. You used to be able to stream it from the annenberg website but that's been taken down, and I never found it on any video
platform..... until now!! Says Roald Hoffman himself:
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Here’s the good news: The World of Chemistry videos are back, all 26 episodes. We are all grateful to Ben Horton and Karl KIstler for finding
usable DVDs and uploading them.
The videos are available on YouTube: links to all 26 from https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOivxsJAJhU5WOumgm-sNYb5... If you wish to search for individual programs, I found “Program Title World of
Chemistry” works best.
And on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/TheWorldOfChemistry which gives access to all 26 videos. Searching on them individually is less easy; they are under
the Community Video category.
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