The Formation of Saturn's Rings

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This is a quick demonstration and explanation for how the rings around a planet like Saturn form. However, there are rings around each gas giant and one day, there may even be rings around Mars and one of its two moons has a decaying orbit. If you like my video, please like and subscribe to support more videos and experiments. If you are a high school math, chemistry or physics student, then check out my channel and website for lots of videos to help you out.
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[@katcvm]

Love your demonstrations

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

Thank you 😊

[@wiggle3]

​@@PhysicsTeacherYTa lot of people remixed your videos

[@user-bw3ji1ms2t]

​@@PhysicsTeacherYTSub😊

[@MacElMasMancoDeTodos]

Make me study 5 years of physics if the practice experiments are these

[@fachrimahardika1656]

This video was made 2 years ago, how did you learn 5 years of physics in 2 years

[@MacElMasMancoDeTodos]

@@fachrimahardika1656 what🗿

[@newcinema4931]

​@@fachrimahardika1656bro is on to literally nothing

[@ryanmcmanus7273]

I also like how it shows tidal locking

[@BisexualPlagueDoctor]

What?

[@pojwa1652]

​@@BisexualPlagueDoctorWhen the rotation of a body orbiting around another body has the same rotation time as its parent and therefore can only face the object its orbiting facing toward it. In other words the object that's in orbit can only face the center of the body its orbiting around like how we only see one side of the moon.

[@reply_off]

This doesn't show tidal locking. All the objects were going the same direction from the start and none are freezing rotation on their respective axis

[@ryanmcmanus7273]

@reply_off that's true. So, more properly, it shows tidal bulging?

[@valerioharvey7289]

I don't think he can simulate rotation with this

[@roshakalantari4862]

It's beautiful demo

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

Thank you 😊

[@user-jk8vc9jz8j]

acheivement unlocked: explain gravity using gravity

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

I apologize but I have to be honest and return my achievement as I used gravity to explain the formation of the rings around Saturn, not gravity itself. However, I do understand that this demonstration is often used to explain gravity as the warping of space time. However, I wanted to do something different with it as it is a lot of fun and a great visual, not proof, but a great visual.

[@wiggle3]

​@@PhysicsTeacherYTi love your videos

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

Thank you 👍

[@dictatormedia4841]

Yes i did want to see it one more time

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

I know 😉

[@The_Yuko]

When a object reaches to close to a larger mass and it gets pulled apart. It’s called a Roche limit. The more you know :)

[@mishelmazhar9228]

Thank you Sir for Demonstrations ❤🙏

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

My pleasure :)

[@haroldfumardian4998]

Fun fact: when the moon get closer to a planet the moon will get destroy and make a ring because of the Roche limet

[@TheLegendaryIce]

uhm..

[@martinlutherking6550]

Amazing Demo👏👏👏👏👏

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

Thank you 👍

[@teguhf.2084]

Now i understand why planet didn't crushed into sun

[@jojothepolyglot1866]

Yet! :D

[@jamesdudley7143]

Hes so happy i love it!!!!

[@MuSicBlock5774]

I'm also impressed that this example can also represent the tidal disruption of the roche limit (how the mini-balls get more separated the closer they are to the big ball)!

[@Hallowcat615]

Love your science❤

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

Thank you 😊

[@mr.OMnistAR]

that was soooo satisfying

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

I know 👍 I love playing with this

[@AwTickStick]

I have never seen this used to visualize the Roche limit. Pretty cool.

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

Thank you.

[@cinimatics]

That looks like fun.

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

It’s very fun and also satisfying 👍

[@XXXG-01W_WINGGUNDAM]

True

[@Dark_Matter2]

Just wow, it even works at small scale

[@jaiprakash8060]

Drawback of Rutherford model of atom😂

[@AvaneeshKumar-te1ms]

its nice

[@InkingMistake2]

Those smaller marbles said : 🍝 🍝

[@TornadoBC123]

it is so satisfying

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

It really is! Sometimes I like to have 2 marbles moving in opposite directions and watch them just miss each other. Very satisfying.

[@rambhawan1761]

Nah saitama used his serious table flip

[@Astrovenat]

The fact the the marbles actually moves the big ball

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

Yes 👍 That wobble is a great method to look for extrasolar planets 🪐

[@Certified_editor69420]

Imagine space as a soft mattress, this is how albert came up with general relativity

[@leigor6020]

This is so satisfying

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

I know 😆

[@frost1183]

This is so cool. Thanks for showing us

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

You’re welcome 😉 thanks for watching 👍

[@aquariusnaturalslaw2113]

The collision tho 💀

[@itswysdumb]

I love science

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

Me too :)

[@thecakeisalie1885]

I want to see more gravity well videos

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

I’ll start brainstorming 👍

[@thecakeisalie1885]

@@PhysicsTeacherYT i want to see ig stuff in space can you try to make gravity waves and put like the same weighted metal ball bearing into the waves

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

@@thecakeisalie1885 this is a cool idea. I have a frequency generator and vibrator that might be able to make waves in the fabric. I’ve never tried this before so I don’t know how well it will work but I’ll mess around with it a bit and see.

[@_M.X.E.S-Productions_]

This is what's called the Roche Limit, it's an invisible boundary that if anything big enough gets to close to, it will crumble to pieces and most likely secure an orbit around said planet, creating a beautiful ring system. Every planet in the Solar System and possibly the universe has a Roche Limit.

[@presleymcmickens8401]

Wow that’s really fun and cool

[@XXXG-01W_WINGGUNDAM]

So cool! Like it 🪐

[@Nathan_STELLARIA]

I also loved playing with my homemade version of that

[@ISEONIX]

yo that looks cool

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

Thank you! It's lots of fun.

[@ISEONIX]

​@@PhysicsTeacherYThow to make one of those

[@clauieful]

1 moon breaks apart into two u can see 2 moons one thats further and has 2 balls on is closer and its stretching out but has more balls like 3 that gives more mass too the closer moon ending up surving

[@AiraMendoza-uh7td]

its kinda a black hole when tou think about it 😊

[@rimtasrimtas]

and also thats how a black hole eats a star

[@Corn_Agentguy]

Earth BBC also has some answers, Long time ago, Saturn was just an normal Gas Giant Orbiting the Sun, Out of many Saturn's moons, One Moon was too close to the Planet, That it got Ripped into small pieces spiraling forever in an beautiful view.

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

I need to watch that. I bet the visuals are really well done. Thank you.

[@AightBetBlox]

Love it!

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

Thanks!!

[@thilagavathid4517]

Audi R8 vs truck be like:💀

[@RyanT9816]

cool!

[@kazatkrationrepublic]

It's like the galaxies coliding almost ending with a galaxy capturing the gas and dust and the galentic center combines

[@yuwelyndejose9754]

Amazing ❤❤

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

Thank you 😊

[@RippyLol]

POV: The ring crashes into saturn

[@galxiesandcosmos]

Can you tell me what the name of the thing you were playing with is? I wanna see another video of it

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

I don’t know of any particular name for it. It’s just a sheet of fabric held in place around a circular tube. It’s typically used to demonstrate gravity in general relativity. You can call it a gravity well, or warped/curved spacetime.

[@galxiesandcosmos]

thanks​@@PhysicsTeacherYT

[@felipetoledo2224]

the saturn rigs are formed for a one mon of the saturn💀

[@GProGaming-official]

Moon: shut up gravity Gravity: shut down moon

[@TheCertifiedLegend]

This is so cool 😃😃

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

Thank you 😊

[@presleymcmickens8401]

Wow

[@frogz]

if you film this in reverse, does it become a white hole? do white holes even have angular spin??

[@KennyZOfficial]

Those many balls when got affected by the big one looked like a black hole eating a star

[@F1Addictedits]

How do i get it (and im not talking about the metal ball and marbles), how can i make or buy one and what is the name if it (the trampoline type thing) .

[@Milkdromeda69]

Where do you get these things

[@marcellaromano-by8ul]

What is the thing you used called? I wanna get or make one

[@Goofierboofy]

What table thing did you use

[@DanGarGuitar]

Isn't it strange that when I see images of Saturn, the rings seem to be orbiting at the same height? I would've thought that because the space is curved they would have a cone type of figure...🤔

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

My demonstration uses a 2D sheet to demonstrate the curvature of spacetime but in reality space is 3D. I don’t know of any 3D demonstrations to visualize this curvature. Let me know if you have any suggestions and I’ll try it.

[@martinhirsch94]

@@PhysicsTeacherYT - Just explain that the time dilation increases exponentially and in direct proportion to the strength of gravity. I hate the trampoline comparison because there is no warping involved. BTW, I believe the rings could be space fragments from multiple sources, including debris from actual collisions with the planets. I also imagine that entry heat and tidal forces could cause incoming asteroids to explode. Actually we see that happening here on earth all the time as incoming meteors break up.

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

I do explain time dilation and General Relativity to my grade 12 physics students. However, I teach a unit on space to grade 9 science students and although some students may be able to wrap their heads around time dilation, it would be too much for many of them at this stage. However, I do explain this in terms of tidal forces with them.

[@user-sm1yw7ut6k]

So does it mean that after many years Saturn will collide with its own ring stones at the end 😢 bcoz ur demonstration collided at the end 😢

[@Saturn_but_its_hama_game]

Fun fact: the moon rip apart into pieces

[@Blackwatch_my_Man]

Ohh that's how when Saturn moons when get too close the moon teer apart and formed a ring in Billion of years ago Saturn don't have rings and now she have rings.

[@noliiifrancisco1983]

You can do it on water to just make a warpool😅

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

This is an awesome idea. Let me play around with this and get back to you later :)

[@Eintway]

​@@PhysicsTeacherYTwhat is this demonstration called?

[@TheLegendaryIce]

i wish i had that😭

[@Universlytical]

Okay, what... table (im just gonna call it a table bc idk what it is) is used in this video?

[@Doomslayer2163]

If moon gets destroyed by saturn giving saturn what is the name when moon is destroyed?

[@green_hedger_68]

Can small object like Ball can contain Gravity?

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

I don't completely understand the question but a small ball will exert a gravitational force on objects around it. However, this force would be incredible small and have very little effects on its surroundings. However, small dust particles around Saturn do exert the same gravitational force on Saturn that Saturn exerts on them. However, due to Saturn's enormous mass, this effect is also very small. Does this help?

[@green_hedger_68]

@@PhysicsTeacherYT Thank you sir for clearing my Doubt. I thought only Enormous object like Earth,moon,mars, Jupiter etc are capable of Generating gravitational force.

[@robertl.6919]

That works for me on a 2D plan. But on a 3D « spherical » field of gravity, how come it stays on the same plan ?

[@jetison333]

well, for sort of two reasons. One, the body that gets broken up was only orbiting around in one plane, (since its impossible for it to do anything else). then, when it broke up all the dust continued with that momentum. the other reason, is that even if it started out with multiple planes of orbit, they would interact where those planes crossed, and friction would eventually merge the two planes. This reason is actually why everything in the solar system orbits on the same plane, since when everything was still gas the friction canceled out everything except for one plane.

[@robertl.6919]

@@jetison333 Hey thanks for the kind response. Got it. Have a nice day !

[@kkkksjwj]

Where do you buy it

[@RoomsAndPlanets]

Oooooooo ❤

[@user-ln9xp3mm9m]

Magnetic

[@Simply_told]

So space is a clothe? So what about edges? Is it a cotton ball?

[@DARTXX]

No it was 2 moons colliding near saturn producing its ring

[@The_sus_kindof_human]

*accidentally explaines the Roche limit*

[@rahelaakter9440]

😮😮😮

[@OP-do7rt]

lovely ♥️

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

Thank you 😃

[@VulpinetideCuteTimes0w0]

This demonstration shows how gravity works on a 2 dimensional surface, the mass is pushing downward on the Y axes. Does that imply that mass like our planets, stars and moons, are pushing the fabric of space time in the W axes? Aka center, middle, inward. This W direction is the 4th spatial dimension? We understand it as in and out directions, but we can’t fathom what is beyond the plank length or the observable universe.

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

Great question. There is a curvature in that 4th dimension. However, the 4th dimension is not a special dimension. It’s time. This results in time dilation. A great example is from the movie interstellar. GPS satellites are a great example as well that we currently use. For those satellites to work properly, the atomic clocks on board needed to be adjusted to account for the very small amount of time dilation in orbit. Also, as shown in interstellar, some physicists do think gravitational forces dig deeper into more dimensions but that is not proven.

[@VulpinetideCuteTimes0w0]

@@PhysicsTeacherYT what if time is a special dimension, we just don’t see it as such in the same way a 2 dimensional being wouldn’t be able to fathom 3 dimensional gravity going downwards in our social dimension. Their 2 dimensional space being curved is causing everything to move, which creates time. Though I’m only speculating, it’s fun to think about.

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

@@VulpinetideCuteTimes0w0 Thinking about time is a lot of fun. It’s one of my favourite things about studying physics. What you mentioned is fascinating and a little scary. Let me give you an example. Let’s say we are these beings that can see and move through time like we walk down a street. They could look behind them or in front of them seeing both past and future. They could walk forward and backward. Ignoring the paradoxes of walking backwards. Let’s look forward at any event. Is that event clear and unchanging like it is for us looking down a street? If so, what does it say for us and the free will and choices that we so strongly believe in. Scary to think about. I don’t know the answer, none of us do, but it’s simultaneously fascinating and terrifying.

[@VulpinetideCuteTimes0w0]

@@PhysicsTeacherYT I also do tend to get philosophical about it. Is it true that our past technically still exists do to the light bouncing off into the cosmos? Stuff like this can be scary to think about, but the more I learn the more positive my outlook on life and the universe becomes.

[@22.matheo]

or you can use the ball as a black hole

[@attalava4365]

I mean the object you use for formating the ball

[@zeesan9004]

Do these models simulate tidal force also ?

[@user-bu5rs9yr9j]

that’s true that’s real it happened after 4billion years ago

[@DeMann_1417]

And you also make like a moon collided with another moon simulation too 😅

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

Yes 😅

[@DeMann_1417]

@@PhysicsTeacherYT the moon get gravitationaly affected by other bigger moons and because it's also getting closer to the planet, it collided

[@dianacoles5160]

Well it is very cool but people already know that

[@Purple_.guy_]

What is this called I want to buy one😮

[@arthur04ification]

why don't those balls move within an orbit? they fall into the planet, that's not happens with the moon, for example

[@FlintVanCaam]

Bro j1470b's moon be bagger than the sun then

[@I_dont_judge_but]

So why don't the rings touch the planet?

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

They eventually will but not for maybe a few hundred thousand years.

[@kfj_7191]

Because he used 2 dimensions for this video and idk reasons

[@zackzuzac1566]

how to make that?

[@Felnefer]

What is it called

[@Byebaconhair_isme]

I know

[@udhi_gn3893]

Simulating 2D gravity using 3D gravity

[@attalava4365]

What are the TOYS or the black thing name

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

It’s just a large piece of stretched spandex material that I have clipped in place. Many online science supply stores sell something similar.

[@JessicaJadie-ic9kq]

Why. because when its close the gravitional getting strong that one moon easly destroy. thank you

[@JessicaJadie-ic9kq]

sorry I forgot to add gravitional pull

[@Happy23913]

Be blessed Brother in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen!

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[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

Thank you!

[@mjordan421]

Your own demonstration debunks itself. They all get sucked into “Saturn” and crash into it.

[@PhysicsTeacherYT]

The demonstration is more of a nice visual understanding, as I can't possibly demonstrate the formation of rings around a planet in my classroom. However... "Hey Google, will Saturn lose its rings?" Google: "Yes. The researchers estimate that the rings will only be around another few hundred million years at most"

[@sokdara-rb8zt]

That not true😂