MinutePhysics

  • Premiered: Jun 2011
  • Episodes: 247
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Season 2022
2022x1
Most Collisions Are Secretly In One Dimension
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Air date
May 26, 2022
This video is about elastic and inelastic collisions in 1D, 2D and 3D - and how the collision of conservation of energy with conservation of momentum, plus a secret direction, results in a completely predetermined behavior for most collisions.
2022x2
The Trinity of Quality
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Air date
Jun 29, 2022
In order to make something good, you need to have the right combination of three things: Quality, Discernment and Taste. This video is about quality vs quantity, the paradox of quality, .. show full overview
2022x3
Another Portal Paradox
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Air date
Aug 04, 2022
What happens if you extend a piston through a portal? Or try to sandwich a cube between two portals? That's right, it's time to explore more portal paradoxes!
2022x4
How Many Fossils to Go an Inch?
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Aug 18, 2022
A beautiful guest video by Robert Krulwich and Nate Milton
2022x5
Passing A Portal Through Itself
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Sep 01, 2022
This video is about what happens if you try to pass a portal (like in the video game Portal or Portal 2) through itself - do you get a paradox? Infinite recursion? Impossibility? .. show full overview
2022x6
You're Technically HOTTER Than The Sun
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Sep 08, 2022
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2022x7
Freezing water expands. What if you don't let it?
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Oct 14, 2022
This episode has no summary.
2022x8
Why Penrose Tiles Never Repeat
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Air date
Dec 01, 2022
This video is about a better way to understand Penrose tilings (the famous tilings invented by Roger Penrose that never repeat themselves but still have some kind of order/pattern).
2022x9
Geosynchronous Orbits are WEIRD
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Air date
Dec 22, 2022
This video is about the physics of geosynchronous and geostationary orbits, why they exist, when they don't, when they're useful for communication/satellite TV, etc.

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