Catching Kendama - Numberphile
Tadashi's back (for the final video in this mini series) demonstrating the Kendama and some angular momentum. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Tadashi Tokieda will be...
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[Tadashi Tokieda] Here's an ancient, very traditional Japanese toy called kendama "Ken" means sword and "Dama" means ball and it's a sword and a ball. The French name is bilboquet There is the spelling, bilboquet We have some english versions of this toy but not so sophisticated as this one So, as you can see, a ball is hanging from a string attached to this sword, as we say. You see, there's a cup here and the challenge is to just tug the ball up and put it in the cup Now that's of course is very, very difficult to do. So you shouldn't do this in public... Because the chances of success are very small [Generic News Channel Song] [Explosion] [Crowd Cheering] [Tadashi Tokieda] Even if you succeed with the large cup y...
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[Tadashi Tokieda] Here's an ancient, very traditional Japanese toy called kendama "Ken" means sword and "Dama" means ball and it's a sword and a ball. The French name is bilboquet There is the spelling, bilboquet We have some english versions of this toy but not so sophisticated as this one So, as you can see, a ball is hanging from a string attached to this sword, as we say. You see, there's a cup here and the challenge is to just tug the ball up and put it in the cup Now that's of course is very, very difficult to do. So you shouldn't do this in public... Because the chances of success are very small [Generic News Channel Song] [Explosion] [Crowd Cheering] [Tadashi Tokieda] Even if you succeed with the large cup y...
