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4:56 How a lead-acid battery works engineerguyvideo 122,599 views 10 months ago Bill explains the essential principles of a lead-acid battery. He shows the inside of motorcycle lead-acid battery, removes the lead and lead-oxide plates and shows how the...
5:12 How a Microwave Oven Works engineerguyvideo 391,426 views 11 months ago Bill details how a microwave oven heats food. He describes how the microwave vacuum tube, called a magnetron, generates radio frequencies that cause the water in food to ro...
4:39 What Keeps Nuclear Weapons from Proliferating: The hardest step in making a nuclear bomb engineerguyvideo 170,613 views 11 months ago Bill explains that the hardest step is making the proper type of uranium. Weapons and power plants require uranium that contains a greater amount of the isotope uranium-235...
4:33 How an atomic clock works, and its use in the global positioning system (GPS) engineerguyvideo 167,062 views 11 months ago Bill shows the world's smallest atomic clock and then describes how the first one made in the 1950s worked. He describes in detail the use of cesium vapor to create a feedb...
4:54 How a Laser Works engineerguyvideo 214,500 views 11 months ago Bill shows how the three key characteristics of laser light - single wavelength, narrow beam, and high intensity - are made. He explains the operation of a ruby laser - the...
4:17 Anodizing (Or the beauty of corrosion) engineerguyvideo 281,198 views 1 year ago Bill describes how metals like aluminum and titanium are made resistant to corrosion by growing an oxide layer into the metals. These is the same process used on many Apple...
4:25 How a Smartphone Knows Up from Down (accelerometer) engineerguyvideo 524,641 views 1 year ago Bill takes apart a smartphone and explains how its accelerometer works. He also shares the essential idea underlying the MEMS production of these devices.This video is base...
2:14 EngineerGuy's New Book Eight Amazing Engineering Stories engineerguyvideo 35,186 views 1 year ago Bill describes the EngineerGuy team's latest book Eight Amazing Engineering Stories, which forms the basis of EngineerGuy video series #4. http://www.engineerguy.com/elemen...
4:27 CCD: The heart of a digital camera (how a charge-coupled device works) engineerguyvideo 200,868 views 1 year ago Bill takes apart a digital camera and explains how its captures images using a CCD (charge coupled device). He also shares how a single CCD is used with a color filter arra...
3:05 Why it takes a while to make engineerguy videos engineerguyvideo 53,471 views 1 year ago This video contains a short announcement about the companion book for engineerguy series #4 (due out soon) plus outtakes. You can learn more about the companion book at htt...

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