Physics is amazing – and frankly, a little bit weird
Not everybody will r/BeAmazed at the post shared by science fan u/icarus581 with the title ‘Physics is amazing’, but we enjoyed watching the baffling properties of a gyroscope and we hope you will, too.
We recommend watching it with the sound down.
Anybody else having vague flashbacks to double Physics? Here’s what Reddit thought of it.
Damn I need this. Tell me it’s cheap.
Polishtoyboy69
I hate physics because I dont understand it.
Futurelongjumping645
I’m in my 30s and shit like this still blows my mind. Yeah, sure, physics, whatever. To a dumb dumb like me, this is magic.
FUCKFASCISMFIGHTBACK
I did a masters in physics, including a good few semesters of classical mechanics, and this still hurts my brain.
Neophlegm
I studied engineering and had to take several physics classes, gyroscopic precession is still complete magic to me.
Dan2376
I think i bought a gyroscope at every museum gift shop I’ve ever been to.
ApoplecticAutoBody
Physics? That’s a mathematical abstraction.
What you’re seeing is just reality.
Richandler
Thx I hate the music. But content still perfect.
Bedengo
Gravity: “Am I a joke to you?”
MagnusRottcodd
Scientific explanation: so he has a magic yo-yo.
david_men_dz
I was like “Uh, yeah its a top. Nothing special about it” and then they put it sideways at an angle and my mind was hecking blown
TheWeirdoWhoScreamsA
Even knowing how it all works, watching gyroscopes hang off the side of things like that and make heavy objects lighter breaks my mind every time.
kalez238
stzmp had a question.
How do they work though?
This thread is full of people doing the aesthetics of knowledge “oh don’t you KNOW about gyroscopes? They’re [misinformation].”
But I just want to know why they work.
Moakmeister explained –
Basically if something is spinning it has momentum in all directions on the plane of the spin, tangent to the circular path. So it resists changes in the plane of rotation, the same way an object moving in a straight line resists changes in its straight path.
That’s what we were going to say. Honest!
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Took us far too long to work out what’s going on here and it’s quite the optical illusion
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