WNYC/NPR's Radio Lab presents Parabolas (etc.)

Radio Lab presents: Parabolas (etc.)

A video inspired by the mathematician, Steve Strogatz. At the age of thirteen, Steve was astonished to find that pendulums and water fountains had a strange relationship that had previously been completely hidden from him.

http://www.radiolab.org

Radio Lab is produced by WNYC Radio and distributed by NPR. Directed by Will Hoffman (http://www.anyoneeverything.com) with Director of Photography Derek Paul Boyle (http://www.dpboyle.com).

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Will Hoffman
• Derek Paul Boyle
• Radio Lab
• Radiolab
• WNYC
• NPR
• Steve Strogatz
• Parabola
• Science
• Jad Abumrad
• Robert Krulwich

[Katbotz]

Radio Lab is such a wonderful show.

[tuumba]

i for one welcome our new parabolic overlords

[wpnt37]

beautiful



[interhalogenetic]

Wrong title, guys!!!! Cantaneries and parabolas are not descendants of the parabola itself. The graph of a cantanery is not a parabola! They actually originate from cone cross-sections. See conics for more information.

Formulas.

Parabolas: y=x()^2 squared func

Cantenaries: y=cosh(X) hyperbolic cosine func

What's really being filmed is the *symmetry* and similar appearance conics have, despite having radically different equations.

Might I suggest "Conic symmetries (etc.)"?

[fdssg]

@cardshark07 I think they knew it, which is why they named it "Parabolas (and others)".

[da27thdeadguy]

Its so true, the shape can be found in everything EVERYWHERE . . .

[cardshark07]

I was slightly disappointed that a few hyperbole made it in that aren't really parabolas, but I forgive them because it's Radiolab.

[TheDarkAngel27]

Actually, the MacDonald's m cannot be modelled as a parabola.... it will never fit...

[splitpierre]

Really wonderful, thanks radioLab, inspire us.

[helloitskatee]

Radio Lab. You inspire me.

[TSquared2001]

Love it. I'll be glad when it comes back to my station.

[arcotsarathy]

The U shape is imperfect in nature. Its used in a veriety of subjects like physics, chemistry, astro physics, and just so many more subjects.

Though we hardly observerve the shape that we see, we may not have an answer because man is always focused on the "me" of life Arcot Sarathy-Writer and Music Composer