What Is Momentum? (joke video)

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  • @eigenchris
    @eigenchris  3 роки тому +4508

    Some people in the comments are prospective physics majors and I just want to make something clear: this video is a joke/exaggeration.
    Usually you spend months or years building up to the more complicated physics concepts. And a good prof should never make fun of you for getting an answer wrong. Also, while you may feel dumb at various points in university, I can guarantee your classmates will feel the exact same, so it's a journey you'll be on together.
    That said, I think many engineering/physics majors (myself included) can relate to the feeling of spending hours trying to understand something, and still not fully "getting" it. It happens. That's the feeling I'm trying to make fun of here. But it's a normal part of learning and I wouldn't let it discourage you. I've made nearly 80 physics/math videos on this channel and I wouldn't have done that if I didn't enjoy physics!

    • @johnchessant3012
      @johnchessant3012 3 роки тому +14

      +

    • @agustingiai8844
      @agustingiai8844 3 роки тому +62

      Thank you for existing dude

    • @austinlincoln3414
      @austinlincoln3414 3 роки тому +40

      its almost as if you put joke in the title. The nerve of these haters man..

    • @Ava-fx4ip
      @Ava-fx4ip 3 роки тому +10

      I needed this.

    • @ztac_dex
      @ztac_dex 3 роки тому +14

      Jokes on you we went straight to the sauce. (Jk, taking a physics graduate study with an engineering undergraduate degree is a joke) I'm the joke

  • @4001Jester
    @4001Jester 3 роки тому +10039

    The biggest joke is that there are 300 people in one class learning about the inertia tensor

    • @korbinmdavis
      @korbinmdavis 3 роки тому +168

      This is true 😂

    • @davidhildebrandt7812
      @davidhildebrandt7812 3 роки тому +213

      Why? Just a few weeks ago I was in a (digital, but normally it wouldn't be) uni lecture with about 400 ppl learning about the inertia tensor

    • @4001Jester
      @4001Jester 3 роки тому +475

      @@davidhildebrandt7812 I'm just making fun of the fact that a lot of students don't take physics or drop out of the program quickly (at least as freshman). I know it's *possible* that there can be hundreds of students in one class that discusses the inertia tensor. The joke is that (at least I really expect) it to be very uncommon, i.e., upper div physics ain't that popular among the general college student.

    • @leonhardrichter4034
      @leonhardrichter4034 3 роки тому +44

      @@4001Jester Well but this would be somewhere in the first semester when not so many have quit yet

    • @4001Jester
      @4001Jester 3 роки тому +28

      Leonhard Richter I’m referring to people quitting as freshmen. Inertia tensor is first semester during (i would imagine often) third year. i doubt many people drop the major at that point, BUT i have no data ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • @falnica
    @falnica 3 роки тому +10288

    I have a masters in physics and I can say this is 100% accurate, I'm currently in the frictionless void myself

    • @yashkrishnatery9082
      @yashkrishnatery9082 3 роки тому +184

      So did you meet Avengers. Or DC HEROES came to capture you

    • @ammyvl1
      @ammyvl1 3 роки тому +166

      @@yashkrishnatery9082 no that only happens to engineers

    • @benjaminshort4169
      @benjaminshort4169 3 роки тому +85

      @@yashkrishnatery9082 It was actually the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for me... weird.

    • @masteroziniii2486
      @masteroziniii2486 3 роки тому +50

      Ah, you're CURRENTLY in the void? Me I managed to escape. Don't worry, one day I will free my breatherin, and we will one day destroy momentum once and for-
      Ah shoot, the avengers are on me, gotta go!

    • @aghosh5447
      @aghosh5447 2 роки тому +15

      for me it was shaktiman and doremon....weird indeed!

  • @danielvaega
    @danielvaega 5 місяців тому +397

    This had no right being this good. The teacher’s sad eyes broke me. Brilliant story telling

    • @neutronenstern.
      @neutronenstern. 4 місяці тому +3

      well my physics teacher was the most enthusiastic one of all of the teachers

  • @BeefCake1999
    @BeefCake1999 Рік тому +332

    As a recent physics grad and current high school physics teacher, this resonated on levels I can't begin to explain.

    • @deltalima6703
      @deltalima6703 Рік тому

      Those little dummies, they never see the dark side until its too late... Muahahahaaaa

    • @fillfreakin2245
      @fillfreakin2245 4 місяці тому +7

      Sounds like you've lost your momentum in your learning journey.

    • @notsojharedtroll23
      @notsojharedtroll23 3 місяці тому

      ​@@fillfreakin2245bs dum tss

    • @AmazingDealsLoots
      @AmazingDealsLoots 3 місяці тому

      ​@@fillfreakin2245 😂😂

  • @fizyknaut8108
    @fizyknaut8108 3 роки тому +5376

    This is what it feels like when you go from popular science books to textbooks.

    • @joeljose182
      @joeljose182 3 роки тому +52

      Lol

    • @notsojharedtroll23
      @notsojharedtroll23 2 роки тому +31

      So true

    • @-danR
      @-danR 2 роки тому +160

      Or from elementary school to high school.
      "No Bobby, you can't take 4 from 3."
      "Ms Grindlefarb _lied_ to me!"

    • @grmpf
      @grmpf 2 роки тому +72

      It's not any better in the social sciences btw. In fact, it might actually be worse. Normal, everyday words become increasingly unfathomable the more theorists' musings about them you read.

    • @janakakumara3836
      @janakakumara3836 Рік тому +37

      Unless you are in Soviet Russia. There is a series of books there called "Physics for Everyone!". One of the books is titled "Experimental advancements in the measurements of the Universal Constants."

  • @remixex369
    @remixex369 3 роки тому +4149

    The jump from High School physics to undergrad and then grad school is the ultimate "Those bastards lied to me" story

    • @natevanderw
      @natevanderw 3 роки тому +80

      lmao being someone with a degree in physics, I felt that.

    • @maxwellsequation4887
      @maxwellsequation4887 3 роки тому +87

      And also when you first learn about complex numbers after thinking that √-1 was invalid and does not exist. Its like realizing you didn't know about an entire planet.

    • @Thanos-hp1mw
      @Thanos-hp1mw 2 роки тому +53

      @@maxwellsequation4887 who told you imaginary numbers don't exist? They do exist on the complex plane. Their name is what makes people think they're not "real"

    • @sebastiansandoval4861
      @sebastiansandoval4861 Рік тому +77

      ​@@Thanos-hp1mwSome teachers say √-1 is invalid as a shortcut to avoid answering questions​

    • @foulmouthghoul
      @foulmouthghoul Рік тому +9

      I joined my undergraduate programme in physics few weeks late, first class i attended was on tensors. i immediately felt this line. XD

  • @artophile7777
    @artophile7777 11 місяців тому +23

    Reject physics, return to mathematics.

  • @Unchained_Alice
    @Unchained_Alice 5 місяців тому +55

    This is how it feels for any science subject when you go to university/college. Exactly how it was for me with Maths.

  • @kanikapathak2040
    @kanikapathak2040 3 роки тому +2526

    Feynman: I think I can safely say nobody understands Quantum mechanics.
    Eigenchris: I think I can safely say nobody understands Physics.

    • @AntiGroup
      @AntiGroup 3 роки тому +50

      This is even more deeper than feynman's line about QM, here Eigen is demonstrating human's limitation against God's architecture (planned/unplanned).

    • @batuhankoyuncu1336
      @batuhankoyuncu1336 3 роки тому +83

      @@AntiGroup you forgot to say: assuming god exists*

    • @AntiGroup
      @AntiGroup 3 роки тому +73

      @@batuhankoyuncu1336 I think everyone has their own meaning to the word God, I like to use it often to represent Universe and something beyond.

    • @truthseeker7815
      @truthseeker7815 3 роки тому +23

      @@AntiGroup, I am atheist but all I
      can do is like your comment

    • @AntiGroup
      @AntiGroup 3 роки тому +5

      @@truthseeker7815 I appreciate it.

  • @robertmegee9052
    @robertmegee9052 2 роки тому +3771

    I sent a letter to Dr Feynman when I was a student in a QED class. He actually answered me. I was trying to make sense of mechanism of particles attracting each other since my "physical" picture could explain how they could repel each other. What he told me applies here. All our theories are simply model for the actual universe. If the model give you a result that works, it is a good enough model to use. Therefore, if Momentum equals Mass times velocity works, use it. If not try one of the other models. This same principle applies to all our theories. It's why we can use Newton's equations most of the time and get good answers.

    • @AhmedMahmoud-tv9vw
      @AhmedMahmoud-tv9vw 2 роки тому +51

      Agreed

    • @BRORIGIN
      @BRORIGIN Рік тому +153

      What an amazing story! Do you still have your letter? Did he say anything else?

    • @xiupsilon876
      @xiupsilon876 Рік тому +37

      I sense bs

    • @blucat4
      @blucat4 Рік тому +11

      I now officially love you! Thank you!

    • @muttleycrew
      @muttleycrew Рік тому +223

      @@xiupsilon876 Maybe. What I do know is that my stepfather, a physiologist living in Australia, wrote to Feynman and he received a two page letter in reply. Feynman was apparently very gracious like that.

  • @casperes0912
    @casperes0912 Рік тому +80

    I love this academic humour thing. I studied computer science (defending my master's thesis tomorrow) and I felt soooo lost first semester. They were like "No programming background required", so I thought I were ahead already knowing basic programming when I started.... Then they slapped me with linear algebra, set theory, advanced logic, etc. and I realised why programming wasn't a pre-requisite. Programming is a tool for computer science; It isn't computer science itself

    • @starfishsystems
      @starfishsystems 5 місяців тому +20

      Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
      - Edsger Dijkstra

    • @dosomestuff1949
      @dosomestuff1949 2 місяці тому

      BRUH, U REALIZED THIS NOW??????

  • @pieguy6992
    @pieguy6992 Рік тому +23

    This video got super real for a few minutes and then violently pulled me back into the joke

  • @milessitcawich5947
    @milessitcawich5947 Рік тому +2212

    I keep coming back to this video after learning more physics and see the progress I’ve made

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris  Рік тому +942

      Eventually you will reach the "destroy the universe" stage, so be careful there.

    • @joda7697
      @joda7697 Рік тому +120

      @@eigenchris I am 300 pages deep in a book about angular momentum algebra. Like Wigner D functions, Clebsch Gordon coefficients and shit like that. Feel like i'm about to push that button any day now, my head is smoking.

    • @nomadsland7195
      @nomadsland7195 Рік тому +6

      @@joda7697 Sounds like Zettili ... Is it?

    • @blitzedoblivion4280
      @blitzedoblivion4280 Рік тому +3

      I do the exact same lmao

    • @wictimovgovonca320
      @wictimovgovonca320 Рік тому +19

      Stick with it. Eventually, you will get the real answer - 42.

  • @mcalkis5771
    @mcalkis5771 Рік тому +1064

    "Life is pointless and physics will never make sense no matter how hard you try to understand it" is my current mood.

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris  Рік тому +251

      Sorry to hear. I think all physics students have been there. There's one quote I like which says "All physics is either impossible or trivial. Physics is impossible, until you understand it, and then it is trivial." Hope things start making sense soon.

    • @mcalkis5771
      @mcalkis5771 Рік тому +17

      @@eigenchris Thank you. Really. I've just been watching through your tensor series. I'm trying my best to follow since it's less than a month before my exam which I'm taking for the second time. Thank you for your efforts.

    • @iveharzing
      @iveharzing Рік тому +24

      Unless you treat it as a point mass, then it isn't pointless...
      Alright I'll see myself out. :P

    • @pepaxxxsvinka3379
      @pepaxxxsvinka3379 Рік тому +4

      @@mcalkis5771 how is it going?

    • @mcalkis5771
      @mcalkis5771 Рік тому +10

      @@pepaxxxsvinka3379 It's going much better actually. My studies are actually starting to pick up pace and I'm passing my classes.

  • @r2nemesis42
    @r2nemesis42 11 місяців тому +13

    "Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out" -self aware killer robot

  • @hedefbogazici4
    @hedefbogazici4 9 місяців тому +15

    0:22 I start to realize that something not right in this video at this moment.

  • @morganoconnor4486
    @morganoconnor4486 3 роки тому +1798

    Addition to the end:
    Not knowing if you should use the inertia tensor or relativity or linear momentum, you treat your entire mass as a single point particle. This will surely allow you to use linear momentum and you can recapture your childhood pride. You work hard to figure out your position and measure the time change so you can find your velocity. But as soon as you figure out where you are, Heisenberg shows up and slaps you in the face.

  • @sevenaries
    @sevenaries 3 роки тому +113

    No one:
    Physics: *Momentum* can be whatever I want

    • @lpt369
      @lpt369 2 роки тому +8

      Entropy: hold my beer

  • @kotcraftchannelukraine6118
    @kotcraftchannelukraine6118 Рік тому +103

    "Momentum, a function of mass and velocity, is conserved between portals. In layman's terms, speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out."
    - GLaDOS.

    • @nomdeplume9590
      @nomdeplume9590 Рік тому +9

      Very in-character for GLaDOS to lie to you like that lol

    • @bxp_bass
      @bxp_bass 2 місяці тому

      This was a triumph.
      I'm making a note here
      Huge success

  • @Nick12_45
    @Nick12_45 10 місяців тому +18

    0:36 the stache 💀

  • @Aycore2011
    @Aycore2011 3 роки тому +859

    Man, that story got depressing very quickly. The man had a teen, early-mid, mid, and late mid-life crisis and Tony just wanted a Shawarma.

    • @spinyslasher6586
      @spinyslasher6586 3 роки тому +42

      What's sad is the fact that this dude never figured out momentum calculations while Tony could do it in his sleep.

    • @maxwellsequation4887
      @maxwellsequation4887 3 роки тому +9

      @@spinyslasher6586 Tony stark was prolly laughing at him for how much of a dumb idiot he was.

    • @leysont
      @leysont 3 роки тому +7

      I, too, want a Shwarma. Been four years since I've had one.

    • @fizyknaut8108
      @fizyknaut8108 3 роки тому +10

      @@maxwellsequation4887 "When did you figure out how to calculate momentum?"
      "Last night."

    • @mohammedalahmed3133
      @mohammedalahmed3133 3 роки тому +2

      I mean shawarma is so good ...
      You can't blame him
      (I eat shawarma once every 2 weeks lol)

  • @doncruz00
    @doncruz00 3 роки тому +661

    This is a physicist's fever dream.

  • @echo5172
    @echo5172 11 місяців тому +24

    My heart goes out to all the struggling physicists currently imprisoned for life in the frictionless vacuum ❤️

  • @louisrobitaille5810
    @louisrobitaille5810 Рік тому +17

    2:58 Probabilities are just the square root of the 'momentum operator'. That's why there's an "i" there. The momentum operator works strictly on the plane perpendicular to the Real numbers too, hence why it's imaginary 😶.

  • @colelemahieu6234
    @colelemahieu6234 3 роки тому +735

    This reminds me of one of my more embarrassing moments in undergrad. I spent hours scouring the index of my Quantum Mechanics textbook, confused why I couldn't find the word "momentum" anywhere.
    And then I realized I was looking under the p's and not the m's.

  • @mathmusicandlooks
    @mathmusicandlooks 3 роки тому +40

    @4:07 “destroy momentum” made me crack up so hard.

  • @smellthel
    @smellthel 5 місяців тому +4

    4:29 is seriously a vibe.

  • @javedalam7383
    @javedalam7383 9 місяців тому +1

    Awesome story. I really loved it and had a good laugh. Please keep making such videos ❤
    Tons of love.

  • @amos083
    @amos083 3 роки тому +28

    When asked such a question, I reply "Do you want the short answer, the long answer, or the 3-trimestrial course?"

  • @eigenchris
    @eigenchris  3 роки тому +578

    Can someone explain to me what momentum is?

    • @SoulSukkur
      @SoulSukkur 3 роки тому +81

      evil

    • @ShadowZZZ
      @ShadowZZZ 3 роки тому +69

      p= int(F)*dt

    • @piyushm2340
      @piyushm2340 3 роки тому +83

      I once thought about this while being in high school (currently a Physics major) that momentum is a clever combination of mass and velocity that gives you an idea about the impact when two bodies collide.
      Well you were true that momentum is generalised to a very complex level in current theories of Physics but foundationally there is no meaning to momentum if we are studying just a single particle. When two or more particles interact, they do require some kind of a defining quantity that has information about their respective inertia and the motion they have.
      Momentum is trying to give you an information about how much mass changes its position in unit time.
      Still my explanation lacks the clarity it should.... Lets try a bit more and figure it out.

    • @ammyvl1
      @ammyvl1 3 роки тому +58

      mass times velocity!

    • @aliexpress.official
      @aliexpress.official 3 роки тому +42

      Newton referred to it as the "quantity of motion". A measure of how much motion or movement occurs.
      It increases with mass because more matter preformes movement and increases with velocity since the same mass literally moves more 😁
      That's how I think of it intuitively.

  • @aysnov
    @aysnov 9 місяців тому

    This was actually a really good explanation of momentum and changes to it!

  • @natlevasseur8427
    @natlevasseur8427 10 місяців тому

    I laughed so hard at this. Thank you for the comedy break!

  • @alexandersanchez9138
    @alexandersanchez9138 3 роки тому +22

    3:24 I felt that picture.

  • @harshalchaudhari6162
    @harshalchaudhari6162 Рік тому +22

    4:50 best part

  • @shreyasanjh9808
    @shreyasanjh9808 11 місяців тому +2

    I never knew this could be so realistically motivationg

  • @a1x5h04
    @a1x5h04 Рік тому +3

    "Anyway, the Avengers beat you up" 😂😂

  • @RadkeMaiden
    @RadkeMaiden Місяць тому +1

    This video actually makes a good point about how physics is taught. A subject like math is built from the ground up with a rigorous framework, but physicists just write formulas without proper definitions and have an expectation that no one will actually understand anything. Someone famous said "No one really understands quantum mechanics." Can you imagine saying that about any math field? "No one really understands number theory." "No one really understands algebraic geometry." No, that would be ridiculous, since these are fields that are built in a rigorous framework with proper definitions, and the people who study them actually understand them.

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris  Місяць тому

      As far as I know, standard quantum mechanics (not venturing into quantum field theory) does have a rigorous formulation. The confusing stuff comes more from the physics, like entanglement and probabilistic measurements.

  • @mjj2u2
    @mjj2u2 Рік тому +8

    Okay my friend is this was amazing. I'm sure all of your physics courses are really good but I'm telling you you should have a side channel in humor. You had me all the way along just laughing and enjoying the whole thing. This is a work of art

  • @austinlincoln3414
    @austinlincoln3414 3 роки тому +28

    This actually made me sadder than I already am

  • @astroza_science
    @astroza_science 3 роки тому +305

    10/10 best video i've seen in days.

  • @coovulm
    @coovulm 5 місяців тому

    we just started our impulse and momentum unit earlier today. what a scare. thank you for the lesson and the laughs!

  • @jonathanray4598
    @jonathanray4598 5 місяців тому +2

    PhD at NASA=PEOPLE HAVING DELUSIONS, NEVER A STRAIGHT ANSWER!

  • @JuanEsquivel-ex8nv
    @JuanEsquivel-ex8nv 3 роки тому +43

    The first half is my worst nightmare, as someone starting a physics major this fall.

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris  3 роки тому +63

      This video is an exaggeration. Usually you work up to these concepts slowly, over the course of months or years. And a good prof should never make fun of you for getting an answer wrong. But the feeling of not knowing what momentum is anymore after finishing a physics degree is kinda true, at least for me (particularly in quantum). I hope you enjoy your major and have fun, even if it will be confusing sometimes!

    • @Zeus-bn3nc
      @Zeus-bn3nc 3 роки тому +15

      To add: you will most likely feel extremely stupid compared to the rest at some points. But so will most of the rest. So don't stress it ;)

    • @maxwellsequation4887
      @maxwellsequation4887 3 роки тому

      @@eigenchris but aren't they all just theories getting better as time passes?

    • @mikhailmikhailov8781
      @mikhailmikhailov8781 3 роки тому +6

      @@maxwellsequation4887 Yes, but the theories are increasingly more mathematically abstract and get separated away from your normal intuitions about the usual flat 3 dimensional space with objects obeying newtons laws.

    • @pacotaco1246
      @pacotaco1246 3 роки тому +3

      Let the many problemsets guide you as you build the intuition that will carry you through this degree.

  • @momchi98
    @momchi98 3 роки тому +374

    I have never related to a video so much as this one. But seeing how good you are at your videos gives me the motivation to grind through the absurdities of physics, even if I've lost hope of understanding it really well as I thought I did in school.

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris  3 роки тому +96

      I'm glad you like my stuff. Most of the "insights" in my videos didn't come to me from grinding through homework problems. It's mostly lots and lots of googling, searching for the best possible explanations, and spending lots of time thinking about how to make things simple. It's definitely not the way school is set up.

    • @momchi98
      @momchi98 3 роки тому +45

      ​@@eigenchris Yeah, it isn't, which is infuriating tbh. They want students to get good grades and learn and yet teach in the worst possible way I can think of. Especially mathematics, instead of giving a problem and then solving it and then generalising, it's in reverse, first a theorem out of nowhere, then a boring proof and FINALLY the example, which is the most important part. The species that was smart enough to discover ways of mathematically describing general relativity and quantum mechanics is the same species stupid enough to not be able to create a good, adaptable education system.

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris  3 роки тому +58

      @@momchi98 Yeah, exactly. To me, it seems like a definition should be something you introduce after 20-30 minutes of giving examples and motivation... otherwise you have no idea why the definition matters. The math/physics UA-camr Tibees did a video called "A Mathematician's Lament" where she talks about this problem. She quotes an essay that says the problem with math education is that "questions are asked and answered at the same time". I find the definition/theorem/proof style of exposition unreadable a lot of the time.

    • @leon1645
      @leon1645 3 роки тому +10

      @@eigenchris I think physics Professors should read your comments and I hope they will not search the secret universe destroying buttom afterwords.

    • @Littleprinceleon
      @Littleprinceleon Рік тому +1

      ​@@eigenchris so the anger to destroy momentum gave rise to the momentum that became Eigenchris and certainly a motivation for thousands, many of whom will spread your legacy in the future...

  • @totalminecraftop6281
    @totalminecraftop6281 9 місяців тому

    This video is going to blow up one day and I am all up for it

  • @Frankie_1908
    @Frankie_1908 9 місяців тому +3

    Captain America giving me a motivational speech but then getting me arrested anyways was *very* heartbreaking. Not to mention the fact that Tony could have just chosen to explain momentum to me instead of eating shawarma after throwing me into a frictionless vacuum chamber (I feel like he specifically designed that too)

  • @uniquevlogger_angel
    @uniquevlogger_angel 3 роки тому +279

    I'm a MSc Physics student. After all these studies i don't what I studied ??🙄😑

    • @aniketyadav7993
      @aniketyadav7993 3 роки тому +28

      And then you started a youtube channel 😂😂

    • @johubify
      @johubify 3 роки тому +19

      @@aniketyadav7993 a DIY channel

    • @jacekpawelski104
      @jacekpawelski104 3 роки тому +8

      Please do not the cat.

    • @pacotaco1246
      @pacotaco1246 3 роки тому +3

      Does it rhyme with Harmonic Oscillator?

    • @jishnun3159
      @jishnun3159 3 роки тому +2

      Sathyam

  • @jdejuan
    @jdejuan 3 роки тому +98

    I discovered your Tensor for Beginners series googling what a Tensor is, and I end up studying special relativity, hypnotised by your reasoning. I want to point that you only require from your audience basic matrix multiplication.
    I think this is the first time in my life that I have met a living genius.

  • @joseph_soseph9611
    @joseph_soseph9611 2 місяці тому

    I feel your pain. I remember when I had an assignment due the next morning and needed to calculate some line integrals, but I had absolutely no idea how to do that or what that even meant. This feeling of being too stupid built up the whole semester prior until it reached this "grand finale" the moment I failed the very first assignment of the semester. I was honestly just devastated that it had come to this. Maybe I shouldn't have, but I quit right then and there and never visited another lecture. Sounds kind of irrational when I explain it like that, but believe me when I say I never felt so stupid in my entire life.
    I'm in electrical engineering now and I feel a lot better, but videos like this help me get over this horrible experience still lingering in the back of my mind.
    We all experience hardship. We are not too stupid, no one is. And when we feel like we failed, we should get back up, brush the dust off our shoulders and try again, because that's all we can do.

  • @tusharnihar6109
    @tusharnihar6109 2 місяці тому +1

    I'm eternally bouncing in a void with perfectly elastic collision.

  • @mariepierreschrodinger4429
    @mariepierreschrodinger4429 3 роки тому +75

    ...I did not ask to be personally attacked on a Good Friday. *curls up into a ball and cries*

  • @vivalibertasergovivitelibe4111
    @vivalibertasergovivitelibe4111 3 роки тому +17

    Dude I felt that...I really felt that. Studying physics has been the most humbling thing.

  • @noobgamersland8189
    @noobgamersland8189 10 місяців тому +5

    Bro really became a supervillain because he couldn't understand calculus of variations...

  • @aadityasrivastava16
    @aadityasrivastava16 Рік тому +1

    The best line was " she knew " 😂😂

  • @abrahamx910
    @abrahamx910 3 роки тому +6

    You mad man, that is the funniest thing i ever see in the whole damn week. Really nice video. Love your series on relativity btw

  • @mesterfriend402
    @mesterfriend402 3 роки тому +66

    Your explanation and your efforts on your courses are outstanding, all respect to you bro, Thank you

  • @arclight3213
    @arclight3213 4 місяці тому

    I'm so glad this video found me. Struggling through my PhD in mechanical engineering right now, ans the amount of times someone has said "well actually, its more like this..." to me is unbelievable.

  • @N-methyl1phenylpropan-2-amine
    @N-methyl1phenylpropan-2-amine Рік тому +13

    1:31 in our country's highschool you actually do this.
    But none of these inertia tensor crap, you just memorize the moment of inertia formulas for a bunch of shapes like sphere, cylinder, rod etc.

    • @unnikrishnanvr186
      @unnikrishnanvr186 Рік тому +3

      "Inertia tensor crap"
      Dude, its a university class , the stuff is way beyond highschool coverage

    • @N-methyl1phenylpropan-2-amine
      @N-methyl1phenylpropan-2-amine Рік тому +4

      @@unnikrishnanvr186 yeah I know.
      I didn't mean to imply that our highschools were in a higher level, just that we did a simpler version of it, in university you learn the derivation of those formulas and much much more

    • @bait5257
      @bait5257 Рік тому +4

      ​@@unnikrishnanvr186we have it in India too. It's not this much higher level tho

  • @muktadirrahman798
    @muktadirrahman798 3 роки тому +35

    My entire life of studying physics just flashed before my eyes 🤣.

  • @SyedAafeen
    @SyedAafeen 3 роки тому +31

    Dude!! Never stop making these!
    I subbed to your channel because of your tensor series and getting this was a surprise I never knew I wanted so badly!

  • @omegapirat8623
    @omegapirat8623 Рік тому +7

    For me, momentum is the conservation quantity that follows from space translation invariance. The thing with the inertia tensor is not momentum but angular momentum and this is the conversation quantity that follows from rotational transformation invariance. One should grasp the Noether theorem as a fundamental theorem of physics that defines plenty of quantities.

    • @bayleev7494
      @bayleev7494 2 місяці тому

      i largely agree, but there's a subtle problem with this: what if momentum isn't conserved? how should we define it then?

    • @omegapirat8623
      @omegapirat8623 2 місяці тому

      @@bayleev7494
      Well, if you assume that certain symmetries occur in a system you can derive expressions for conserved quantities (according to Noether). No one prevents you from calculating these expressions if the symmetries no longer hold true.
      Let's take a look at an example.
      Let's say we have a simple mechanical one particle system that obeys the laws of Newton.
      The whole system can be described by finding a proper Lagrangian L that depends on the position and velocity of the particle at all times.
      Let's assume the system is time translation invariant. It follows the following conserved quantity according to Noether.
      E=dL/dv*v-L
      where v is the velocity of the particle.
      This quantity we call energy.
      Now you can let act a time-dependent field on the particle. In that case the symmetrie hold no longer true (and energy is no longer conserved) but you can still calculate the expression dL/dv*v-L and say that this is the energy of the system at any given time as long as you know the Lagrangian L of the system.
      Does it make clear?

  • @jonathanlister5644
    @jonathanlister5644 2 місяці тому

    A work of art!

  • @pipertripp
    @pipertripp 3 роки тому +71

    I feel like this a lot. I remember when gravitational waves were first discovered. In excitement I rushed to wikipedia and quickly found the GW page. Eagerly, I read the first paragraph. There were 11 words with links. I didn't know what any of them meant. I just had to laugh so that I wouldn't cry.
    Thanks for doing what you do to make the world a little less inscrutable. I'm looking forward to your Tensor playlists. I've gotta build up the maths first though. Cheers!

  • @solank7620
    @solank7620 2 роки тому +258

    Supposedly a joke video, yet I found this to be one of the most informative and educational physics videos I've ever seen.
    Very condensed way to present a lot of ideas. Excellent work.

  • @IceCenders
    @IceCenders 4 місяці тому

    that is absolutely hilarious, witty, original, surprising!

  • @OmoriSupportsPalestine_143
    @OmoriSupportsPalestine_143 4 місяці тому

    Man I love it, I never laughed like this for weeks.

  • @signorellil
    @signorellil 3 роки тому +25

    This is the most depressing April Fool's Day post EVER. But thanks for posting this. Will convince a lot of people that instead of Physics, you should major in Math!

    • @bobjoe258
      @bobjoe258 3 роки тому +1

      watch his last april fool's video ua-cam.com/video/aewo8otGAAQ/v-deo.html&ab_channel=eigenchris

    • @notsojharedtroll23
      @notsojharedtroll23 Рік тому +1

      Bruh

  • @prettysavage557
    @prettysavage557 3 роки тому +43

    Never watched anything this relatable in my entire life 😭

  • @JaarlijksJeroen
    @JaarlijksJeroen 2 місяці тому

    “which has the square root of negative 1 in it for some reason”
    most accurate words ever spoken

  • @deantebritton
    @deantebritton Рік тому

    What's great is that joke is the momentum continues to give you dub after dub

  • @covfefe18225
    @covfefe18225 2 роки тому +11

    This is accurate. High school only teaches us about magnitudes and gives no context to what velocity and acceleration are. Later you learn about Multivariable Calculus and that velocity is dr/dt, where r is a vector. Acceleration is d^2r/dt^2. That is when it makes sense. The reason why high school never gives context to acceleration and velocity is to hide the hard truth.

    • @carultch
      @carultch Рік тому +1

      I don't think they are intentionally trying to hide the truth. They are just presenting a limited scope of the truth, at a level that is reasonable for a class of high school students to understand. And not having the background of calculus available, really limits the amount you can teach at a high school level, as you are limited to the special case of constant acceleration.
      For the same reason that a elementary school teacher tells you that you can't subtract 3 from 2. I think most teachers of any grade level know about negative numbers, and would tell you about them if you asked about them outside of class. It's just not relevant to the scope of the class they are trying to teach, and you are far beyond the intended lesson that you'll just end up confusing yourself and others, if you insist on introducing negative numbers before you master subtraction in the purely positive case.

    • @2024happiness_
      @2024happiness_ Рік тому +1

      Not at jee advance level

    • @psychohist
      @psychohist 4 місяці тому

      @@carultch Wait what? In my high school, you learned calculus in physics class because you needed it, and the calculus class was still trying to teach limits, and only gave up and taught calculus later on.

    • @carultch
      @carultch 4 місяці тому

      @@psychohist I can't speak for every high school. This is based on my experience. Your experience may be different.
      Calculus is usually a senior-level subject in high school, or a college subject, so if you're trying to teach a physics class much earlier than that, you'll have to abridge it to work with the background the students likely have.
      You certainly aren't learning detailed techniques of integration, like parts and partial fractions, to cover the basics. At most, you might learn a limited scope of calculus for the topic at hand. Such as the power rule, which I think most students can handle with just an algebra background. Easier to learn the power rule, than to memorize the formulas that came from it.

  • @oleksiishekhovtsov1564
    @oleksiishekhovtsov1564 3 роки тому +6

    fantastic!

  • @criza_yogesh
    @criza_yogesh 10 місяців тому +16

    In India we learn this stuff in high school to crack exams like Jee, Neet, Cet, etc. I can feel your pain bro
    This education system is killing my curiosity. I am not the same kid as I used to be when I was a child. I was always curious to know how things worked and I used to learn them with interest. But bow as I am in grade 11th I have a pressure of clearing Jee advanced and get into an IIT or other good college to become a robot 🤖 and work in an boring company.

    • @appleitree
      @appleitree 8 місяців тому +2

      Dude I feel you. I don't know if it would help but there is a UA-cam channel called flipping physics which has a jee playlist. He helps more visually to get the idea but if you ask me, momentum is some kind of impact or smth

    • @silverspin
      @silverspin Місяць тому

      you kids are studying momentum vectors and tensors for jee adv?
      wasn't it difficult questions based on high school concepts only?

  • @jekeha
    @jekeha 6 місяців тому

    That actually explained the Inertia tensor. Nice!

  • @vaskoa
    @vaskoa 3 роки тому +15

    Man, I think I laughed a little bit too hard on this one 😂.
    I saw this somewhere else and I had to immediately come and subscribe. This is just so accurate, I’m in tears .

  • @stevenglowacki8576
    @stevenglowacki8576 Рік тому +43

    I was expecting at some point that momentum was the integral of force. But you quickly jumped beyond my personal understanding.

    • @reckie1000
      @reckie1000 Рік тому +1

      isn't work the integral of force?

    • @irrelevant_noob
      @irrelevant_noob Рік тому +4

      @@reckie1000 no, work is the integral of force TIMES VELOCITY. And Steven's right, since (as long as mass is constant), F = ma = mdv/dt = d(mv)/dt = dp/dt, so p = Integral of F dt.

    • @carultch
      @carultch Рік тому +8

      @@reckie1000 Depends on what the variable of integration is. When the variable of integration is position, that's work. When the variable of integration is time, that is impulse, and impulse becomes a change in momentum.

    • @deltalima6703
      @deltalima6703 Рік тому

      Time and distance are the same at the end of the day, so whats the difference really?

    • @carultch
      @carultch Рік тому +5

      @@deltalima6703 One difference is the units. Time and distance might have the same units in Planck units, but not in the units familiar to us.
      Another difference is that the variable of integration for work, needs to consider all possible directions in space, and so it is really a dot product line integral, rather than a simple integral relative to the variable of integration.
      For integrating relative to time, the direction is implied to be in the axis of the dimension of time, no matter what, and forces are never directed in that direction. You can think of impulse as a hidden cross product, because it is a multiplication of two vectors that are guaranteed to be perpendicular. Though you don't need to think about cross products, because time is ordinarily treated as a scalar.
      Perhaps there is a unification of work and impulse in general relativity that makes use of the generalized 4-velocity and tensor calculus, but I haven't explored it.

  • @wituszynski6534
    @wituszynski6534 Рік тому

    Lovely video!

  • @LandrixM
    @LandrixM 5 місяців тому

    “And you stand proudly, for you are strong”

  • @tn324
    @tn324 2 роки тому +3

    As an engineering student I can relate to this so much

  • @leonackermann3098
    @leonackermann3098 3 роки тому +11

    Eigenchris this was amazing! I hope to survive in my general physics class next week which is unlikely because I´m in a way to early phase of my studys. But with your channel I still have a chance!! Greetings from Germany.

  • @h4babi
    @h4babi Рік тому +1

    I showed this to my high school physics teacher, she began crying.

  • @popdoom4979
    @popdoom4979 11 місяців тому +2

    My journey with biology too, famously the science of exceptions...
    Science is the science of exceptions.

  • @giovannip8600
    @giovannip8600 3 роки тому +6

    Based on many true stories!!! Lol, that was so funny, and still being in high school I learned about momentum only this year (12), and I cannot believe after 12 years in school I'm nowhere career-wise and knowledge-wise on any topic... The worst is the time pressure for sure...

    • @irrelevant_noob
      @irrelevant_noob Рік тому

      Well you've now got the foundations, and should be able to add any skyscrapers of focused knowledge you could need for the future career(s) you'll decide to embark on.

    • @deltalima6703
      @deltalima6703 Рік тому

      Lol, pull the other one...

  • @syedabid9767
    @syedabid9767 10 місяців тому +6

    wait this is a great result wtf! 0:54

  • @mikeanderson9278
    @mikeanderson9278 Рік тому +1

    Now I understand what's wrong. I'm in a frictionless vacuum.

  • @yuh2220
    @yuh2220 6 місяців тому

    I have no idea what he just said, great work

  • @Zeus-bn3nc
    @Zeus-bn3nc 3 роки тому +12

    It gets even worse when mixing languages... My first language uses impuls for momentum, but still says moment(um) to torque. And then angular momentum is 'impulsmoment'. -_-

    • @mikhailmikhailov8781
      @mikhailmikhailov8781 3 роки тому

      Its common terminology everywhere outside the anglosphere. Angular momentum = moment of impulse. etc etc

    • @alfredomulleretxeberria4239
      @alfredomulleretxeberria4239 Рік тому

      @@mikhailmikhailov8781 In Spanish it's just a literal translation of the English terms.
      Angular momentum - momento angular
      Linear momentum - momento lineal
      But
      Moment of inertia - momento de inercia
      Moment of force - momento de fuerza
      Spanish language Wikipedia uses the terms "cantidad de movimiento" (quantity of movement) and "ímpetu" (impetus) as synonyms for momentum, even though I've never seen those terms in Physics textbooks.

  • @jksandilya
    @jksandilya 3 роки тому +10

    2:06
    What y'all be doing then?

  • @papalovegood7323
    @papalovegood7323 Рік тому

    The ending is glorious

  • @thatnarrator
    @thatnarrator 9 місяців тому

    that "she knew" part had me absolutely dying 💀💀

  • @msquareddd
    @msquareddd 3 роки тому +8

    I got my bachelor’s degree in Physics with flying colors. I still rely on the solution manual whenever my juniors ask help for their problem sets. Plus, I’m in a constant love-hate relationship with Physics. 🤣

  • @__8474
    @__8474 Рік тому +6

    The best part about it is that no one explained that they are the same thing!!
    P=mv applies in relativity under Lorentz transforms
    Iw=L is kinda like adding up all instantaneous momentum’s…so adding up lots of little p=mv’s
    And quantum physics…well…that’s another story haha
    But in Lagrangian mechanics the Lagrangian is defined in terms of potentials, of which the time derivative can be thought of as like a change in force ie change in momentum
    Boom…it all makes sense. All you need is p=mv
    Might’ve explained Lagrangian wrong but oh well I’m just as confused as the next guy idk how I made it this far

  • @Gardor
    @Gardor 5 місяців тому

    this video alone deserves a sub

  • @RoyalClasher-mq1ok
    @RoyalClasher-mq1ok Рік тому

    That "breif history of time" part was way too accurate😂

  • @kgeagles95
    @kgeagles95 3 роки тому +16

    This video made me laugh several times haha. While somewhat dark, this video reminds me of when I got my B.S.E. in Engineering Physics and now getting my PhD in Biomedical Engineering (though my work focuses on continuum mechanics of soft tissues and I continue to learn advanced E&M, QM, and GR on my own). There's always a more generalized definition lol. Really well done

  • @sumeshrajurkar5922
    @sumeshrajurkar5922 3 роки тому +4

    This precisely picks up unpreciseness of some terms we use. Excellent course, hope the momentum of this video series takes me through the wonderland of physics.

  • @hgjfkd12345
    @hgjfkd12345 Рік тому +1

    This isn't even a joke video; this is an autobiography

  • @andresdubon2608
    @andresdubon2608 Рік тому

    Omg, this is cathartic.
    Thank you, I'm currently on that crisis precisely...

  • @GimbertLane
    @GimbertLane 3 роки тому +4

    So funny. Thanks!