• 2009
Steve Mould

Summary Try this at home. Steve Mould demonstrates easy, inexpensive experiments producing unexpected results that you can also perform at home. View more details

  • 2009

Steve Mould

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Written : Unknown

Stars : Matt Parker Steve Mould Jonathan Deane William Gaze

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Apr 3, 2009

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Official YouTube Channel

Language : English

Summary Try this at home. Steve Mould demonstrates easy, inexpensive experiments producing unexpected results that you can also perform at home. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Apr 3, 2009

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Official YouTube Channel

Language : English

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Jan 20, 2016
Amazing Property of the Canadian One Dollar Coin You Didn't Know Aboot
Canada's Loonie dollar coin has eleven sides and is just one of a collection of two dimensional shapes that have a constant diameter making them roll very nicely. The shapes don't even need to be based on regular polygons.
Jan 31, 2016
Predict What Will appen When These Two balloons are connected
Test your prediction. Which way does air flow between a highly inflated and a slightly inflated balloon.
Feb 24, 2016
How an Ames Room Works
In honor of the 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland Steve built and Ames room where he can show Alice growing and shrinking. Will you look at that. It really works.
Oct 12, 2016
A better description of entropy
Steve's object here is to provide an intuitive understanding of entropy. He explains that entropy only changes when there is a difference in temperature so the heat can flow. Which means entropy changes involve the spreading out of energy that was clumped together.
May 15, 2019
Piezoelectricity - why hitting crystals makes electricity
Crystals that lack point symmetry can generate an electric voltage. Let's try it with quartz.
Jul 17, 2019
Why the sex pilus is so dangerous - horizontal gene transfer
In sexual reproduction organisms exchange genes to maintain a genetically diverse population. But population diversity occurred long before life invented sex. Here's a look at the asexual ways of sharing genes.
Sep 02, 2020
How Oak Trees Manipulate Squirrels to Abandon their Acorns
On occasion all the oak trees in a region with produce an over abundance of acorns, far more than the local squirrels can eats. This is known as a mast year.
Sep 09, 2020
The Pythagorean Siphon Inside Your Washing Machine
The ins and out of siphons and why some are self starting while other need priming.
Dec 17, 2020
A 2D Heron's Fountain Behaves Weirdly
Steve creates a two dimensional version of heron's fountain and finds that, despite the apparent complexity, it is a very simple mechanism.
Jan 13, 2021
Tensegrity Explained
Tensegrity structures use compression and tension to for a stable object that looks like it should fall apart.
Apr 07, 2021
The Planets are Weirdly in Sync
Systems of moons orbiting planets and planets orbiting stars often synchronize the timing of their orbits so they complete their orbits in whole number relationships. How weird is that? Steve explains why by applying the magic of vectors to their angular momentum. Then he has a bit more fun with some real resonances from out there in the universe.
Jul 28, 2021
The Spring Paradox
Oct 17, 2021
This String Shooter is so Weird
Steve was offered a new prototype, Zipstring, of an old toy, String Thing, and he's having loads of fun with the counter intuitive behavior of it. It doesn't move as expected and makes waves that go the wrong way and makes weird shapes when it spins.
Feb 17, 2022
What if Swings had Springs Instead of Ropes: Autoparametric Resonance
Steve demonstrates various ways to cause a pendulum to swing. Some are quite surprising.
Sep 15, 2022
How Gas Pumps Know When to Turn Themsleves Off
Gas pump handles make clever use of physics and engineering to turn off automatically. Steve created some models and cut a pump handle in half to demonstrate.
Nov 27, 2022
The Turntable Paradox
Steve takes a look at spinning things. Specifically spinning things on spinning things. And ratios. Like a spinning ball on a spinning turntable revolves in seven circles every time the turntable rotates twice. Weirds. But it's also physics.
Mar 30, 2023
Can Water Solve a Maze?
Following up on the Bergman Joe computer simulation of "water" solving a maze, Steve went to the trouble of building some mazes. And his results are different due to surface tension and air pressure. But indeed, water did solve his maze and with no wrong turns.
Apr 27, 2023
How these impossibly thin cuts are made
Intreiged by an incredibly engineer fidget toy, Steve investigates ultra precision engineering..
Jun 15, 2023
The Spool Paradox
If you pull on a thread, rope etc. wound around a spool, the spool rolls toward you as you no doubt know event thought it's a bit counter intuitive. But that raises many more questions in Steve's mind.
Jul 30, 2023
The object we thought was impossible
Aug 30, 2023
The Golf Ball Paradox
Steve does his best to explain why (or rather when) it's impossible to hit a golf ball into a hole so you don't have to wade through the math like he did..
Oct 09, 2023
Wirtz pumps are really clever
Steve explores a hydrodynamic behavior known to engineers as airlock with a flashback to his water maze and a new project building a Wirtz pump. Turns out airlock can be useful but you have to engineer your device taking into account several variables.
Dec 19, 2023
Watch gravity pull two metal balls together
Steve builds a rig to measure the force of gravity. Turns out it's hard to measure. But there's a really precise rig at Imperial College London. So Steve gives it a try. It's still hard,,, but it works.
May 26, 2024
Light sucking flames look like magic
Playing with that everyday element sodium to create a black flame.
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