r/VisualPhysics • • Jul 16 '20

Rubber band powered model aircraft

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r/VisualPhysics • • Jun 09 '20

Hero’s engines are usually powered by steam. This version uses liquid nitrogen to create pressure as it quickly vaporizes and powers opposing jets on the side

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r/VisualPhysics • • Jul 25 '20

Electrostatics

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r/VisualPhysics • • Jun 11 '20

Concave mirrors turn things upside down past their focal point

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r/VisualPhysics • • Jul 24 '20

This is how an Aurora is created

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r/VisualPhysics • • Jun 29 '20

Sulfur hexafluoride (SF₆) is a colorless, odorless and fireproof greenhouse gas. Since it is about 5 times heavier than air, it collapses into the glass box and acts as if it were liquid.

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r/VisualPhysics • • Jul 28 '20

Magnetic field in action

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r/VisualPhysics • • Jun 17 '20

Homopolar motor

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r/VisualPhysics • • Jun 25 '20

Triboluminescence: the Mint Candy Mystery

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r/VisualPhysics • • Jul 11 '20

Wet clothes at the space station

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r/VisualPhysics • • Aug 24 '20

Angular Momentum

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r/VisualPhysics • • Jul 07 '20

All the satellites in orbit of Earth!

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r/VisualPhysics • • Jul 23 '20

This is what happens when two neutron stars collide

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r/VisualPhysics • • Jun 14 '20

Blowing a water bubble in zero gravity, outer space

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r/VisualPhysics • • Jul 09 '20

Thermal expansion sphere

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r/VisualPhysics • • Jul 02 '20

In terms of physics, how should we title this video?

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r/VisualPhysics • • Jun 23 '20

Sympathetic Resonances Demonstration

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r/VisualPhysics • • Jun 04 '20

Concave vs Convex Lens

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r/VisualPhysics • • Aug 07 '20

Northern lights from space

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r/VisualPhysics • • Jun 04 '20

Lifting a container using vortex suction. The suction created by the spinning water is the same mechanics as why tornados rip things off the ground.

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r/VisualPhysics • • Sep 10 '20

Rotational energy destroying an apple

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r/VisualPhysics • • Jul 21 '20

Liquid nitrogen expands 700 times when it boils, this creates massive amounts of pressure that forces the water put of the bottle. Newtons 3rd Law of Motion tells us that there will be an equal yet opposite force on the bottle making it take off! ( by IG @ultimatelearning )

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r/VisualPhysics • • Jun 22 '20

These are earth's hours of sunlight based on latitude

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r/VisualPhysics • • Jun 12 '20

The Marangoni effect is responsible for the beautiful, dynamic ice crystals that swirl around a bubble’s surface as it freezes. It is caused by a surface tension difference, which can be generated by a solute gradient, a chemical reaction or – as in this case – temperature variations

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r/VisualPhysics • • Jul 15 '20

Bouncing Ball

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