The ring on a chain trick

For the answer: • 3 Perplexing Physics P...

[@brli817]

vsauce would never leave us on a cliff

[@antopatrex7444]

True brother

[@nathansamuel4623]

And smarter everyday

[@agcouper]

Or would he?

[@TheZ056]

Haha

[@justbrooke1468]

This comment had me dying. Like literally dying. 911

[@rzr1191]

vsauce doesn't do me dirty like this

[@kayakMike1000]

Michael is okay with you being a smart person and is pleased to just be himself. Derek has to be the smartest in the room and he will do everything he can to make sure you know he's brilliant.

[@whyamiwastingmytimeonthis]

@@kayakMike1000 not reading the description or even just looking at the linked full video, and jumping straight to the negative conclusions. You seem nice.

[@Mechaneer]

Its true, I feel very unclean after being subjected to this

[@kayakMike1000]

@@whyamiwastingmytimeonthis you're right. I am a very nice person.

[@sicko7049]

​@@whyamiwastingmytimeonthislmfao the irony 😂

[@vor_ben]

One more of those cliffhangers and I will jump off a literal cliff

[@shadowcaster7294]

Too slow I'm already doing it

[@janhetjoch]

He made a video about this years ago

[@LeSkinner]

@@janhetjochlink?

[@fakjbf3129]

@@LeSkinner The title of the video is “Three perplexing physics problems” and the thumbnail shows the ring and chain.

[@kuhluhOG]

@@janhetjoch he literally took this short from that video too

[@TradingFeline]

Vsauce would never do this to us

[@NotSoUselessFacts]

copieeeed

[@malakayman7497]

He lets go of one side b4 the other

[@TheBoredPhysicist]

For those of you who don't know how this works: The second time he lets only one side go before the other one, this causes the ring to flip end-over-end, that makes the side that is released first to fall in between the two sides of the chain. This turns the chain over one time and causes it to latch on like you're seeing at the end. The first time he releases both sides together at the same time.

[@PeregrineBF]

And the knot formed at the end is known as a "Ring Hitch" or "Tag Knot" is Ashley Book of Knots (ABOK) number 1859.

[@cmcchan]

you are the captian

[@candacegallaway187]

😊 thanks

[@ChannelJeffrey]

yes, this.. Notice how he repositions the ring to the top of his thumb just before the third drop

[@Richardj410]

I actually saw what he did and had figured it out.

[@m9ortia]

I need Vsauce to explain this

[@kaihein4324]

I'm ending the cliffhanger. The ring rotates!

[@Benjamin_Reese]

Just click on the link to the video in the short.

[@gdeveloper3309]

I love how detailed that explanation was.

[@SpandauJerry]

Yes, kinda magic 🤌🤣🤣

[@ALBINO1D]

Yeah and every time I rewatch, it's as if he added even more details!

[@mocabe01]

this is just shorts. pretty sure he has a full video for it.

[@SkylinesProductions]

It’s his job after all

[@manivannanselvam3525]

Yes in discription 😂

[@pahaihminen1]

Plot twist: He also doesn't know how it works and is genuinely asking for answers.

[@sciencetechandgamingm193]

He made a video long ago on this

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

So why hide behind the verse? And who put them on rank 40? Toilet incoming

[@mooblu8837]

That man is Ph.D in Physics, watch the whole video on his channel

[@Matrix_932]

​@@mooblu8837these generation only watches shorts so they want a full fking phenomenon explained in one min

[@tinit5190]

Simply by letting one side go before the other. It will rotate on the fall down and flip the chain over.

[@Subsessor]

jup, thats it. when viewing the vid with 0.25x speed you can see that derek moves his thumb on the last drop differently while on the first two drops both his index finger and his thumb spread simultaneously.

[@gregred78]

You can tell he made his fingers wider so both sides were touching the ring and the chain. I believe it's got more to do with that than dropping it at an angle.

[@Alba_Longa]

The physics of it is still very interesting. He didn't flick the ring to get it to rotate, only dropping one side first. That shouldn't be enough rotational force to completely flick the chain back on to itself and make a knot. Something about the chain's physics amplify that small rotation.

[@richard84738]

Thank you for making me not have to click the other link to find out. Doing the lord's work

[@jordank195]

@@Alba_Longa just speculating but could it be like a mini Mould effect that imparts enough energy for it to flick around?

[@adriantcullysover4640]

Derek, we need to talk about how to end your shorts 💀

[@KnightSlasher]

"So you know I am not doing any tricks" *_proceeds to show magic trick_*

[@nelinno04]

Not really a magic trick--it's a physics trick. it's attached with a girth hitch. The angle at which it's dropped allows the ring to pass through the chain loop and secure itself with a hitch

[@ShawnHCorey]

@@nelinno04 Yup. He puts a twist on the ring so it rotates as it falls. Play it on slow motion and you can see it happen.

[@Tactical_Hotdog]

It's physics you fool.

[@chiepah2]

To be fair, that's what magicians do

[@DharmaJannyter]

@@nelinno04 You could say that about ALL magic tricks. What makes it a magic trick is not the particular method/mechanis, but that it's deception for entertainment purposes.

[@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641]

Science isn't paying well so my man is becoming a magician.

[@djvelocity]

I used to love doing this magic trick when I was a kid. *If I remember correctly, you tilt it when dropping so that the weight of the ring causes it to fall forward and loop within the chain.* I don’t know, I’m 35 and I did this trick when I was 10 so I could be totally wrong haha 😅

[@riks8123]

Yea you described it perfectly, the ring goes through the chain and loops

[@9usuck0]

That was my guess. I hope you are right. lol

[@cejuonline]

You're right, Derek explained this in a video he made some time ago. The video is titled "3 Perplexing Physics Problems"

[@jenniferzhou2818]

In the first time, he didn’t flip the ring (at least not hard enough that cause the ring to turn over twice). In the second time, he turns the ring using his thumb and forefinger with certain amount of torque, so that the ring turns over twice or more in the loophole of the chain, creating a knot between the chain and the loop. (You can experiment and verify it at home :))

[@jw5545]

These cliffhangers are giving me an existential crisis

[@doesntmatter2732]

Fr, I want to go watch the whole video now but I bet it’s a little long

[@prikirale]

🤣 you are so fun!

[@purplemonkeydishwasher5269]

Flip the ring

[@tjwoosta]

Its not a cliffhanger, the answer is linked in the description

[@doesntmatter2732]

@@tjwoosta there’s nothing in the description

[@ayushmanchakraborty5744]

This can be done if one side of the ring gains velocity before the other side does, it flips the ring a axis, which wraps the chain around the metal ring, which inturn makes it stick. He basically let go one side before the other and just made it rotate on a axis which made the chain wrap around the chain and lock itsf with the ring, which makes it stick.

[@cyyyay]

this is the second time you didn't tell us how it works, please just tell us derek

[@TBCavalcanti]

this is an old video like OLD. Probably on description ;p

[@Aa-fg6jf]

He used to do this in his old videos

[@Jtone_philthy_aquatics]

Lol adding his name at the end of that comment really made it sound urgent 🚨

[@Leg1503]

He cut a clip from a years old video. The real explanation is this: you let one side go early and that catapults into the chain sliding over itself and catching

[@gamesapp22]

Play in slow mo, he lets go of the ring so that it stays in level & doesn’t stick but at the end he lets it go in a way that the ring tilts.

[@HalfInsaneOutdoorGuy]

Friction and newton's 3rd law. It's angular momentum and the exchange of energy!

[@-Veritasium001]

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[@ChristIsKing69]

I love the part where you explain how it's done.

[@GOOD_FARMER]

I already saw that 🤣

[@JVirocel]

He already explained it in a video years ago.

[@lucky_lol]

Checkout description lol

[@SpandauJerry]

This fine irony 🤌😁

[@loopkill]

first magic trick I ever learned as a kid 😄

[@dosadoodle]

The ring rotates, creating a twist in the chain that tightens into a loop. It helped to pause right after the ring release to see the ring is rotating perpendicular to the plane made by the two straight pieces of chain.

[@natec1]

You can also move frame by frame using ""!

[@nyx211]

"So how does this work?" By thinking _really_ hard. Duh.

[@saccaed]

Impart a bit of spin on the ring sufficient to get a half rotation before reaching the bottom of chain.

[@Undefined_infinity]

My brain ain't braining rn

[@CephasTheWanderer]

What I'm noticing is that on the normal drops you just drop the ring flat but on the "trick drop" you let the ring drop in a way that, if it was gonna hit the table, it would have rotated 90 degrees and hit it sideways. I'm guessing this motion creates some sort of whipping action that causes the chain to entangle like that

[@abhigyakumar3705]

But he have already explained it in earlier videos

[@HurleyWeezer]

@@abhigyakumar3705 So this short is like an exam

[@CephasTheWanderer]

@@abhigyakumar3705 cool. And you're assuming everyone has seen every video of this person?

[@pranavps851]

@@abhigyakumar3705 But your school taught English grammar!

[@Gottenhimfella]

Pretty much. The leading edge of the ring actually falls through the chain (which has to be lighter than the ring, and flexible in all directions)

[@hschultz123]

He drops the ring so that it slides down one side of the chain, which causes the chain to whip and twist around the ring.

[@KekusMagnus]

He made a video explaining this years ago. He drops the ring with the chain rubbing the ring asymetrically which drags it and causes it to whip around and knot itself around the ring when it reaches the bottom

[@watcherintheveil5032]

Based on the height off the table the chain is upon the dropping of the ring, if it is hanging less than half the height of the rings height viola it will deflect upon hitting table at any angle and snare the chain at its center with one flip

[@jesuiscequejesuis2267]

The best part was where he explained how it worked.

[@Nahrix]

No, you see, he's actually asking you, cause he's confused as all hell himself.

[@meehanator8010]

Drop the ring at an angle so the chain wraps around it.

[@josenobi3022]

This The first time I saw this trick years ago it threw me off, but now I understood exactly how it worked instantly.

[@meehanator8010]

Same, I thought that they twisted the chain or something until I tried it myself.

[@SimonBrisbane]

Yep - Derek is working hard on keeping the algorithm favourable RN.

[@meehanator8010]

Yessir

[@vaibhavsingh7529]

I think it is conservation of angular momentum 🥲

[@SimonBrisbane]

Derek, I expect to see a high-speed video recording on my desk by Monday!

[@lubomirkubasdQw4w9WgXcQ]

you gave it some rotation and it gets tangled.

[@zenchii9756]

these shorts are turning into those physics questions from exam that i skip 😭

[@rushivyas3648]

It's damn easy to understand. In the first case you hold the chain in the center of the ring such that it doesn't touch each other, so the ring comes down straight In the last case you have held the ring such that it is slightly pressing against the chain. This develops normal reaction and friction since surfaces are in contact. So the ring gets tilted and becomes vertical as it falls thus it gets tangled in the chain.

[@STNG17-]

Derek just casually did a magic trick based on science

[@Jia1337]

Magic, of course.

[@AdityaKumar-gv4dj]

The chain is made up of magnets, not rings.

[@SimonBrisbane]

What about the falling ladder chains. Why was one faster?

[@lavahawk]

I believe there was a leverage force also enacted by the uneven steps hitting the ground adding to the ladders velocity down (rotational motion)

[@ShawnHCorey]

It's an matter of energy. The one dropping the shorter height gains less energy than the one falling farther. Thus it cannot gain as much speed.

[@stephenoakley9724]

​​@@ShawnHCoreyut that's the one that fell faster. Also, that's just not how things work.

[@bacn_]

How dare you leave us without an explanation? Michael could never

[@Rajclaw]

I like the part where he says how it works

[@connoraugustine2127]

The ring falls through the loop made by the chain. This trick only works if the plane of the ring is close to parallel with the direction of the chain.

[@memati7199]

An old Canadian guy on a wheelchair in a cafe shop in a mall, who has been in that wheelchair due to a surfing accident where he broke his neck and skull, taught me that trick and insisted on me to take the ring and the chain but i respectfully refused. He is a great guy ❤.

[@tglackin2411]

By positioning the ring close to the top of the side of the thumb, rather than the middle of the thumb as in the first two drops, the release will cause the index finger side of the ring to drop, while the thumb side of the ring experiences enough resistance to cause the ring to spin from horizontal to vertical. The ring falling vertically rubs on the chain, causing it to open and flap below the ring, allowing the ring to fall into the open chain.

[@piyushlovanshi8142]

Nice trick, you do not need to think just need to make sure that that ring switches to vertical orientation. This will create that effect by pushing the lower end of ring inside the chain loop, also it happens at the last moment when both chain and ring have 4 point of contacts

[@danjwalker]

It's quite simple. The reverse transgental positioning of the quadrahypoglophic gravity mechanism pivots the third dimensional shift of the Z axis proportionally to the X and Y off tilt post-transitional vertices drag resulting in chain gotcha.

[@southsko]

I'm glad you are not making people argue over electricity anymore

[@edwincook266]

Opens the upper hand so there is friction on the edges of the ring making the edges of the loop come together, this then has a whip effect through the chain to the end and it knots.

[@liekwashington6840]

What happens so fast is that the ring flips due to the drag the chain has on the ring. The chain ⛓️ bends upward from the drag, the drag flips the ring, and the ring flips over the part of the chain that bent upwards causes in to lock. The only thing I can think of.

[@devonrd]

What's holding the ring at the end is called a "Girth Hitch", it's used in climbing a lot !

[@EmpiricalPragmatist]

I read Earth Glitch haha!

[@ahrenfullstop]

Vsauce wouldn't leave us in the dark

[@kayokk-]

The table's bounce provides enough upward momentum for the knock, which causes the chain to loop back around on itself.

[@jeremyleemakes1272]

"So you know I'm not playing any tricks. " *Procedes to perform a trick*

[@MDG-mykys]

One of the simplest, quickest and most reliable knot.

[@paulm749]

With careful manipulation of both objects he formed a knot in the chain that tied it to the ring as the ring dropped. Pretty clever.

[@josnijsten8731]

Now replace "China" with "USA" and everything fits, mister MacGregor.

[@arnavrawat9864]

He made the ring fall THROUGH the hole. And that's how it wraps up in a legit fashion

[@gabrielfair724]

I remember Vsauce takes care of me

[@ScottMcMaster-er4xj]

Clearly Derek has reached the singularity and now has full control over the forces of our universe.

[@spyynz]

he's so confused he couldn't even explain

[@travismartinez5676]

As a magician, this is a fun trick to get people with. A very slight knack and you got a miracle few can replicate in front of you. Love this trick

[@NatesFilmTutorials]

Veritasium: “How does it work? I have no idea”

[@IberianCraftsman]

make it rotate forward with your front finger while it falls and that happens

[@-Veritasium001]

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[@atorbtech]

a heavy ring so that it does the trick fast under gravity. First time you let it fall without any other motion other than a free fall to the table. Second time you gave it a slight tilt as it was dropped and it tangled with the chain. Only a heavy ring can do that.

[@DOOMZEY]

Torque did his work

[@NishiyamaCurtisArtist]

the metal ring begins to tumble. the lighter chain is wrapped around the "closed loop" of the ring, while the chain on both sides has to - wrap around - the metal ring (the mass of the tumbling metal ring overcomes the chains static line inertia) the chain is forced along the circular curve of the metal ring as a guide, the chains on either side, swing around the outer circumferences of the metal ring) . . . as the mass of the metal ring tumble pulls the chain around the metal ring, the loop meets "it's own closed loop "behavior" as it tightens the looped chain now considered to be "wrapped" topologically around the metal ring. hmm its a pattern of "shortest distance" latch onto the torus of the metal ring.

[@davidgreenwitch]

I liked you more when you gave answers instead of asking questions.

[@jacksonmich]

You looped it at the top.

[@SteveC38]

He Just Blew My Mind!!! I Need To Know!!!

[@leifnyland3767]

This is really cool. It's used super often in the climbing community to make a 2 point anchor on a girth hitch

[@ACommenterOnYouTube]

Simply by letting one side of the ring go 1st which causes the ring to drop in a turn which causes the ring to grab the chain and flip ot over itself which then makes it stop at the bottom.

[@SgtSnausages]

Congratulations. You've reinvented the girth hitch.

[@LiebensteinMovies]

He turns the ring on falling. First two he let fall it straight, second time he twisted it.

[@MoreEffinCowbell]

He spun it with his fingers as he dropped it. That's why he had to reposition it in his fingers before he did it the last time, to make sure he was holding it correctly, in order to give it a flick as he dropped it and make it flip on the way down.

[@VineetManghnani]

Didn't know i was watching trickytv.

[@tswrench]

"... So you know that I'm not playing any tricks." Uh-huh.

[@Wafelwaffel]

"How does this work?" *Video cuts*

[@farrel_ra]

Lol this was my favorite toy 15 yrs ago 💀

[@MrShmikeuk]

You told us how its done unconsciously at the start... 'I'm going to fold the ring over the chain'.

[@J3R3MI6]

Clearly Satanic

[@caveman1226]

This is infinitely better than that entire sandcastle WOMD video.

[@samuelgarcia1186]

Strike 1 Vsauce… done me dirty

[@ronjones-6977]

That was WAY MORE thought out than your "rods of god" episode.

[@bari-qb4og]

I was a magician for 6 years, you spin the ring when you drop it

[@pablo88000]

Surface tension causes the chain to wrap around the chain. This only happens when the ring falls while the chain is touching it.

[@L-Coder]

One side of the ring is Dropped before the other end, like this the ring flips in the air due to momentum and locks within the chain. A slow mo footage will clear it up easily 😊

[@dewangable]

Derek Widens the two fingers holding a chain. In the first two try, he keeps the distance between the two fingers equal to or less than the diameter of the ring. and the last try he widens the fingers more than the diameter and the ring gets stuck.

[@groba50]

You're the science teacher, it's your job to explain the science behind it. I'm anxiously waiting... 🤔

[@timothylessing4774]

And this my friends is how the Salem Witch Trials began. Somebody call the Witch Hunter General!

[@oBseSsIoNPC]

Dropping the ring flat, vs dropping it with a slight "rotation/flip"

[@MPRO1992]

If only the link in the description is clickable on my phone, I’d find the answer easily. Thanks Biden

[@CMT_Crabbles]

Looks like a knot, which is honestly equivalent to magic to me 😅

[@lolislayer69_]

vsauce explains instead of leaving g us infuriated

[@minetruly]

I love how it just falls at first and he's all WHAT DID YOU EXPECT. I thought that was the end of the trick XD

[@maxkhunglo6211]

Now he's adding "magician" into his resume. Jokes aside I think the bottom chain wips and folds when the ring reaches the end. I think it wouldn't work if the table wasn't there. What I mean is the height of the chain, from the table makes that possible.

[@ffgfgh3172]

You flip the ring👌

[@tonyennis1787]

He's no Vsauce that's for sure

[@mathmusicandlooks]

There is another level to this that was briefly hit upon. In order to secure funding for the research in the first place, scientists have to write a proposal. Frequently, they’ll have to oversell what they’re going to research just to have a chance to do the research. This includes misappropriating a bunch of buzzwords. For example, scientists abuse the word “quantum” almost as much as movies do, BECAUSE it catches the attention of the people who will fund the research.

[@rayanuki]

Everyone please. You don't need to force flip the ring with your finger. Just make the chain wider than the ring's diameter and gravity+inertia will do the rest.