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  • Thank you so much for the video. That's how it should be explained. When lecturers give students historical perspective, it is remembered much better

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  • i never saw a class being so quiet...

    no doubts at all...:D

  • naa könnte saltos schlagen so happy

  • i'm afraid i won't be able to bear listening to this women.

  • Everytime she says a word that contains an 'A', my balls crawl up my body...

    I'm sure she's intelligent and she really is a good lecturer, but her voice is unbearable!

  • @ChrisEyeris I laughed a lot on your comment lol

  • I'm just like schooling at MIT while watching the video.

  • перевод и адаптация этого материала для средней школы - education ax3 net.. thank you MIT!

  • great/AMDG

  • If you got bored watching this then you really did not want to learn, there is nothing boring about her manner of delivery. Great info, brilliantly presented, thank you for posting.

  • 32:58

    rather J. J. Thomson than J. J. Thomas :D

  • I can imagine myself sitting there, sleeping.

  • 33:00 j j THOMAS?!?!?

  • lagrange was italian, not french AFAIK

  • very nice professor

  • Pale males? You mean White men? Honey, without White men you wouldn't exist, you wouldn't be a teacher, their would be no universities, you would have to spend all your time hunting berries, and you'd probably be eaten by wolves. Maybe you should live a few weeks in the ghetto and if you survive maybe you'll have less contempt for White men.

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  • I understand that it could be in poor taste to complain about something so valuable, but the slides were omitted from the video because...?

  • she is an amazing professor!

  • lol u dont need 50 grand to learn this highschool shiy

  • @spartan1081990 this is the first lecture!!!!!!!

  • @mehraanchowdhury hahahaha

  • Sylvia Ceyer is amazing! Thank you MIT for making this lecture publicly available!

  • democratus was 145 years old?? wow.

  • @circusboy90210 r u for real?

  • O God,thanks for shut off button.....

  • she moves a lot and is there any deaf students in the class why is she making hand signs 

  • this is MIT, lecture, I learned that in 8th grade, foreign country, different religion , different way of thinking...

    Mit suppose to be very Superior when it comes to learning,come on...teriible

  • @letempdoitdir omg this is the first freaking lecture!!!! so wt u r saying is that you will go into university and they will start to teach u from the middle of the course?? that makes no sense, please think abt wht u have commented

  • all you haters need to stop this lady could crush you with her mind!! and have you ever sat in a hall where the teacher just sits there....boring, I also would like to add that actually being there and watching onlilne are completely different.....this is my opinion

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  • it's kind of distracting how she's hot and all, though ... i fault her for that (kidding)

  • J.J. Thomas...J.J. Thomas?? Sheesh!

  • It's only been about 2 minutes and 50 seconds, and I can't stand her accent and her moving arround...

  • Atom = 6 Quarks + 6 Leptons

  • @Auroraa94 you wouldn't rule there...trust me

  • They spend time covering the 'discovery of the atom'? wtf? If I was paying for an MIT education, I wouldn't want to go over stuff I learned in 5th grade. I would have had to get up and leave. And they don't have remotes at MIT?

  • They spend time covering the 'discovery of the atom'? wtf? If I was paying for an MIT education, I wouldn't want to go over stuff I learned in 5th grade. I would have had to get up and leave.

  • Am I the only one who feels unconvinced by the evidence and experiments supporting atomic theory in this video? I feel like a course in the "Principles of Chemical Science" should start with a much firmer grounding in that material.

  • Hi, I just learnt about the availability of this course. You all are heroes. I can't wait till Im done with my current college course so I can have time to listen to these lectures. I am very very excited. Thank you so so much. Education is the life of nations, and so to give it away free just blows me away.

  • @garbulky food is the life of nations that supports enough extra time for education to happen. for that we need plenty of cheap power.

  • @circusboy90210 Well yeah, that's true too. I was talking in a more long-term aspect. A nation will find it hard to advance without sufficient education. And high-quality free education like this is fantastic.

  • Can't wait for uni.

  • @fizzickschick also look at this picture of the periodic table as described by Walter Russell which is organized into 9 octaves.

    w w w feandft,com/Russell_periodic_l­,jpg

    John Keely also stressed that the universe was compromised of octaves.

    Read his book on sympathetic vibratory physics here for free,

    Universal Laws Never Before Revealed

    w w w scribd,com/doc/31656290/Univer­sal-Laws-Never-Before-Revealed­-Keelys-Secrets

    Viktor Grebbenikov and the Cavernous Structure Effect trips everyone out.

  • @fizzickschick Not at all. Read through the other comments by the informed user named jaguarclaw.

    Ed Leedskalnin said there is no such thing as an electron or proton. He said an electron was a misinterpretation cased from multiple rotating magnetic fields which causes a massless glimmer of light which is labeled an electron.

    Walter Russell said that light doesn't travel at all but what we are seeing is the pressure change which allows us to see the light that's already there.

    Look into them.

  • i do not want to know how much homework they gotta do for that class!

  • I bet she didn't know she gave lessons to more then 100000 people then.

  • It would serve these people at MIT well to learn the principles of Walter Russell, Ed Leedskalnin and John Keely before attempting to teach others the misconceptions of science.

    Bold statement. I know. Look into these men and you'll understand.

  • Thank you Prof. Ceyer for allowing us to see your lectures.  They help to round out the knowledge I am getting at school.

  • NICE LOL

  • lol lor

  • Its is pronounced ÅNGSTRÖM or "O" "ng" "strom" say the letter o then ng sound then strom. she is say ängström. get it right.

  • She has a Ph.D. in Chemistry and was a postdoc fellow with NIST for two years before becoming a tenured professor for MIT.

    She knows what she is doing.

    She knows.

  • @MaelMan82 no actually she does not, Im from Sweden and merely commenting on pronunciation. Its o ngström look it up pal.

  • @MaelMan82

    What you suggest is silly. People whit titles do make mistakes and people who are on internet are easy to correct them.

  • The átomos (Greek: ἄτομος), which means "uncuttable" or "the smallest indivisible particle of matter".

    This idea is very very old wisdom. The only confusing part is, that the "modern day'" atom is only chemical defination for it. So it means that chemically undivable matter is called today as "atom". When those Creek scientist or philosophers called atom "smallest indivisible particle of matter".

    Thats why it has some confusion around it today...

  • Still is, that the real "atom" or atoms packet has never been obersed in a laboratory, and it is the greatest goal of Chemistry to find it. I think.

    It would answer to all productiv questions how to make energy change its form, and we would be able to produce anything.

    All Glory to God, who created life and death to test who of us is best in their deeds.

    And blessing to Muhammed and his pure family.

    wa azjel farazjahum.

  • lol what?

  • @MaelMan82

    LoL, till the universe turn cold.

  • @iamsnail nope. It leaves it open since both´s true. It can be divided and it can be used to construct some super-objects. Chemistry...very funny field...especially because it doesn´t differ between the degrees of scale dimension it works on. And in between all the fields there are so many gaps...That´s also the reason for the fictional difference between organic and "un-organic" (recognize: it´s named by referring) chemistry.

  • What can be divided?

  • an undecidable question since the answer is: depends in which situation the humans are: of course if they have no time and have to manage their base existence they for sure will only construct and split up on the scales that are easily accessible - especially if there´s not much division of labour, near to no professionalization.

  • a-tomos doesn´t just mean "un-dividable". it rather means: there´s no absolute point where the decision can be made that it´s only dividable or only can be used as part to construct bigger objects with it. never has it been like this that any object of any size wasn´t used to construct bigger things and never has it been like it that any object of any size wasn´t observed and splitted up into smaller parts.

  • Yes, but the actual thing is still open. We dont have that knowledge in our hands that what is the most fundamental particel of universe, or what are them. My belief is that there is at least 2 different basic elements, Created by God, Allmighty, or more that are the "Ration" that are the "division" itself. But those things come as a packet of many, and together are undividable. Just my thoughts.

  • Or I should say "as a individual" one of them would be indivadable, but together they are the "division" from eachothers and they have no existence whitout eachothers. And that is the "ration".

  • And ration is first "thing", that is from many already that exist only together,,,

    I think even my ideas are litle too compicated formyself to explane clearly. But you can ponder that more yourself just to get fresh ideas.

  • The question if matter can be divided more and more must be left open - only if one shows that she or he actually does split up smaller objects than people from previous generations the thesis that there´s a certain halting point doesn´t ger contradicted but expands. One generation of people will never split up over and over again and just do that - it would be a halting problem and would consume more and more time - just like contextualizing and contextualizing over and over again.

  • I don´t like the thought of reducing chemistry and all the other sciences and the research "to the benefit of humankind". First of all I think that for example patients often are given false hope. So one makes money out of the misery of other people without really having a solution. Real research and real science has no goals. If one has a goal her and his research will get shallow. And this will lead to mediocre results.

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  • It was a weather balloon. It was a weather balloon. Seriously....it was a weather balloon. Yes, I know about all the stories and government cover ups surrounding the event that was really....a freaking weather balloon.

  • @TXRebelOK

    It was nuclear testing listening baloon. Uses mechanism putting many mics to sound channel of the athmosphere, and when Soviet union makes nucklear test ,you can caclculate where those test where made.

    It was secret because of the cold war.

    Physics 10: Physics for Future Presidents. Spring 2006. Professor Richard A. Muller.

    So, it was not weather baloon. It was balooon whit sound disc whit it. Early microhones.

  • @TXRebelOK

    Take this professors courses about waves... if needed more info about waves.

  • I've listened to the entire Physics for Future Presidents course. Great stuff. I'm also one semester away from graduating with my electromagnetics and photonics engineering degree so I know waves lol.

  • @TXRebelOK

    Then why did you say its a weather balloon, when its not? I dont know about your study of course. Gongratulations.

  • You're right it was a Russian spy balloon.  I just misspoke.

    Stupid of me to say that since I've heard so much about it.

  • @TXRebelOK

    No problem.

  • @iamsnail

    For the sake of preciseness should said that it was american spy balloon. Spying over Soviet Unions nuckear testings.

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  • Oh Sorry Brother.

    I came back here not realizing this convo has been discussed already.

    My fault.

    Sorry. Take care.

  • I hope I get into MIT

  • cheers... im not english at all... and i know some kind of accents... but thiiisss.... where is it from? :p

    "meeeeaaattteeeeer"

  • @MrAlb0t All gals name Sylvia got that accent.

  • She's a very good lecturer. Well spoken, clearly structured, great rapport.

  • She is ok I think....not the best lecturer...as far as classes go.

  • you're is a contraction of "you" and "are". your is possessive. sigh.

  • Wait, so you go from a somewhat rational ET believer to a Roswell lunatic. Great job, you lost your validity even more. You're belief system is jocular at least.

  • Alien visitation? That has to be a joke right? =p I've heard of you nutjobs, you morons claim that aliens came and helped us build our pyramids, and that the gods were actually aliens in the sky. I find that quite funny, because it disagrees with all common sense. gods were created to help the pirmitive understand nature. Ever heard of monotheism and rational religions like Panentheism and Deism. It destroys your theory into pieces, while taking a vomit and shit on it.

  • Most scientists believe that there is intelligent life in the universe; now whether they have visited Earth, that is controversial but certainly not out of the question.

  • Honestly, if you believe in ETs, then you're delusional.

  • people like you are the reason the comment sections are removed because you love to argue about anything to make yourself seem intelligent

  • @brianmenendez :

    You know what, you're right. I'll admit that I'm wrong, and arguing for anything is pointless, it wastes your creative power. Francis Bacon considered a a distemper of learning. I have this problem, and I'm glad you helped me out, you have set me on a new course to use my creative power into something more productive. Thanks alot, God bless, Jesus loves you. ;)

  • rodins number theory as you call it explains the pattern but not the why, the great thing is it seams to present results. math never makes sense anyway, the same goes for words, its the meaning we're looking for.

    (type "rodin coil" into the search bar if you doubt me, someone turned it into a speaker with a ring magnet =D no driving voice coil either, just a magnet and a rodin coil, and obviously audio as electrical feed to the coil I assume. leedaskin wrote a book about making magnets =) )

  • <3 for the cc

  • This just shows how much a better teacher Sadoway is.

  • Indeed

  • ammeters need to be placed in series with the current being measured..... the professor puts it in parallel. Sounds like a bad idea.

  • @TheMetalPerson Good job, you were the only one who realized this lady has no idea how to measure a current (!!)

  • @SooperMablo Mighty strange... she should know you can't measure current unless it flows through your instrument.

  • @TaterGumfries Yes, considering this is MIT, it is very strange and pretty disappointing. It seems like she knows about chemistry but not about how electricity works

  • @TaterGumfries Again, not necessarily. In industry we routinely use "Hall effect" induction ammeters. Ya'll need to study more and post less.

  • @SooperMablo Actually she has it right. Commercial ammeters have their own internal shunts: one for each range. The user hooks up the ammeter in series.

  • jaguarclaw, I do certainly NOT look up numerological claims, since numerology is a people-fooling pseudeoscience, but not science. As a claiment or somebody, who advocates a particular theory, the burden of proof is on you. Otherwise you spread misinformation. According to SI-units the greek letter 'Phi' is used for the magnetic flux Phi=B·A and has the unit Weber [Wb]. For another definition, you have to come forward with a bit more details than empty words like 'Phi is all around us'. ;-))

  • jaguarclaw, who told you I were a believer? What's about reading my profile? Well, you still haven't answerd my questions: You didn't reveal your secret of the 'Phi ratio', it's value and your tangible proof your 'sacred geometry' would invalidate force interactions and natural constants in physics. Particularly your claims '..the structure of universe [is founded on it]' and '..life grows on it..' confuses me. Where is your calculus? And your electron-denial claim is still open. Come on! ;-))

  • jaguarclaw, wow! That's great! Electron's wouldn't be exist? What's with their measured rest-mass? A fata-morgana? Their charge? Observation of their trajectory in vacuum-tubes? Pauli's principle? What's about field effect transistors? Free electrons in metals? Coulomb's law? Now I'm very, very, very, very curious on your explanations - particularly, how you can explain Maxwell's most basic law u(t)=dB(t)/dt - without electrons - but a magic 'corkskrew motion [like] current flow'.

    ;-))

  • jaguarclaw, I'm only a little thumb electrical engineer and not familiar with the big esoteric concepts you discuss here. So I'm terribly keen on your explanation, what the 'Phi' ratio could be, how '[sacred] geometric structures' can replace the known interactions between natural forces, and particularly, I wanted to examine your extensions of Maxwell's laws, that would be the '...key to the unified field...'. Remember, Einstein failed to complete his UFT for very good reasons.

    ;-))

  • lol, following you hmm. it is just coincidence that i meet you on the same videos. there is only so many times i can say they are human made before i start losing my patience. many people, you included would rather believe through faith than know through evidence. so i challange bullshit whenever i see it. hopefully i can bring a few back into the light.

  • @omegakurt20 Hmmm, back to the "light" huh? ;) I need to change my screen name. I think, "curious Human" would suffice (hopefully, maybe) in getting the message across.. or "newly" curious i rather. I'm still very groggy after such a slumber ;)

    ..and i realize i'm 2 years late on this conversation, but better late then never, wouldn't u agree?

  • i'm actually glad obama took down all ufo related programmes. hopefully now people can start thinking with the right side of their brains again.

  • aww, so you don't know shit. just baseless assumptions and faith. either you are ignorant of the scientific method or just don't know how it works. choose! if you are wondering why i'm challenge your belife, it is because people like you, and other et fanatics are the ones that are limiting humanities progress. with the heavens gate massacre and other events, policy makers decided that humanity is to primitive to handle hiem tech. congratulations.

  • and where is his evidence to back this up? and i mean solid evidence not scribbles in a book. evidence back up by peer review and experimentation. it will also be nice if leedskalnin's theory has predictions to.

  • wow. this is great.

  • lol eww?

  • thank you

    good job

    AMDG

    carl(chc)

  • Is there a transcript to this thing?

  • shes not the best teacher, but thats a big class and does present well

  • she changes the tone of her voice too much when ur sitting for an hour trying to take notes its hard when her voice is all over the place expecially if ur recording  it for future reference

  • she is not but I appreciate that she does this, that she teaches. She speaks excellently and teaches phenomenally.

  • That's your opinion and I respect it. Others, like myself, would not be able to stand such a teacher moving all the time and articulating so poorly. If this is your syle, good for you. I am watching the MIT courses since the day they opened it to the web and I really appreciate it. When the courses were excellent I did not hesitate to post a positive comment. MIT would be grateful to get a feedback on its academic staff, everything is not perfect and they know it, but they accept the critics

  • I believe that her teaching is excellent and her explanations clear. But her mannerisms completely distract from all this. I don't understand how you could say she articulates poorly since her speech is quite clear. Perhaps you mean she does not speak well and this too I would disagree with.

  • That is your opinion and we agree do disagree. I have watched many courses of Yale and MIT and I am sorry to say that some teachers are not up to the standard, fortunately many are though. Again, in a democratic country a 100% approval does not exist...

  • actually, I want to see the powerpoint more...or somewhere I can get it.

  • i want to see the slides too =[

  • lol, interesting to see the lady with the baby in the front of an MIT class.

  • room is soo full! but thats a good thing because of the intelligence in that room!

  • I want to go here so badly, but at this point it is impossible...

  • keep working hard and you may find yourself there at some point in your studies

  • turning the volume down didnt help. how naive of me

  • Here I have read several disparaging comments about the accent of the lecturer.

    Can you people be more inane? Somebody here has devoted a lifetime to learning chemistry and became a professional but you intolerant people only pay attention to her accent!

    Those that criticized may have a lovable accent but, infering from their attitude, might be still quite ignorant!

  • shut up its youtube

  • Can you be more contradictory?

  • Any slower and monkeys will pick it up eventually.

  • That accent does not matter to me.. it is clear though... You just gotta have the balls to listen to it..

  • OMG, I'm thankful that such a smart institution as MIT has contributed SLIGHTLY to the ingenuity of applied learning. However, who wants to see how bored students get, who wants to see the teacher walking around the room. Most of the time, we are looking at the powerpoints and just trying our best to deal with their crazy accents. I say, this calls for an education revolution. Same topic, next teacher, PHD not required, just don't annoy me. Better camera angles, awesome pictures/animations!

  • I agree.

    This also reminds me why I always disliked lectures so much. They were always such an infuriatingly slow and inefficient use of the time. The library and tutorial sessions were always much richer and more efficient learning environments.

  • What accent is that?

  • she's wrong about raphael's painting. It depicts his view of the reality of universals or forms in opposition to his teacher Plato, who is also in the painting. Essentially, Aristotle is saying that the basic most knowable reality is here, in the tangible world we live in, while Plato points up to the forms as the ultimate and immutable reality. Are forms "IN" things we understand? or do they exist as extra-mental realities that transcend the material order?

  • Okay, positive comment! smart snd lighting, fun, good job

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  • hahahaha .. i was going to say

  • OMG is dat a blackboard? not a whiteboard?

  • Never knew i could take college classes on youtube for free. Amazing. A Thousand thumbs up to whoever started doing this.

  • Berkeley and Stanford have their own channels on YouTube too.

  • is this how university classes are???

  • but this is how all you yanks sound to the rest of the world!

  • Her sympathy turns all very good.

  • as an absonded Amercian, I can attest to that statement! I concur 100%. Yank's have the worst accent on the planet

  • Bah, Cockney's harder to understand.

    We have a clear accent if you live in the Midwest, not the South.

  • You realize they vary by state right? Not everyone sounds quite so..... emphatic.

  • so this is level 5 course as in graduate level? or 5th semester?

  • nevermind i figured out their numbering system

  • MIT...those were the days. I'm liking Brown much better though...

  • Oxford all the way!

  • the aEETum can be split up AEt the NuCLEaAEEUS. lol

  • HIghschool education in the USA is pretty crappy. I studied in the British/English system all up till I went to American University. The problem is American highschool curriculum is soo watered down nobody really learns anything serious. What's worse, students are allowed to choose what they want to learn. In highschool, I was required to study all 10 subjects which guaranteed that I understood basic and fundamental scientific concepts. That's how people here actually come-up intelligent design

  • In Nevada, Biology I and Chemistry I is a required course.

    And we have the worst Education system in the country now.

  • I go to Valencia, a local comm College for the good price, and a few of my text books are also used at Cornell!!!, like my O-chem book by McMurry. When I'm done, I'd like to attend MIT.

  • are you planning to transfer from a community college to a top-tier university? I feel u..We are on the same boat..=) Good luck to us..

  • it would be better for both of you to apply to study abroad at Oxford or Cambridge then transfer to show that you can handle the courses and have attended prestigious universities. I'm not talking about a crappy summer course - I'm speaking of the semester or year long programs. I took the year long program at Oxford, and it was amazing. Anyway, I'm from a small, state university. It can happen, just go through the steps.

  • Im going to MIT next year can't wait maybe I'll have a headstart by these videos Thanks

  • what are you gona study there

  • im going to study about the atom like on this video and video prospects and i think im going in the solid state section and other things but thats all they told me so far.

  • make sure you read the course catalogue thoroughly, it will save you at least a year since most people dont read it through then realize halfway through their college experience that they found something that seems more interesting... by the phrase "tahts all they told me so far", i assume you havent read the catalogue lol, do it.

  • im finding it really tough working my way into this school.

  • It would be awesome if you don't have to actually go to class, and just have the lectures filmed or recorded like this one and watch it at home. Furthermore, you can replay parts of the video that you don't quite get what the prof says. There are other positive sides too.

  • That could work if there were standardized tests for an industry rather than silly mid terms etc for each class. If people could study as they like and simply do the tests when they feel competent, literally years could be saved in schooling..

  • thats a good idea

  • Some universities do offer courses like that. Kinda rare though.