Testing If You Can Blow Your Own Sail

[@MarkRober]

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[@niicount]

As someone graduated in physics, I have never seen such a clear explanation of what the coriolis effect actually is. Amazing.

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[@HRR402VR]

Fact:air is a gas is not a fluid

[@montano0222]

Somewhat sadly, I feel that he should’ve credited Destin and Derrick since he explained it exactly as they did

[@Qlapze]

@@HRR402VR physics major here, you are mistaking fluid for liquid. A fluid is just a substance that can freely move from force (in the case of air, turbulence or wind).

[@jamesantonides]

My science teacher puts this on he is so talented and fun to watch and I’m also learning from watching him please don’t quit your the goat

[@乂]

If only school were as entertaining as Mark's videos...

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[@andrepereira3338]

Regarding the backpack: when you study vibrations in engineering, you learn that there's a specific frequency in which you can vibrate a spring-mass system where it will not transfer that movement to the mass. That's why there's a "sweet spot", and all the people in the commercials were running with that sweet spot frequency, where the backpack barely moved even while they were running (i.e. the movement of the person was barely transfered to the backpack). This depends on the spring constant of the springs used, and on the mass of the system (the backpack and whatever's inside it). So if Mark were to put more weight in the backpack, he'd have to find a different running frequency in order to get the same effect. Thanks for sharing all these cool experiments and knowledge with us, Mark! You're awesome!

[@marzipancutter8144]

Now I'm wondering if it was possible to adjust the stiffness of the spring on the fly. It might be completely impossible to do this to a degree where it can be controlled electronically in real time, but it's a fun thought to imagine the backpack changing its spring constant to stay in the sweet spot for any given mass and walking speed.

[@jarsky]

@@marzipancutter8144 You could probably leverage automotive engineering concepts for this rather than electronically. If you look at suspension, there are progressive springs which as the spring compresses changes the resonant frequency. You can also get dual rate springs, where you have a main spring of one size/rate, and another spring of another below it on the same strut. That would be ideal for riding on the main spring and retaining resonance over the flat, and the shorter stiffer spring for taking the big dips, and again should stop it from falling into another phase frequency. But of course you would still have the issue of the frequency being dependant on the weight of the pack.

[@aaronkoning7255]

I imagine this is exactly how birds can run with their head completely stationary. Their neck muscles are like a spring, and their head is actually bouncing up and down perfectly in sync with their legs.

[@LOVELY_coffee]

Lovely reply

[@13Nagash13]

My question is how do hikers with long hair keep the hair out of the moving tracks?

[@mikiqex]

That backpack reminded me, if you walk with your drink, the equal frequency of your steps is building up waves in the mug, so ultimately you spill it. I do my "silly walk" with unevenly distributed steps and it truly helps make my way without spillage. With that walk I basically create waves that go against the waves I already created in the mug, mimicking how active noise cancelling works in ANC headphones.

[@rambot670]

thanks for the tip!

[@RampageG4mer]

You should apply to the Ministry of Silly Walks

[@Boofpack-og]

Deja vu intensifies

[@eitantal726]

I heard that if you grab the mug from the top, it won't slosh as much

[@ubentobox]

I know of the walk you speak of and have had to use it in certain circumstances, but I've had more luck trying to act like a gimble and it's more satisfying when you don't spill XD.

[@mk-wu6pr]

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You should find that comment

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Oh that is sooooooo true

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100 percent my favourite KZbinr

[@naughtyzoot1]

Now that I am a dad some of my perspectives have changed and I couldn't be more glad that there is such a person as Mark Rober. Never change Mr. Rober! You are beloved.

[@DarthCiliatus]

I'm 22 and I find his newer content isn't as much to my liking as the older content but my younger brothers (6, 8, 10) absolutely love it and it's probably some of the best content out there for them.

[@victoriagrayson5082]

*Now that I am a dad, some of my perspectives have changed and I couldn't be more glad that there is such a person as Mark Rober. Never change, Mr. Rober! You are beloved.

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After a busy, busy week of school, a Mark Rober video is just the thing I need

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Couldn't agree more

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[@user-lh3kn8eu9g]

素晴らしい。 難しい事をより分かりやすく簡単に説明されている。 学校の理科や物理で必要なのはこの様な分かりやすさ。 しかしながら教わるのは難しい公式や問題。

[@Mift_13]

What's more exciting is when people explain science in a practical way without causing headaches, greetings from Indonesia ❤

[@Mift_13]

@michaelsambhi4331 I don't know and don't let it happen

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​@michaelsambhi4331what a random question. It's not great.

[@jonp3890]

Hello, Indonesia. Still beautiful? Still diverse?

[@tbluge]

Mark is such a treasure for humanity. Imagine how many kids are getting interested in science because of this gem of a human. What a role model!

[@ItachiUchiha1611]

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[@knowledgeispower817]

Or adults

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Only that is speaking so fast that it gives you anxiety in this video 😅

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[@KalijahAnderson]

"Does it work when I pour the water?" LMAO. That guy's reaction was priceless and translated perfectly into 'Ah, crap, you noticed what I was doing.'

[@matthewroy7718]

I went there with my kids and it looked legit. Thanks Mark for showing the real science.

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Mark would be a great science teacher really enthusiastic and explains things great

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@@universaltoonsstop begging and it will come

[@LuCkySlither]

Estoy triste porque hoy es mi cumpleanos y no tuve ningun suscriptor.

[@RobC1999]

Yes, but he reaches more people this way.

[@followleaderwr]

He already is… on KZbin

[@concordjuniper33]

I tried the blowing-your-own-sail thing once when I was a kid with a small engineering set, and it failed. After thinking about it all these years and now seeing this video, I can see and understand why, as cool as that concept is in theory, it's never going to work. Thanks for making this video! I learned a lot of new things that I never knew about math and physics before!

[@waltersmith5293]

I'm no engineer but the whole time I was wondering...what if a system to divert the intake from the sides? Would that work?

[@jetsengoytredkl]

@@waltersmith5293 As long as the fan and sail are mounted on the same boat they pull against each other. If the sail didn’t catch all the air or pushed the air one way or the other the object would move, BUT would the fan be moving the boat or the sail 😂

[@ww3662]

Only thing is he is completely incorrect about it. It totally is possible, and the concept is used thousands of times every single day in the form of thrust reversers. Any engineer who took a basic fluids course should be able to work out how it work using fairly simple conservations of momentum control volumes.

[@elitravis1619]

Interestingly enough, it does actually work sometimes. If the sail is curved then it redirects the airflow from the fan backwards which creates forward momentum. At this point though you may as well just point the fan backwards (like he says in the video). The reason Mark's doesn't work in the video is that the sail he used is flat. So it's directing all the air to the sides so the forces cancel out and doesn't move the boat at all. If he used a curved sail he may have actually seen an effect. I did this experiment in high school and managed to get a model boat to move. Edit: I just saw he used a curved sail in the life size boat. He probably didn't see a noticeable effect because the fan is too small and the boat has too much mass. Also there was probably wind that was impacting the boat more than the fan.

[@waltersmith5293]

@@elitravis1619 He needs a whomper

[@Max_Ivanov_Pro]

Mark's videos always make me feel smarter after watching them.

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no same

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Youre talking to a literal robot ​@@bexiexz

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[@HFIAPY]

Yes but I can't do anything because I don't have the materials 💀

[@noratusket4313]

This channel just got this almost 30 gal gasping and wowing at the screen with the simplest explanations... I actually can't imagine a curious kid finding this guy in youtube and not become instantly hooked. I gotta show this to my nephew.

[@OfentseMwaseFilms]

1st time learning the difference between a Cyclone and a Hurricane. I thought one is air, the other is water based.

[@ZER0--]

I thought it was called a typhoon.

[@Masontheimbecile]

me aswell.

[@RyanIsHoping]

You're thinking of tornadoes and hurricanes. Cyclones and hurricanes are both water based, tornadoes not. I had the same confusion for a moment!

[@briebel2684]

Hurricanes and typhoons are both tropical cyclones. The only difference is which side of the international date line the storm was named.

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@ELPATO136 And hopefully it stays that way for another few birthdays until you grow up and away from begging.

[@Seed]

Mark and MrBeast and Mark collab in the same day??

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Yoo

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Why did you put mark twice

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And Ryan Trahan.

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Hi

[@matthollingsworth7327]

I actually saw that exact demo on a trip to Ecuador. I knew it was a trick, but I wasn't sure how it was done. The explanation is so much simpler than I expected. That same group does a bunch of even more obvious tricks.

[@Psychol-Snooper]

That's usually how magic tricks work.

[@DanielCrist]

I actually assumed there were very slight channels hammered into the sink on 2/4 sides, and that in the process of picking it up and putting back it down they flipped the direction around so they could pour the water against the opposite side. The actual explanation is much simpler.

[@glennac]

@LRmssK4 I thought “Jokes on you” and gave you a Thumbs Up. 😈 Then realized, “Wait! That’s what you WANT me to do” and gave you a Thumbs Down. Finally, gave you back the thumbs up for the cleverness. 😂

[@johnh2410]

This is the best video I've ever seen on KZbin.

[@G_Bl4ze]

Bro Mark Rober is the GOAT of science because of how simple he makes science so that everyone can understand. Thank you Mark Rober!

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[@ftlbs928]

Also, see NASA Publication 1207 from 1988. Specifically, the "Summary", "Introduction" and the "Concluding Remarks" sections, and get back to us on Mark being whatever it is you think he is. Thanks :)

[@finesupplements9698]

Now if only someone can explain all math, just as simple

[@seanbrockest3888]

0:48 "Not just what, but why" is the mantra of every good educator! Thank You Mark!

[@-GoGoPlayerars]

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[@liliowen2132]

Unfortunately I don't understand the rope thing as I have dyscalculia. I can do basic maths but even then I struggle with 7 times tables and above (10 and 11 is easy though). I can't do algebra nor trigonometry. Physics is also an issue due to that, biology is the best. In very simple terms, how does the rope thing work?

[@seanbrockest3888]

​@@liliowen2132by rope thing, I assume you mean number five, the belt around the Earth. That's actually simple math, the problem is that we imagine it takes a lot more length to do a thing that actually requires very little. You can simulate this for yourself, take a length of rope or string, hold it against a wall with both thumbs. Take a look at how very little you need to move your thumbs towards each other to make a significant bend in the rope.

[@TheBigLou13]

"because I'm the teacher and I said so", as (unfortunately) many teachers would say.

[@MangoVid]

When I watch Mark's video, I discover more about science.!!. Love your videos, Mark!!

[@LuCkySlither]

Estoy triste porque hoy es mi cumpleanos y no tuve ningun suscriptor..

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But the earth is flat, I saw it !

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@@LuCkySlitherentonces talvez compleanos solo son algo comercial. Lo que passa cuando tu madre ace parear con un multiplo de 365 dias? Nadie. Cresce

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No . Just no.

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Is that yen or smth else..

[@tylerakerfeldt7220]

Mark is the best because he always teaches you WHY. Which arguably more important than knowing WHAT because it allows to use those theories in multiple areas!

[@fabian1481]

Mark Rober casually making that guy at the equator jobless..

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He'll be alright. He can just sell that solid gold sink.

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In the southern hemisphere, that guy in the southern hemisphere

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[@briancromwell6021]

The balloon in the car example is a classic homework problem in my college atmospheric science class! Very happy to see you explaining fluid dynamics in a fun and easy manner, keep up the great work!

[@amberkott5261]

True

[@cbjewelz]

I’m confused cause the skin of the balloon is denser than the air. I guess it’s the ability of the balloon to move as a lighter “fluid” than air? If the balloons were filled with standard air, we wouldn’t see that counter intuitive movement.

[@karachter]

​​ @cbjewelz the balloon doesn't have enough mass to overcome the boyant force produced by the helium because the densitity distance from helium to air is so large, like how a boat filled with air can float on water even though the boat itself weighs a hundred tons because water is so much more dense than air, just on a way smaller scale

[@LOVELY_coffee]

Lovely reply

[@deggery-oneaboveall3365]

@@cbjewelz yup , if it was regular air then the balloon would move forward

[@davidpomboza7500]

Wow, I didn't know you were in Ecuador, I live there and the fact that such a big youtuber has been to my country excites me. All your videos are amazing, you are admirable, I have been following you for a long time, keep making quality videos!

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Mark single handedly has educated more kids in America in the last year than the entire American educational system combined. 👍👍

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He taught me more

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Nah the whole world

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日本にも技術届いてます😊

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Of course this is what happens when you put most of your time into watching yt videos, rather than focusing on your study.

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@@JebbyVRlol not Europe

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Mark helped shape my childhood and my big brothers childhood, you are one of the best KZbinrs on this platform

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I completely agree with this

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4:23 legendary music

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Thanks for coming by In-N-Out , I was the gentleman that took a picture with you and your family... I was calling out the numbers😁

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@@envycollar sowwy :3

[@Vid_Master]

​@@swabla240No he shook his hand!!!! it was cool

[@mitchtalmadge]

@@swabla240 Why would you make such a pessimistic comment? I've heard Mark loves his fans.

[@swabla240]

@@mitchtalmadge ye but im probs his favorite fan anyway!!

[@lihdegu8294]

@@swabla240lol you’re a troll

[@drd1449]

In certain conditions it is actually possible to go same direction as your fan initially blows air to. It works by that your “sail” redirects air opposite direction that it came from. It is naturally a lot less efficient but can be useful in certain situations when you can’t realistically turn your “fan”. Airplanes use this effect and it is called thrust reversal.

[@weevilinabox]

Agreed. With the air from the blower directed to meet the umbrella fabric either tangentially at the edge, or perpendicularly at the centre, then the air leaving the umbrella would have a rearward component and thus propel the board forward...given sufficiently low friction tyres and wheel bearings. Better still would be an umbrella shaped something like the vanes/buckets of a Pelton wheel.

[@unknown3158]

I was gonna mention airplanes before I clicked "See more".

[@jdotoz]

Some ships do this as well.

[@tz8785]

The relative size of fan and sail probably plays into it as well (with a big fan, the redirected air doesn't really have anywhere to go except sideways).

[@vyvianalcott1681]

It's less efficient because it's only the fan intake that would be pulling you in that scenario, because the fan blowing still exerts a force backwards equal to the forward force it puts on the sail.

[@FamousByCommenting]

Only Mark can explore an abandoned city for seven days and still post bangers like these.

[@qifusun3117]

Definitely mate.

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True

[@bexiexz]

the only one

[@alhasanibrahim4397]

Most useful vid I watched this week! Keep up the fun and educating videos!

[@stevie-ray2020]

Thanks for the challenge of dredging back through my memory to 50yrs ago when learning about physics in school, and surprisingly I did figure out correctly the answers to all those questions you asked! Your enthusiasm for sharing your knowledge with youngsters is absolutely commendable and a great example for those considering educational careers!

[@653-gm2yf]

hello I am a second year middle school student in Korea and a student who participates in the sunpla hanging exercise. Mark ROBER Thank you for always uploading interesting science videos and providing a wealth of knowledge. Always upload interesting videos and work hard.

[@MoltenNinja-mo4br]

Hi Korean dude

[@cefcephatus]

I love how the bigger your lab gets, the simpler phenomenon you make in the show. And that's the beauty of getting big. You can make things that's already simple even simpler, which is harder than simplifying complicated stuffs.

[@tobylopez445]

THIS IS MY KIND OF SCIENCE! LOVE THIS CHANNEL.

[@jjthejetplane1220]

The leafblower bit actually could work with a specifically designed "sail". If the sail is efficient enough at redirecting the air from moving forwards to moving backwards, then it's essentially equivalent to the fan blowing into a U-shaped pipe, which would expel the air backwards, moving the vehicle forwards. Or, simplifying by removing the pipe altogether, just a fan blowing backwards.

[@CineSoar]

I was thinking the same. My mental image being the clam-shell type thrust reversers, where two plates move into the jet blast forming a "V" which redirects it forward.

[@TheSYLOH]

Yep. Look up a "Target-type thrust reversal" for a version that was made by serious professional engineers. Basically for some Jet Airplanes, turning around the engine is impossible, so they have a mechanism that can basically place an umbrella at the back to redirect thrust forward to help with slowing down a plane on landing.

[@flyingtigers3747]

Isn't a reversed fan what they use for those flat-bottomed air boats in the Florida Everglades?

[@CineSoar]

@@flyingtigers3747 that depends on what you mean by reversed. The propeller on an airboat is simply pointed towards the rear of the boat just like in the video at 6:08

[@magnetospin]

Yup, in fact, airplanes do this when they land.

[@josephovervliet3291]

The Sheer disappointment in his looks after saying "As we all know the earth is... A sphere ಠ_ಠ" Too hilarious. I appreciate your videos Mark

[@danti2563]

Flat earthers: And I took that personally

[@chaks2432]

@@danti2563 I don't understand why he'd say that. As a former NASA engineer he should obviously know the Earth is shaped like a doughnut

[@user-zl1vf4me1p]

@@chaks2432 You misspelled "Cube" pal.

[@bananapeel908]

@@user-zl1vf4me1p i think you meant "Triangle"

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@@bananapeel908velociraptor*

[@agneseozolina1380]

Im 13(14 this year) and never been interested in physics, but a few years ago when i found Mark's yt channel i remember when he was making the squirrel series and now my dream job is to be an engineer! Im bummed that i cant get hi monthly kits, bc i live in a small country called Latvia, which is completely on the other side of the world, so shipping would cost a lot. i just think that Mark is an amazing human being and his videos are one of the few actually useful and educating videos on youtube! 4 years ago i didn't know anything about physics, but now my main monthly event that i can't wait for is watching mark's new video!

[@conorgalvin4289]

I found another science based channel as well! It's called kursgesagt.

[@blurry2246]

noob

[@ashlyn_1424]

That is so cool! You will be a great engineer some day!

[@agneseozolina1380]

okay, im gonna go cry to sleep now and tell my mommy abt you😢@@blurry2246

[@TheVilivan]

Nice! Keep learning, stay curious and resilient!

[@dogfood61188]

Think i would challenge you on the sail boat one. A. Sailboats rarely run directly down wind, if your reaching with the wind side on the sail deflects the wind to the rear of the boat and the fan would prevent the boat drifting down wind. B. Sails arn’t flat sheets they are curved like an aerofoil to create an area of low pressure in front of the sail that the boat is drawn in to which allows some boats to travel faster than the wind. My brain is still trying to process how that would work with the fan on the boat as you cant get more energy out of tge system than you put in.

[@masic.]

2:48 that was so funny because I actually got a tour of my brother on the capital and he knew about this and I was able to hear him clearly when he was whispering. It was pretty cool!

[@thatsepicification]

An OG educational video! My favourite type and part of the reason I'm in mechanical engineering school now. Thanks, Mark!

[@ChichotKruka]

As a Mechanical engineer my self your videos are bringing joy to my heart and soul. Keep it up buddy! Love your squirrel park.

[@АлексейКудахин]

Господин инженер-механик... А что вы думаете насчёт проблемы паруса и вентилятора? Поплывет лодка? Я просто юрист, но мы, юристы, дотошные и доскональные.

[@Cyberduff]

This is literally the smarter every day and Veritasium episode. Dustin literally did every single one of these just way more in-depth.

[@MLeoM]

I learned so many new things just by watching this KZbin video. That hasn't happened in a long while.

[@que5646]

didn't you go to school? everything he tells, schoolchildren in my country study in the first 5 grades of education (they learn this before the age of 12)

[@badouplus1304]

@@que5646 Yeah, sure, I am pretty sure people in your country (like everyone else in the world) would still be tricked by some phenomena mentioned in the video, especially the balloon in the car or the rope around the earth because people do not spend enough time to really think about it. Sometimes, the answer is counter-intuitive and people generally go with their intuitions, even when it is wrong. Anyway, there was no need to be obnoxious but hey, maybe you learned to be like that before the age of 12.

[@MLeoM]

@@que5646 Wish our education system was this interesting, nothing in our curriculum was remotely like this. Some of it like the balloon, I guessed corrected what would happen, but nope our education system is terrible.

[@tappajaav]

@@que5646 That's great for you! Too bad not everyone in the world is given equal starting points in education. I'm also curious how much of that information you think you can recall, say, 20 years down the road?

[@city-ships]

Your explanation of Coriolis effect is really clear. I cannot explain like you even I am a physicist. Thank you.

[@sighmon5640]

7:20 only, if you change the shape of the sail a little bit, it suddenly does work. because then it funnels all that air backwards around the fan.

[@splsgh]

target thrust reverse?

[@chaoswraith]

Still better pointing it backwards since you'll inevitably lose some energy to friction as it redirects 180

[@stefan514]

​@@chaoswraiththat's not the point. It's not about whether it's better or not, it's about if it works at all and this was misrepresented in the example with the umbrella. This would totally work even without and electric skateboard if you do it correctly

[@EliasKaydanius]

@@stefan514 i feel like the testing should have been focused on whether the "thrust reverser" in the form of the umbrella would actually be enough to overcome the friction to actually get the whole thing to move.

[@Tyrian3k]

Well, yes, just like a simple U-shaped pipe would make it work.

[@GThomas-q1e]

74 and here for the first time. I was looking at the build box or kids and wishing I was still a kid and suddenly realized I still AM a kid. So glad you found me.

[@Mqrq_69]

This guy made me understand the coriolis effect in a minute rather than 2 whole months of my aviation degree

[@fredrikstadguttatyvesekste773]

Came here too comment that😂

[@randykeith1203]

I've heard of the Coriolis effect before but never understood what it was suppose to mean

[@rbesfe]

You must have really awful professors then, or maybe you need to re-evaluate your choice of degree

[@beta1451]

@@rbesfe well an aviation professor vs a literal ex nasa scientist, who do you think the better teacher will be the guy who teaches about planes and aviation or the guy that literally helped with parts to spacecraft

[@tappajaav]

@@randykeith1203 Coriolis effect generally refers to how Earth's axial rotation affects various phenomenas around us

[@early2exit]

My school had a DC trip back in my junior year and we got to go to the capital and even with the room filled with people, we could still hear our teacher talking to us from the other side of the room. It was honestly super rad

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Hi

[@crystal_heart1]

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[@coolgadgets6590]

You make me love science. Hats off Mark❤

[@Lukecarey-sd2ik]

I sooooo wish CrunchLabs were around when I was young! Massive respect for doing what your doing Mark!

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I think he just released a new box, called the hack pack for teens and adults. You should check it out.

[@teddytaylor3373]

As an avid sailor, I beleive you could get some foreward thrust if you positioned the fan at the side of the boat and rotated it 90 degrees so it is blowing from the outside of the boat to the inside of it. You just have to have the sail trimmed at a 45º angle (a reach). Though, Mark's point still stands that this system is not efficient and has a lot of energy loss compared to a simple motor in the water. 1: the wind's angle means that a lot of the energy (half maybe?) is pushing laterally (it is a staple of sailing when you are sailing to put some weight to windward, especially on upwind legs). 2: the electrical energy used in a fan would be much better utilized in [a.] a better fluid than air like water (a motor as Mark says) [b.] a pushing the boat directly without a sail. There is so much physics behind sailing and I think it would be awesome if Mark did more experiments/demonstrations on it.

[@jamescarver9952]

Yes, that arrangement would turn it into an extremely inefficient reaction drive.

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[@FarmerDrew]

The Forever Tack

[@photodan24]

I do wish people would stop promoting the fallacy that sailboats move because sails catch the wind, from aft, like a parachute. Even spinnakers don't operate like that in most regimes. Maybe Mark should explain how sails actually work and how closely related they are to airplane wings.

[@madebydimiakagreekmachine5822]

@@photodan24lol then how do they work ?

[@fireball9567]

Mark Rober is really just out here being the new Science Guy. Getting a whole bunch of people interested and passionate about science. What a legend.

[@archaicspeaks]

new??? mark rober has been here almost since the beginning of youtube

[@PeteVanFleet]

FYI - New "Science Guy" as in Bill Nuy, not new to the Internet@@archaicspeaks

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​@sarzidev9487 Bill Nye the science guy is the science guy before KZbin even launched

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[@dr.wheezy3787]

Not to take away from how awesome and legendary Mark Rober is, he just wasn’t the first.

[@LngramNorton]

We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.

[@masonhoughton7885]

Blowing your own sail, while wildly inefficient, does actually work with a traditional CURVED sail. The curve captures the air from the fan and redirects some of it backwards, which provides a small amount of net thrust in the opposite direction of the fan. Love the channel, but I would really appreciate Mark revisiting and clarifying this

[@erwtgfan3877]

He should have mentioned the reverse thrust on a jet engine

[@ATuinhek]

Yeah exactly, with thrust reversers being a nice example.

[@MrGamelover23]

He literally did it on a real boat with curved sails and nothing happened?

[@ShiftySqvirrel]

@@MrGamelover23Might be because of the positioning of the fan and its size. The fan was much lower than the sail, so the air would be redirected more upward, and perhaps the since the fan was close in size to the sail the air flow from the fan would disrupt the redirected air from the sail.

[@jimmychin8313]

does that mean that the leafblower & umbrella might work without the motorised skateboard?@@ShiftySqvirrel

[@LukeTube007]

I love this guy. Mark Rober gives us so much fantastic energy from his presentations, yeah actually gets me Jazzed like a little kid! You earned a dedicated viewer Mark!!!

[@philip_fletcher]

+1 on the ellipse as my favourite geometric shape. Have often created used a string loop and two nails in construction projects - from workbench to garden sized!

[@memirandawong]

That was fun! Everyone should take a conceptual physics class...easy math...learn a lot!!

[@4RILDIGITAL]

Impressive dedication and thoroughness with which the myths were debunked. Learning was made even more interesting by not just revealing the answers, but demonstrating how they were acquired.

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[@Dwoplet]

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[@georgehill3087]

But he got blowing your own sail part wrong. Blowing your own sail does work, just not efficient. We have reverse thrusters on planes that use that principal. It's not like pulling yourself up by pulling on your hair. The energy is contained within the system. Blowing your own sail has energy escaping the system, just that most are going sideways with a little going backwards, hence the inefficiency.

[@scottrichter1858]

Came here for one clip, stayed for the whole video.

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Same here

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It’s like mark knows how to grab audience ha

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Came for Mark Rober... Wait

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Same

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This is the best video yet!

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[@CC-dc3uz]

Air is a fluid caught my science teacher lacking Science teacher: water = liquid Air = gas Ice cube = solid

[@qingxuanyue]

gases are fluids too

[@en5788]

This is the best video yet! Getting back to basics. Making science interesting again!

[@kamikincheloe5383]

Love this. 8th-grade science teacher here--loved teaching the unit on force and motion. I wished I had this video back then....but also an avid hiker/backpacker, even completing the the trail featured in this video(although Alamere Falls is awesome too, except too busy). Maybe using the bottom straps around the waist may have prevented some of the issues you experienced with that backpack. But I backpack in desolation wilderness and never would want an extra 4-5 pounds...my son now 16 showed me your videos when he was only 5/6. Been watching you ever since. Thanks for the memories.

[@u3pvip]

Wow. I actually watched the whole thing and I have really short attention span. Love how you explained things and demonstrated in a smaller scale/perspective.

[@JaylanSosa]

The Mrbeast effect

[@VenusTwain]

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

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I'm from Ecuador and it fills me with joy to see that you came to my country. You're the best.

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[@franmontaldo]

i like how i actually know and studied all this stuff and still like watching the whole video because of how you explain stuff. :D

[@FEV369]

Paused 0:05 seconds in, My guess is that it moves the boat backwards because the fan will move 100% air and the sail only captures a lower % of that total. Thus the boat is pushed backwards slower than if no sail were on board.

[@eventhisidistaken]

...my thoughts as well. should try the experiment again, but longer.

[@Hummerbird99]

Nope

[@SparkleberryUnicorn-ew1ij]

I’m a teenager now but when I was younger I built all sorts of different physics thing but just very low scale I want to do bigger things now but I don’t have the time nor the money but watching your videos really is so cool bc like I said I’ve been fascinated by physics at a young age

[@tutoring1013]

Thank you for helping to curb ignorance around the globe one experiment at a time!

[@seiichiii]

Mr. Mark, you could definitely become a physics teacher. You can explain everything a lot simpler than my current professor.

[@eggs4561]

The only problem with this video is that he's wrong about the blowing your own sail thing. You can do that.

[@DiffYT]

@@eggs4561 He's not wrong. There is such a thing as a thrust mechanism that can transfer energy into movement going the same way that the thrust is ejected but it's essentially just a funnel that redirects the flow of air... behind you, which is already what a fan would do if it is pointed behind you without any sail at all. It's also disingenuous to call a funnel a "sail" and that funnel has to be like a pipe, taking the vast majority of energy and looping it around behind the fan to create the same effect as turning the fan around. These types of designs are called "Target-type thrust reversal systems", which are simply not possible with a traditional sail or umbrella and fan, so no, Mark is correct.

[@eggs4561]

@@DiffYT An umbrella shape redirected enough air backwards to propel you, provided the thrust is enough to push your weight.

[@DiffYT]

@@eggs4561 According to what science? That logically makes no sense. Most of the air would escape sideways and the force of the thrust is pushing equally against the system generating the force as it is pushing opposite against the umbrella. This literally does not work, it is scientifically proven, the only way it would work is if you could funnel ALL of the air being pushed, back behind the thing creating thrust, which in turn, has the exact same effect as just turning the thing generating thrust 180 degrees and ditching the funnel completely. An umbrella is not concave enough to push air backwards, therefore that does not work.

[@appefjant1961]

dude i love mark rober easily the best youtube chanel out there. Always new highly interresting theories, knowledge and experiments. Thank you!

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[@davidkiwa55]

Mark remains one of my favorite KZbinrs

[@EraX52]

Mark makes science much more interesting and something that catches your attention. I also love that mark puts PVZ music with this, so relaxing and makes it much funner to learn.

[@michaelelder3945]

Loved the video. The physics stuff was cool, but what I really enjoyed was your enthusiasm. Love the energy.

[@kjohnson8174]

Wish I had you as a science teacher 50 years ago. I might have actually been interested and learned something. Glad I can learn it now listening to you.

[@mrosskne]

Your teachers were fine, you just didn't care about school.

[@Woad25]

@@mrosskne So you don't think that teaching is very much a part of a performance art as well? Well, looks like we found the crappy teacher in the comments section.

[@kjohnson8174]

@@mrosskne I guess you went to school with me and you know all about me so you are able to say that with surety. I'll take part of the blame but I was just trying to say that Mark made this very interesting.

[@JohnHenryReaves]

You are really great ... hope the kids enjoy and learn like Sheldon Cooper ...

[@happylino]

Marks videos inspire so many kids and makes learning science so much fun! Love the videos!

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He is such an awesome influence

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[@kwimms]

Science is a religion for goons. Leave those kids alone!

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[@HenreeeGG]

This is by far one of your best videos to date. Not as insane or showy as some others but this is science communication at its finest. ❤️

[@majermike]

well presented, great content

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I love it when you wirelessly transfer juicy knowledge to me through a screen that i'm watching. Also my niece and I love crunch labs boxes.

[@Goofy_goofter]

This aged great 8:30

[@marinoholguin]

Loved this!!! As a sailor, I can tell you, sailing with the wind coming from the stern (running) is the slowest of all points of sail. I've been thinking, what if the fan is placed amidships, blowin into the sail, replicating what happens when reaching (sailing with the wind coming from abeam).... that would be cool to ry...

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This is one of the coolest videos I’ve watched in a long time. Physics is just so cool

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I loved this type of video! Learned a bunch of random scientific knowledge is a super interesting and fun way

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[@showpavelraevsky4971]

🙂Я просто хочу получать удовольствие от жизни! Я не хочу хамить, скандалить и что-то кому-то доказывать, не хочу тратить время на общение с теми, кто мне неприятен, с людьми, которые меня не понимают, и пытаться достучаться до них. Не хочу пытаться вмещать свои мысли в чужую голову. Мне некогда! Я хочу жить своим настоящим. Я просто хочу ЖИТЬ! Радоваться каждому моменту, каждой улыбке прохожего, каждому дню, в независимости от того, солнечный он или дождливый. И очень не хочется разменивать эту потрясающую жизнь на пустоту, мелочи и бессмыслицу….

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[@dimitarkrastev6085]

Hey Mark! Actually the sailboat can be moved forward by blowing its sail with a big fan. It is rather ineficient and depends on a few other factors, but it does work. The same mechanism is used by jet engine's reverse thrust. The engine is "blowing" the same way it always does, but a set of big deflectors are deployed at the back redirecting the exhaust forward instead of allowing it to exit from the back. Essentially like a sail at the back of the engines. As we be all know - it works and is deployed by virtually every passenger plane on landing. I believe Ghost Busters confirmed that too. Initially they confirmed your finding that the boat would not move, but increasing the fan power eventually resulted in the boat moving forward. I wont pretend I understand the exact mechanism at play here, but I would speculate that it has to do with the distance the moving air is allowed to move and interact with the "still" environment air. From the fan to the sail that distance is fixed presuming they are hard mounted on the boat. While the air deflected by the sail backwards can travel back to the fan's location and further back as there is nothing stopping it. Assuming enough energy is preserved and redirected back that back force might be ever so slightly higher than the one forward (by the fan) resulting in the boat being moved forward by the sail. This is incredibly inefficient due to the 2 streams of air interacting with each other and cancel each other out in the form of turbulence. It does work.

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I just finished watching Mr beast’s new vid and now in 8:04 I can see him filming with Mr beast 😂

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[@alarikski]

This is an amazing sight I've always wondered about that concept of the fan and the sail... thank you so much fascinating

[@aceplaysgamesnetwork9566]

I swear if schools took this approach to teaching people would probably be a lot smarter. Excellent job of keeping my attention.