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  • @mitocw
    @mitocw  Před 3 lety +15

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  • @cassandra2860
    @cassandra2860 Před 4 lety +96

    "Their job was answering the phone, which is not a radioactive job."
    It is if you use a banana phone, though.

  • @nicholasjaramillo9561
    @nicholasjaramillo9561 Před 4 lety +143

    This guy is awesome!!! He explains his stuff so well! Good job MIT for having an excellent and kind professor!

    • @sveu3pm
      @sveu3pm Před 3 lety

      which mushrooms did you consume. guy is just another pompose knowitall corporate nucl. loby clown

    • @Diedin2seconds
      @Diedin2seconds Před 3 lety +8

      @@sveu3pm imagine trolling a year old comment.

    • @8starsAND
      @8starsAND Před 2 lety +6

      @@sveu3pm without that "corporate nuclear lobby" you would't write this comment because you wouldn't have electrical power... Carbon mines everywhere are nearly empty - what other source of energy would you like to use? Remember it shouldnt be "corporate"

  • @derekparent752
    @derekparent752 Před 3 lety +42

    Professor Short is absolutely amazing, so much so that I am going through these lessons for a second time and will probably do so many more times.
    In a way I am fascinated by the lack of questions that are posed to him, possibly due to an age culture. I’m almost 60 and an electrician and would most likely drive this poor guy crazy with questions.... questions that he eventually answers if you have to patients to listen and understand.
    Great stuff during a pandemic 😷👏👏👏👏👏👍

  • @DN-dz8pw
    @DN-dz8pw Před 4 lety +55

    i am a student of electronics but these lectures are making me fall in love with nuclear physics

  • @oldestgamer
    @oldestgamer Před 2 lety +18

    Your opening comments on how you teach this course is so on point that is it amazing most professors, particularly in math and physics, don't use the same technique, i.e., context followed by theory. Those math classes where we used problem solving followed up by using those techniques to explain the underlying theory were extremely better at giving the students the needed skill sets and were, by far, the most interesting and successful classes I took. Good job!

  • @egbertgroot2737
    @egbertgroot2737 Před 3 lety +28

    I wish i had a teacher like him ..... you don't have to doubt his knowledge

    • @WanderingExistence
      @WanderingExistence Před rokem +2

      35:20 Trust but verify. He is a great teacher for his love of teaching off the cuff.

    • @camresearch5120
      @camresearch5120 Před 7 měsíci

      I was a lecturer in the 80s, and I used to teach first. "Don't forget that I could be wrong."
      Never trust anybody, especially yourself! Preconceived ideas are really difficult to shake. Forget everything you are really sure of. That is the most important thing to question ❓ If you have never been wrong, then go back and check if you have, or is Santa Claus real?
      Page 42 of my thesis, there's a typo. OCD perhaps, that was written in the 80s, it still bothers me.... It's a good fault to have an automatic error checking ✅

  • @chraffis
    @chraffis Před 3 lety +8

    21:29 "probulator" Ok. Professor Short has earned his "cool dude" credentials.

  • @davidcooley275
    @davidcooley275 Před 3 lety +6

    RTG powers the Voyager 1 and 2 space probes launched in 1976 by NASA. People ask how can the probes still be working in 2021 and the answer is the power source. This professor is one of the best i have ever seen...

  • @d.v.faller9251
    @d.v.faller9251 Před 2 lety +6

    Dr. Short, you are a superb teacher. I stumbled upon one of your lectures a few days ago, and am now working my way backwards. I remember 8.01 and 8.02, and 8.0x extremely well. If you had been teaching, I might have pursued majors other than 5.0 and 7.0. I hope you continue to teach students - your love of nuclear physics is inspiring.

  • @JT.0915
    @JT.0915 Před 2 lety +4

    i feel a lot better knowing kids at mit just sit and stare when professors ask questions like we all did at regular colleges

  • @MichaelBurnsGuitar
    @MichaelBurnsGuitar Před 3 lety +10

    Wonderful respect for this man, friendly, knowledgeable and happy for this course to be free.

  • @benkleschinsky
    @benkleschinsky Před 3 lety +7

    Context first, great idea! It helps you understand why and what you should be paying attention to.

  • @RandomPerson-jw1ig
    @RandomPerson-jw1ig Před rokem +4

    I wanna go to MIT now and take classes from Dr. Short!

  • @ElCidPhysics90
    @ElCidPhysics90 Před 2 lety +2

    Just a quick note: IMRT is employed in photon-based radiotherapy as well. In fact, it is more appropriate to described IMRT as photon-based. Energy, or range shifting, for protons is perhaps better referred to as IMPT, Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy.

  • @matsv201
    @matsv201 Před 3 lety +6

    Little note, the fusion reactor was closed down in 2016, implying this lecture is from 2015, not 2019 when the video was posted. May be god to know.
    But this professor is a joy to listen to, i wish i had more like him when i was going to university, would have made it a lot easier.

    • @KnowledgePerformance7
      @KnowledgePerformance7 Před 3 lety +8

      Description says 2016

    • @realkarfixer8208
      @realkarfixer8208 Před 2 lety +1

      @@KnowledgePerformance7 The video was posted in 2019, the lectures are from Fall 2016. Comment @ Science in Engineering.

  • @CaptSuperCoww
    @CaptSuperCoww Před 2 lety +4

    Your approach laid out in the beginning is fantastic. Calculus only started making real sense when actually applied in structural engineering calculation. It would have been so much better to understand what we were working towards instead of pure theory prior to application....

  • @youtubehandlesareridiculous

    9:55 how do you take a nuclear class at MIT and not have at least a basic idea of what a neutrino is?

  • @christiller3257
    @christiller3257 Před 4 lety +8

    15:54 Dr. Manhattan glows blue! clearly not a watchmen fan hahaha

  • @joylime
    @joylime Před rokem +1

    24:47 25:17 25:23 25:59
    26:00 26:10 higher density -> higher photon absorption
    26:22 it might not be nearly absorbing in soft tissue as it would be in bone
    26:36 principle of imaging / produce contrast
    26:41
    27:07 photon therapy 27:42 the way it works
    28:13 this has to do with a difference in interaction
    28:38 Monte Carlo simulation (proton vs photon)
    29:02 consider stoichiometric ratio
    water used bc water approx. human pretty well
    29:37 how many centimeters thick is the avg human? 29:54 half way throu
    30:05 proton goes screaming right thru person / doesnt stop in body w/ 250MeV
    30:17 ~50MeV
    30:37 what's striking...// calculate the range to within very narrow margin
    300 proton ions
    31:30 little straggle
    32:50 when tumor too big, size>>straggling then sweep the energy on tumor (aka IMRT)
    34:23 brachytherapy what has to happen for that to be conserved?
    35:30
    36:25 36:52

  • @jdubs2171
    @jdubs2171 Před 2 lety +3

    "How thick is the average person?"
    Welllllll.. as a medical imaging professional who works in the South, ill have yall know that when he said 10cm, i blew coffee through my nose, and then went through all of the phases of dissonance. Lol! Professor Short, with all due respect, your frame of reference on people thickness is quite narrow.
    Ill say this, the CAT Scan unit that i run has a 70cm aperture (50cm of that is usable for data acquistion). Table weight limit is 500lbs. At least 2-3x a month we have to deny service to "Certain" patients bc theyre 1.) over the weight limit, 2.) too fat in one area that either stops table motion 2nd to bottoming out, 3.) or their fat literally getting caught on the gantry, stopping table motion.
    Hyper & Super Obese patients tend to be some of the patients that frustrate me the most. Its hard to care for someone who doesnt care about themself. Especially when the consequences of their deliberate bad decisions come out of my back.

  • @heysemberthkingdom-brunel5041

    How cool is it that he is using a zircalloy rod as a pointer?

    • @christopherleubner6633
      @christopherleubner6633 Před rokem

      Using a fuel pin casing as a pointer for a nuclear physics class is epic, almost in a homer simpson meets Doc geeky way 🤓😁❤

  • @nick18303
    @nick18303 Před 4 lety +11

    My god science is cool thank u so much for these please keep making them there’s so many smart people in the world who don’t get this access the world needs this above political nonsense or other crap tht really does not help man kind

  • @madyogi6164
    @madyogi6164 Před 3 lety +2

    52:00 For a moment I thought it's the coolest coffee machine I've ever seen.
    Wait a moment! It flashes blue and makes gold? I really love physics ...from now on!

  • @NobleRooster
    @NobleRooster Před rokem +1

    Was cool to see Brachytherapy brought up here. My senior capstone project at university was related to modifying a tool that was used to insert the radioactive seeds.

  • @michalhaubner2104
    @michalhaubner2104 Před 2 měsíci

    The lecturer is absolute best!

  • @putinscat1208
    @putinscat1208 Před rokem +1

    Zirconium is great for neutrons. Unfortunately, when hit by pressurized steam, it splits hydrogen off and that can explode.

  • @tomdave42
    @tomdave42 Před 4 měsíci

    My mother was one of the first people to ever have gamma-ray or gamma knife surgery. She had an AVM that was very very close to rupturing so they use three beams maybe four separate beams intersecting directly on the AVM in her head and kill the tissue. It seems to have worked that was a long time ago now. But the radiation did have lasting effects. She lost her hair and spots she also lost teeth add severe memory problems for about a year and a half two years. But there really was no other option regular surgery would have been way more invasive and would have destroyed much more brain tissue and I probably would have lost my mother. I'm very thankful for all the research and work and everything that is going into nuclear medicine,

  • @daffers2345
    @daffers2345 Před rokem +1

    I always did very poorly in math. The numbers and concepts just made no sense, and by the time we would get to the "practical aspect," I'd be all at sea and not care about things like the volume of a soda bottle or the length of a flagpole. But this instructor is amazing and I'm already learning and seeing how the concepts of formulas and practical applications will line up with the course material. I can't wait to learn more.

  • @ga1actic_muffin
    @ga1actic_muffin Před 2 lety +1

    When did Buster Bluth get his hand back and when did he become a nuclear physicist??

  • @daltondavey3836
    @daltondavey3836 Před 3 lety +1

    I’m a dummy and even I can get the gist of what he is teaching. Really like the way he delivers the information

  • @Talon3000
    @Talon3000 Před 2 lety +2

    I love that the lab with old-but-still-good equipment and the kind of shy students look just like what I saw in the two universities I studied at here in germany.
    It's kind of cute. :D
    And tubing/fittings by Swagelok which I use in my job at the moment. Nice. xD

  • @lameiraangelo
    @lameiraangelo Před 11 měsíci +1

    18:08 Source of the graph: Wikipedia... but Universities don't allow students to reference in their work Wikipedia.

  • @yaoifan420blazeit4
    @yaoifan420blazeit4 Před 2 lety +2

    this guy is really an amazing teacher. thank you for uploading these videos!

  • @runcycleskixc
    @runcycleskixc Před 2 lety +2

    A few Soviet-made RTGs were abandoned in the wilderness without proper decommissioning. Occasionally, these RTGs get found and taken apart for metal scrap, with deleterious consequences for the metal scrap gatherers.

  • @OramiIT
    @OramiIT Před 2 lety +1

    Got my electronics engineering technology degree 15 years ago. I remember doing a paper over quantum physics in high school and asking my physics teacher about how nuclear fission worked. She had a book probably college level or AP physics level about U235 and the different paths of fission. Unfortunately I didn't know of any colleges around here at the time that offered any courses so I ended up at DeVry and took their hardest class for no other reason than it was their hardest class lol.

    • @LFTRnow
      @LFTRnow Před 2 lety

      How did it go? BTW, Wikipedia has a detailed and good article on nuclear fission.

    • @OramiIT
      @OramiIT Před 2 lety

      @@LFTRnow Wikipedia wasn't a thing back then lol it was all AOL then DSL. How did it go? It went I passed somehow I've done 15 years of field work, but now my back is more or less shot so I am moving more towards the IT side of things, but I still enjoy studying engineering and other technologies.

  • @confirmhandle
    @confirmhandle Před 9 měsíci

    I don't know much about this subject but I could tell people out pretty well this guy knows his stuff!

  • @Atomanti400
    @Atomanti400 Před 2 měsíci

    Would be good to have a video about the neutron stars... Great video

  • @reza_aliasgari
    @reza_aliasgari Před 2 lety +1

    Absolutely astonishing lectures. Thank you very much professor Short and MIT.

  • @gsancak
    @gsancak Před 7 měsíci

    Thankyou so much for sharing these lectures! Covering everything needed.

  • @christopherleubner6633

    Years ago i used to laser those zr tubes. Cut out spacers also made of zr. Filled them with spacers and uranium oxide or carbide fuel pellets, each spaced by a zr spacer element then welded them shut with a special piece that acts as both a getter and expansion unit 🤓

  • @n__neen
    @n__neen Před 3 lety +1

    "but the improvement in contrast resolution in x-rays is what differentiates the ability to see a hairline fracture from just the ability to see that you contain bones"

  • @anonymous.youtuber
    @anonymous.youtuber Před 2 lety +1

    What a fantastic teacher ! Respect.

  • @JP-fn5xt
    @JP-fn5xt Před 2 lety

    A stack of fuel rods that disassemble upon disturbance may be the simplest form of fuel rod dispersal.
    Like a stack of straws that disassemble and move to a final location, upon disturbance.

  • @jacobframe8769
    @jacobframe8769 Před 2 lety +2

    I wish all schools would flip the teaching model like this. It is very difficult to be excited about learning the theory when you have no idea how it can be used.

  • @markhenry15
    @markhenry15 Před 2 lety

    This Professor is great. Also Looks identical to Buster Bluth.

  • @leonbogon148
    @leonbogon148 Před 3 lety +4

    Very good teacher-open minded...

  • @radiobiologist
    @radiobiologist Před 2 lety +2

    The Atomic rod was nice

  • @nicholasmiller1477
    @nicholasmiller1477 Před 3 lety +2

    I teach a very simplified 8 day course on reactor plants in my industry. Is there any way to buy that ziracaloy rod to use like Michael does?

  • @dancooper8551
    @dancooper8551 Před 3 lety +1

    These classes are fantastic! ⚛️⚛️📚

  • @F1fan4eva
    @F1fan4eva Před 2 lety +2

    I wish the circumstances of my birth and life choices were so that I could take this lecture irl and be part of this industry.

  • @Shokry999
    @Shokry999 Před 2 lety +1

    If someone has a radioactive material implanted in them and does not identify himself to the authorities, he might explode and cause lots of damage when he passes through a radioactive detector. lol

  • @LinusE
    @LinusE Před 2 lety

    8:30, I thought the U235 with the added neutron formed the compund nucleus U236, which is very short lived, which then split in to two FP's?

  • @brainstormingsharing1309
    @brainstormingsharing1309 Před 3 lety +2

    Absolutely well done and definitely keep it up!!! 👍👍👍👍👍

  • @csours
    @csours Před 3 lety +2

    Why is sputtering considered a nuclear/NSE application? Is it because the argon is plasma, and thus is stripped down to being a bare nucleus? In that case are all plasma technologies NSE?

    • @felipet18
      @felipet18 Před 3 lety

      I dont agree or disagree. Quite the contrary to be honest.

    • @christopherleubner6633
      @christopherleubner6633 Před rokem

      The nuclear use is that a radioactive source is used to monitor the thickness. Also smoke detectors generally have an AmAu nuclear source sputter coated on silver foil. Then its coated with a tiny amount of pure gold and the sheet is punched to make several thousands of sources that go into smoke detectors. 🤓

  • @markh3684
    @markh3684 Před 4 lety +3

    @16:33 "a charged mess of separated ions and electrons"... Is it safe to assume it is a metric mess and not an imperial mess?

  • @tsolmonbuyantsogt6210
    @tsolmonbuyantsogt6210 Před 4 lety +2

    Amazing teacher

  • @petitpoispanta
    @petitpoispanta Před rokem

    Your approach convinces me so far.
    Thx u !

  • @jwsideshow
    @jwsideshow Před 2 lety +1

    This guy is awesome!

  • @bleach_drink_me
    @bleach_drink_me Před rokem

    These courses are awesome.

  • @ChrisTietjen_00
    @ChrisTietjen_00 Před 2 lety

    What is the energy cost of the sputter process and how is it measured?

  • @ootman4687
    @ootman4687 Před 2 měsíci

    Green LEDs were invented before blue LEDs because of the lack of any material that could efficiently emit blue light due to the rising restrictions of radioactive materials at the time LEDs were invented. GaN however, was found to efficiently emit blue light a decade after the red LED was invented and 14 years after the red LED was invented. The blue LED was needed to complete the RGB color scheme. The film industry however, was booming and halting its progress because of the lack of safe blue light was out of the question, so they substituted it with green. As a result the color green became the iconic representation of radiation in film.

  • @N330AA
    @N330AA Před 2 lety

    Very likeable and knowledgeable lecturer.

  • @rodericksibelius8472
    @rodericksibelius8472 Před 2 lety

    This is where, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Biology and Atomic Physics mold into one academic specialized new branch of Engineering called 'NUCLEAR Engineering'. Everything is connected.

  • @peterh5165
    @peterh5165 Před 3 lety +1

    Excellent lecture.

  • @Stafford674
    @Stafford674 Před 11 měsíci

    The lab activity needed clearer explanation, but otherwise good lecture

  • @endingalaporte
    @endingalaporte Před rokem

    49:40 "... it's plutonium" lol

  • @amitkumarshah7474
    @amitkumarshah7474 Před 4 lety +1

    It should be Boron 10 that is used in B4C for control rods, they have greater neutron cross-section.

  • @topilinkala1594
    @topilinkala1594 Před 2 lety

    Will you try to estimate how much Astatine there is in or on Earth?

    • @LFTRnow
      @LFTRnow Před 2 lety

      With a half-life no longer than 8.1h, the only astatine naturally occurring is from heavy element decay and it doesn't stick around to accumulate. Here's the writeup on Wikipedia: "Four isotopes of astatine were subsequently found to be naturally occurring, although *much less than one gram* is present at any given time in the Earth's crust. Neither the most stable isotope astatine-210, nor the medically useful astatine-211, occur naturally; they can only be produced synthetically, usually by bombarding bismuth-209 with alpha particles."

  • @JP-fn5xt
    @JP-fn5xt Před 2 lety

    Mistake number one,
    Fuel RODS.......remove it without power ?

  • @JonniBoiz
    @JonniBoiz Před 2 lety

    great video

  • @jensfridthjofknudsen4923

    That was fun!

  • @anonymous.youtuber
    @anonymous.youtuber Před 3 lety +3

    Lol i think it’s 92, don’t quote me on that tho. I love his sense of humor.

  • @benmeister4
    @benmeister4 Před 3 lety

    I’m in love

  • @szirsp
    @szirsp Před 3 lety

    11:48 How does ¹¹B + ¹n -> ¹²C work? Is it correct to write it that way?
    Shouldn't it be ¹¹B + ¹n -> ¹²B (or ¹¹B + ¹p -> ¹²C) ?
    I assume the neutron 𝛽-decays in the isotope (¹²B->¹²C) and not before the impact (n->p+e+‾vₑ)

    • @LFTRnow
      @LFTRnow Před 2 lety

      If I understand it correctly, the B + n gives C because the n becomes p and beta particle. The p, added to B gives you C and the beta is ejected. (B = boron 11, n = neutron, C=Carbon 12, p = proton). It is not beta decay, though it IS interesting to note that in beta decay the same thing happens, only just spontaneously inside the nucleus rather than being bombarded externally - a neutron of the atom changes to a proton and an electron, and the electron shoots out from the nucleus, known as a beta particle.

  • @dootplayer9187
    @dootplayer9187 Před 3 lety

    23:45 stress is a hell of a drug

  • @AslanTrappers
    @AslanTrappers Před 4 lety +2

    Baya zevkli

  • @martywhite2988
    @martywhite2988 Před 3 lety +1

    I came to mock the tightness of his shirt but staid for the lecture.

  • @anonymous.youtuber
    @anonymous.youtuber Před 3 lety

    Is’nt Technetium seperated from its Molybdenum parent through a column before administration to a patient?

  • @jtcustomknives
    @jtcustomknives Před 4 měsíci

    Tesla actually created the first X Ray in 1894-1895

  • @forheuristiclifeksh7836
    @forheuristiclifeksh7836 Před 10 měsíci

    20:10

  • @anprimpaul2557
    @anprimpaul2557 Před 2 lety

    Thank god you made these before the pandemic. Hopefully the Chernobyl show helped.

  • @alontaylor1535
    @alontaylor1535 Před 8 měsíci

    gotta get me one of them zircaloy fuel rods

  • @ijunkie
    @ijunkie Před 3 lety

    Nuclear energy is a heck of a way to boil water

  • @colinwhittaker5168
    @colinwhittaker5168 Před 3 lety

    In the oilfield we used chemical gamma ray sources for electron density measuremnts and chemical neutron sources for porosity measurements. But what I always thought was really smart was working with pulsed neutron sources (thermionic fusion devices) for inelastic gamma spectroscopy, thermal neutron capture spectroscopy, thermal neutron capture decay rates, silicon activation and finally oxygen activation for water flow measurements. Shouldn't you be mentioning some of these techniques?

    • @hpholland
      @hpholland Před 3 lety +1

      Submit this question on the form

    • @colinwhittaker5168
      @colinwhittaker5168 Před 3 lety

      @@hpholland Terseness is generally to be applauded but it is possible to be too terse. What form?

  • @SuperDumasa
    @SuperDumasa Před rokem

    uranium is 92 plutonium is 94. dude was right about the atom number

  • @NutBuster99
    @NutBuster99 Před rokem

    I saw the thumbnail and thought MIT adopted an Indian parent's approach of teaching 🤣

  • @trevors3450
    @trevors3450 Před 3 lety

    This dude looks like Buster from Arrested Development

  • @xitheris1758
    @xitheris1758 Před 8 měsíci

    These students are at MIT, yet they're neither answering nor asking questions. It hurts to see them squandering their opportunities.

  • @karamdabagh
    @karamdabagh Před 3 lety +2

    the lecture was great, but the lab visit was underwhelming, i did not understand what that sputter coating device was doing with the plasma stream that it was creating, it felt just like being back at my own school 10 yrs ago, just a bunch of young students, standing infront of a professor admiring some piece of equipment not knowing why but just touching it and examining it
    edit: ok now that i watched til the end they explained it

    • @nikonsnapper4983
      @nikonsnapper4983 Před rokem

      Lmaoooo I got up to that part as well and was thinking exactly what you wrote

  • @brianjgraf
    @brianjgraf Před 3 lety +2

    completely love this course, but please buy this guy a shirt that fits

    • @hpholland
      @hpholland Před 3 lety +4

      He microwaves his shirts because there is students’ blood on it

  • @falxgod6848
    @falxgod6848 Před 3 lety

    He said "deez nuts" @1:07:00 ish

  • @MrRomiBajwa
    @MrRomiBajwa Před 2 lety

    🤓