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Today we're learning about quantum theory. We know, that sounds super-quantum-complicated but don't worry. We Shmoopified it for you. We're good like that.
Transcript
- 00:04
Are you and your family big on having game night?
- 00:07
Gathering around the table for a friendly yet competitive game of Monopoly can be an excellent way to pass the time.
- 00:16
Well, the Quackenbush family likes to have their fun too...
- 00:19
Except Queen Quackenbush, the matriarch of the family...
- 00:22
insists on playing something a bit more interactive.
Full Transcript
- 00:27
Her idea of an enjoyable evening is to act out her love of quantum theory
- 00:31
by having each member of her family do some electron role-playing.
- 00:40
Quinn portrays the nucleus of an atom.
- 00:45
That way she gets to pop a squat in her favorite arm chair and let her offspring do all the work.
- 00:51
Her two oldest kids take on the part of the electrons in the first electron orbit.
- 00:58
They represent the maximum number of electrons that can exist there.
- 01:02
They must move within a circular area around the nucleus
- 01:06
...as do the electrons in an actual s orbital.
- 01:09
The next-oldest child, Quimby, plays an electron in the second orbital...
- 01:13
...known as the P-orbital.
- 01:16
Quimby must move in a figure-eight pattern, or dumbbell shape...
- 01:21
...mirroring the space in which a p-orbital electron is able to move.
- 01:25
Getting dizzy and falling down is, unfortunately,
- 01:28
not an uncommon event for Quimby.
- 01:30
The next two oldest kids, Quetzal and Queequeg...
- 01:33
(Hey, she was running out of Q names.)
- 01:36
...play electrons in the third, or d orbital.
- 01:41
Electrons in that orbital move about in a four-leaf clover shape.
- 01:47
Finally, there's little Quintessa.
- 01:50
Quintessa gets to portray an electron in the outer-most f orbital.
- 01:54
Because f orbitals actually have seven different shapes,
- 02:00
Quinn pretty much lets her run amok.
- 02:03
At least it helps her burn off some of that kid's seemingly endless energy.
- 02:07
The game tends to get tedious without any strategy, scoring, winners, and losers...
- 02:13
...but what Quinn says, goes.
- 02:15
You may say she's quite quirky, but don't be too quick to qualify her.
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