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Common Physics Misconceptions

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Published on Dec 6, 2012

What if you thought the earth was flat? And then you found out it isn't?

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Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minute!

Music by Nathaniel Schroeder http://www.soundcloud.com/drschroeder

Thanks to Nima Doroud for contributions and to Perimeter Institute for support.
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca

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  • Shmifflepuff

    Shmifflepuff 3 days ago

    Where did you get the minus?

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    Shmifflepuff 3 days ago

    Yeah I know...

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  • UnderoathLambofgod

    UnderoathLambofgod 4 hours ago

    I don't think all this is "lying" to kids... I just got done taking Physics (highschool) and all the stuff talked about in here are like... errors equal to 1x10^-37....which isn't very much...

    Sure 2+1.99999999999999999999999999­9 isn't 4, but its pretty damn close to 4 and for students who haven't had any prior physics education, assuming 2+1.999999999999999999999999=4 is much easier to understand than going through everything mentioned in this video.. just sayin~

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  • TheFlow596

    TheFlow596 5 hours ago

    0:10 Trololololololoololloololololo­lolol

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  • mvjayp

    mvjayp 14 hours ago

    1+0=1 -.- u mean 1(0)=0 

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  • Tony Burn

    Tony Burn 15 hours ago

    Surely Gravity is the bending of spacetime caused by objects with mass. The more massive the object the greater the effect as in gravitational lensing or black holes. So if I have this right, you are saying light can have an attraction or in other words a particle with zero mass can bend, however small, spacetime?

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  • parnak dave

    parnak dave 19 hours ago

    Dude you just won a noble prize, 1 + 0 = 0..!!

    r u stupid or something ?

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  • Mike Daniels

    Mike Daniels 23 hours ago

    Please use the metric system when making videos, especially since you're a physicist.

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  • Fuki youi

    Fuki youi 1 day ago

    I just think light is a race of spacetravellers going WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE­EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE through the solar systems.

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  • GTARogelio1

    GTARogelio1 1 day ago

    It just teaches us how much we don't know

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  • Willoughby Krenzteinburg

    Willoughby Krenzteinburg 1 day ago

    Excellent point.

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  • Nick Baker

    Nick Baker 1 day ago

    1+0=1... dumbshit..

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