Jon Bergmann: Just how small is an atom?
Jon Bergmann co-wrote the book on the "flipped classroom" -- using video to help students master new ideas outside the traditional class setting. Full bio
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of little tiny things called atoms
minúsculas chamadas átomos
is made up of even smaller particles
por partículas ainda mais pequenas
that atoms are small.
que os átomos são pequenos.
about how small atoms really are.
os átomos são realmente pequenos.
that they are really, really small.
muitíssimo pequenos.
são pequenos os átomos?"
let's ask this question:
is made up of only nitrogen atoms,
é constituída apenas por átomos de azoto,
are nitrogen atoms in a grapefruit.
átomos de azoto numa toranja.
let's blow up each of the atoms
vamos inchar cada um dos átomos
would the grapefruit have to be?
-- well, actually, the Earth.
the Earth with blueberries,
com mirtilos,
of nitrogen atoms as a grapefruit?
de azoto que a toranja tem?
It gets even more crazy.
As coisas ainda ficam mais loucas.
-- and thus the blueberry, right? --
— ou seja, do mirtilo.
is something called the nucleus,
há uma coisa chamada núcleo,
in the Earth,
of the atom from science class,
do átomo das aulas de ciências,
com uma seta a apontar para o núcleo?
with an arrow pointing to the nucleus.
desenhadas à escala,
they're not drawn to scale,
and were searching for the nucleus ...
e procurássemos o núcleo...
the blueberry --
— o mirtilo —
as a two-story house.
da altura de uma casa de dois pisos.
in the center of the atom.
no centro do átomo.
It would just barely be visible.
Quase não o conseguimos ver.
around how big the nucleus is,
do tamanho que o núcleo tem,
up to the size of a football stadium.
até ao tamanho de um estádio de futebol.
of a football stadium,
de um estádio de futebol
in the center of the atom,
and you could see it!
e poderemos vê-lo.
of a small marble.
de um pequeno belindre.
com a cabeça a andar à roda.
blown your mind by now.
neutrons and electrons.
neutrões e eletrões.
live inside of the nucleus,
vivem dentro do núcleo
all of the mass of the atom.
the size of a football stadium,
do tamanho de um estádio de futebol,
and the electrons on the edge,
e os eletrões à sua volta,
and the electrons?
e os eletrões?
a resposta é um espaço vazio.
there are vast regions of empty space.
há vastas regiões de espaço vazio.
some electromagnetic fields,
matter, it is empty.
está vazio.
is inside the blueberry,
de espaço vazio está dentro do mirtilo
in the grapefruit.
if I can even get more bizarre.
se é possível ser-se ainda mais bizarro.
of an atom is in the nucleus --
de um átomo está no núcleo
of mass in the electrons,
de massa nos eletrões.
kilograms per meter cubed.
de quilos por metro cúbico.
OK, I'll put it in English units.
Vamos pô-lo em unidades inglesas.
per cubic feet.
de libras por pé cúbico.
by one foot by one foot.
com 30 cm x 30 cm x 30 cm.
all of the nuclei from a typical car.
de um automóvel vulgar.
have to put into the box
precisaríamos de meter na caixa
the same density of the nucleus?
a mesma densidade do núcleo?
of people in the Earth.
de pessoas na Terra.
owned their own car --
tivessem um carro
cars into your box ...
nessa caixa...
the density of a nucleus.
a densidade de um núcleo.
every car in the world
em todos os carros do mundo
muitíssimo pequeno.
like blueberries in the Earth.
como mirtilos dentro da Terra.
of a football stadium,
de um estádio de futebol.
is a marble in the middle.
of vast regions of empty space.
por vastas regiões de espaço vazio.
in your one-foot box.
numa caixa de 30 cm.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jon Bergmann - EducatorJon Bergmann co-wrote the book on the "flipped classroom" -- using video to help students master new ideas outside the traditional class setting.
Why you should listen
Jon Bergmann is considered one of the pioneers in the Flipped Class Movement -- in fact, he co-wrote the book on the Flipped Classroom, available from ISTE Press in June 2012. Bergmann believes educators should ask one guiding question: What is best for my students in my classroom? To the best of his abilities he has done this in his two-plus decades as a high school science teacher. He received the Presidential Award for Excellence for Math and Science Teaching in 2002 and was named Semi-Finalist for Colorado Teacher of the Year in 2010. He blogs at flipped-learning.com.
He is the Lead Technology Facilitator for the Joseph Sears School in Kenilworth, Illinois.
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