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

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    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
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  • @supreetsahu1964
    @supreetsahu1964 8 лет назад +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 лет назад +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 года назад

      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 лет назад +32

    now this is the real deal in electro music.

  • @MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot
    @MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot 8 лет назад +10

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

  • @brandonhall6084
    @brandonhall6084 8 лет назад +14

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

  • @EugeneKhutoryansky
    @EugeneKhutoryansky 8 лет назад +56

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

    • @InorganicVegan
      @InorganicVegan 8 лет назад +23

      Or energy-efficient

    • @asj3419
      @asj3419 8 лет назад +4

      Or limited on its production of toxic gases.

    • @nikodrossos2270
      @nikodrossos2270 8 лет назад

      not safe

    • @maxzhao
      @maxzhao 7 лет назад

      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 лет назад

      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 лет назад +103

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

    • @joventlk7300
      @joventlk7300 8 лет назад

      u got first

    • @alyssah6701
      @alyssah6701 8 лет назад

      you're so punny

    • @mimiqwack6600
      @mimiqwack6600 8 лет назад

      You got first

    • @NoTimeLeft_
      @NoTimeLeft_ 8 лет назад

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

    • @ShawnHufford
      @ShawnHufford 8 лет назад

      +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)

  • @Boogers32150
    @Boogers32150 8 лет назад +23

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

    • @DekuStickGamer
      @DekuStickGamer 8 лет назад +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. ;)

  • @Xenro66
    @Xenro66 8 лет назад +70

    Just shocking.

    • @ezrakainz
      @ezrakainz 8 лет назад

      lol

    • @warrp3226
      @warrp3226 8 лет назад

      Nice lmao

    • @aggbak1
      @aggbak1 8 лет назад

      F

    • @sometechyguy0163
      @sometechyguy0163 8 лет назад

      I'm subbed to you. Wow

    • @logical-functionsmodel9364
      @logical-functionsmodel9364 8 лет назад +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.

  • @1ucasvb
    @1ucasvb 8 лет назад +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.

  • @m-yday
    @m-yday 8 лет назад +16

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

    • @KwakWack
      @KwakWack 8 лет назад +2

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

    • @ShawnHufford
      @ShawnHufford 8 лет назад +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 лет назад

      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 лет назад

      +Shawn Hufford that would be cool

    • @metalizer8689
      @metalizer8689 8 лет назад

      Imagine making music with instruments instead of a computer program.

  • @RaventheScienceMaven
    @RaventheScienceMaven 4 года назад

    TWO of my FAVE science communicators

  • @aishahm647
    @aishahm647 8 лет назад +5

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

  • @foxythunder481
    @foxythunder481 4 года назад +1

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

  • @mmoreira2000
    @mmoreira2000 8 лет назад +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. :-)

  • @ernanijunior7963
    @ernanijunior7963 7 лет назад

    Fantastic video!!! That's why the RUclips 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.

  • @isaacbriefer193
    @isaacbriefer193 7 лет назад +1

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

  • @amandaegeskovhald8222
    @amandaegeskovhald8222 8 лет назад +1

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

  • @ieatpaper
    @ieatpaper 8 лет назад

    This is good electronic music... literally

  • @sidrath476
    @sidrath476 8 лет назад

    Two things that i love. Physics and Diana!

  • @stjepanistra5238
    @stjepanistra5238 8 лет назад

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

  • @Othmarius
    @Othmarius 8 лет назад

    Wow! So cool!

  • @caseyhamm8822
    @caseyhamm8822 2 года назад

    when the lighting hit his head cage, i physically recoiled

  • @shrauff
    @shrauff 6 лет назад

    Man...Dang Amazing

  • @davelin8988
    @davelin8988 8 лет назад

    so much fun!!!

  • @DianaGee
    @DianaGee 8 лет назад

    True electronic music

  • @Manzzzzzz
    @Manzzzzzz 7 лет назад

    very cool tesla coil

  • @TheNoobShow57
    @TheNoobShow57 8 лет назад +8

    Zeus approves!

  • @calebvonweichardt7785
    @calebvonweichardt7785 6 лет назад

    2:39 is the funniest thing ever

  • @251omega
    @251omega 3 года назад

    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...

  • @kenneth2519
    @kenneth2519 6 лет назад

    Tesla coil goes with everything

  • @wornouttire
    @wornouttire 8 лет назад

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

  • @MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs
    @MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs 8 лет назад

    This robot rocks!

  • @highfrequencyhighvoltage7614
    @highfrequencyhighvoltage7614 7 лет назад

    Cool! Verry good explanations! Thumbs up!

  • @pinkponyofprey1965
    @pinkponyofprey1965 8 лет назад

    0:42 Whip it! Whip it good!

  • @harshadasamant6211
    @harshadasamant6211 7 лет назад +1

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

  • @Lamnom
    @Lamnom 8 лет назад

    one of your coolest videos :)

  • @drgzy3839
    @drgzy3839 8 лет назад +8

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

    • @besmart
      @besmart  8 лет назад +4

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

    • @you_just
      @you_just 8 лет назад +7

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

  • @TheJayDawgZ
    @TheJayDawgZ 8 лет назад +1

    The tesla coil wasn't a failure, he was told it was a failure because it would destroy J.P.Morgan and Chase CO investments into fossil fuels and coal. It in fact works, but no ones built one big enough and spaced them out. Tesla was in the process of building them when he was called a failure. Nikola is the father of electricty. This method is still plausible, as it does infact send electricity through the air.

  • @vma011
    @vma011 8 лет назад

    Electronic music at it's finest

  • @anthonycleveland1514
    @anthonycleveland1514 8 лет назад

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

  • @rassulbolatkanuly3844
    @rassulbolatkanuly3844 8 лет назад

    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)

  • @jamesdeeznutscringe3134
    @jamesdeeznutscringe3134 7 лет назад

    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...

  • @AdamGhatta
    @AdamGhatta 6 лет назад +1

    Epic!!!!

  • @eldritchcookie7210
    @eldritchcookie7210 8 лет назад

    this is the real eletric music

  • @alexrobitaille9335
    @alexrobitaille9335 8 лет назад +1

    1:43 Chia Laboof😂😂😂

  • @safia76
    @safia76 5 лет назад

    Oh my shock!

  • @ArlekinVergeltungswaffe
    @ArlekinVergeltungswaffe 8 лет назад

    Just....amazing

  • @ShadowRavenGaming222
    @ShadowRavenGaming222 8 лет назад

    that's awesome

  • @fapasaurusrex
    @fapasaurusrex 8 лет назад

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

  • @keshav3601
    @keshav3601 7 лет назад +1

    This reminds me of the movie the Apprentice

  • @cadavercabaret
    @cadavercabaret 6 лет назад

    4:50 he’s got the power

  • @jaydayley7843
    @jaydayley7843 8 лет назад +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:

  • @mike0rr
    @mike0rr 8 лет назад

    I love both of you

  • @Yadmagic
    @Yadmagic 8 лет назад +3

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

  • @five_working_brain_cells895
    @five_working_brain_cells895 8 лет назад

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

  • @Brian-tn4cd
    @Brian-tn4cd 8 лет назад +1

    XD he should've said, my body is ready

  • @aherprasad
    @aherprasad 6 лет назад +2

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

  • @ayushmanthapa_onion
    @ayushmanthapa_onion 8 лет назад +34

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

  • @santiagopichiringo8476
    @santiagopichiringo8476 7 лет назад

    when you are a sim 1:12

  • @NINAAAHxD
    @NINAAAHxD 8 лет назад

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

  • @Lazarosaliths
    @Lazarosaliths 8 лет назад

    thats what i call , 'electronic music '

  • @DuluthTW
    @DuluthTW 8 лет назад

    Fun!

  • @hadianasrin9156
    @hadianasrin9156 7 лет назад

    I laughed badly when they showed that swing thingy 😂😂

  • @ricardoalves9605
    @ricardoalves9605 8 лет назад +4

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

    • @zeromailss
      @zeromailss 8 лет назад +1

      pretty old movie

    • @ricardoalves9605
      @ricardoalves9605 8 лет назад

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

  • @Flameo326
    @Flameo326 8 лет назад

    They should make "Still Alive" from portal

  • @mings6491
    @mings6491 2 года назад

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

  • @JosueC730
    @JosueC730 8 лет назад

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

  • @elicutler18
    @elicutler18 8 лет назад

    THEY ARE MY NEW OTP!!!

  • @alw6824
    @alw6824 8 лет назад

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

  • @FuadShaqiri
    @FuadShaqiri 8 лет назад

    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 ;)

  • @erzma9908
    @erzma9908 8 лет назад

    Good

  • @ulysses7157
    @ulysses7157 8 лет назад

    i defiantly want to study electrical engineering after watching this.

  • @therocks5th
    @therocks5th 8 лет назад

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

  • @melkiorwiseman5234
    @melkiorwiseman5234 4 года назад

    Just a note for those who may claim that the Tesla Coil wasn't adopted as a power distribution system due to some kind of conspiracy... nope. That wasn't the reason.
    There are two real reasons and the first is because distributing power this way is extremely inefficient. Most of the power which is transmitted never gets captured and used, making the Tesla Coil an extremely expensive and wasteful power distribution system.
    The second reason is because the Tesla Coil causes massive amounts of electromagnetic interference which disrupts radio and television signals, meaning that nothing which depends on these signals, including mobile phones, WiFi and Bluetooth, will work anywhere near a Tesla Coil.
    So, sorry (not sorry at all) to disappoint you, but there are very good and practical reasons why Tesla's invention was never used to distribute electrical energy.
    It makes a great loudspeaker, though... if you can put it where it won't disrupt anything important.

  • @maddyk9652
    @maddyk9652 8 лет назад

    You're basically Mare Barrow 😂😂

  • @Seegalgalguntijak
    @Seegalgalguntijak 8 лет назад

    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?

  • @dm_nimbus
    @dm_nimbus 8 лет назад

    TEXAS!

  • @williamcamacho758
    @williamcamacho758 8 лет назад

    Coooooooool

  • @TrailsFromTheInterworlds
    @TrailsFromTheInterworlds 8 лет назад

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

  • @dacrazyfox6768
    @dacrazyfox6768 8 лет назад

    3:54 Nice xbox 360 controler :)

  • @QockNobblr
    @QockNobblr 6 лет назад

    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

  • @ratatouille1682
    @ratatouille1682 8 лет назад

    Sounds like castlevania theme music.

  • @Baron_Alexander_Renfield
    @Baron_Alexander_Renfield 8 лет назад

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

  • @HyperSpeed84
    @HyperSpeed84 7 лет назад

    U can't tune a coil like u can tune-a-fish hahahaha

  • @steel_dejones8648
    @steel_dejones8648 8 лет назад

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

  • @NatCo-Supremacist
    @NatCo-Supremacist 8 лет назад

    I need to hear the Doom ost in this format

  • @yoyofargo
    @yoyofargo 6 лет назад +1

    shyla bOOOOF

  • @AddiShae
    @AddiShae 7 лет назад

    0:43 I was there today

  • @NukTap
    @NukTap 8 лет назад

    I dare you to play a black midi on that thing

  • @dacrazyfox6768
    @dacrazyfox6768 8 лет назад

    HMM! Arcattack sounds like Architect?

  • @sirpipthegreat
    @sirpipthegreat 8 лет назад +1

    I love your stuff, but please help stop the Hollywood usage trend of "dat-uh". It's Data like on star trek TNG.
    Latin derivatives are cool too.

  • @linushyper300
    @linushyper300 8 лет назад

    This has been done to death on RUclips

  • @xezzee
    @xezzee 3 года назад

    2:27 animation Sad truth is the chains will loosen and the kid will fall and probably hurt him self ^_^ last time I saw it happen the person walked with little bleeding but other wise ok.

  • @abhinavreddy1931
    @abhinavreddy1931 2 года назад +1

    Why do you look like norman osborn from the movie The amazing spiderman

  • @lidge1994
    @lidge1994 8 лет назад

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

  • @HoneyBoom
    @HoneyBoom 8 лет назад

    nikola tesla would be so proud :')

    • @ryankennedy5781
      @ryankennedy5781 6 лет назад

      No he wouldn't. They were meant to be used for more than entertainment purposes.

  • @drywallgrass
    @drywallgrass 7 лет назад

    3:45 skrillex midi

  • @HowToSurviveShow
    @HowToSurviveShow 7 лет назад

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

  • @BandanaDrummer95
    @BandanaDrummer95 8 лет назад

    Yay Zeusaphones.