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The Chart They’re ALL Missing
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The Periodic Table in a 2D World
From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Watch Decoding the Universe: Quantum – https://bit.ly/3YU2DIf Watch the first part of this two-part series! Decoding the Universe: Cosmos – https://to.pbs.org/3YC5TGU Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/ MinutePhysics is on twitter – @minutephysics And facebook – http://facebook.com/minutephysics Minute Physics provides an energetic and…
I’m giving away 14 years of drawings
From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/ MinutePhysics is on twitter – @minutephysics And facebook – http://facebook.com/minutephysics Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics — all in a minute! Created by Henry Reich
The Moon’s Orbit is WEIRD
From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Go to https://brilliant.org/MinutePhysics to try Brilliant for 30 days for FREE, and to get 20% off an annual premium subscription to Brilliant. We think of the moon as orbiting the earth, following a spiraling trajectory as the earth itself orbits the sun. But this is wrong. Not…
Does Pressure Keep the Deep Ocean From Freezing?
From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Go to https://brilliant.org/minutephysics to try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for a full 30 days, and also get 20% off your annual premium subscription! Pressure *can* melt ice – like, you only need 500 times atmospheric pressure to melt ice down to negative four degrees…
The Color Temperature Paradox
From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Go to https://brilliant.org/minutephysics to try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for a full 30 days, and also get 20% off your annual premium subscription! If you take a piece of white paper into different lighting conditions, it will be an objectively different color in each…
Which Planet Has the Best Eclipse?
From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Check out the interactive lab here: https://labs.minutelabs.io/eclipses/ Solar eclipses don’t just happen here on earth – moons of other planets also pass between those planets and the sun, resulting in various types of solar eclipses on Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and even non-planets like Pluto, Eris…
Why Do Eclipses Travel WEST to EAST?
From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) The sun rises in the east, the moon rises in the east, and the stars rise in the east… but solar eclipses, oddly, come from the west. If total eclipses are caused by the sun and the moon, why don’t they behave like the sun and the…
Why Aren’t There Eclipses Every Month?
From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) The moon orbits the earth once per month, which means the moon is on the sun side of the earth every month. So… "why aren’t there eclipses every month?" is a question we will answer in this video! This Product is supported by the NASA Heliophysics Education…
Should You Wipe Off Your Sweat?
From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Want to donate to the highest-impact charities AND get your donation matched up to $100? Visit https://Givewell.org/MinutePhysics If you’re in scorching heat, or when your body is working hard and you’ve got hot, hot sweat all over, sticky and stifling – does wiping off the sweat help…
The LAST Eclipse in History
From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) This Product is supported by the NASA Heliophysics Education Activation Team (NASA HEAT), part of NASA’s Science Activation portfolio. The material contained in this document is based upon work supported by a National Aeronautics And Space Administration (NASA) grant or cooperative agreement. Any questions, findings, conclusions or…
But What IS A Lens Flare?
From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Sign up for Brilliant (for free) and get 30 days of full access to all of their courses, go to https://brilliant.org/MinutePhysics – The first 200 people get 20% off a premium subscription! A lot of people took pictures of the recent solar eclipse in North America and…
What if you pointed the Hubble telescope at Earth? @xkcd_whatif
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The Bizarre Physics of Electric Guitars
From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit http://brilliant.org/MinutePhysics The first 200 people get 20% off a premium subscription! I was sent a magnetic guitar pick to review, so I reviewed it. Does it work? How? Why? What’s the physics of electric guitar…
Geosynchronous Orbits are WEIRD
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Why Penrose Tiles Never Repeat
From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) The first 200 people to https://brilliant.org/minutephysics get 20% off an annual premium subscription to Brilliant. Thanks to Brilliant for their support. This video is about a better way to understand Penrose tilings (the famous tilings invented by Roger Penrose that never repeat themselves but still have some…
Freezing water expands. What if you don’t let it?
From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) The first 200 people to https://brilliant.org/minutephysics get 20% off an annual premium subscription to Brilliant. Thanks to Brilliant for their support. REFERENCES Page with TONS of info about water and ice https://water.lsbu.ac.uk/water/water_density.html Specifically, a graph showing density & temperature & pressure along the phase line!!!!! https://water.lsbu.ac.uk/water/images/ice_water_density_1.gif Water…
You’re Technically HOTTER Than The Sun (with XKCD!)
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Passing A Portal Through Itself
From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Nebula Classes – Great classes by your favorite creators on a creator-owned streaming service: https://nebulaclasses.com/minutephysics This video is about what happens if you try to pass a portal (like in the video game Portal or Portal 2) through itself – do you get a paradox? Infinite recursion?…