What Is Momentum? (joke video)

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  • @eigenchris
    @eigenchris  Před 3 lety +4495

    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 Před 3 lety +14

      +

    • @agustingiai8844
      @agustingiai8844 Před 3 lety +62

      Thank you for existing dude

    • @austinlincoln3414
      @austinlincoln3414 Před 3 lety +40

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

    • @Ava-fx4ip
      @Ava-fx4ip Před 3 lety +10

      I needed this.

    • @ztac_dex
      @ztac_dex Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +10012

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

    • @korbinmdavis
      @korbinmdavis Před 3 lety +168

      This is true 😂

    • @davidhildebrandt7812
      @davidhildebrandt7812 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +44

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

    • @4001Jester
      @4001Jester Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +10270

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

    • @yashkrishnatery9082
      @yashkrishnatery9082 Před 3 lety +184

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

    • @ammyvl1
      @ammyvl1 Před 3 lety +166

      @@yashkrishnatery9082 no that only happens to engineers

    • @benjaminshort4169
      @benjaminshort4169 Před 3 lety +85

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

    • @masteroziniii2486
      @masteroziniii2486 Před 3 lety +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 Před 2 lety +15

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

  • @danielvaega
    @danielvaega Před 4 měsíci +378

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

    • @neutronenstern.
      @neutronenstern. Před 3 měsíci +3

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

  • @BeefCake1999
    @BeefCake1999 Před rokem +325

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

    • @deltalima6703
      @deltalima6703 Před rokem

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

    • @fillfreakin2245
      @fillfreakin2245 Před 3 měsíci +6

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

    • @notsojharedtroll23
      @notsojharedtroll23 Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@fillfreakin2245bs dum tss

    • @AmazingDealsLoots
      @AmazingDealsLoots Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@fillfreakin2245 😂😂

  • @fizyknaut8108
    @fizyknaut8108 Před 3 lety +5365

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

    • @joeljose182
      @joeljose182 Před 3 lety +52

      Lol

    • @notsojharedtroll23
      @notsojharedtroll23 Před 2 lety +31

      So true

    • @-danR
      @-danR Před 2 lety +158

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

    • @grmpf
      @grmpf Před 2 lety +71

      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 Před rokem +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 Před 3 lety +4146

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

    • @natevanderw
      @natevanderw Před 3 lety +80

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

    • @maxwellsequation4887
      @maxwellsequation4887 Před 3 lety +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 Před 2 lety +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 Před rokem +77

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

    • @foulmouthghoul
      @foulmouthghoul Před rokem +9

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

  • @casperes0912
    @casperes0912 Před 11 měsíci +79

    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 Před 4 měsíci +19

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

    • @dosomestuff1949
      @dosomestuff1949 Před měsícem

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

  • @Unchained_Alice
    @Unchained_Alice Před 4 měsíci +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 Před 3 lety +2517

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

    • @AntiGroup
      @AntiGroup Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +82

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

    • @AntiGroup
      @AntiGroup Před 3 lety +72

      @@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 Před 3 lety +23

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

    • @AntiGroup
      @AntiGroup Před 3 lety +6

      @@truthseeker7815 I appreciate it.

  • @milessitcawich5947
    @milessitcawich5947 Před rokem +2204

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

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris  Před rokem +936

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

    • @joda7697
      @joda7697 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +6

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

    • @blitzedoblivion4280
      @blitzedoblivion4280 Před rokem +3

      I do the exact same lmao

    • @wictimovgovonca320
      @wictimovgovonca320 Před rokem +19

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

  • @pieguy6992
    @pieguy6992 Před rokem +23

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

  • @r2nemesis42
    @r2nemesis42 Před 10 měsíci +13

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

  • @robertmegee9052
    @robertmegee9052 Před 2 lety +3765

    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 Před 2 lety +51

      Agreed

    • @BRORIGIN
      @BRORIGIN Před rokem +153

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

    • @xiupsilon876
      @xiupsilon876 Před rokem +37

      I sense bs

    • @blucat4
      @blucat4 Před rokem +11

      I now officially love you! Thank you!

    • @muttleycrew
      @muttleycrew Před rokem +224

      @@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.

  • @mcalkis5771
    @mcalkis5771 Před rokem +1061

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

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris  Před rokem +250

      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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +24

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

    • @pepaxxxsvinka3379
      @pepaxxxsvinka3379 Před rokem +4

      @@mcalkis5771 how is it going?

    • @mcalkis5771
      @mcalkis5771 Před rokem +10

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

  • @kotcraftchannelukraine6118
    @kotcraftchannelukraine6118 Před rokem +101

    "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 Před 11 měsíci +9

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

    • @bxp_bass
      @bxp_bass Před měsícem

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

  • @artophile7777
    @artophile7777 Před 10 měsíci +21

    Reject physics, return to mathematics.

  • @morganoconnor4486
    @morganoconnor4486 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +112

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

    • @atl123
      @atl123 Před 2 lety +8

      Entropy: hold my beer

  • @hedefbogazici4
    @hedefbogazici4 Před 8 měsíci +14

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

  • @louisrobitaille5810
    @louisrobitaille5810 Před rokem +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 😶.

  • @Aycore2011
    @Aycore2011 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +9

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

    • @leysont
      @leysont Před 3 lety +7

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

    • @fizyknaut8108
      @fizyknaut8108 Před 3 lety +10

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

    • @mohammedalahmed3133
      @mohammedalahmed3133 Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @doncruz00
    @doncruz00 Před 3 lety +660

    This is a physicist's fever dream.

  • @Nick12_45
    @Nick12_45 Před 10 měsíci +16

    0:36 the stache 💀

  • @echo5172
    @echo5172 Před 10 měsíci +24

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

  • @colelemahieu6234
    @colelemahieu6234 Před 3 lety +736

    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 Před 3 lety +39

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

  • @Frankie_1908
    @Frankie_1908 Před 8 měsíci +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)

  • @a1x5h04
    @a1x5h04 Před 11 měsíci +3

    "Anyway, the Avengers beat you up" 😂😂

  • @amos083
    @amos083 Před 3 lety +28

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

  • @astroza_science
    @astroza_science Před 3 lety +305

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

  • @smellthel
    @smellthel Před 4 měsíci +3

    4:29 is seriously a vibe.

  • @tusharnihar6109
    @tusharnihar6109 Před měsícem +1

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

  • @alexandersanchez9138
    @alexandersanchez9138 Před 3 lety +20

    3:24 I felt that picture.

  • @JuanEsquivel-ex8nv
    @JuanEsquivel-ex8nv Před 3 lety +43

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

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris  Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety

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

    • @mikhailmikhailov8781
      @mikhailmikhailov8781 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +3

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

  • @omegapirat8623
    @omegapirat8623 Před rokem +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 Před měsícem

      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 Před měsícem

      @@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?

  • @JaarlijksJeroen
    @JaarlijksJeroen Před měsícem

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

  • @physicsbhakt7571
    @physicsbhakt7571 Před 2 lety +18

    4:40 best part

  • @javedalam7383
    @javedalam7383 Před 8 měsíci +1

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

  • @aysnov
    @aysnov Před 8 měsíci

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

  • @mariepierreschrodinger4429
    @mariepierreschrodinger4429 Před 3 lety +75

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

  • @austinlincoln3414
    @austinlincoln3414 Před 3 lety +27

    This actually made me sadder than I already am

  • @shreyasanjh9808
    @shreyasanjh9808 Před 10 měsíci +2

    I never knew this could be so realistically motivationg

  • @coovulm
    @coovulm Před 4 měsíci

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

  • @eigenchris
    @eigenchris  Před 3 lety +578

    Can someone explain to me what momentum is?

    • @SoulSukkur
      @SoulSukkur Před 3 lety +81

      evil

    • @ShadowZZZ
      @ShadowZZZ Před 3 lety +69

      p= int(F)*dt

    • @piyushm2340
      @piyushm2340 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +58

      mass times velocity!

    • @aliexpress.official
      @aliexpress.official Před 3 lety +43

      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.

  • @momchi98
    @momchi98 Před 3 lety +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  Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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  Před 3 lety +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 CZcamsr 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 Před 3 lety +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 Před rokem +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...

  • @criza_yogesh
    @criza_yogesh Před 9 měsíci +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 Před 7 měsíci +2

      Dude I feel you. I don't know if it would help but there is a CZcams 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 Před 26 dny

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

  • @arclight3213
    @arclight3213 Před 3 měsíci

    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.

  • @Thomas-cat
    @Thomas-cat Před 3 lety +195

    I see a biopic of young eigenchris
    played by Joaquin Phoenix , slowly descending into the madness of physics

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris  Před 3 lety +129

      physics doesn't make sense and i'm tired of pretending it does.

    • @mohammedal-haddad2652
      @mohammedal-haddad2652 Před 3 lety +20

      @@eigenchris Is that why you have that sad tone in your videos?!

    • @mikhailmikhailov8781
      @mikhailmikhailov8781 Před 3 lety +4

      @@trigon7015 an average article in the hep-th section of arxiv

    • @JoeyFaller
      @JoeyFaller Před 3 lety +1

      @@eigenchris John von Neumann?

    • @ginalley
      @ginalley Před 3 lety +3

      @@eigenchris The answer is apples chris. It will all make sense once we finally understand gravity. The day will come when we collectively sigh a sigh of relief, not a sigh of resignation so many have done already. Understand apples chris, we will understand gravity, we will understand momentum

  • @uniquevlogger_angel
    @uniquevlogger_angel Před 3 lety +279

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

  • @joseph_soseph9611
    @joseph_soseph9611 Před měsícem

    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.

  • @mikeanderson9278
    @mikeanderson9278 Před 11 měsíci +1

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

  • @jdejuan
    @jdejuan Před 3 lety +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.

  • @vivalibertasergovivitelibe4111

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

  • @syedabid9767
    @syedabid9767 Před 9 měsíci +6

    wait this is a great result wtf! 0:54

  • @N-methyl1phenylpropan-2-amine

    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 Před rokem +3

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

    • @N-methyl1phenylpropan-2-amine
      @N-methyl1phenylpropan-2-amine Před rokem +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 Před rokem +4

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

  • @muktadirrahman798
    @muktadirrahman798 Před 3 lety +35

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

  • @mesterfriend402
    @mesterfriend402 Před 3 lety +66

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

  • @natlevasseur8427
    @natlevasseur8427 Před 9 měsíci

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

  • @__8474
    @__8474 Před rokem +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

  • @abrahamx910
    @abrahamx910 Před 3 lety +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

  • @signorellil
    @signorellil Před 3 lety +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 Před 2 lety +1

      watch his last april fool's video czcams.com/video/aewo8otGAAQ/video.html&ab_channel=eigenchris

    • @notsojharedtroll23
      @notsojharedtroll23 Před rokem +1

      Bruh

  • @mjj2u2
    @mjj2u2 Před rokem +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

  • @totalminecraftop6281
    @totalminecraftop6281 Před 8 měsíci

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

  • @covfefe18225
    @covfefe18225 Před 2 lety +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 Před rokem +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_ Před 11 měsíci +1

      Not at jee advance level

    • @psychohist
      @psychohist Před 3 měsíci

      @@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 Před 3 měsíci

      @@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.

  • @SyedAafeen
    @SyedAafeen Před 3 lety +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!

  • @Axuro13
    @Axuro13 Před 2 měsíci +1

    It is actually "speedy things come in speedy thing comes out" - GladOS

  • @popdoom4979
    @popdoom4979 Před 10 měsíci +2

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

  • @pipertripp
    @pipertripp Před 3 lety +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!

  • @noobgamersland8189
    @noobgamersland8189 Před 9 měsíci +5

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

  • @Kali-bs7oj
    @Kali-bs7oj Před rokem +1

    I looked away at my homework for a second then the avengers were here

  • @stevenglowacki8576
    @stevenglowacki8576 Před rokem +43

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

    • @reckie1000
      @reckie1000 Před rokem +1

      isn't work the integral of force?

    • @irrelevant_noob
      @irrelevant_noob Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem

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

    • @carultch
      @carultch Před rokem +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.

  • @prettysavage557
    @prettysavage557 Před 3 lety +43

    Never watched anything this relatable in my entire life 😭

  • @h4babi
    @h4babi Před rokem +1

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

  • @aadityasrivastava16
    @aadityasrivastava16 Před rokem +1

    The best line was " she knew " 😂😂

  • @solank7620
    @solank7620 Před 2 lety +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.

  • @Zeus-bn3nc
    @Zeus-bn3nc Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety

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

    • @alfredomulleretxeberria4239
      @alfredomulleretxeberria4239 Před rokem

      @@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.

  • @RadkeMaiden
    @RadkeMaiden Před 4 dny

    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  Před 4 dny

      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.

  • @jonathanray4598
    @jonathanray4598 Před 4 měsíci +2

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

  • @msquareddd
    @msquareddd Před 3 lety +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. 🤣

  • @jksandilya
    @jksandilya Před 3 lety +10

    2:06
    What y'all be doing then?

  • @blacklight683
    @blacklight683 Před 5 měsíci +1

    "momentum=something moving"
    "No that doesn't sound scientific enough"
    "Uuuggghhh M=mass×velocity"
    "Yea that sounds good"

  • @senshi5274
    @senshi5274 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Ah yes nothing like high school physics where we experiment on frictionless planes with no air resistance.

  • @roygalaasen
    @roygalaasen Před 2 lety +6

    I thought I had a hunch what momentum was some time back in the late 90’s. I told a momentum obsessed friend about my hunch. He said I was wrong. The hunch never left me. Now I know I was indeed wrong. Thank you. 🤓
    Edit: he was an engineer, by the way, so he was probably wrong too. That gives me some kind of comfort. Now I can finally start living my life.

  • @giovannip8600
    @giovannip8600 Před 3 lety +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 Před rokem

      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 Před rokem

      Lol, pull the other one...

  • @CalamitasBrimstoneWitch
    @CalamitasBrimstoneWitch Před 11 měsíci

    God DAMN you can hear the sadness in his voice in the last part lol-

  • @jekeha
    @jekeha Před 5 měsíci

    That actually explained the Inertia tensor. Nice!

  • @tn324
    @tn324 Před 2 lety +3

    As an engineering student I can relate to this so much

  • @leonackermann3098
    @leonackermann3098 Před 3 lety +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.

  • @LandrixM
    @LandrixM Před 4 měsíci

    “And you stand proudly, for you are strong”

  • @deantebritton
    @deantebritton Před rokem

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

  • @vaskoa
    @vaskoa Před 3 lety +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 .

  • @mastershooter64
    @mastershooter64 Před rokem +3

    This is why we need to teach graduate level physics, chemistry and mathematics to highschool students

  • @sphakamisozondi
    @sphakamisozondi Před rokem +1

    Him: I wanna destroy the universe!!!
    The Avengers: All this over a momentum formula bro?!

  • @Benw8888
    @Benw8888 Před 3 měsíci

    This explains why there are so many mad scientists in superhero stories; it's all because of momentum!

  • @kgeagles95
    @kgeagles95 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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.

  • @BalderOdinson
    @BalderOdinson Před rokem

    I like how when he lost momentum, he just sat on his bed.

  • @yuh2220
    @yuh2220 Před 5 měsíci

    I have no idea what he just said, great work

  • @nou6990
    @nou6990 Před 3 lety +3

    reminds me of the time my music teacher gave me a gold star for saying A=440 only to realize that in fact A is made up and is a construct and everything we do in music is really just made up stuff, frequencies and ratios that we give names to and it is highly likely that nothing we do in this career will ever amount to anything with respect to the technological development of the human race. I am now in a box with a square wave playing a note and trying to figure out what it is because I don’t have perfect pitch.