Vectors - Sixty Symbols

[iv54]

man that was cool my university professor went over vectors but it wouldve been soo much better if they did that experiment.

[gregiep]

"And again, it's a pretty stable sys..." THWACK! LOL ♥

[blackrecordzz]

She said mph. +1 for US customary measurements :)

[wasdx42]

@blackrecordzz or indeed normal UK measurements

[MrDave13193]

squeak shudder squeak shudder

[tomaskvapil]

use something another for writing please :)...the best is fix on board but the noise it terribly horrible

[ArtypNk]

I like her. A lot.

[UmlautBanana]

The flexible ruler didn't work as well because the hammer, while exerting the same force, had more room to go because it managed to push the ruler out of the way instead of being stopped by it. Being a lever, it also brought both ends of the hammer (and, therefore, the center of mass) closer to the horizontal center, so it had less room to play with when it came to falling off of the table.

[Mritsonlyaname]

i bet that woman smells like poop and eggs.

[eatpumkin090]

The sound of that marker on paper was torture.

[mdiem]

0:08 And there you see the difference between theoretical physics and experimental physics!

[SynysterCondom]

3:18 THE BEST EXAMPLE TO EXPLAINING VECTORS EVER

Shit, I wish I saw your videos when I was taking physics in High School, I love sixty symbols :D

[Rockyroopam]

whats wrong with you guys lol

[Superegio42]

Ruler-hammer coupling hanging off the edge off a table is a pretty stable tag-team system till it realiazes a woman is out of the kitchen.....

Nah, I keed. Cool act.

[phuckingkunt]

@Superegio42 lol

[tkuzzz]

I have this one vector, and it's pointing upward right now O_o

[phelepone]

This is so hawtttt....... can we add our vectors sometime? :D

[materiasacra]

The telephone dictionary, by M T and W! :-)

[breaneainn]

..is this porn for physics majors?

[flybyproxy]

"I care very much about the direction it is facing" Oh yes, talk dirty to me Meghan.

[BlatendCrude]

I'd do her so hard...........

[zurechtweiser]

it's a pretty stable system...

[mattdamico]

What's our vector, Victor?

[TomatoBreadOrgasm]

Why are both of the women in this video series American and Astronomers?

[Ichvyenichalster]

@TomatoBreadOrgasm coincidence i suppose.

[SonOfNye]

I think it's sad that a video entitle "funny cats" has about 35 million views (it is funny) while the majority of these sixtysymbols videos don't even break 50 thousand.

[StereoSpace]

@SonOfNye Not sad, really. People have a lot of stress in their lives and problems they can't solve. If funny Cats make them laugh, makes them happy for a few minutes, what's wrong with that?

[Mojosbigstick]

Vectors are what caused me to part company with Physics. I couldn't get my head round them when I was 14, and still can't now.

[MarkArandjus]

I love sixty symbols, but if I never have to do another math problem with vectors again it'll be too soon!

[TheCrocoduck]

I can poke it. It'll wobble a bit -- that's what she said

seriously she said that xd

[ThatKidKnows]

and a force of 1 Newton can accelerate a 1N mass at 1ms^-2?

[keviny720]

@ThatKidKnows 1 newton force causes a 1 kg mass to accelerate at 1 m/s^2

[ThatKidKnows]

@keviny720 ye oops my mistake 1kg mass not 1n weight lol... 

[ThatKidKnows]

And it is a pretty stable system.... *CRASH*

[puncheex]

@ThatKidKnows: That's called chaos.

[UriaHammonRaviel]

Reminds me of A-Level Maths and Mechanics problems.

[Delishful]

I would like to poke it too just to feel if it's tight, I suppose it's physics so it must be a tight concept for it to work correctly. It does seem to work better when it's stiff. The wood is much harder. Nice girl.

[XxWearsMexX]

@Delishful might wanna rephrase tht

[rey619yomama]

dam the fucking marker is annoying.

[trexman89]

She has the special relativity book I want!!!

[Kowzorz]

Why can't you mix a hiker and a mosquito? Because you can't cross a scalar with a vector.

[domyaska]

thanks a lot !

[ray123ification]

a woman holding a ruler makes me nervous.

[cuntylishus]

@ray123ification Monkfish!

[sabaths1fan]

@cuntylishus what?

[Desmaad]

Meghan is my favorite instructor, not only because she is very pretty, but more importantly, because, well, umm

[BjoMcEgichoken]

@Desmaad She's also Canadian!

[Rohan11221]

:( i cant do the ruler hammer thing my hammer just hangs :'(

[robmarcreed]

I rather enjoy intelligent women.

[fearghuskeeble]

Find it amusing how in a few videos you like to keep in the bits the professors ask you to edit out...

[sixtysymbols]

@fearghuskeeble: My favourite bits! Like to remind the viewers whose side I'm on! :)

If you have a look on nottinghamscience that's where I also post a few extra science out-takes etc.

The stuff with Pete and his balloon problems is my favourite.

[clearmenser]

damn squeaky markers make my hair stand on end.

[farhmoha]

You're pretty

[noprobation]

my physics teacher made us do that ruler thing and her name is Ms. Gray

[jarvis15]

Thanks for the video. ^__^

[lastmiles]

She left out the force exerted by the table upwards on the ruler. If there were no repulsion by the surface of the table on the ruler then it would pass through the table. It does not. There must be a force pushing upwards on the ruler in order for the ruler to push down also and the sum of those two vectors is zero. Also, there is a rotational torque at play in there causing the rocking back and forth of the ruler+hammer system.

[jalexoid]

There is a thing that is called Newtons 3rd law. And it is implied, sine it's one of the most basic laws of physics.

"To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." equates to "force exerted by the table upwards on the ruler".

[puncheex]

@jalexoid: Another way to think of Newton's 3rd, which I find useful, is that a force always pushes in both directions, regardless of what the arrowhead says.

[culwin]

You left out the force exerted by the floor on the bottom of the table.

[harshm2u]

Woops, that's twice! lol! It sure did make me laugh out loud. And... it certainly was an amazing presentation.

[rwcabrera]

Is this woman canadian? Isn't nottingham in ENgland?

[puncheex]

@rwcabrera: Yup. And Einstein was a German who lived in Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and the US.

[madderscientist23]

Phhh. This Lady is gorgeous! She is the exception to the rule that beauty is inversely proportional to intelligence..

[Andyisnotmyname]

I like that rule :]. And it's exceptions :].

HotForWords!

[pin3appel]

wow great intro hahaha

[TehSmeely]

F= ma, F should mean Resultant force =P what we always get told to say at school. whipping if you just say force =P

[zakyb1]

Don't question.

[stridermt2k]

Love these videos!

You should slow down and replay the video of the first hammer falling so that the point of imbalance and failure can be demonstrated as well.

-and yes, she also blinded me with science.

[puncheex]

@stridermt2k: It wasn't so much imbalance, but rather doing a 2D experiment in a 3D world. The hammer moved out of the experimental plane.

[acies37]

If my physics teachers were as beautiful as you while I was in college, I wouldn't have majored in English ;)

[ytmachx]

Meghan , that was a great illustration!

[Myx4o]

Meghan Gray is absolutely amazing! I love her! :)

[cookiecamp]

lol " it's a pretty stable system

[workforcetrust]

A very charming woman indeed!

[BGenerous]

"The handle of the hammer is being pushed up this way, it's bending the ruler, and it's forcing this end of the ruler down to the table." Actually, no. The force down to the table is always the weight of the hammer, string, and ruler, independent of the upward force of the handle on the ruler, which changes depending where the string is tied. It is true though that the forces on the ruler from the table, string, and handle produce moments (vectors!) that sum to zero. :)

[G0ldenGoose]

Listen to the woman. She is always right.

[TheSprinklerSystem]

cool

i love that woman :D

[juggliac]

it's a pretty stable... *drop*

lol! =)

[grnlfe01]

Fantastic I now know something new that I genuinly had no idea about before.

[elmofir]

do you find that you have to "dumb it down" with the explanations of your videos, i seem to follow along very well in all the videos so far, but it seems that it would be more complicated than it apears in the video.

great job in the explanations thogh. top notch

[solomsolomol]

a friend of mine who goes to Nottingham University told me that they say exactly what they say in the video in the beginning of the lectures and then they move on to the complicated stuff

[ahaitsrob]

haha cool

[superniall50]

I had a maths exam on Monday with vector questions. I now know I got them wrong :(.

If only you'd done this video last week...

[Kyleidge]

Ha I had the same XD

[eedahl]

STEAL the vectors from you? Your special cases are PUNY. PHYSICIST.

[NAMLegolas]

Stable system eh? hahahahaha That was fun.

I love working with vectors.

[godofthunder9]

first...

i love your videos especially the periodic ones

[CzRZeromus]

who cares if you are first, dumbfuck?

i just hate people who post comments like these