Fidget Toys - Should YOU buy one?

Hi Everyone :)
Welcome back!
I get asked often: "Where did you get all this stuff?" My goal is to share the real magic of science and physics- and to this end I will update here (and in my store) suggestions on where to get some of these toys, kinetic art pieces, and scientific curiosities for yourself.
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This video contains :
Swirl Around Top: the magnetic tipped top stays on the perimeter of the steel plate template- but since the top has more mass than the triangular plate, the triangle moves in an interesting way. This kinetic art toy takes advantage of Newton's 3rd law and rotational kinetic energy.
👉🏻 The PhoTOP: phosphorescent glow illuminates the intricate path of a 405nm laser pointer beam on a balanced spinning disk.
👉🏻 Tiny Leaf Blower Toy: this little battery operated blower is great for experimenting with the Coandă effect.
👉🏻 Centripetal Spheres: a favorite DIY physics toy- two metal spheres connected by a rubber band orbit each other as energy oscillates between elastic potential energy and rotation kinetic energy. Just wind up the rubber band and let go.
👉🏻 Reflective Diffraction Kinetic Art: sheet metal disk spins with a pattern of diffraction gratings.
👉🏻 Magnetic Dandelion: through ferromagnetic interaction these iron rich nails temporarily become dipole magnets in the presence of an intense magnetic field from a neodymium super magnet.
👉🏻 Magswitch: switchable permanent magnet- a twist of a knob turns on a magnetic field strong enough to lift this 5.2 kilogram (11 pound) chunk of railroad rail.
👉🏻 Thermochromic Pencils: some amazing pencils I found in the exploratorium gift shop last week that exhibit reversible color change.
👉🏻 Ramp Walker Toy: dragged to the edge but never over. Physics puzzle- why does the toy stop at the edge?
👉🏻 Magnetic Fidget Physics: iron rich ball bearings temporarily become dipole magnets and repel each other- and when manipulated they keep their distance.
👉🏻 Magnetic Seal & Ball: as the seal nears, the ball spins and moves away.
👉🏻 Precision Machined Haptic Fidget: four identical stainless steel components precision manufactured to 15µm tolerances via wire EDM (electrical discharge machined) and embedded with magnets to produce a stepped locking mechanism for a haptic sensory experience.
👉🏻 Maxwell’s Dynamical Top: one of my favorite demonstrations of the strange properties of rotating bodies.
👉🏻 Bonus Clip
Background music by : RUclips Audio Library
1) Cosmic Drift - DivKid
2) Bonfire - An Jone
3) Icelandic Arpeggios - DivKid
4) Sunset n Beachz - Ofshane
5) New Day - Patrick Patrikios

[@physicsfun]

Hello Everyone!
I bet many of you can’t answer these
👉🏻 03:51
👉🏻 07:42
Let see how many get this right!
Where are you all from 🌍?

[@JameisonAus_YouTube]

happy new year from australia!

[@rajulvalsan5020]

The angle between blue and orange arrows was 90 degrees. How did it become 180 degrees.

[@physicsfun]

Happy 2023 🎉

[@puspamadak]

The laser light propagates by the phenomenon of "Total internal reflection"
At 03:51 - When the animal is at the opposite end of the table, the string have enough force in the horizontal direction to pull the animal. But when the animal reach to the edge, the string pulls vertically downwards, hence no horizontal component of force acts on it. That's why the animal stops.

[@puspamadak]

@@rajulvalsan5020 The angle between blue & orange arrows stay 90°. At last, the card itself was flipped. Before flipping the blue was pointing at 45°. On flipping, blue became 135° (behind). Orange is now towards 225°. So, angle between them is 90°.

[@isuckharderthanlife5413]

Total internal reflection.

[@dazller6340]

This guy is just beyond the human race

[@bluecat2991]

3:51 This one is actually pretty fun! Gravity, thanks to the weight dangling off the end of the string, produces tension which pulls the elephant forward. A rocking motion, induced by the hand, releases one pair of legs before swinging back to engage the other set. Because the string is fixed to the elephant and not to a wind-up mechanism it stops at the edge because the tension itself is not enough to lever the elephant up and off the edge due to its direction of pull, namely straight down.

[@stoopidbastid6420]

its because the force is downward nor forward. You probably should not try to answer any more questions.

[@baptistek1917]

Gravity does not exist. Buoyancy and density sort everything out.

[@Quiltfish]

Magswitch and pencils seem impractical for a fidget toy to say the least.
I just got a rubik's cube, that's kept me going for a year and a half now.

[@iproudonindia6618]

T I R (total internal reflaction)

[@physicsfun]

You are intelligent

[@iproudonindia6618]

@@physicsfun Thank you

[@liquidswordz4282]

Took me a few minutes to understand what was going on with the orange and blue arrows there

[@Raajproductions_RJ]

Its due to total internal reflection

[@Jello4444]

I was the 1,000th like… I feel oddly proud of myself.

[@raizelvpn4350]

La ciencia es un modo de vida. :D

[@physicsfun]

La ciencia es el proceso que nos lleva de la confusión a la comprensión de una manera precisa, predictiva y confiable: una transformación, para aquellos que tienen la suerte de experimentarla, que es empoderadora y emocional.

[@nikuu541]

quiz: TIR

[@terrificdavid9635]

La ciencia es una forma de vida

[@physicsfun]

Toda la ciencia no es más que un refinamiento del pensamiento cotidiano.

[@ceronulo6858]

Hmmm trypy

[@OSapoEnsina888]

"A ciencia é uma forma de vida"

[@Yjn75]

Whenever the guy says "wait for it" he does really mean just wait for it to finish. It's not like something surprising is going to happen in the end.

[@sanukanisalitha]

Satisfied
👇

[@ShubhamKumar_neet]

TIR(Total Internal Reflection) another example of this phenomenon i.e. "optical fibre". I ❤ PHYSICS+FUN

[@radagastaddams3703]

i got one of those magnetic cubes that unfolds into 2 or 3 million different geometric shape &.......
it stresses me out because once it's unfolded it takes ages to work out how to get it back into a cube again.
so it just sits there on the table, quietly mocking me with it's geometric smugness

[@krishnak6591]

7:43 I think it's due to internal reflection. I'm right?

[@physicsfun]

You are intelligent

[@krishnak6591]

@@physicsfun thank you 😊

[@Amoghgamer69]

विज्ञान हा जीवनाचा मार्ग आहे (Marathi)

[@chiragsolanki3345]

135

[@Tazerboy_10]

Very interesting!

[@OzSteve9801]

We used to get little walking toys in breakfast cereal boxes back in the 1960's.

[@Wigash]

lucky bastards...I would love to have one of these now 😏

[@Dziaji]

Total internal reflection.

[@ara7878]

135

[@The_contactor]

That is not precision Machined. precision machined Would be where there’s no lines whatsoever it would be perfectly fit

[@comasmusica7548]

"Wait for it..." popped up four times in this video. Wait for what?
I rate the background music as pretty annoying.
That said, I am subscribed to your channel - your videos are always a pleasure to watch. Albeit muted. 😉

[@physicsfun]

Sorry for the music.
Thanks for feedback I will definitely work on it.

[@comasmusica7548]

@@physicsfun Well, music is a matter of taste I guess. Others may like it and you obviously do. You don't have to change it - others will wonder why you did that.
It is not music _I_ particularly like, is all.

[@mickeyfilmer5551]

Quiz hint: Internal refraction.

[@wafiuddinakbar9150]

That's like fiber optic (refraction). Where data sent by fiber and if at the middle was broken, it wont be sent to the end.

[@Manyachos11763]

Science is a way of life
Ok
Науката е начин на живот

[@purplealice]

Reflection. The light waves travel by bouncing back and forth from one side of the fiber to the other - the surface between fiber and air acts like a pretty good mirror.

[@goodiesohhi]

It's more specific than that, it's TIR

[@vivavois8966]

I had a top like that with a star, a snake, a crescent moon, a fish etc, I don't remember the rest.

[@iproudonindia6618]

विज्ञान जीवन का आधार है| (from 🇮🇳 india)

[@seekahsengmoe4371]

Sains adalah cara hidup. (Malaysia🇲🇾)

[@codecrab7822]

Is the thumbnail inspired by Davehax?

[@1.4142]

Would be cool if 5:29 was an impossible object puzzle

[@TheProjectLab1]

Amazing 😍
#TheProjectLab

[@DiowE]

Science is way of life.
Your music is fire, 5/5.
Total Internal Reflection. [DiowE]

[@physicsfun]

You are intelligent

[@omomyx7600]

Those spin tops look like they boutta fight

[@Existentialism8820]

Welp
Time for some gifts for my physics teacher

[@artyquantum7283]

Total internal reflection

[@physicsfun]

Yes! Internal reflection constrains most of the laser light to propagate along the bent acrylic rod.

[@Dj1237]

total internal reflection 7:42

[@sanakiddy2883]

அறிவியல் என்பது ஒரு வாழ்க்கை முறையாகும். Total internal reflection.

[@Dziaji]

I “waited for it” but “it” never csne.

[@Hershewed]

Not gonna lie, I’d use the tiny leaf blower to dust off my desk but also as a fidget any day!

[@kittenkutties3853]

03:51 it's based on thermochromic ink over the pencil.
I'm from Tamilnadu in 🇮🇳

[@edward002gaming]

How to cure boredom with boredom

[@KrisWithAK810]

The Waffle House has found a new host.

[@RohitKumar-zd1jp]

answer of quiz: 315

[@djdywo812]

Science is a way of life
🇩🇪 Wissenschaft ist eine Lebensweise. 🇩🇪

[@Totally_Not_Average]

Наука-це спосіб життя(in Ukraine)

[@zabirdy181]

La ciencia es un estilo de vida XDDDD

[@matthiplaysYT]

THAT WAS MY LANGUAGE

[@puniya2402]

Its total internal reflection

[@hectorfr]

"La ciencia es una manera de vivir"

[@Iskarot1435]

Wissenschaft ist ein Weg des lebens. greatings from germany

[@physicsfun]

Das Schönste, was wir erleben können, ist das Geheimnisvolle. Es ist die Quelle aller wahren Kunst und Wissenschaft.

[@Iskarot1435]

@@physicsfun wobei ich nicht sicher war ob ich mit der weg oder ein weg übersetzten soll

[@timfjeseth5363]

ok vitenskap er en livsstil

[@succeeding_through_knowledge]

Total internal reflection

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Tiede on elämäntapa.

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LIKE who loves Science ❤️❤️

[@physicsfun]

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

[@sandhyarajappan30]

I was waiting for 'it'

[@josiprs]

Fizyka to droga życia

[@matthiplaysYT]

😛😛😛

[@PadreDePato]

“The force”

[@TheCosmicGuy0111]

Sure

[@MaskedMarble]

2:42 👍

[@physicsfun]

Glad you liked it

[@HareKrsnaRama]

07:42 : reflection of light
I am from India

[@javilarg]

La ciencia es un estilo de vida. Science is a way of life.

[@brahmdattsoni3182]

Sir give your name to Guinness World record to have the most physics toys and equipments.
From India 🇮🇳

[@physicsfun]

❤️❤️You are so kind

[@matthiplaysYT]

WETENSCHAP IS EEN WEG VAN LEVEN. IN NETHERLANDS

[@physicsfun]

Wetenschap is een prachtig geschenk aan de mensheid

[@ruhsexperimentsgliesperimentid]

Il giocattolo della foca con la palla mi ricorda un gioco simile, di proprietà della mia maestra delle elementari (parliamo di 49 anni fa) che era una mummia antimagnetica in un sarcofago magnetico. Vedere la mummia che fuggiva dal sarcofago era troppo divertente!

[@ARCWIZARD]

Best channel 🔥

[@dreadnoughtus2598]

Refraction?

[@nataliakulish9672]

Science is a way of life

[@physicsfun]

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

[@KipTehFloof]

fibre optics?

[@XxGHuntherxX727]

La ciencia es un camino de vida 😃

[@eskanderx1027]

Music 5 this time

[@physicsfun]

Glad you enjoyed

[@serderek4411]

My opinion, the first music is the best for your presentation.

[@physicsfun]

Thanks for feedback

[@oonaghwinry5068]

#WE❤SCIENCE

[@physicsfun]

Science is pleasurable ❤️
Everything in this world can be understood through math and physics.

[@CaptainKirk01]

total internal reflection

[@physicsfun]

You are intelligent

[@CaptainKirk01]

@@physicsfun I work in fiber optics

[@DungaDinTubeYou]

5

[@physicsfun]

Glad you enjoyed

[@luciaearena504]

Fantásticos!

[@chandlerbing700]

In Japan u get kinetic bulb which works without electricity

[@Yuhuhnuhuh]

Věda je cesta života

[@iproudonindia6618]

From where you are

[@physicsfun]

Věda je proces, který nás vede od zmatku k porozumění způsobem, který je přesný, prediktivní a spolehlivý - transformace, pro ty, kdo ji mají to štěstí zažít, posilující a emocionální.

[@dr.monideepadas4378]

In our Hindi language:- विज्ञान जीवन का एक तरीका है। 🙂

[@iproudonindia6618]

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