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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by nuclear reactions [Nuclear bomb explosion]

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we've actually been able to create nuclear reactions at home not by chemistry

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or anything but you know just by hiding our sisters iPhone alright well this [Sister looks annoyed with her brother]

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year's Homecoming activities involve a local version of The Amazing Race and [Two people racing]

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the roadblocks contain physics challenges the card says a general

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nuclear reaction is written as follows (mumbles) where Q denotes the [The question being written out]

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disintegration energy, alright which of the following

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statements are true? Select two answers, yeah two...

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Well physics questions on The Amazing

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Race ha it wouldn't even be a competition as long as we didn't have

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to eat lamb intestines or anything or or lift heavy things or or have to run [People look grossed out by the plate of intestines]

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yes you know what maybe the Amazing Race isn't our game we'll stick to Mario Kart [Kid playing Mario Kart on the TV]

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Okay lucky for us this question is pretty straightforward the Q value of a

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nuclear reaction refers to the amount of energy released by that reaction so if

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the Q value is positive that means the nuclear reaction produces energy it's

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exothermic or exoergic or exergonic depending on which fancy-pants words we [Pants with the different type of reaction written on them]

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want to use today not to go all AP English on you but we can see that these

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all have the root exo in them for those of us who slept through AP English [Kid asleep at his desk]

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that's a Greek root which means outside or beyond sort of like how an exorcism

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means getting a demon outside of some creepy little girl in that stupid movie [Kid stood in a dark living room]

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that totally didn't scare us we just want to sleep with the lights on for a

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few weeks now, anyway in this context it means something comes out of the [Kid is sick in bed]

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reaction so A is one of our correct answers if the Q is negative though that

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means the reaction absorbs energy that's endothermic or endoergic or endogonic

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and why hasn't someone made an endorcism movie yet where a demon was placed ['The Endorcism' book appears]

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into a creepy little girl, great now we'll need the

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lights on for a month but it looks like C is our other correct [Kid jumps into bed looking scared]

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answer because an endothermic reaction always requires the input of energy

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it can't happen spontaneously, so B is wrong and if there's an exothermic

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reaction energy is being produced so an input of energy isn't required which [Exothermic reaction with energy sparks coming from it]

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means D is also wrong of course our sisters nuclear reactions are both

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endothermic and exothermic they require energy to find her phone but it produced

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energy when she threw the phone at us and clocked us in the head she just [Phone hits the brother in the head and he falls to the floor]

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doesn't understand the things we do for science..

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