OK Go Sandbox - Timing Is Everything

[@annierouse6493]

Thank you for sharing a creative application of physics. I can't wait to show my students this next year!

[@morganelliott6165]

Artists should explain science stuff more often. This is really good, and I think phrased well so that it might click better with kids who didn't get it when it was taught the standard way, like the part on air resistance.

[@sybilvane.]

'It's your turn now, kids!' I can imagine that the dislikes here are from parents who had their kids drop stuff from the top of the stairs after watching this video, hehe.

[@AyngeMackay]

Flashback to high school physics. 9.8 meters per second squared (or, 13 feet per second per second). I can't believe I still remember this.

[@machin8593]

This should be an exercise with kids to learn about gravity! So simple and fun to learn!

[@GrantParker]

I loved OK Go for the well-made music and videos, but you guys are so awesome to film this experimenting. It's seriously great critical thinking leadership by example.

[@victorianme3668]

Upvoted for Andy's pun lol

[@sciencemama6801]

I love you guys so much for doing this!! I'm more sad than ever to not be teaching right now. My students would LOVE this stuff! Did you work with professional teachers to come up with curriculum? Thank you so much for saving overworked, underpaid teachers lots of time!

[@ruaidhrikathygill8833]

Fascinating!

[@andresxj1]

OK Go ft. MinutePhysics! 😜

[@CaptNaptastic]

This is truly fascinating!

[@adraedin]

... I hope these guys weren't actually learning this stuff as a group when they did this. It would be hard to believe they are fully grown adults who don't know how gravity or air resistance works.

[@SamsUndertale]

They made this after the video was already shot (ie. they already knew exactly how they did it down to a technical level) - I'm pretty sure the OK GO Sandbox series is meant to teach science, art, music, etc. to kids in an engaging way

[@geoffreycoan]

Good explanation of the basic science of gravity. Did think if you’d have got a feather and a cannonball you could have done full on Leonardo Da Vinci!

[@ppheanix]

According to physics objects of different (or same) mass released from the same height will travel at 9.8 m/s/s (acceleration due to gravity) and reach the ground at the same time... even if one of them is thrown horizontally. The time it takes a mass to reach the ground from a known height can be calculated, so the moment of release from different heights can be calculated... it is just math.

[@JoshuaTootell]

Sorta...you have to account for air resistance.

[@ppheanix]

@@JoshuaTootell not so ! - Proven for many different objects, except gas filled balloons

[@ppheanix]

@@JoshuaTootell also air resistance is same for all tests.

[@SherlockHomeless221b]

One cool thing some astronauts did on the moon was a feather and a bowling ball fall at the same speed due to a lack of air resistance

[@SickFa]

Woah

[@gjorgensen6746]

I’m learning more science than I ever did in high school

[@EmmaIndoril]

Galilee approves this video.

[@UltimaAzN]

Checkmate flat-earthers

[@NowanIlfideme]

Doesn't do anything to flat-earth. I mean, there's plenty of stuff that disproves it, but this isn't it. :P

[@UltimaAzN]

Many flat earthers don't believe in gravity and insist that the ground is moving at a constant rate upwards (i.e. the ground simply has an upwards velocity). This simple experiment disproves the idea of the ground moving at a steady speed upwards and proves that the force of gravity is ACCELERATING objects downwards.

[@Axel_The_Axolotl]

Maybe the size of the ball?

[@shadcovert1160]

I wonder if they ever have band dinner but without Damien.

[@shinymimikyu169]

16 comments? Make that 17 ;)

[@shinymimikyu169]

What monster disliked this

[@ktaylor17]

Second

[@HowIsThatHot]

I love this video so much, it so simple!