The Double Bubble Theorem

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Physics for the Birds

Physics for the Birds

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@spakecdk
@spakecdk Жыл бұрын
Bees don't actually make a honeycomb shape; they make them circular and heat transforms them into hexagons.
@aurelia8028
@aurelia8028 Жыл бұрын
who cares? nerd
@augustsasaki
@augustsasaki Жыл бұрын
holy shit i never knew that. thanks for sharing
@faytaliti
@faytaliti Жыл бұрын
They settle into hexagons, because of course they're the bestagons!
@Wise_That
@Wise_That Жыл бұрын
I was under the impression that they got that shape because the bees will push the wax outwards as they work, and so over time, as many bees push the perimeters of the wax outwards, they behave a lot like bubbles being pushed by air pressure.
@vespuccini
@vespuccini Жыл бұрын
@@Wise_That Internal temperature of beehives is pretty high! Its also wax! So maybe a mix of both?
@mallardmax3127
@mallardmax3127 Жыл бұрын
Kurtsgezart? Never heard of them, this is the superior "cool things + birds" channel.
@kashu7691
@kashu7691 Жыл бұрын
@@fadran11 they are just billionaire propaganda, sorry bro
@EliStettner
@EliStettner Жыл бұрын
Kurtzegat is really depressing, hopeless and inhuman.
@nive7299
@nive7299 Жыл бұрын
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@kashu7691
@kashu7691 Жыл бұрын
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@EpicGamerScout
@EpicGamerScout Жыл бұрын
@@EliStettner That's like... the exact opposite of their content though? All of their space technology content is the definition of 'Here's cool shit we could perhaps do one day' or 'heres a cool way the world will definitely never end'. All of their videos on real world problems tend to take cautiously positive stances, always ending with the message that although things aren't perfect we can definitely make a difference and that we can come out the other side. The recent immune system videos are just 'Hey look at how cool our human bodies are'. Hell, go watch the The Human Era
@jonathan3372
@jonathan3372 Жыл бұрын
At first I thought "isn't it obvious that since the circle's perimeter could not be reduced, it must have the smallest perimeter?". But then the example using the reasoning that "1 is the biggest number since every other number could be made bigger by squaring" clicked and instantly made me understand your point. Amazing!
@interestedmeow
@interestedmeow Жыл бұрын
You get a sub. Been watching for a while but what’s pushed me to push the button is that you are tackling real world phenomena in a way that both me, an engineer, and my 6 year old can watch and both be totally engrossed. It’s like 3Blue1Brown but more relevant to non-maths nerds and more approachable for little ones. Thank you!
@ronisaiba9623
@ronisaiba9623 Жыл бұрын
I feel like getting compared to 3b1b is every math ed channels dream come true. This channel is truly marvelous.
@jasonpatterson9821
@jasonpatterson9821 Жыл бұрын
Water absolutely can be blown into bubbles. The issue is that in a gravitational field there is a preferred direction for the surface tension to force the water, so it rapidly flows downward and the film squeezes a hole in itself. However, in an inertial reference from (i.e. in space) pure water bubbles are extremely stable.
@mihailmilev9909
@mihailmilev9909 Жыл бұрын
Lol "however, because in a gravitational field the preferred direction of......"
@mihailmilev9909
@mihailmilev9909 Жыл бұрын
But I get what you mean tho, and that's really cool actually
@mihailmilev9909
@mihailmilev9909 Жыл бұрын
168th like
@mihailmilev9909
@mihailmilev9909 Жыл бұрын
Thanks. What should I look for with/involving water bubbles?
@quaztron
@quaztron Жыл бұрын
Gotta be careful with the definition of "bubble". There are *solid* bubbles (air bubble rising in a glass of water; also a drop of water in air (while falling). There are *hollow* bubbles (a soap bubble drifting in air; also a rare "anti-bubble", a hollow shell of air that sits underwater with water inside it). There are solid bubbles of water that "float" on top of water (tricky to produce; they don't last long; an electrostatic field helps). There are solid bubbles of air that sit just under the surface in your glass of water (they don't last long). It's hard or impossible to "blow" *a hollow bubble of water in air;* it breaks before it forms. You can't even make a film by lifting the bubble wand out. Things might change if the wand is very small (microscopic films and microscopic bubbles?) or in *zero-g.* It all depends what is really happening. In *zero-g,* released water sticks together as a blob. The blob tends toward the shape of a solid sphere (a *ball* ). At first it will be oscillating, but in time the waves damp out (unless you blow on it). (A spinning blob will tend toward an ellipsoid.) With a straw, you can blow a solid air bubble inside the water bubble, yielding a thick-walled *hollow bubble of water in air.* What happens next? (Assume the air bubble is not centered.) Without forces, the air bubble will stay where it is. Do forces like surface tension exert a directional force on the air bubble? If forces push the air bubble to the center, you got it right. If forces push the air bubble to the edge and then the air bubble exits the water bubble, you got it wrong. In *zero-g,* an anti-bubble *(a hollow bubble of air in water)* might persist longer, because there is no buoyancy to drive it to the surface.
@lexinwonderland5741
@lexinwonderland5741 Жыл бұрын
EVERY TIME YOU MAKE A VIDEO IT ABSOLUTELY MAKES MY ENTIRE DAY!! your style is so friendly that i almost don't notice you're combining advanced maths from MULTIPLE disciplines (still can't stop thinking about the jazz video). Thank you for what you make!!
@aiden_3c
@aiden_3c Жыл бұрын
Physics for the Birds is seriously growing to be one of my favorite science channels Everything just makes sense, from prerequisite knowledge to the more complex things it all just makes sense and is simple AND listing all the sources? Seriously, such a good channel
@jonah.420
@jonah.420 Жыл бұрын
I didn’t learn much more than the basics of surface tension until I took thermodynamics in grad school, and then I understood why they waited so long to teach it haha. The coolest thing I learned in that class was that the vapor pressure inside of a bubble is proportional to its curvature and the difference in pressure that caused provided some the driving force behind smaller bubbles combining to make larger bubbles in a foam.
@SaHaRaSquad
@SaHaRaSquad Жыл бұрын
This channel makes me like physics and birds.
@simonnygaardjensen1367
@simonnygaardjensen1367 Жыл бұрын
This feels like a Numberphile / Matt Parker video and I’m all for it! Yet another great video - hope to watch you on Nebula some day🤞
@DepozidoX
@DepozidoX Жыл бұрын
Thank you for introducing me to a new mathematical rabbit-hole that I have not heard of before. Differential geometry + measure theory? Sign me up !
@kbee225
@kbee225 6 ай бұрын
Boy am I glad to have learned about surface tension and even how the tension in a single bubble due to the pressure inside and outside the bubble causes it to be spherical with the derivations and the math.
@harveyhutsby7697
@harveyhutsby7697 Жыл бұрын
the analogy at 6:50 makes my head turn inside out
@RagaarAshnod
@RagaarAshnod Жыл бұрын
Thank you for including your sources in the description!!!
@zachcrawford5
@zachcrawford5 Жыл бұрын
One thing that always interested me is when you make a double (or higher) bubble the internal walls aren't actually flat (most of the time) but will curve convexly into the larger bubble. I'm not sure if it is a parabolic curve or if it is the curve of a larger theoretical sphere whose radius is based on setting the larger bubble's radius to 1 and and then dividing that by (1-the radius of the smaller bubble). Either way, I have boned light off them just right on to a wall to get some pretty sharp images of the light source. I kind of thought if gravity could be taken out of the equation the internal dividing walls of bubbles could make excellent optical surfaces (especially for how cheap and easy they are to make and even adjust on the fly.
@chrisg3030
@chrisg3030 Жыл бұрын
Here's something about curvature. P is pressure, T is surface tension, R₂ and R₁ are the radii of the larger and smaller bubble respectively, R₃ is the radius of the wall or intermediate film between them. "The pressure in a bubble is inversely proportional to its radius since P = 4T/R. The radius of the intermediate film is dictated by the difference in the pressures on either side of it. These pressures are 4T/R₁ and 4T/R₂ respectively. It immediately follows that P₃ = 4TR₃ = 4T/R₂ - 4T/R₁. So finally we have the simple equation 1/R₃ = 1/R₃ - 1/R₁." (From Gems of Geometry by John Barnes)
@cy5279
@cy5279 Жыл бұрын
I always found it interesting that the face between 2 bubbles is more or less flat. Which makes sense if both bubbles have the same internal pressure
@alberthung6191
@alberthung6191 Жыл бұрын
The internal pressure of the bubble scales inversely with radius (crude idea: smaller bubble = higher SA/vol ratio = more surface tension per volume = higher pressure; more exactly: P = 4*gamma/R) so a smaller bubble will bulge slightly into a connected larger bubble. But that bulge may be difficult to see because two bubbles of similar size will have a minimal pressure difference (minimal bulge) while a duo of widely different sizes may have more of a bulge but less of a connecting surface to see it (unless one of the bubbles is huge)
@chrisg3030
@chrisg3030 Жыл бұрын
@@alberthung6191 Yes, the radius of the face between two bubbles is dictated by the difference in the pressures on either side of it. Let P be pressure, T surface tension, R1 ,R2, and R3 the radii of the smaller bubble, the bigger bubble, and connecting or intermediate surface respectively. The pressures are 4T/R1 and 4T/R2. So P3 = 4T/R3 = 4T/R2 - 4T/R1. So finally 1/R3 = 1/R2 - 1/R1. Must be tricky to verify in some cases though. Photographs?
@Nyxcodes
@Nyxcodes Жыл бұрын
It's been amazing watching your channel grow from just 20k subs not too long ago to 80k now! I think that you'll hit 100k in no time. I think that no matter what, given your content's extraordinarily high standard of quality and interesting and highly researched topics, you're severely underrated.
@sterben_Z
@sterben_Z 9 ай бұрын
dude i was searching for why bubble are spherical and i got a much more interesting subject than the one i was looking for thanks.
@divisionbell13
@divisionbell13 Жыл бұрын
I don't understand the comparison at @3:26. The vast majority of attraction in water is from hydrogen bonding. Both this and the attractive dispersion/LJ potential are interactions only with nearest-neighbor molecules, with hydrogen bonding being more directional. What is the attractive force at 3:26?
@David_Last_Name
@David_Last_Name Жыл бұрын
"I study bubbles for a living" strikes me as someone that had a question at age 1 and has simply refused to give up on answering it. Talk about persistence!🤣
@benkitchen8088
@benkitchen8088 Жыл бұрын
Frank Morgan was my college real analysis professor. He’s so unbelievably smart and kind-I never expected him to get a shoutout in a math KZbin video!
@adambarker3130
@adambarker3130 Жыл бұрын
It would be interesting to hear you talk about Ken Brakke's "Surface Evolver" - a program that solves complicated minimization of surface problems. And how about the packing of spheres? Another problem with a long history and recent progress.
@dewinmoonl
@dewinmoonl Жыл бұрын
great channel! subscribed. and remember, nature does NOT owe you an explanation. it exists. it's up to us to understand it
@wanderbegambit
@wanderbegambit Жыл бұрын
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@Asterism_Desmos
@Asterism_Desmos Жыл бұрын
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@cobalius
@cobalius Жыл бұрын
just eat one sugar cube anytime he mentions "bubble" or "bubbles", you will have a sugar rush xD
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@RADZIO895 Жыл бұрын
*me, secretly not a bird:* _"I'm in"_
@Curtistopsidae
@Curtistopsidae Жыл бұрын
I only ever learned about surface tension superficially as an undergrad and quickly became very confused about how it worked when actually having to deal with it in grad school research. Your explanation made it so much clearer. Question: How does viscosity affect bubbles? I notice incidentally generated bubbles tend to be smaller and last longer in viscous solutions. I suspect it's just that the viscosity allows non-equilibrium states to persist for longer?
@BlobstoF
@BlobstoF Жыл бұрын
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@kylewhite5695
@kylewhite5695 Жыл бұрын
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@plootyluvsturtle9843 Жыл бұрын
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@sno0dle653
@sno0dle653 Жыл бұрын
I'm a molecular bio major (and chem minor but whatever), and I genuinely am always awe-struck by the physics behind biological facts. As someone specifically interested in molecular bio, I wish we went more into detail on the physics between molecules in a biological system. My other bio major friend and I were discussing this recently: this is a gross minimization but, chemistry may be the study of molecular interactions and components and biology may be the study of life and lifeforms and how they work/interract systematically, but physics is the mathematics between all living and non living entities in the universe. That will never not fascinate me. My university doesn't offer biophysics classes, but I will find a way to take one for sure.
@MartinDe123
@MartinDe123 Жыл бұрын
Every video just keeps getting better! Truly reminds me of the early days of KZbin when you would discover wonderful channels like Veratasium, Minute Physics, Vsauce etc. Please make more videos!
@pikachuever
@pikachuever Жыл бұрын
The perfect balance of entertaining and informative, bravo
@acerbic-piglet
@acerbic-piglet Жыл бұрын
The point at the end of the video is the center of a lot of philosophical debate in computational complexity theory (e.g. the field that asks questions like P vs. NP). We have the conception of problems which are inherently *hard* to compute (say NP-hard problems), and we think of different computation models being roughly the same power (Church-Turing Thesis). However, we see a lot of examples of those problems in nature being computed all the time. Oftentimes, the hard problems we see being solved in nature are examples of "easy instances" of broader hard problems. This helps us dig down deeper about what the hard part of a problem really is. Most of this is still pretty up in the air and I think our organization of complexity theory will change a lot in the coming decades.
@LouisBjostad
@LouisBjostad 3 ай бұрын
This is a brilliant video. A major component that is missing is the Fourth Phase of water, with a hexagonal structure at the air water interface that is described in detail by Gerald Pollack in his 2012 book (and which will soon make him a Nobel Prize recipient).
@elliejohnson2786
@elliejohnson2786 Жыл бұрын
The CONCEPT is simple, the MATH is hard. That's why they're difficult to prove, but very intuitive to understand at a conceptual, high level.
@iamtraditi4075
@iamtraditi4075 Жыл бұрын
Never expected the jump from soap bubbles to measure theory. Thanks for enlightening me :)
@uraghnutu8256
@uraghnutu8256 Жыл бұрын
Another great video from you! These are the types of things that make people interested in pure maths! Sincerely, a Topology and measure theory student
@rojnx9
@rojnx9 Жыл бұрын
While I'm not a bird, I always enjoy learning these neat little parts of physics.
@internetduck1114
@internetduck1114 Жыл бұрын
0:04 Wait there's such thing as a bubble stacking competition?! 😱
@soanywaysillstartedblastin2797
@soanywaysillstartedblastin2797 Жыл бұрын
Never knew how similar bubbles were to the phospholipid bilayer in biology
@sambhavgupta4653
@sambhavgupta4653 Жыл бұрын
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@soupisfornoobs4081
@soupisfornoobs4081 Жыл бұрын
I am fascinated and awed, thank you for sharing this!
@Jorge-vc1eu
@Jorge-vc1eu 11 ай бұрын
Excelente video, era justo lo que estaba buscando!! felicitaciones!
Жыл бұрын
Interesting, thank you. Greetings from Popayan, Colombia.
@MaterialsSci
@MaterialsSci Жыл бұрын
You're making an excellent series of videos! 10/10 awesome job!
@ftangdude
@ftangdude Жыл бұрын
This was an awesome explainer!! I just finished a Master's thesis on a related problem :)
@Deltexterity
@Deltexterity Жыл бұрын
i know this is irrelevant, but i absolutely love your voice, especially when you say "double bubble"
@jickey83
@jickey83 Жыл бұрын
Great video! Where do you get your ideas for some of these videos? I don't know how you find such niche, but interesting topics
@santoast24
@santoast24 Жыл бұрын
Just last night I re-rewatched most of the videos, who'd ave thought that that today would give me another
@alainpbat3903
@alainpbat3903 Жыл бұрын
I learned about surface tension in chemistry actually, when my teacher talked about minescus and glassware. We then discusses surface tension with intermolecular forces for individual molecules with individual molecules
@notjerrett
@notjerrett Жыл бұрын
another fantastic video! you just don't miss
@landanrainey7072
@landanrainey7072 Жыл бұрын
Really loved this video it made me think a lot!
@tosh6126
@tosh6126 Жыл бұрын
Watching this video made me realise how much high school physics I have forgotten over the years. I could tell I know the bits of surface tension due to some exposure before but the dots were too sparse in my mind 😂
@Bingor_
@Bingor_ Жыл бұрын
another banger science video. Great job
@How_Interesting.
@How_Interesting. Жыл бұрын
I'm curious how do you find all the research papers to make the timeline at about 9:00 how are you sure that nothing has been missed?
@crsmith6226
@crsmith6226 Жыл бұрын
Do we know how close to a perfect sphere a real soap bubble is? Has anyone actually done measurements on a real bubble to see how close to the math it is?
@rafaelalmada723
@rafaelalmada723 Жыл бұрын
In theory it should be as close as possible, but there is a finite smallest edge size due to the minimal distance between molecules in the Lennard Jones potential. But they are arguably the closest things to a sphere we have on Earth
@crsmith6226
@crsmith6226 Жыл бұрын
@@rafaelalmada723 “in theory” that’s why we should actually measure it, maybe learn some new stuff by how much it is off from a real sphere
@rafaelalmada723
@rafaelalmada723 Жыл бұрын
@@crsmith6226 there may be some way of measuring it through Mie scattering, but I am not an experimentalist so it's out of my expertise 😔😔
@cara-seyun
@cara-seyun Жыл бұрын
With no wind or external forces, bubbles should be as close to perfect spheres as protons I’m sure in real life, the bubbles are slightly bottom-heavy due to gravity. You could confirm this experimentally through high-optic photography from multiple angles
@xenontesla122
@xenontesla122 Жыл бұрын
Well you can “see” the thickness of a bubble from the diffracted colors, so it must be aspherical by at least a couple 100nm
@coldassassin6615
@coldassassin6615 Жыл бұрын
really enjoyed this video, thankyou
@martindesposorio9805
@martindesposorio9805 Жыл бұрын
This channel is the cure for my summer brain rot
@Rawi888
@Rawi888 Жыл бұрын
This made me feel I’m chilling with a warm friend.
@wizgrao
@wizgrao Жыл бұрын
incredible video as always - this has become one of my fav channels on youtube. Are you a berkeley physics student? just noticed one of the birbs in your header has a cal hat. if so, go bears
@physicsforthebirds
@physicsforthebirds Жыл бұрын
Yep, I graduated from Cal's physics department. Go Bears!
@finlaydunn3244
@finlaydunn3244 Жыл бұрын
Gem of a youtube channel! crimminaly under subed
@vanillaicecream4369
@vanillaicecream4369 Жыл бұрын
Love this, physics made easy
@Kishblockpro
@Kishblockpro 2 ай бұрын
Doesn’t the density change very very little as you increase the depth for a fluid ? 3:35
@JCisHere778
@JCisHere778 Жыл бұрын
I think it helps to notice that surface tension can also be understood as free-surface energy. Then minimizing total energy is equal to minimizing the surface area. Treating surface tension as a force does not intuitively lead to the minimization of the surface area (unless you invoke some further arguments :) )
@BardBreakfast
@BardBreakfast Жыл бұрын
Another great one! Love it
@AndrewJanusson
@AndrewJanusson Жыл бұрын
Wow great video, thank you!
@OrigamiCreeper
@OrigamiCreeper Жыл бұрын
3:14 hmm but isnt the density of water always constant only the pressure changes?
@EPMTUNES
@EPMTUNES Жыл бұрын
A great video from you as always!
@leif1075
@leif1075 Жыл бұрын
At 8:20 WHY donmutliple esges meet in fours because in 3d soace yiu csnt fit mlre than four or is something else going on?
@mr_rede_de_stone916
@mr_rede_de_stone916 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic, as always.
@theodornoalarsen852
@theodornoalarsen852 Жыл бұрын
Nice video, love the content!
@caspermcgonagle1532
@caspermcgonagle1532 7 ай бұрын
The standard double bubble is such a powerful phrase
@J7Handle
@J7Handle Жыл бұрын
3:05 This argument immediately falls flat because there's no reason why the density or pressure has to decrease as you approach the surface from the inside of a volume. It also doesn't explain how water rises up the sides of hydrophilic surfaces or up through materials like paper. Also, surface tension works in vacuum, where there's no gravity to generate a pressure differential. Your explanation is seriously flawed. Now I haven't exactly worked out how surface tension works myself, but I know roughly how the negative surface tension of NaK droplet explosions works thatnks to Thunderf00t and co.'s experiments. In those NaK explosions, and sodium, potassium, rubidium, and cesium explosions, too, the chemical reactions of the alkali metal with the water generate a positive charge on the surface of the metal droplet. the charge remains on the surface of the droplet because of repulsion from the positive charge on the other side of the droplet. This positive charge overrides surface tension and drives the surface to expand in a wrinkly, spiky fashion. The new surface also reacts with the water, generating more positive charge and creating a feedback loop that turns the metal droplet into a hedgehog in a fraction of a fraction of a second, then the kinetic energy of the surface expansion becomes very large and you have an explosion. Water surface tension obviously isn't like that because there is no net charge. However, I think the surface tension has to do with how water molecules are repelled only by other water molecules within a short range, and attracted by water molecules in a larger range. Imagine water molecules inside of a u-shaped valley. Molecules at the bottom are repelled primarily by molecules below them, but attracted by molecules up the sides of the valley. molecules at the bottom of the valley accelerate upwards. Meanwhile, molecules on the side of the valley are repelled by molecules on their own side, but attracted to molecules on the other side due to the extra distance. Therefore, molecules on either side of the valley accelerate to close the gap. The net effect looks like surface tension as the valley closes itself. If there's a peak, molecules on the side of the mountain are repelled outwards, and their increasing distance from the peak increases their attraction, pulling molecules down from the peak. Of course, I just came up with this on the fly, but I think I'm already close to accurate on the real interactions that cause surface tension.
@StephenRansom47
@StephenRansom47 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic Work, but how does this fit into the “4th Phase of Water” and the science behind it?
@betula2137
@betula2137 Жыл бұрын
Blub Blub is the sound they make
@vespuccini
@vespuccini Жыл бұрын
unproven conjecture
@popescucristian8978
@popescucristian8978 Жыл бұрын
i actually have an irrational phobia of clusters of bubbles like these ever since i was a kid and they still throw chills down my spine when i see them
@douggaudiosi14
@douggaudiosi14 Жыл бұрын
Triptophobia?
@popescucristian8978
@popescucristian8978 Жыл бұрын
@@douggaudiosi14 no, only specifically for bubble clusters, but other so called 'tryptophobia' images or settings still don't scare me. If i'm in the shower and see such bubble clusters i wil literally scream my lungs out and i have to carefully wash myself to avoid making these soap bubbles. Especially if they're big, uneven and there are a lot of them. Like for me, going into a bubble bath is like the purest form of torture and i'll probably pass out from fear drown and die.
@andrewcraig1074
@andrewcraig1074 Жыл бұрын
Do you have any idea what started this phobia?
@thosewhowish2b693
@thosewhowish2b693 Жыл бұрын
I wonder how much of the difficulty in some areas of math comes down to lacking notation or representation of functions, etc. Often, when something is discontinuous, it feels abnormal to treat it mathematically, as if "math didn't like it", and yet nature has no problem with those. Like trying to model someone kicking a ball before learning about Dirac's delta.
@jheckie14
@jheckie14 Жыл бұрын
2:17 I've never heard surface tension explained like this in all my years as a "science-boy" and as a private tutor. I really curious if I simply have never heard of it or if it's really just taught in American schools (not sure of your nationality, sorry)
@YYCUrban
@YYCUrban Жыл бұрын
At 5:53 when you talk about, Steiner Symmetrization, I immediately thought that it was a riemann sum. The mathematics of bubbles literally requires calculus. Bubbles are so advanced that we cant understand them until modern day AP high school
@Schockmetamorphose
@Schockmetamorphose Жыл бұрын
oh, the guy that pronounces "sh" weird is back. Good vid!
@ianabuaf9187
@ianabuaf9187 Жыл бұрын
Here's another cool thing you can do with soap bubbles: The minimum Steiner tree of some points is the graph that connects the points using the minimum possible distance. Multiple soap bubbles together can be used to create the Steiner tree of a set of points, since it shares similar properties to that of joined soap bubbles (like having only 120 degree angles). In fact, you can try this by taking two glass plates arranged one on top of the other, connecting them at some points by sticking some pegs between the plates and finally dunking the whole thing in some soapy water. When you take it out you will see that between the plates bubbles will have formed attached to the pegs and in the shape of the Steiner tree of those pegs. Here's the catch: the minumum Steiner tree problem is NP-hard and we can simulate classical physics in polynomial time. This proves that P = NP! Well, not really. While (as far as I know) it's not been proved, the final arrangement is almost certainly a local optima. And even if it isn't, it will take a long time for the bubbles to settle when many pegs are used. There are other ways of doing this "physics prank" but this one is probably the most amusing to me.
@adytaargala
@adytaargala Жыл бұрын
At 3:26 why would attraction forces be greater than repulsive forces at the surface? For example, the water molecules at the surface of the water body would experience equal levels of attraction AND repulsion from other surrounding H2O molecules right? Since each molecule basically has 2 postive charges (hydrogen) and 2 negative charges (electrons of oxygen) they would exert equal force on their neighbouring molecules. Why would one of these charges be greater? I understand that if two water molecules come too close together, they would be repelled apart because their similar charges (the 2 electrons in their individual molecules) would start repelling. But why do they attract in the first place? Wasn't really convinced by this explanation?
@edify.9018
@edify.9018 Жыл бұрын
heres my very low level gcse understanding : at the surface, there are fewer water molecules (as yk, above, there’s no water molecules). therefore, there’s a smaller force of repulsion overall at the surface (vs in the middle, where all the water molecules are immersed), meanwhile the force of attraction on the top layer exist between all the molecules within the water (sure the farthest molecule from the top has a weak force of attraction, but it’s still there). To answer the question about why water molecules are attractive - the way they are structured (H-O-H) means that there are two polar bonds (2x (O-H)), which mean that there is an area of positive charge and an area of negative charge. a polar bond occurs when two atoms with different electronegativities (think about it, a H+ ion vs an O2- ion, the O2- ion more negatively charged and capable of attracting electrons to it, unlike the H+ ion which loses an electron) leading to an unequal sharing of pairs of electrons, because the O^-2 ion attracts the pair of electrons _more_. This means that the negatively charged area of the molecule attracts the positively charged area of another molecule, and vice versa, etc. Until they get close together, where same charged areas begin to repulse.
@leif1075
@leif1075 Жыл бұрын
WAIT I don't think what you said at 6:16 is correct. The perimeter is STILL the same..of the shape youbdraw around the trapezpods hasn't thanked, why would.the perimeter be any different? See what zi mean? You said something about balancing the trapezoidal, but I don't know what thst means..the sides of the trapezpids are not part of the perimeter anyways so isn't what you said wrong?? Or is it because tounare rotating the ship to fit the new configuration of the trapezoids wirhin since nkq they are cnetralozed and when you rotate it then the oerimeter adjjsts to the new vroder kf the trapezpid somehow?? If not i dont see how its correct. Thanks for sharing
@jayitsthenerdyninja9891
@jayitsthenerdyninja9891 Жыл бұрын
I know it’s gonna be a good day when I get to be one of the birds that learns physics
@vagnerdenzer9870
@vagnerdenzer9870 Жыл бұрын
Bubbles have so much in common with cell's plasmatic membrane, their estructure is the inverse (the tails to the outside and heads to the inside and in the plasmatic membrane, heads to the outside and the hydrophobic tails to the inside)
@citratune
@citratune Жыл бұрын
I love this.
@Possumman93
@Possumman93 Жыл бұрын
What do you use to make your illustrations/animations?
@darkbloomvivian1087
@darkbloomvivian1087 Жыл бұрын
ur so good human
@adriandupre1713
@adriandupre1713 Жыл бұрын
love the content
@ПростоБоря-м6м
@ПростоБоря-м6м Жыл бұрын
thank you for your's gorgeous videos, huge hugs from russia
@1TheRaven
@1TheRaven Жыл бұрын
Hexagon is the bestagon. Mr. Grey sends his regards.
@blacklight683
@blacklight683 Жыл бұрын
1:05i see so the stacking guy was before that cuz everyone knows that physics don't apply until someone discoveres them
@mahadunais6050
@mahadunais6050 Жыл бұрын
lesgoo birdphysics video
@SheepFreak2
@SheepFreak2 Жыл бұрын
10:45 dont bees just make circles? If you stack them in 2d and apply pressure, they end up hexagonal
@-libertyprimev1-902
@-libertyprimev1-902 Жыл бұрын
You're playing a dangerous game here, every able bodied Patron in the Bar wants to beat you twice senselessly now...
@physicsforthebirds
@physicsforthebirds Жыл бұрын
Don't think they don't know how to weed 'em out
@anasouardini
@anasouardini Жыл бұрын
Try beatboxing bro, it fixes the tsch sound - speaking from experience. NICE VIDEO.
@jontydenton1201
@jontydenton1201 Жыл бұрын
Nice vid
@cw6043
@cw6043 Жыл бұрын
the gravity surface tension analogy doesn't work for an upside down item, like a spout with a mesh on top of it, or a straw with your thumb on it. it's sometimes upside down.
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