@5:24 Traffic engineer here. We use these kinds of calculations to determine how long to make crosswalk signals, yellow light intervals, and intersection geometries to allow for enough time for a vehicle/person of standard length to safely cross an intersection! Math and cars can be fun! MORE REAL PHYSICIST. Reminds me of the days w/ Bart!
@@LordSStorm We actually called the guy in charge of light timing about the left turn from a major 6-lane road onto the one our shop is on because the green is only about 45 seconds. Our light-and the one to the east of it-have super short left-greens because of a major intersection (4 lanes into that 6) maybe a 1/2 mile away that would be blocked by morning commuters coming west into town
@@LordSStorm many reasons for that; could be faulty detector, a need to update signal timing for a new traffic pattern, prioritization of a major volume... Hard to say
It's awesome to see so many viewers taking a genuine interest in physics. I'm not an actual physicist but I've been a hardcore physics nerd for many years and it really changes the way I look at and understand everyday things
I think that car folk have an interest that way, especially when you get to the top end. I was watching some vid on a drag build and the fuel and ECU discussion caused some dusty neurons from college chemistry and electronics to fire.
Rather hear her talk any day than some of the clowns on the internet like that one weirdo from the off road segment. Hence why she hasn’t been back. She was annoying an cocky af. Thank you for listening to your fans donut. She really did suck
14:15 "If you're not terrified of spinning things, you should be." is so damn true. The rotational inertia around high rpm & large mass machinery can do some insane and very, very not pleasant things to a human body.
Absolutely. As someone that ran CNC machines for a few years, when they go wrong or when say a part is loaded wrong or unevenly, yes they can get very violent. More than once in my day I’ve had thing go wrong such as air pressure drop in the building causing CNC jaws to open while running and have had metal parts smash through the double pane glass windows on the machine doors as well as seen 500+ lbs machines jump off the floor while ejecting parts through the glass and shake the concrete floor. Luckily I’ve never been hit
@@ruthless_auto Yeah, lathes can be brutal and will absolutely destroy you if you arent careful. We run these Ø10"x20 really thinwalled plastic parts on a manual lathe as a finish op after CNC. Its usually something we end up having the apprentices do. Its very vital that they remember to put in the aluminium endcap at the jaws so they can actually hold onto it before machining. One guy didnt. The second the cutter touched the part it ripped it out of the jaws and shot it right into his face. Lets just say that he isnt our apprentice anymore and not because he/we doesnt want him to be. I also heard about a hydraulic sensor on a CNC that gave up during a run. Luckily the part was ejected into the machine instead of the operator - but that machine was totalled
Fun fact: that trick where Letty drives under the semi was the only “special effect” that was impossible in real life, in the first F&F. A civic dropped with its frame touching the ground isn’t low enough to fit under any trailer like that. And it still wasn’t CG. They raised the truck by a couple of inches to allow the civic to fit. You can see the spacers on the truck clearly if you are looking for it… Then we got the CG masterpiece that was 2F2F. Edited to add the name of the first movie. It helped with my point.
@oienu landing gear is at the nose of the trailer. Plenty of space between the legs and the axles. Most straight deck trailers have side skirts now so the possible temptation to try the stunt is minimized lol
I really enjoyed this episode with Tony with all the different hosts. The fact he works with them already made it natural and there was great chemistry with everyone.
I wouldn't say it is that 'geniuses' need regular people as it is people have skills sets, and no one has an all encompassing skill set or life experiences. Diversity of thought, experience and perspective is a powerful tool. The people we call geniuses are people with high focused talent and skill, however this usually leave them with even larger gaps, you will know much more about many things than even top Scientists and Academics, simply because you chose to learn or experience them instead of focusing on what they have learnt.
I have a similar theory that every politician/executive needs a "NO man". Their job is to tell them NO on a regular basis when they come up with stupid ideas that everyone who isn't the "NO man" is too scared to say NO to because they'll lose their jobs. They are also intended as the natural predator of "YES men" and brown nosers, to keep their population in check.
I agree. I spent years as a tech writer at a software company, but don't know how to write code. I worked with some expert code writers. Still, I had a knack for finding bugs in code that stumped the software engineers who wrote the code. They would spend hours examining their data flow and logic. I looked for typos and usually found the problem in a few minutes. 😀
13:54 I'd also like to point out that the rolling shutter effect caused by the phone camera's relatively low performance electronic shutter is what makes the car to look like jelly. The vehicle parts move more uniformly in real life, but those images, referenced earlier in the video, are taken in slices of the CMOS at a time, meaning the top of an image is taken at a slightly different time to the bottom. This is why images look skewed if you take a picture of a fast moving object with a slow shutter!
You get the same effect when filming the tip of a tattoo gun. The skin underneath it gets all wavy and the needles look like they momentum slo-mo. Looks pretty mesmerising.
One hydrogen atom says to another hydrogen atom "I've lost my electron." The other hydrogen atom asks how it can be sure. It responds with "I'm positive."
Fellow Physicist - that brake rotor is not copper. If it was, it would have heated homogeneously. That's some ferrous metal. You even explained HOW it's not copper, while claiming it's copper - it has VERY good thermal conductivity - you aren't getting a random cold spot from a continuous frictional heating - the whole thing would glow equally. Rolling shutter does NOT explain the cold spot.
Correct with sparks, incorrect with heating. If you had paid attention it only made contact in a small patch... The exact area that turned red hot first....
I worked at an industrial gears factory back in the day, and spinning things terrify me. Nothing puts the fear of maiming into you like a ton of steel starting to spin faster than it should, shaking the machine and the concrete floor as it speeds up. I'm SO thankful for the existence of emergency stops.
The reason the door look like it was all wavy is because of rolling shutter on the camera. They didn't explain that the door is just moving back and forth but the reason it looks like it's bending is because of the way a camera sensor takes pictures.
I thought the same thing at first, but actually no, that would distort the whole image and in the clip you can see the left part of the image static. :)
Glass is not pliable enough to support the wave seen; the stress would shatter the window. That’s why plexiglass is used right near the speakers on the rear windows. The reason the rest of the image is not blurry is because current image stabilization software is designed to compensate for the movement and fill in the missing\blurry portions; older cameras did not do this, thus why most would assume it should be blurry. Cameras have become magical, but at the same time can guess wrong and present an invalid image in the process of enhancing\making it clean. This is actually similar to 4k and 8k AI upscaling, where the image is cleaner but the guessing needed may cause the wrong or unintended details to be added in the process. The better AI gets, the less you can the difference between what is real and what is not.
15:05 Y'all remember that bit in _Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade_ where Indy sticks a crowbar or whatever it was in the wheel of a Nazi motorcycle and the bike somersaults?
15:48 it's real those are Porsche brake rotors!! It's a special plasma vapor deposited tungsten coating. It utilizes specially formulated brake pads to grip it. The idea behind it is an increased durability brake system with an extremely low brake dust output
what sort of lifespan do those have? you say special, i hear expensive and needing frequent replacement like they say, if you buy a supercar, you're essentially buying 2
@@CorvusCorone68extremely long lifespan compared to steel brakes. Very expensive to replace, but the interval is greatly extended. For most people buying new they’re not going to keep them long enough to need replacement, and no brake dust.
23:40 clarification: it’s not how far away something is that causes red or blue shifting but the speed and whether the other object is getting closer. He jumped straight to light spectrum of very distant astronomical objects for which, due to expansion of space, distance and speed are related
The Need For Speed UK clip- over thinking it like a physicist again! We have bars on each side of our lorries (trucks) and trailers between the axles, that reach almost down to the road to stop that very thing.
In my physics class, our instructor told us the SI unit for momentum is kilogram meters per second. Obviously this is not a good term so we decided as a class that 1 KgM/s should be represented as Oomph. 2 KgM/s would be "2 Oomphs"
I'm a Physishist¹, and I had *no idea* that Tony was _one of us._ Man, talk about regretting my career choices! ¹Doctorate in physics, but I worked for a decade in finance, hence the "ish."
@@peterwatkins671 I feel that, I'm a biologist and I feel entirely one(... point-five)-dimensional sometimes. I know the chemistry and physics principles I *need to* for my own work, but not at that level of comfort.
You are surprised VW might lie about something? Not VW they would never lie about environmentally friendly vehicles or low emission vehicles. Especially anything diesel
I want to see more physics reacts. I love this stuff. Btw, as someone who is a physicist 17:05 is completely correct. Whenever I'm brought in as "that physics friend" and asked something I often overlook simple things because I'm thinking of energy bands and such. It happens so damn much.
Definitely was over-thinking the problem. The simplest explanation works in this case. If it looks like a mirror, and reflects like a mirror, it's probably a duck.. I mean mirror.
Acid reaction with sodium bicarbonate produces lots of gas because of the production of carbonic acid which decomposes to carbon dioxide. Problem is, a carbonated drink is already full of carbonic acid. It's not going to want to dissolve more (bi)carbonate anion.
Great episode... all of your best hosts in one video! That said... Angelina, what do you mean you've never seen a solid brake rotor? I happen to own two cars with solid brake rotors. One is older... a 1962 Triumph TR4 (note: 1956 Triumph TR3 was the 1st production sports car to use disk brakes). The other is a 1997 Land Rover Discovery. The solid rotors are no problem on the relatively lightweight sports car (2000 lb.) But they perform poorly on the SUV (4600 lb.), especially when towing. So I upgraded its front disks to slotted and drilled for better cooling, and use high performance brake pads.
In the original video, they made a few rotors out of different metals for grins and giggles to compare performance (performance in the regard of "were gonna high rev the motor and stomp the brakes and see what happens" kinda way). They made a copper one, an aluminum one and I think there was a third one too but can't remember the material. They also did not care too much about machining quality on the rotors, which you can see by the unmachined edge face and the run out.
Many cars have solid rear rotors. Some very small cars have solid front rotors. That rotor looks severely heat damaged. I think that's why he mistook it for copper. There are shutter effects happening with the vibrating car door and window that make it look extra weird and wiggly. I have seen brakes that shiny. It's been a couple of decades since I was a professional brake mechanic / shop foreman, but I believe it was early 2000s Chevy half tons that came in like that. I definitely remember that they usually came in with thick pads with more than 50k miles on the original brakes. The pads were always burnt and cracked.
And the uneven heating is due to the rotor being warped. You can see it at the beginning of that clip. One part of the rotor is rubbing harder on the brake pad causing more friction.
he just described characteristics of copper. didn't explain why he believed it to be copper other than for views..which isn't really a physics derived answer but also a bit ridiculous considering glowing rotors are a thing most car guys have at the very least heard of, if not seen themselves. and not only is copper.. not silver, but it changes color pretty drastically when heated and distributes heat more evenly. I would've expected to at least see some color change in the rotor near the hub. being the first clip in the video, this has me second guessing everything else he said. didn't help when he said phosphoric acid is cheaper than coke
Yep. Also they didn’t note the tape on the road. Track runners that run relays do something similar. With the car within a speed range and knowing his own abilities, it’s like timing the take off on your relay leg.
@@markjohnson7887 but the if the copper heats up more readily than steel, that reduces the energy they have to pour into it to get it to the temperature they want.
@@kenbrown2808 It's still not copper though. 1) It wasn't copper coloured 2) It would heat more evenly if it was copper 3) Copper, being a non-ferris metal, doesn't spark.
i appreciate how tony explained stuff with just enough detail that it was informative w/o killing the curiosity behind it. school teachers should take notes; they probably show his docs in class anyway
like, bob's suggestion of mtn dew in a battery being met with "uh... yeah. yeah! yeah you can!" is truly the best moment an educator can provide. can't wait for a "the miata's father just designed a NEW BATTERY?" video
16:00 Nothing is so crisp as the image off of a perfect first surface mirror. You will see your face, shaved ends of the beard hairs and all, in detail you didn't know was possible. Looks like the image off of the first surface of a piece of dielectric mirror float glass, which I have worked with before, but more reflective. Somebody spent too long polishing that perfectly.
The tempered glass break: The guy poured baking soda on the window, then added coke, then broke the window with his other hand. It had nothing to do with the reaction.
@@coolside8593 I was talking about what appeared to be the car window. The guy with the can did it even worse. If you watch that, the can hits the table and it doesn't break for another tenth of a second or so. Someone off camera definitely broke that one. It had nothing to do with the can. If you've ever tried to break tempered glass, it takes way more than a can being thumped down on it. (To be clear, something like a little piece of quartz sand or shard of hard ceramic stuck to the can's rim could be made to break it, or might be the cause of one breaking by accident, but under normal circumstances a thump from an aluminum can isn't going to do anything).
Love the video but may disagree on a few points: 1) the woofer vibrations - are we sure it’s not just an effect of rolling shutters? I would think the metal and glass is too rigid to show the peaks/valleys of a standing wave. I think it’s vibrating back and forth and the rolling shutter of the camera produces that effect. 2) the car jumping the tire: transfer of angular momentum is basically negligible in this case. Because the wheel is rolling it allows the car to more smoothly change the direction of its momentum than a fixed object would (kind of like a ramp)
of course it's rolling shutter. i assume that's why they don't discuss it. and the jumping is why i wanted to write a comment. it seems the physicist got the physics wrong... and the majority believes it. (edit2) but the more i think about it, i wonder how much the spinning momentum contributes, and the friction of the rubber, and the air springing of the tyre...
@ i’m imagining some hypotheticals - slowly maneuver a spinning tire into a car or lower a car onto a fixed spinning tire - i don’t see much happening to the car. It would remain in place with a slight shake at best. So it’s not enough to overcome the inertia of a still car, making me think its contribution to the jump would be negligible, even if it’s in the direction of the car’s momentum. The springiness is a good point and definitely a factor. Imagining a tire tread wrapped around a rigid structure (same grip as the tire but without the bounciness from the air) i think the effect would be more muted. With the real tire there would be the initial compression from the air allowing for a smoother transition of direction, and then a kick at the end from the rebounding of that compression that may be the reason for the car rotating end over end once already airborn.
this is awesome. and as far your explanations - this is so great and informative. I love the direction of this video allowing him to explain. people who watch this channel, watch it for this! we love the laughs, commentary, and quick tips. this video is so gold
I call fake on the reflective rotor. Unless it is Dracula filming it, they are almost straight shot of the camera at 15:50 and there is nobody in the reflection.
when i was 14, my best friends dad had a 2500w speaker system in his living room. He had never taken the volume over like 20% because at that point, the whole house is getting tinnitus. one day, we got drunk and i convinced him to set it at 50%. i swear to god, the double glazed windows were wiggling. i had never seen glass wobble before, so it blew my mind. i had tinnitus for 3 days after.
I love this video so much, but I have to correct that last thing that Tony said. The RCS thrusters do NOT use hypergolic fuels. They typically use nitrogen or some other stored up gas that is controlled by opening and closing valves to let the gas out. The larger rocket engines on the trunk section typically will use hypergolic fuels. The escape motors sometimes use them as well if they are not just solid rocket boosters. Otherwise, great content! I know I am always in for a fun time when I see a new RMS video hit my feed.
Thank you for this! Misinformation is rampant in our world (which, considering how easy it is to research something, is kind of ridiculous) and I love seeing it called out. Please, more videos with Tony.
01:52 They make solid steel rotors, usually for racing or military applications like the humvee. I don't know why he mentioned copper, then mentioned that copper gets really shiny while looking at a rotor that isn't the least bit shiny or copper colored when turning slowly. 14:02 I think this has more to do with the way the vehicles hit the loose tires than any transfer of angular momentum. Notice the second example, the loose tire is still rolling along after launching the car. If the transfer of momentum was what launched the car, the tire would be all tuckered out. Cars that go offroad into a ditch go airborne when they hit the end of the ditch. Same thing here. The first car rolled because after initially hitting the loose tire in the center on the vehicle and it's belly riding along it, it's left rear tire hit it, causing a clockwise roll. I suspect everything would happened the same if the tire was just sitting upright in the road and not spinning.
The brake disc was a standard, old-skool, cast steel or cast iron disc. Certainly not copper, which you can easily tell from the very uneven heating caused by the warp in the disc - the thermal conductivity of copper would have heated the entire rotor much more evenly (the cold spot would not have been visible for long at all). These discs glow red hot often in high energy, high performance applications (such as racing), and the pads do catch fire if you come to rest with the disc this hot. Source: a lot of racing experience and I am also an actual physicist, currently working on my doctorate.
15:46 We used to do mirror finishes like that in machine shop class in college. It's just about grinding with finer and finer wheels on a precision grinder. I had some mirror finished 123 blocks that when placed together wouldn't come apart. So it's 100% possible with a precision grinder.
The rotor that looks polished is a coating Porsche uses it mainly with a certain brake pad it helps reduce brake dust and improves braking the coating is thinner then a strand of hair
As someone who lives 7 miles from a steep hill where multiple trucks have lost their brakes and have seen brakes catch fire. I know that first one can be very real.
Sandro's got a look of, "they actually found me a cohost that explains stuff MORE than Angie."
Sandro's learning why there is normally a "Thumbs up" guy behind the camera.
Sandro just be hot for the teacher..
Sandro starts zoning out when the math starts.
😂
I dunno. the legal eagle guy did a good job at that. LOL
@5:24
Traffic engineer here.
We use these kinds of calculations to determine how long to make crosswalk signals, yellow light intervals, and intersection geometries to allow for enough time for a vehicle/person of standard length to safely cross an intersection! Math and cars can be fun!
MORE REAL PHYSICIST. Reminds me of the days w/ Bart!
Bart, now that's a callback.
Then why do those turn lanes only go green for like 5 seconds?
And the timing is still horrible across the entire US.
Prioritizing vehicle movement is the most inconvenient method for the most people.
@@LordSStorm We actually called the guy in charge of light timing about the left turn from a major 6-lane road onto the one our shop is on because the green is only about 45 seconds. Our light-and the one to the east of it-have super short left-greens because of a major intersection (4 lanes into that 6) maybe a 1/2 mile away that would be blocked by morning commuters coming west into town
@@LordSStorm many reasons for that; could be faulty detector, a need to update signal timing for a new traffic pattern, prioritization of a major volume... Hard to say
Mr miata is just having a good time
daddy miata is an absolute G
Good time everytine with Bob. He’s a natuonal treasure.
Glad they put him in this episode, the science dude got a bit dusty towards the end.
not a fan of bob. why do they put him in every episode? dogs balls.
Bob's echidna fact damn near floored me. Sides in low orbit. Love that man.
It's awesome to see so many viewers taking a genuine interest in physics. I'm not an actual physicist but I've been a hardcore physics nerd for many years and it really changes the way I look at and understand everyday things
I think that car folk have an interest that way, especially when you get to the top end. I was watching some vid on a drag build and the fuel and ECU discussion caused some dusty neurons from college chemistry and electronics to fire.
Donut: "Allright that does it, get someone to ramble to Angelina!"
Yall hate learning apparently… 😅just wanna go ooo funny car thing hahahaha 🙄
Hi hater
@@LafemmebearMusici can’t even tell what exactly your point is on this??? Do you not like these or do?
Rather hear her talk any day than some of the clowns on the internet like that one weirdo from the off road segment. Hence why she hasn’t been back. She was annoying an cocky af. Thank you for listening to your fans donut. She really did suck
14:15 "If you're not terrified of spinning things, you should be." is so damn true. The rotational inertia around high rpm & large mass machinery can do some insane and very, very not pleasant things to a human body.
Absolutely. As someone that ran CNC machines for a few years, when they go wrong or when say a part is loaded wrong or unevenly, yes they can get very violent. More than once in my day I’ve had thing go wrong such as air pressure drop in the building causing CNC jaws to open while running and have had metal parts smash through the double pane glass windows on the machine doors as well as seen 500+ lbs machines jump off the floor while ejecting parts through the glass and shake the concrete floor. Luckily I’ve never been hit
@@ruthless_auto Yeah, lathes can be brutal and will absolutely destroy you if you arent careful. We run these Ø10"x20 really thinwalled plastic parts on a manual lathe as a finish op after CNC. Its usually something we end up having the apprentices do. Its very vital that they remember to put in the aluminium endcap at the jaws so they can actually hold onto it before machining. One guy didnt.
The second the cutter touched the part it ripped it out of the jaws and shot it right into his face. Lets just say that he isnt our apprentice anymore and not because he/we doesnt want him to be.
I also heard about a hydraulic sensor on a CNC that gave up during a run. Luckily the part was ejected into the machine instead of the operator - but that machine was totalled
Fun fact: that trick where Letty drives under the semi was the only “special effect” that was impossible in real life, in the first F&F.
A civic dropped with its frame touching the ground isn’t low enough to fit under any trailer like that.
And it still wasn’t CG.
They raised the truck by a couple of inches to allow the civic to fit.
You can see the spacers on the truck clearly if you are looking for it…
Then we got the CG masterpiece that was 2F2F.
Edited to add the name of the first movie. It helped with my point.
From what I know, those things have legs, and they are hanging half of the space.
@oienu landing gear is at the nose of the trailer. Plenty of space between the legs and the axles. Most straight deck trailers have side skirts now so the possible temptation to try the stunt is minimized lol
I really enjoyed this episode with Tony with all the different hosts. The fact he works with them already made it natural and there was great chemistry with everyone.
Why does knowing that Tony is a Physishist suddenly give him a close resemblance to Johnny Galecki's character in Big Bang Theory?
I was thinking the same thing
His hair also is giving the same look
Because you don't know of enough physicists?
Havent seen tony in a episode before and I immediately thought they got galecki to do this video
He reminds more of Yannis Pappis
I love that you've proven my theory, that every technical team needs a regular person in with the geniuses to spot the simple things they can't see.
I wouldn't say it is that 'geniuses' need regular people as it is people have skills sets, and no one has an all encompassing skill set or life experiences. Diversity of thought, experience and perspective is a powerful tool. The people we call geniuses are people with high focused talent and skill, however this usually leave them with even larger gaps, you will know much more about many things than even top Scientists and Academics, simply because you chose to learn or experience them instead of focusing on what they have learnt.
It's like when Sally Ride was going to space for a week and NASA packed 100 tampons for her.
@@SoulReaper1942 I probably should have said experts.
I have a similar theory that every politician/executive needs a "NO man". Their job is to tell them NO on a regular basis when they come up with stupid ideas that everyone who isn't the "NO man" is too scared to say NO to because they'll lose their jobs. They are also intended as the natural predator of "YES men" and brown nosers, to keep their population in check.
I agree. I spent years as a tech writer at a software company, but don't know how to write code. I worked with some expert code writers. Still, I had a knack for finding bugs in code that stumped the software engineers who wrote the code. They would spend hours examining their data flow and logic. I looked for typos and usually found the problem in a few minutes. 😀
13:54 I'd also like to point out that the rolling shutter effect caused by the phone camera's relatively low performance electronic shutter is what makes the car to look like jelly.
The vehicle parts move more uniformly in real life, but those images, referenced earlier in the video, are taken in slices of the CMOS at a time, meaning the top of an image is taken at a slightly different time to the bottom.
This is why images look skewed if you take a picture of a fast moving object with a slow shutter!
You get the same effect when filming the tip of a tattoo gun. The skin underneath it gets all wavy and the needles look like they momentum slo-mo. Looks pretty mesmerising.
beat me to it.
Need to get the Slow Mo Guys in to film a bass competition car at 1.75 million frames per second....
Just like an airplane propeller, or blades on a helicopter,
@@lonpowley Exactly.
Today, I learned that echidnas are incapable of starting nuclear explosions. Thanks Bob!
He didn't explain how or give his source. I'm still not convinced.
You and Bob obviously don't know many echidnas
Unfortunately they're quite adept with ninja stars and small firearms.
19:00 Electrolytes - it’s what plants crave!
Brondo
Came here just for that. Well done
Damn you beat me to it
@@lewzero * Brawndo!
The thirst mutilator!!
You want me to use toilet water?
One hydrogen atom says to another hydrogen atom "I've lost my electron." The other hydrogen atom asks how it can be sure. It responds with "I'm positive."
You know how to let yourself out, I presume? To the sound of a rimshot.
Fellow Physicist - that brake rotor is not copper. If it was, it would have heated homogeneously. That's some ferrous metal. You even explained HOW it's not copper, while claiming it's copper - it has VERY good thermal conductivity - you aren't getting a random cold spot from a continuous frictional heating - the whole thing would glow equally. Rolling shutter does NOT explain the cold spot.
Also, copper doesn't spark. And there were a lot of sparks coming off of that.
yeah it just looks bigger than it is thanks to the framing, BMW Mini rears come to mind
The rotor, whether copper or not, had an uneven surface. It’s not a “random” cold spot
I'm amazed that people can be so confidently wrong. wish I still had that quality
Correct with sparks, incorrect with heating. If you had paid attention it only made contact in a small patch... The exact area that turned red hot first....
I worked at an industrial gears factory back in the day, and spinning things terrify me.
Nothing puts the fear of maiming into you like a ton of steel starting to spin faster than it should, shaking the machine and the concrete floor as it speeds up.
I'm SO thankful for the existence of emergency stops.
The reason the door look like it was all wavy is because of rolling shutter on the camera. They didn't explain that the door is just moving back and forth but the reason it looks like it's bending is because of the way a camera sensor takes pictures.
yeah, I noticed that, too. it's a combination of the car shaking and the sensor only recording part of it t a time.
I thought the same thing at first, but actually no, that would distort the whole image and in the clip you can see the left part of the image static. :)
If it was the rolling shutter you wouldn't be able to see the gap between the door and the car
Glass is not pliable enough to support the wave seen; the stress would shatter the window. That’s why plexiglass is used right near the speakers on the rear windows.
The reason the rest of the image is not blurry is because current image stabilization software is designed to compensate for the movement and fill in the missing\blurry portions; older cameras did not do this, thus why most would assume it should be blurry. Cameras have become magical, but at the same time can guess wrong and present an invalid image in the process of enhancing\making it clean. This is actually similar to 4k and 8k AI upscaling, where the image is cleaner but the guessing needed may cause the wrong or unintended details to be added in the process.
The better AI gets, the less you can the difference between what is real and what is not.
Maybe because he's not really as smart as he wants you to believe?
15:05 Y'all remember that bit in _Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade_ where Indy sticks a crowbar or whatever it was in the wheel of a Nazi motorcycle and the bike somersaults?
We have Lenoard Hofstadter from Big Bang Theory here !
I'd rather have Sheldon lol
@@afg122602 Boy would that be a riot with Bob Hall
@@afg122602 i learned about the doppler effect from sheldon's halloween costume
(yes i watched that show and yes i liked it, come at me)
Wow, we really don't have enough well-known physicists without crazy hair if that's your reaction.
@@afg122602Sheldon would rather not be there
2:21 this vid was to test other materials as brake discs/rotors. Was an entertaining vid. Lots of things went crispy!
I was gonna say the same. Yeah they made different rotors out of different stuff to basically see if they can destroy it.
Love that everyone is calling Bob Mr Miata. 10/10
They missed a censor at 10:45
15:48 it's real those are Porsche brake rotors!! It's a special plasma vapor deposited tungsten coating. It utilizes specially formulated brake pads to grip it. The idea behind it is an increased durability brake system with an extremely low brake dust output
what sort of lifespan do those have? you say special, i hear expensive and needing frequent replacement
like they say, if you buy a supercar, you're essentially buying 2
And it comes with white calipers to show how little dust it makes!
more expensive there regular brakes, cheaper than carbon discs
@@CorvusCorone68extremely long lifespan compared to steel brakes. Very expensive to replace, but the interval is greatly extended. For most people buying new they’re not going to keep them long enough to need replacement, and no brake dust.
@@CorvusCorone68Well yeah, cars at this level are for sport and for fun for people that can afford it lol
23:40 clarification: it’s not how far away something is that causes red or blue shifting but the speed and whether the other object is getting closer. He jumped straight to light spectrum of very distant astronomical objects for which, due to expansion of space, distance and speed are related
The Need For Speed UK clip- over thinking it like a physicist again! We have bars on each side of our lorries (trucks) and trailers between the axles, that reach almost down to the road to stop that very thing.
In my physics class, our instructor told us the SI unit for momentum is kilogram meters per second. Obviously this is not a good term so we decided as a class that 1 KgM/s should be represented as Oomph. 2 KgM/s would be "2 Oomphs"
I'm a Physishist¹, and I had *no idea* that Tony was _one of us._ Man, talk about regretting my career choices!
¹Doctorate in physics, but I worked for a decade in finance, hence the "ish."
I think in an earlier episode when they introduced Tony as a concept, they had a pic of him with (I want to say) Stephen Hawking
Also a physicist, lol. My surprise was him talking comfortably about chemistry. People who can do both blow my mind. 😅
@@peterwatkins671 I feel that, I'm a biologist and I feel entirely one(... point-five)-dimensional sometimes. I know the chemistry and physics principles I *need to* for my own work, but not at that level of comfort.
He only has a minor in Physics from USC School of Cinematic Arts.
27:22 Tony: "No one wants a rocket hover car". Me (who has seen Hot Wheels World Race): Deora II looks like a cool car to own.
You're better off with the Oscar Meyer Weiner Mobile
0:57 the man had no choice in becoming a physicist obviously. He looks just like Leonard hofstadter
Tony is a little better looking than Johnny Galecki.
@losingmymind611 lol for sure! 😀
I am so glad it wasn't just me that seen he looks like Leonard. xD
100% what i thought
He even dresses like Leonard.
Sandro smiling at that mason jar looks like the cover of an 8th grade textbook called "Chemistry and You"
What I learned from this episode is that listening to music with loud base can loosen up everything in my car. 😂
Exhaust bolts here I come!
You are surprised VW might lie about something? Not VW they would never lie about environmentally friendly vehicles or low emission vehicles. Especially anything diesel
Real Mechanic Stuff > Donut Media
That's like saying toyota >Lexus or hondA>Acura. They are basicly the same people
@@rickybandealso rms is just reaction content and donut is broader car content lol
@rickybande but they ain't...
Stop this shit!
@rickybande it's an opinion!
7:38 I'm not even the one involved and I'm worried about an incoming weaponized chancla that's going to factory reset my ass.
Dude looks like Lenard from the big bang theory if you got him off temu
I think he looks like Dan Le Batard
Engineer here: tony is correct on everything except maybe the mirrored brake rotors. I love it when someone does the math. Good stuff man!
Sandro looks so bored!
or lost.
He’s baked lol
He's just forced to think
@@mrfwaka He is absolutely COOKED.
Because he doesn't understand a word Tony is saying.
Absolutely LOVE Tony on this! He’s got the persona to be on camera and I’m here for it.
Sandro has 100% swirled baking soda in a jar before lol
PLEASE have this guy on again.
I adore scientific explanation and in a way most can understand. It's incredibly important.
I want to see more physics reacts. I love this stuff. Btw, as someone who is a physicist 17:05 is completely correct. Whenever I'm brought in as "that physics friend" and asked something I often overlook simple things because I'm thinking of energy bands and such. It happens so damn much.
Definitely was over-thinking the problem. The simplest explanation works in this case. If it looks like a mirror, and reflects like a mirror, it's probably a duck.. I mean mirror.
I am soooo glad one of my first teachers always said look at every problem as simple as possible first.
When you hear hooves, think horses, not a superposition of decohered Zebra states. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I didn’t realize Sandro and Angie were part of this. Please include them in the thumbnail!
I loved the ishowspeed physics equations
They were wrong.
@@Okurka. regardless he jumped cars again, but twice in a row to prove it lol
4:00 Video is real. When you look at the 2nd camera view (overhead) you can see the guy's shadow on the Lambo.
Acid reaction with sodium bicarbonate produces lots of gas because of the production of carbonic acid which decomposes to carbon dioxide.
Problem is, a carbonated drink is already full of carbonic acid. It's not going to want to dissolve more (bi)carbonate anion.
I love the physicist explaining these things on a level we don’t usually get into. I want more of him!
Is it me, or is the lighting in this episode off?
edit: as in off I mean, weird.
It's off, kinda hued
It's off, kinda hued
Holiday interns
The first thing I noticed is that camera's focus is waaaaaay t f off. But, yes, these videos are usually much more well-lit.
I thought it was just my computer being stupid, but it seems not.
Great episode... all of your best hosts in one video!
That said... Angelina, what do you mean you've never seen a solid brake rotor?
I happen to own two cars with solid brake rotors. One is older... a 1962 Triumph TR4 (note: 1956 Triumph TR3 was the 1st production sports car to use disk brakes). The other is a 1997 Land Rover Discovery.
The solid rotors are no problem on the relatively lightweight sports car (2000 lb.) But they perform poorly on the SUV (4600 lb.), especially when towing. So I upgraded its front disks to slotted and drilled for better cooling, and use high performance brake pads.
25 plus years I've never seen a copper rotor? Sometimes the rear rotors don't have holes on cars and less heavy vehicles.
In the original video, they made a few rotors out of different metals for grins and giggles to compare performance (performance in the regard of "were gonna high rev the motor and stomp the brakes and see what happens" kinda way). They made a copper one, an aluminum one and I think there was a third one too but can't remember the material. They also did not care too much about machining quality on the rotors, which you can see by the unmachined edge face and the run out.
@Oceanus_Rex But then I would know the answer to the question? I don't know that's strange. Strange episode to be honest not a fan of that episode.
They're just like "yep yep, what he said. I heard him, but i'm not gonna even start to try and understand"
Many cars have solid rear rotors. Some very small cars have solid front rotors. That rotor looks severely heat damaged. I think that's why he mistook it for copper.
There are shutter effects happening with the vibrating car door and window that make it look extra weird and wiggly.
I have seen brakes that shiny. It's been a couple of decades since I was a professional brake mechanic / shop foreman, but I believe it was early 2000s Chevy half tons that came in like that. I definitely remember that they usually came in with thick pads with more than 50k miles on the original brakes. The pads were always burnt and cracked.
Thank you. I said the same thing about the rotor. It's definitely not copper.
And the uneven heating is due to the rotor being warped. You can see it at the beginning of that clip. One part of the rotor is rubbing harder on the brake pad causing more friction.
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@@gasolinefumes I guess I was wrong about that one. I liked the lead one most.
he just described characteristics of copper. didn't explain why he believed it to be copper other than for views..which isn't really a physics derived answer but also a bit ridiculous considering glowing rotors are a thing most car guys have at the very least heard of, if not seen themselves. and not only is copper.. not silver, but it changes color pretty drastically when heated and distributes heat more evenly. I would've expected to at least see some color change in the rotor near the hub. being the first clip in the video, this has me second guessing everything else he said. didn't help when he said phosphoric acid is cheaper than coke
Sandro missed the perfect opportunity to give Tony the double thumbs up when he was getting technical lol
3:50 is real , he did it again on a livestream later
They did prove with physics it was real.
Yep. Also they didn’t note the tape on the road. Track runners that run relays do something similar. With the car within a speed range and knowing his own abilities, it’s like timing the take off on your relay leg.
Sandro and Angelina are great... But... Then. Came. Bob... And Bob's an absolute GEM😁
Anyway, thank you Tony for co-hosting, it was great😄
For the copper rotor, they were likely testing the brakepads capacity at extreme temperatures to continue to operate as designed.
Plausible
The melting point of copper is 200 degrees C lower than steel. So that doesn't make sense.
@@markjohnson7887 but the if the copper heats up more readily than steel, that reduces the energy they have to pour into it to get it to the temperature they want.
@@kenbrown2808 It's still not copper though. 1) It wasn't copper coloured 2) It would heat more evenly if it was copper 3) Copper, being a non-ferris metal, doesn't spark.
@@markjohnson7887 indeed this is not copper
i appreciate how tony explained stuff with just enough detail that it was informative w/o killing the curiosity behind it. school teachers should take notes; they probably show his docs in class anyway
like, bob's suggestion of mtn dew in a battery being met with "uh... yeah. yeah! yeah you can!" is truly the best moment an educator can provide. can't wait for a "the miata's father just designed a NEW BATTERY?" video
Lye (sodium hydroxide) would absolutely do that to the window!
16:00 Nothing is so crisp as the image off of a perfect first surface mirror. You will see your face, shaved ends of the beard hairs and all, in detail you didn't know was possible. Looks like the image off of the first surface of a piece of dielectric mirror float glass, which I have worked with before, but more reflective. Somebody spent too long polishing that perfectly.
The tempered glass break: The guy poured baking soda on the window, then added coke, then broke the window with his other hand. It had nothing to do with the reaction.
So the reaction was the distraction.
That's what they said. He hit it hard with the can, they said that
so slight of hand "magic" trick.
@@coolside8593 I was talking about what appeared to be the car window. The guy with the can did it even worse. If you watch that, the can hits the table and it doesn't break for another tenth of a second or so. Someone off camera definitely broke that one. It had nothing to do with the can. If you've ever tried to break tempered glass, it takes way more than a can being thumped down on it. (To be clear, something like a little piece of quartz sand or shard of hard ceramic stuck to the can's rim could be made to break it, or might be the cause of one breaking by accident, but under normal circumstances a thump from an aluminum can isn't going to do anything).
Spring-loaded center punch
Love the video but may disagree on a few points:
1) the woofer vibrations - are we sure it’s not just an effect of rolling shutters? I would think the metal and glass is too rigid to show the peaks/valleys of a standing wave. I think it’s vibrating back and forth and the rolling shutter of the camera produces that effect.
2) the car jumping the tire: transfer of angular momentum is basically negligible in this case. Because the wheel is rolling it allows the car to more smoothly change the direction of its momentum than a fixed object would (kind of like a ramp)
of course it's rolling shutter. i assume that's why they don't discuss it. and the jumping is why i wanted to write a comment. it seems the physicist got the physics wrong... and the majority believes it. (edit2) but the more i think about it, i wonder how much the spinning momentum contributes, and the friction of the rubber, and the air springing of the tyre...
@ i’m imagining some hypotheticals - slowly maneuver a spinning tire into a car or lower a car onto a fixed spinning tire - i don’t see much happening to the car. It would remain in place with a slight shake at best. So it’s not enough to overcome the inertia of a still car, making me think its contribution to the jump would be negligible, even if it’s in the direction of the car’s momentum.
The springiness is a good point and definitely a factor. Imagining a tire tread wrapped around a rigid structure (same grip as the tire but without the bounciness from the air) i think the effect would be more muted. With the real tire there would be the initial compression from the air allowing for a smoother transition of direction, and then a kick at the end from the rebounding of that compression that may be the reason for the car rotating end over end once already airborn.
At jumping the car... A car traveling at 12 mph will still ruin your day
The car was going 25 mph 😂
@@ILikeDonuts666 The car was going 40 mph.
this is awesome. and as far your explanations - this is so great and informative. I love the direction of this video allowing him to explain. people who watch this channel, watch it for this! we love the laughs, commentary, and quick tips. this video is so gold
Soda and cola , breaking the (safety!!!!) glass out of sight of the camera.... duhh....
I call fake on the reflective rotor. Unless it is Dracula filming it, they are almost straight shot of the camera at 15:50 and there is nobody in the reflection.
when i was 14, my best friends dad had a 2500w speaker system in his living room. He had never taken the volume over like 20% because at that point, the whole house is getting tinnitus. one day, we got drunk and i convinced him to set it at 50%. i swear to god, the double glazed windows were wiggling. i had never seen glass wobble before, so it blew my mind. i had tinnitus for 3 days after.
Sandro is high af in this and I love it 🤣
Bro looks like leonard from big bang thoery😂 and he's a physicist💀
Best and most surprising Real Mechanic Stuff in a while. I was iffy on watching it and am glad that I did.
They need someone to give Tony the thumbs up signal
Nice one Tony. I loved this video. More episodes like this please.
This is great! Good mix of the cast tagging in and out. More Tony!
This should be its own series. The physics of everyday stuff... and not everyday stuff. Now, I'm off to see if I can find more videos like this.
I enjoyed this episode. I started following the channel, and I love it.
I love seeing Bob back. He is so delightful.
This was seriously awesome. More Tony, More of the whole crew. I loved it.
I love this video so much, but I have to correct that last thing that Tony said. The RCS thrusters do NOT use hypergolic fuels. They typically use nitrogen or some other stored up gas that is controlled by opening and closing valves to let the gas out.
The larger rocket engines on the trunk section typically will use hypergolic fuels. The escape motors sometimes use them as well if they are not just solid rocket boosters.
Otherwise, great content! I know I am always in for a fun time when I see a new RMS video hit my feed.
Dude got really excited when asked if you could put Mt. Dew in a battery. Then the video cut. I wanted to hear that ramble. This dude is awesome.
That was awesome. Taking the educational content to the next level. I would love to see more of him in future videos.
Really digging the deepdive with the physics!!! Keep 'm coming please!
Happy New Year Real Meachanics
I’ve always loved the scientific brake down 😉 one of my favorite parts of Donut has always been learning more about how cars work
Thank you for this! Misinformation is rampant in our world (which, considering how easy it is to research something, is kind of ridiculous) and I love seeing it called out. Please, more videos with Tony.
01:52 They make solid steel rotors, usually for racing or military applications like the humvee. I don't know why he mentioned copper, then mentioned that copper gets really shiny while looking at a rotor that isn't the least bit shiny or copper colored when turning slowly.
14:02 I think this has more to do with the way the vehicles hit the loose tires than any transfer of angular momentum. Notice the second example, the loose tire is still rolling along after launching the car. If the transfer of momentum was what launched the car, the tire would be all tuckered out. Cars that go offroad into a ditch go airborne when they hit the end of the ditch. Same thing here. The first car rolled because after initially hitting the loose tire in the center on the vehicle and it's belly riding along it, it's left rear tire hit it, causing a clockwise roll. I suspect everything would happened the same if the tire was just sitting upright in the road and not spinning.
yeah, physicists on youtube explaining physics wrongly to the plebs..
The way Tony's face lit up when bob suggested a mountain dew battery 🤣🤣🤣
No offense to all the other hosts and guests, but “Behind the Camera the Science Guy” is so entertaining.
The brake disc was a standard, old-skool, cast steel or cast iron disc. Certainly not copper, which you can easily tell from the very uneven heating caused by the warp in the disc - the thermal conductivity of copper would have heated the entire rotor much more evenly (the cold spot would not have been visible for long at all). These discs glow red hot often in high energy, high performance applications (such as racing), and the pads do catch fire if you come to rest with the disc this hot.
Source: a lot of racing experience and I am also an actual physicist, currently working on my doctorate.
Idk I don’t think that’s a copper rotor. If you’ve ever watched nascar those rotors get red hot
This was a GREAT video. Hope you guys do more like this.
15:46 We used to do mirror finishes like that in machine shop class in college. It's just about grinding with finer and finer wheels on a precision grinder. I had some mirror finished 123 blocks that when placed together wouldn't come apart. So it's 100% possible with a precision grinder.
soooo much thx for a scientific video! please do it again.
Cheers Tony... I've always loved physics. Please do more like this!
This guy needs to come back! This was such a great episode!
Please do more of these videos! Love the way he presents the info
The rotor that looks polished is a coating Porsche uses it mainly with a certain brake pad it helps reduce brake dust and improves braking the coating is thinner then a strand of hair
Anthony is as smart as Bob is funny. They work really well together.
Please, make more content like this. Thank you, Tony.
As someone who lives 7 miles from a steep hill where multiple trucks have lost their brakes and have seen brakes catch fire. I know that first one can be very real.
You guys should review Chebotarev's stunts
My new favorite episode. Love seeing science applied to everyday stuff.
Tony is a great educator! With his new haircut he has a "Johnny Galecki" (Big Bang Theory) vibe. 1:55
Loved having Tony in front of the camera, no dual thumbs up from me the whole time. I'd like to see him debunk more stuffs!