The Trinity of Quality

The first 200 people to https://brilliant.org/MinutePhysics/ get 20% off an annual Premium subscription to Brilliant. MinutePhysics is on Patreon: https://patreon.com/minutephysics In order to make something good, you need to have the right combination of three things: Quality, Discernment and Taste. This video is about quality vs quantity, the paradox...

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Most Collisions Are Secretly In One Dimension

The first 200 people to https://brilliant.org/MinutePhysics/ get 20% off an annual Premium subscription to Brilliant. This video is about elastic and inelastic collisions in 1D, 2D and 3D - and how the collision of conservation of energy with conservation of momentum, plus a secret direction, results in a completely predetermined behavior for most...

May 2022

How To Detect Fake Fireworks

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Dec 2021

The Problem With The Butterfly Effect

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Oct 2021

How Did Whales Get So Big?

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Oct 2021

The Rocket & String Paradox

The first 200 people to go to http://brilliant.org/minutephysics get 20% off a premium subscription to Brilliant. This video is about Bell's Spaceship Paradox of Special Relativity, wherein a pair of rockets (or spacecraft) connected by a weak thread accelerate with uniform acceleration, maintaining the same separation, and the question is: does...

Aug 2021

A Better Way To Picture Atoms

Thanks to Google for sponsoring a portion of this video! Support MinutePhysics on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics This video is about using Bohmian trajectories to visualize the wavefunctions of hydrogen orbitals, rendered in 3D using custom python code in Blender. REFERENCES A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in...

May 2021

How Much Wind Should a Windmill Mill?

Watch the bonus material cut from this video and get 26% off an annual subscription to CuriosityStream and Nebula at https://www.curiositystream.com/minutephysics The Solution to the Windmill Paradox. This video is about the tradeoff of Windmills: the fact that the more kinetic energy you extract from the wind the slower the wind goes, the less...

Apr 2021

Why Do Boats Make This Pattern?

Go to https://curiositystream.com/minutephysics to get access to CuriosityStream AND Nebula (where you can watch the extended version of this video), plus you'll get a 26% discount on an annual subscription. This video is about the "Kelvin wake" shape of water wakes behind boats - we talk about mach angle, dispersion, superposition of many waves,...

Mar 2021