Can you solve these four rotation-related riddles? Support Veritasium on Patreon: http://ve42.co/patreon Test yourself playlist: http://ve42.co/testurself Huge thanks to Patreon supporters:...
========== At the Palace of discovery in Paris, theyhave this huge turntable where you cansit, and perform experiments. Like in themiddle of the turntable you can put somewater and then add liquid nitrogen, andthis creates a kind of fog these tinywater droplets that spread out from themiddle, but because the actual linearspeed of this turntable is increasingthe further out you go well, the vaporfalls further and further behindcreating a swirl, that looks a little bitlike a Hurricane. And that analogy is notby accident, the Earth is after all onegiant turntable, and the weather patternswe get are a result of that. When youstudy Physics in rotating frames ofreference, or even just rotating bodies.You find some pretty mysterious andcounterintuitive phenomena, which is whyI'm ...