How do LEDs & Batteries Work?

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 10:22:20 +0000

How does electricity even do stuff? How do all the LEDs around us work? How do Batteries work? We know it powers everything around us, but what are the mechanics behind it doing something like- producing light? In this episode, we explore how Lemon Batteries produce electricity, and then how we can use that electricity with an LED to generate light! Let's dive into some of the fundamentals around electricity, and learn something fascinating today!

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Table of Contents:
0:22 Exploring the Lemon Battery
1:23 Watching a the chemical reaction
1:57 What's the copper wire for?
3:00 What's the speed of an electron? What about electricity?
4:15 How does an LED create light?
8:38 Outro

Background Understanding: Electrons, Charges

Key Branches from this video are: Exploring Lemon Batteries, Voltage & Current, Solar Cells, Understanding Electricity

Erratum:

Animation built using Blender 2.79b
Post with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects
Sound editing with Reaper

Work Cited:

Goodisman, Jerry (2001). "Observations on Lemon Cells". Journal of Chemical Education. 78 (4): 516–518

Hyperphysics Contributors. "P-N Energy Bands." "Semiconductor Concepts." Hyperphysics 2016 Georgia State University. May 30th 2019

"Lemon Battery". Pembroke, Ontario: Hila Science Camp.

Wikipedia contributors. "Albert Einstein." "Charge-coupled Device. " "George E. Smith." "Lemon Batteries." "Light-Emitting Diode." "List of Nobel Laureates in Physics." "Semiconductor." "William Shockley." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, May 30th, 2019.

"The Components of LEDs and How They Work." June 29, 2017 Beaconlamps.com

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Easy Lemon by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Plaidness by Francis Preve
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