How Do Tesla Coils Work? Musical Tesla Coils in SLOW MOTION! (Feat.

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    Head to Physics Girl for electromagnetic explosions! • Exploding soda cans wi...
    Musical tesla coils are awesome. I went to visit Arc Attack, the legendary musical tesla coil band, to find out how they work (and to stand in between them!) I brought my friend Physics Girl along too
    Step inside the Tesla coils in this 360 video: • Between Two Tesla Coil...
    Special thanks to:
    ArcAttack
    arcattack.com/
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    It’s Okay To Be Smart is written and hosted by Joe Hanson, Ph.D.
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  • @supreetsahu1964
    @supreetsahu1964 8 років тому +199

    Vsauce, Veritasium, Physics Girl and Joe all uploaded in a 24 hours span? My brain can only handle so much awesome science!

  • @dead_p1xl964
    @dead_p1xl964 8 років тому +41

    Tesla Coils absolutely DID revolutionize our lives.
    The first radio transmitters were spark-gap tesla coils that sent EM pulses extreme distances (like across the ocean extreme) to transmit messages. My Samsung phone charging wirelessly right now is essentially the same thing as a Tesla coil but at much lower voltages. Tesla was the MAN.

    • @grantstidham9322
      @grantstidham9322 2 роки тому

      Sure was. The leaders of the world/government and scientific community were cruel to him, they did not support his ideas, especially not the wardenclyffe tower.

  • @pacobalthazar3138
    @pacobalthazar3138 8 років тому +32

    now this is the real deal in electro music.

  • @mmoreira2000
    @mmoreira2000 8 років тому +1

    I loved the Johnny 5 alike robot! When I was a kid, I always wanted to have one, specially the toy version that appeared on short circuit 2. :-)

  • @EugeneKhutoryansky
    @EugeneKhutoryansky 8 років тому +56

    Very interesting way to make music, though not necessarily the safest.

    • @InorganicVegan
      @InorganicVegan 8 років тому +23

      Or energy-efficient

    • @asj3419
      @asj3419 8 років тому +4

      Or limited on its production of toxic gases.

    • @nikodrossos2270
      @nikodrossos2270 8 років тому

      not safe

    • @maxzhao
      @maxzhao 7 років тому

      HI! I Love your videos about physics, I just want to thank you for the detailed and precise scientific knowledge you bring that many other physics channels on youtube lack!

    • @dumbledoor9293
      @dumbledoor9293 6 років тому

      It is totally safe, just don't touch the lightning. Like in the traffic, don't jump in front of a moving car 😉

  • @besmart
    @besmart  8 років тому +103

    This video is pretty… electrifying. It was so great working with Dianna, go check out her video!

    • @joventlk7300
      @joventlk7300 8 років тому

      u got first

    • @alyssah6701
      @alyssah6701 8 років тому

      you're so punny

    • @mimiqwack6600
      @mimiqwack6600 8 років тому

      You got first

    • @NoTimeLeft_
      @NoTimeLeft_ 8 років тому

      Electrifying? I'd say you were very Hans-ON.....eh?
      Yeah, I'm a dad.

    • @ShawnHufford
      @ShawnHufford 8 років тому

      +It's Okay To Be Smart best part of this video(to me) is that you are showing that the midi format is still in use, and second, that it has a "practical" application.
      shocks me as i have been working with midi since i was 15(44 now), and still use it to make music to this date.
      put it this way... i still use a soundblaster live 5.1 soundcard with user hacked drivers to make the wavetable for the midi work in windows 7 (they stopped making soundcards with wavetables with windows vista.
      not to shamelessly plug, but check some of the midi's i have done and played through my soundcard on my channel(they are karaoke style parodies)

  • @brandonhall6084
    @brandonhall6084 8 років тому +14

    This is an Arc Attack. This an Arc Attack. THIS IS ARC ATTACK!

  • @MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot
    @MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot 8 років тому +10

    I saw them live once.
    The experience was.....
    Highly entertaining.

  • @ernanijunior7963
    @ernanijunior7963 7 років тому

    Fantastic video!!! That's why the UA-cam is all about! I would never had the opportunity to view something like this in my life and thanks to your channel I was mesmerized by the science again.

  • @shrauff
    @shrauff 6 років тому

    Man...Dang Amazing

  • @RaventheScienceMaven
    @RaventheScienceMaven 4 роки тому

    TWO of my FAVE science communicators

  • @highfrequencyhighvoltage7614
    @highfrequencyhighvoltage7614 7 років тому

    Cool! Verry good explanations! Thumbs up!

  • @Lamnom
    @Lamnom 8 років тому

    one of your coolest videos :)

  • @Othmarius
    @Othmarius 8 років тому

    Wow! So cool!

  • @davelin8988
    @davelin8988 8 років тому

    so much fun!!!

  • @Boogers32150
    @Boogers32150 8 років тому +23

    *I got a raging boson for Physics Girl....and it's gaining in mass every second....*

    • @DekuStickGamer
      @DekuStickGamer 8 років тому +12

      Baby, if there was no Gravity on Earth, I'd still fall for you...
      But there is. So how bout we get that booty to accelarate to my bed at 9.8m/s^2. ;)

  • @amandaegeskovhald8222
    @amandaegeskovhald8222 8 років тому +1

    Aww, I love tesla coil music! It's so awesome :D

  • @wornouttire
    @wornouttire 8 років тому

    I knew it had to be ArcAttack. They are amazing.

  • @ArlekinVergeltungswaffe
    @ArlekinVergeltungswaffe 8 років тому

    Just....amazing

  • @Manzzzzzz
    @Manzzzzzz 7 років тому

    very cool tesla coil

  • @ShadowRavenGaming222
    @ShadowRavenGaming222 8 років тому

    that's awesome

  • @mike0rr
    @mike0rr 8 років тому

    I love both of you

  • @sidrath476
    @sidrath476 8 років тому

    Two things that i love. Physics and Diana!

  • @DianaGee
    @DianaGee 8 років тому

    True electronic music

  • @ieatpaper
    @ieatpaper 8 років тому

    This is good electronic music... literally

  • @1ucasvb
    @1ucasvb 8 років тому +4

    Some dudes have a project called Lightning on Demand where they wanted to build two twin Tesla coils, 100 ft tall. The idea was to have scientific shows, science experiments and other stuff. They even wanted to include a restaurant at the top, so you can actually see things from INSIDE!
    But they never managed to secure funding for it. Such a shame.

  • @AdamGhatta
    @AdamGhatta 6 років тому +1

    Epic!!!!

  • @stjepanistra5238
    @stjepanistra5238 8 років тому

    Good video, Hi to all from Croatia (middle Europe), country of Tesla!

  • @m-yday
    @m-yday 8 років тому +16

    Imagine turning extremely hard Dubstep to a Midi file, then playing it with them.

    • @KwakWack
      @KwakWack 8 років тому +2

      A Midi file only holds a melody, you would not get different sounds :/

    • @ShawnHufford
      @ShawnHufford 8 років тому +3

      ummm... firstgreendinosaur... midi holds no sounds at all... melody included. it is an instruction set that tells a midi device what sound to play, and for how long... and since i have been working with midi for 29 years(you can find 9 of the thousands i have made through the years on my channel), i can assure you, that the instruction set can EASILY handle up to 64 instrument instructions at a time.
      (edit) and just to add, that when coupled with a wavetable... dubstep would be a walk in the park once you have the audio clips you wish to add to it)

    • @KwakWack
      @KwakWack 8 років тому

      Shawn Hufford Sorry I was trying to keep it understandable 😂
      I said "holds a melody" just like Morse "holds a message", not a scientific way to explain
      And thank you for sharing your knowledge because I clearly know nothing about all this :l

    • @zeromailss
      @zeromailss 8 років тому

      +Shawn Hufford that would be cool

    • @metalizer8689
      @metalizer8689 8 років тому

      Imagine making music with instruments instead of a computer program.

  • @Xenro66
    @Xenro66 8 років тому +70

    Just shocking.

    • @ezrakainz
      @ezrakainz 8 років тому

      lol

    • @warrp3226
      @warrp3226 8 років тому

      Nice lmao

    • @aggbak1
      @aggbak1 8 років тому

      F

    • @sometechyguy0163
      @sometechyguy0163 8 років тому

      I'm subbed to you. Wow

    • @logical-functionsmodel9364
      @logical-functionsmodel9364 8 років тому +3

      I found it magnetic. Ohm my God this hertz. We must amp up the electric puns.
      As time fluxes, I put a photon my desk and think of how static things become. Watt is the resistance to the waves of lightning fast change, truly tis a sad arc. I'm sure that the current electrocution induced the harbingers of change.

  • @aishahm647
    @aishahm647 8 років тому +5

    this was in that old movie! the sorcerer's apprentice, with jay baruchel... anyone else remember that??

  • @rassulbolatkanuly3844
    @rassulbolatkanuly3844 8 років тому

    You, guys, are amazing! That's all I want to say. Hello from Kazakhstan! ( Just in case, it's the place where currently astronauts are being launched to space and the place where they land)

  • @MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs
    @MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs 8 років тому

    This robot rocks!

  • @safia76
    @safia76 5 років тому

    Oh my shock!

  • @caseyhamm8822
    @caseyhamm8822 2 роки тому

    when the lighting hit his head cage, i physically recoiled

  • @foxythunder481
    @foxythunder481 4 роки тому +1

    And you see him, standing behind you... SHIA LABEUOF!!! lol

  • @harshadasamant6211
    @harshadasamant6211 7 років тому +1

    ayyy, this was in sorcerer's apprentice movie!!!!

  • @DuluthTW
    @DuluthTW 8 років тому

    Fun!

  • @anthonycleveland1514
    @anthonycleveland1514 8 років тому

    It seemed really terrifying yet cool to have lightning to strike but not hurt you⚡️⚡️

  • @isaacbriefer193
    @isaacbriefer193 7 років тому +1

    I love how the SD card says Cage. I'm assuming they play some music by John Faraday Cage?

  • @kenneth2519
    @kenneth2519 6 років тому

    Tesla coil goes with everything

  • @alexrobitaille9335
    @alexrobitaille9335 8 років тому +1

    1:43 Chia Laboof😂😂😂

  • @hadianasrin9156
    @hadianasrin9156 7 років тому

    I laughed badly when they showed that swing thingy 😂😂

  • @erzma9908
    @erzma9908 8 років тому

    Good

  • @calebvonweichardt7785
    @calebvonweichardt7785 6 років тому

    2:39 is the funniest thing ever

  • @williamcamacho758
    @williamcamacho758 8 років тому

    Coooooooool

  • @Rhythmmical
    @Rhythmmical 7 років тому

    Can the sound volume of these tesla coils be controlled?

  • @elicutler18
    @elicutler18 8 років тому

    THEY ARE MY NEW OTP!!!

  • @five_working_brain_cells895
    @five_working_brain_cells895 8 років тому

    This should be called the real electro music wwwoowowww man this is cool

  • @eldritchcookie7210
    @eldritchcookie7210 8 років тому

    this is the real eletric music

  • @TheNoobShow57
    @TheNoobShow57 8 років тому +8

    Zeus approves!

  • @cadavercabaret
    @cadavercabaret 6 років тому

    4:50 he’s got the power

  • @251omega
    @251omega 3 роки тому

    Your smoking robot reminded me of pranks we pulled on unsuspecting technicians (each other) when i worked at Tektronics, in the early 1970s. The techs took newly built instruments and powered them up for the first time, repaired any problems and calibrated them and then they coild be packaged and sold. Occasionally a circuit would fail and sometimes a resister would burn up releasing a well known, easily recognized odor that we named "the ALLEN-BRADLEY smell", after the name of the resistor company. That was the key to the prank.
    ---> We all used small wattage soldering irons that had a replaceable tip that was pushed onto a hollow heated metal tube. Putting that fact to good use, we would come to work early enough to set up the prank. We would sneak into the victim's work station, and remove the tip of the soldering iron, insert a 1/4 watt resister with it's leads cut off, and replace the tip.
    ---> When the tech came to work, he would turn on the power to his bench and begin to power up the next instrument. It takes soldering irons around ten minutes to heat up, and that give the tech enough time to power up the instrument, before the 1/4 watt resister would start to burn. The tech , upon the first whiff of the ALLEN-BRADLEY smell, IMMEDIATELY kills the power to his work to minimize the destruction and begins the repair sequence by trying to locate the faulty circuit.
    ---> The more he looks for the source without success, the more frustrated he becomes. By this time the whole room of techs, who were all "in" on the prank, lose their self-control and start to laugh. The Victim realizes he was "had" by the prank and awards a point to the prankster on an imaginary scoreboard. A now the pressure was on the victim to come up with a revenge prank.
    ---> When I was the Victim of the ALLEN_BRADLEY trick, I got back at the prankster by coming in early and sabotaging his work bench. I unplugged it from the power and plugged it into an extension cord, which I ran back to my bench. I plugged my end into my VARIAC (a variable transformer to adjust the AC to any voltage 0-150VAC). I left the power at the proper 117VAC, until I saw the tech begin to check the new equipment for proper operating voltages at various test points, throughout the circuitry. Then I slowly turned the voltage down. The tech tried to figure the cause and I started turning it back up, then down, then up again. By that time the tech got wise and start looking around the room and everybody cracked up again! And those were the days of our lives... stay tuned for the next episode, as the stomach turns...
    ---> I realize these stories aren't exactly on topic, but you can't predict when an old memory will pop up, and besides it gives us one more view into Human psychology, with some comic relief...

  • @keshav3601
    @keshav3601 7 років тому +1

    This reminds me of the movie the Apprentice

  • @Yadmagic
    @Yadmagic 8 років тому +3

    To be honest............. I am SHOCKED XD

  • @Brian-tn4cd
    @Brian-tn4cd 8 років тому +1

    XD he should've said, my body is ready

  • @jamesdeeznutscringe3134
    @jamesdeeznutscringe3134 7 років тому

    Jan 12 2017 at my field trip, at a show the sparks/Lightning bolts made music tunes like super Mario and that darth Vader song...

  • @martlesmartlesmartles
    @martlesmartlesmartles 7 років тому

    wait.. how does alternating current help tesla coils if voltage is collected at the top??

  • @vma011
    @vma011 8 років тому

    Electronic music at it's finest

  • @jaydayley7843
    @jaydayley7843 8 років тому +1

    You're walking in the woods. There's no one around and your phone is dead. Out of the corner of your eye you spot him:

  • @pinkponyofprey1965
    @pinkponyofprey1965 8 років тому

    0:42 Whip it! Whip it good!

  • @NINAAAHxD
    @NINAAAHxD 8 років тому

    They showed something like this in The Sorcerer's Apprentice. I didn't think it was actually possible. :O

  • @Xader726
    @Xader726 5 років тому

    What was the first song that arcattack played?

  • @santiagopichiringo8476
    @santiagopichiringo8476 7 років тому

    when you are a sim 1:12

  • @QockNobblr
    @QockNobblr 5 років тому

    Wait. Wouldn't lightning just the same principle as feel a coils? That being resonance of small amount of static electricity in certain clouds, causing it to just explode out, and ionizing the air, as it connects (or Attempts to connect,) to the ground?
    P.s. I just googled it, and it's ionized water droplets that polarize clouds, and cause static electricity to build up, pretty much being a floating giant tesla coil

  • @aherprasad
    @aherprasad 6 років тому +2

    60fps?
    We want 240fps!
    Tesla coil-
    Hold my beer - 440hz

  • @alw6824
    @alw6824 8 років тому

    So did we physics on 6th street? Great videos.

  • @gabor6259
    @gabor6259 7 років тому

    At 2:49 - 2:54 you can see that the lightning consists of little parallel flashes. Why is that?

  • @fapasaurusrex
    @fapasaurusrex 8 років тому

    Should've played "constructing science" from portal 2 with this

  • @steel_dejones8648
    @steel_dejones8648 8 років тому

    Midi can work with tesla coils I usually see midi in digatial keyboard or something

  • @MsMollyMadness
    @MsMollyMadness 8 років тому

    How does a food dehydrator work?

  • @ulysses7157
    @ulysses7157 8 років тому

    i defiantly want to study electrical engineering after watching this.

  • @drgzy3839
    @drgzy3839 8 років тому +8

    it looks like it was pretty hot in there, sweating like mad lol

    • @besmart
      @besmart  8 років тому +4

      It was brutally hot. And THEN I had to put on a 20 pound metal suit…

    • @you_just
      @you_just 8 років тому +7

      +It's Okay To Be Smart so I guess you could say it was
      heavy metal
      :D
      :D

  • @NatCo-Supremacist
    @NatCo-Supremacist 8 років тому

    I need to hear the Doom ost in this format

  • @therocks5th
    @therocks5th 8 років тому

    You two looks like brother and sister please make more vids together :)

  • @Lazarosaliths
    @Lazarosaliths 8 років тому

    thats what i call , 'electronic music '

  • @MrPainseeker
    @MrPainseeker 8 років тому

    How were the mics setup to record the audio generated by the coils?

    • @KwakWack
      @KwakWack 8 років тому +1

      There is no special setup, tesla coils sound like that because of the frequencies they use as explained in the video

    • @MrPainseeker
      @MrPainseeker 8 років тому

      +FirstGreenDinosaur okay let me rephrase: how and where were the mics positioned to record the audio while shooting video? was it a normal boom mic or did they use something special like a Neumann condenser or audio technical etc. to record audio generated by the coils.

    • @MrPainseeker
      @MrPainseeker 8 років тому

      Audio Technica* goddamn autocorrect

    • @xWood4000
      @xWood4000 7 років тому

      MrPainseeker The Tesla coils are very loud so it has to be a pretty good microphone in order to not create bad sound.

  • @deldarel
    @deldarel 8 років тому +2

    That song with Joe in between the coils sounds familiar. What is it?

    • @StrengthBeyondgym
      @StrengthBeyondgym 8 років тому +2

      It's an ArcAttack orginal called beasts.

    • @deldarel
      @deldarel 8 років тому

      Giovanni DiPrima thanks, but now I wanna know what it's based on. It sounds like a organ song by beethoven

  • @maddyk9652
    @maddyk9652 8 років тому

    You're basically Mare Barrow 😂😂

  • @ayushmanthapa_onion
    @ayushmanthapa_onion 8 років тому +34

    I'm fast Bois. let me think of a joke.
    what? I just said I'd think of a joke
    not share it

  • @Flameo326
    @Flameo326 8 років тому

    They should make "Still Alive" from portal

  • @Hir0alt
    @Hir0alt 8 років тому

    These reactions

  • @AddiShae
    @AddiShae 7 років тому

    0:43 I was there today

  • @dm_nimbus
    @dm_nimbus 8 років тому

    TEXAS!

  • @FuadShaqiri
    @FuadShaqiri 8 років тому

    Hey you need to do a collaboration with Deep Look, that channel makes such epic content but it has a very low number of subscribers, not many people know about that channel but it has great content, I know that you both are from PBS, at least give that channel some help, thanks ;)

  • @dacrazyfox6768
    @dacrazyfox6768 8 років тому

    3:54 Nice xbox 360 controler :)

  • @HowToSurviveShow
    @HowToSurviveShow 7 років тому

    Edison vs Tesla? What would the world be like it Tesla's inventions had led the way rather than General Electric?

  • @Seegalgalguntijak
    @Seegalgalguntijak 8 років тому

    Also, that was no explanation of how the Tesla coil actually produces the music. I mean, MIDI file, SD-Card, optical data link - so what, that isn't the point! I'd like to know more about the actual physics behind that! How is the frequency of the music modulated onto the frequency of the tesla coil?

  • @Lucas72928
    @Lucas72928 8 років тому

    How do they play the drums?

    • @gizatsby
      @gizatsby 8 років тому

      if you key mash itll make white noise which sounds like 8 bit drums

  • @Baron_Alexander_Renfield
    @Baron_Alexander_Renfield 8 років тому

    Search David Blane and Andrew WK doing this it's awesome

  • @NukTap
    @NukTap 8 років тому

    I dare you to play a black midi on that thing

  • @ricardoalves9605
    @ricardoalves9605 8 років тому +4

    HE'S A WIZARD!
    Wonder how many of you got that reference...

    • @zeromailss
      @zeromailss 8 років тому +1

      pretty old movie

    • @ricardoalves9605
      @ricardoalves9605 8 років тому

      +Yukino Takada 雪乃 鷹だ i know thats why i want to know how many people will get it

  • @mings6491
    @mings6491 Рік тому

    Hold on... HOLD ON... with enough individual tesla coils you could make them talk... (A talking piano type thing)

  • @dacrazyfox6768
    @dacrazyfox6768 8 років тому

    HMM! Arcattack sounds like Architect?

  • @lidge1994
    @lidge1994 8 років тому

    I request the Gravity Falls theme be played on Tesla Coils!

  • @JosueC730
    @JosueC730 8 років тому

    5:10 well, you wanted to shoot ligthings from your fingers... well at least you got one from your thumb.

  • @linushyper300
    @linushyper300 7 років тому

    This has been done to death on UA-cam

  • @TrailsFromTheInterworlds
    @TrailsFromTheInterworlds 8 років тому

    You can see the robots eyes blink from the AC current in the 1/20th speed video

  • @danabowles859
    @danabowles859 8 років тому

    5

  • @ratatouille1682
    @ratatouille1682 8 років тому

    Sounds like castlevania theme music.