This Ancient Technology Makes Things Spin Really Fast!

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  • Опубликовано: 20 ноя 2024

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  • @PrincipalAudio
    @PrincipalAudio 11 дней назад +2031

    Your tachometer (for the first run) seems to be pretty accurate! Those things are known to give false readings at higher RPM. I used the fundamental frequency to calculate the RPM, which turned out to be approximately 11,610 RPM on the first run.
    Sound is usually the most accurate means of measurement of high RPM, since you can pick out the fundamental fairly easily - so long as there aren't multiplying forces like in an engine with different amounts of cylinders and different exhaust strokes. Since this only has one hole for exhaust, it makes sense that the fundamental frequency it produces would be able to be used to calculate RPM to a high degree of accuracy.
    03:52 - 1st run peak freq.: ~193.5 Hz x 60s = *~11,610 RPM*
    04:03 - 2nd run peak freq.: ~223 Hz x 60s = *~13,380 RPM*
    04:40 - "Warm water" run peak freq.: ~534 Hz x 60s = *~32,040 RPM*
    EDIT: Edited for small mistake ("Warm water run" instead of "Liquid N run "). Thanks @a-o-s

    • @РоманПлетнев-г3э
      @РоманПлетнев-г3э 11 дней назад +141

      You get the "Smarty pants" award 🏆congratulations!

    • @N0Xa880iUL
      @N0Xa880iUL 11 дней назад +48

      This should be pinned.

    • @petergerdes1094
      @petergerdes1094 11 дней назад +11

      Thanks I was just about to ask about the reliability of that tachometer reading.

    • @Ataco2eat
      @Ataco2eat 11 дней назад +10

      very cool! can you post the math? i want to try to solve it too

    • @PrincipalAudio
      @PrincipalAudio 11 дней назад +38

      @Ataco2eat Because Hertz is cycles per Second, and RPM is cycle per Minute, and there's 60 seconds in each minute, all you need to do is multiply your frequency by 60 to get the RPM. Pretty simple maths. :)

  • @redplater
    @redplater 11 дней назад +1853

    It was around 31,395 RPM. In the one run. I measured the frequency of the sound and multiplied by 60 to get it in RPM.
    (edit: I measured it wrong the frequency was around 523hz.)

    • @lenzVisser
      @lenzVisser 11 дней назад +51

      Thanks for explaining it too!

    • @robertoconconi
      @robertoconconi 11 дней назад +39

      Why multiplied by 60?

    • @Macialao
      @Macialao 11 дней назад +37

      Is it assuming one wavelength is one full rotation?

    • @Cabot696
      @Cabot696 11 дней назад +186

      @@robertoconconi Sound frequencies are measured in hertz (hz), i.e. revolutions per second. RPM is revolutions per minute so seconds to minutes is 60

    • @redplater
      @redplater 11 дней назад +36

      @@robertoconconi Because frequency is measured in seconds and RPM in minutes.

  • @MrV705
    @MrV705 11 дней назад +609

    I believe the ball at 4:40 was rotating around 30000+ RPM for a moment!
    The pitch was about C5 (523Hz) so 523 revolutions per second, times 60 (60 seconds in a minute) gives around 31380 RPM.
    Edit: I'm assuming the sound is created by the pressure waves due to the jet (1) of the ball. And judging by the previous results (around 15000 RPM) it makes sense.

    • @rileywern9619
      @rileywern9619 11 дней назад +15

      This is what I got too. I saw a gues for 60000 but I think that's an octave high; this is about a c5, not a c6.
      Trying to think of pop songs that have c5 and c6 as a major. C5 is Whitney houston in i will always love you (it's a b5 but this tones between the 2. So pretty close). An octave higher would be 60000 but that's way too high

    • @MrV705
      @MrV705 11 дней назад +8

      @@rileywern9619 I literally went to my piano to check with my phone on the other hand xd

    • @onradioactivewaves
      @onradioactivewaves 11 дней назад +2

      Agreed, I measured 522 Hz but didn't look too precisely

    • @onradioactivewaves
      @onradioactivewaves 11 дней назад +1

      ​@@rileywern9619there was 2nd harmonic visible on my spectrogragh

    • @drumbum7999
      @drumbum7999 11 дней назад +3

      @@MrV705 based on your calculations this means the ball would have roughly 13 joules of energy which is feasible

  • @jerotoro2021
    @jerotoro2021 11 дней назад +188

    7:59 "You use more energy making the liquid nitrogen than you get back out of it in the engine"
    Ok but this is true of EVERY energy storage system. A 100% lossless energy storage system would be world-changing, it doesn't exist. The real issue in powering vehicles is energy density, since vehicles actually need to move the weight of their energy source around, that ratio is critically important.

    • @DrDeuteron
      @DrDeuteron 11 дней назад +2

      so "where" is the energy stored? For compressed gasses it's duh: P x delta V, but here it's in the phase-transition but that kinda leaves me [?]

    • @theclockmaker633
      @theclockmaker633 11 дней назад +8

      I belive what he was trying to say is that producing combustable fuels takes less energy than what we can get out of them.

    • @Frommerman
      @Frommerman 11 дней назад +3

      @@DrDeuteron You're basically turning everything except the liquid nitrogen into a battery, then extracting energy from the system by allowing everything else to warm the liquid nitrogen.

    • @onradioactivewaves
      @onradioactivewaves 11 дней назад +5

      ​@@Frommermani would argue that the nitrogen is still the battery, it just happens to store a "negative energy" from the ambient temperature and also where it is then released in the phase change. Either way, it's still just a temperature gradient. Think about how AC electricity has potential in both positive and negative voltage compared to ground.

    • @battlesheep2552
      @battlesheep2552 11 дней назад +10

      ​@@DrDeuteronbasically how thermodynamics works is that any place there is a difference in temperature, you can extract work from it. So if you have something extremely cold like liquid nitrogen, you can take some of the heat energy being transferred into it from the ambient environment and convert it to work.
      It's like how a ball on top of a mountain has potential energy if you consider zero to be sea level, but a ball at sea level has potential energy if you consider zero to be the lowest point in Death Valley. We can always extract energy from something as long as it has a lower energy state for it to "fall" into.

  • @LoudelClaveveria
    @LoudelClaveveria 10 дней назад +85

    clicked for jojo reference,
    stayed for jojo reference,
    liked for jojo comments

  • @howardbartlett3419
    @howardbartlett3419 11 дней назад +37

    The frequency of the sound at the peak speed was around 520-530hz, which puts the speed at roughly 31,500RPM.

  • @Mr.tomaty
    @Mr.tomaty 11 дней назад +541

    Gyro zeppeli would be proud

    • @HankRichard
      @HankRichard 11 дней назад +37

      Looking for this comment

    • @Literally_hatsune_miku_39
      @Literally_hatsune_miku_39 11 дней назад +8

      Underrated comment

    • @sslp2525
      @sslp2525 11 дней назад +24

      ~Nyo Ho~

    • @furerorban1488
      @furerorban1488 11 дней назад

      Just to clarify: if your hairy trumpball has only one hole for the gas to escape then the pitch of the sound is mathematically equal to the RPM of the ball. If the tone measures 1000hz then the ball is spinning at 60,000 RPM. (1000hz x 60seconds) If the RUclips frame rate is faithful to your orbanusmeter

    • @sqdJetz
      @sqdJetz 11 дней назад +14

      Arigato, Gyro

  • @HatchetHatter
    @HatchetHatter 11 дней назад +15

    For those who don't know: nuclear reactors are just giant steam turbines that use atoms to heat the water instead of fire, hence the number for steam-generated power. It's astronomically more fuel efficient than most heat sources.

    • @kingki1953
      @kingki1953 11 дней назад +6

      So nuclear power is just heating water with extra step

    • @Merecir
      @Merecir 2 дня назад +1

      We are moving away from that.
      Next gen reactors do not use water as coolant, so there is no need to also use that as heat transfer medium to the turbine.
      Plain CO2 is a great gas to use for heat transfer, it does not have the risk of exploding like water, and by replacing the steam turbine with a gas turbine we can get up to 40% more efficiency from just that change.

    • @hypedstocksprices5963
      @hypedstocksprices5963 Час назад

      @@Merecir thanks

    • @Merecir
      @Merecir 35 минут назад

      @@hypedstocksprices5963 Look up "LFTR" or "molten salt reactor" for more detail.

  • @wizzlymanstan8525
    @wizzlymanstan8525 11 дней назад +25

    Bro is continuing Gyro's legacy

  • @jimmytaco6738
    @jimmytaco6738 11 дней назад +236

    The ancients sure were good with revolutions

    • @ChocoRainbowCorn
      @ChocoRainbowCorn 11 дней назад +5

      Yeah. And we still keep discovering new and new of their discoveries to this very day! Also, nice word play there, even if it might not have had been intended :)

    • @scuzzjumper
      @scuzzjumper 11 дней назад +5

      It helps if you're dizzy on lead and wine all the time.

    • @chippysteve4524
      @chippysteve4524 11 дней назад +6

      That must be why we keep going around in circles ;-)

    • @PontiacFiero-u4m
      @PontiacFiero-u4m 11 дней назад +2

      Hahaahhahhahah😂

    • @furerorban1488
      @furerorban1488 11 дней назад +3

      Just to clarify: if your ball has only one hole for the gas to escape then the pitch of the sound is mathematically equal to the RPM of the ball. If the tone measures 1000hz then the ball is spinning at 60,000 RPM. (1000hz x 60seconds) If the RUclips frame rate is faithful to your orbanusmeter

  • @Nova96v
    @Nova96v 8 дней назад +11

    That's a Bizarre technique fitting for an Adventure

    • @Rxkx_99
      @Rxkx_99 5 дней назад +3

      im sure that this STEEL BALL technique will be used in the long RUN

  • @Thelift2013
    @Thelift2013 10 дней назад +26

    0:25 bro made a tornado siren

  • @Gabehorn.
    @Gabehorn. 11 дней назад +207

    3:19 GO JOHNNY GO GO GO!!!

    • @lazyartist-calix
      @lazyartist-calix 11 дней назад +3

      lets gooo

    • @wangusbeef86
      @wangusbeef86 11 дней назад +11

      Found the Jojo reference 4 comments down, not disappointed, but we could do better!

    • @martinchristianaguilar5135
      @martinchristianaguilar5135 11 дней назад +4

      CHUMIMIIIIIIINNN!!

    • @oreo_smoothie74
      @oreo_smoothie74 11 дней назад

      Arigato.. gyro..
      Soreshka yuu koto baka mistkaranai..

    • @AndreVanKammen
      @AndreVanKammen 9 дней назад

      Now throw a box of them in a hottob full of people and whach the results

  • @Neuro_nActivation
    @Neuro_nActivation 11 дней назад +42

    I think that's a Jojo reference

  • @RussellDuffer
    @RussellDuffer 11 дней назад +24

    Improvement idea:
    1) open the ball and insert a small disc of ferrous material
    2) reseal the ball and fill with LN.
    3) drop on an induction stove top, heating the ferrous disc without drag.

    • @VoltisArt
      @VoltisArt 9 дней назад +3

      What happens when the ball melts?
      Styrene has a melting point very near the temperature of induction stoves, both up to 500° F/260° C. Given the already extreme difference in LN temperature versus ambient air, I don't see much benefit to this added weight, likely imbalance in attaching the disk and resealing, and danger of having a plastic ball stuck to your stovetop, as well as the fumes the styrene and most adhesives would release when heated.

    • @AMurderOfLobs
      @AMurderOfLobs 6 дней назад +2

      Better idea than all of those: poke 2 or more holes, symmetric about any arbitrary central axis.

  • @naasking
    @naasking 10 дней назад +6

    Yes creating liquid nitrogen does take more energy than you'll get out, but that's not really the point. Batteries also take more energy to charge than you'll get out again, but they have the important property of portability. I was hoping you'd actually describe how efficient the energy conversion is, as compared to other forms of energy storage.

  • @stavros222
    @stavros222 11 дней назад +170

    Now make one made of steel and make it have a green color

    • @sslp2525
      @sslp2525 11 дней назад +16

      Peak

    • @johnnyjoestar2391
      @johnnyjoestar2391 11 дней назад +9

      Yeah

    • @erner_wisal
      @erner_wisal 11 дней назад +11

      Is this a reference to something? If so what is it?

    • @stavros222
      @stavros222 11 дней назад +14

      @erner_wisal jojo's bizzare adventure part 7, steel ball run. There's a second power system where they can use the golden ratio to provide the perfect spin. A side character uses green steel balls to throw them with the power of golden ratio and they do much damage. It is not an anime and we didn't get any official release date. We just hope that the author will make an anime for this manga

    • @erner_wisal
      @erner_wisal 11 дней назад +1

      @stavros222 aha, thanks

  • @assamination1407
    @assamination1407 9 дней назад +9

    We are going on a horse race while being paralyzed with this one 🗣🔥🔥

  • @seasong7655
    @seasong7655 11 дней назад +324

    Crazy how we could have had the industrial revolution 2000 years earlier, but greece decided not to

    • @matthewdancz9152
      @matthewdancz9152 11 дней назад +54

      Nah, the hero's engine has massive problems that prevent it from being used to accomplish any work. It was an important step toward the industrial revolution though.

    • @CmdrGamagosk
      @CmdrGamagosk 11 дней назад +69

      You have to remember that leaps in technology seem obvious once they happen. No one in Greece saw potential in the engine, so they never thought to progress its ideas.

    • @user-qf6yt3id3w
      @user-qf6yt3id3w 11 дней назад +61

      I think slave based societies don't have sufficient pressure to invent new machines to replace human labour. In fact having open borders probably has the same effect. You need labour costs to rise to force people to industrialise and if the elite can control labour costs you get stagnation.

    • @jerotoro2021
      @jerotoro2021 11 дней назад +25

      The industrial revolution was a mistake though, Greece made the right choice imo. 2000 extra years of unpolluted, nicely paced, happy lives

    • @expodemita
      @expodemita 11 дней назад +6

      Because of the slavery, you dont need to automatice work having slaves

  • @Azdine.
    @Azdine. 11 дней назад +298

    The frobidden beyblade

    • @LastGoatKnight
      @LastGoatKnight 11 дней назад +13

      The most ancient in that. Nemesis from Metal Fusion has no chance against it😂

    • @BaronVonQuiply
      @BaronVonQuiply 11 дней назад +6

      Frobidden is a nice term for it
      You've made the inventor of FroYo proud

    •  11 дней назад +4

      frobidden

    • @the_not_real_bigboss
      @the_not_real_bigboss 11 дней назад

      "frobidden" 🗣🗣🔥🔥

    • @benchitalad4368
      @benchitalad4368 11 дней назад +3

      frogbidden

  • @OzarkMountainKing
    @OzarkMountainKing 8 дней назад +6

    I built this engine as my science fair project in 8th grade. I entered it in the engineering category. I was awarded the blue ribbon for engineering. I was also awarded a blue ribbon for physics, though I had not entered the category. I used a copper toilet float given to me by my uncle, who was a plumber. I used two copper 90° tubes, which, with the help of my uncle, I brazed onto the toilet float. Water was filled through the threaded hole where the float rod screwed into the ball. We used a simple screw to close the hole. We used JB Weld for car exhaust repairs to attach it to bearings on either side, which were attached at two points to a frame we built. I used a Sterno for the flame. That was 45-46 years ago, and I've been a rocket hobbiest ever since. My grandson and I are building compressed air rocket right now. This is fun stuff!

    • @ianmanning4062
      @ianmanning4062 2 дня назад +1

      Probably good to have the adult supervision on a project like that😂 one braze gone wrong and you'd have an accidental IED on your hands😬 sounds like a awesome project though! My favorite thing as a kid was sorting through random leftover hardware bits to make projects out of

    • @OzarkMountainKing
      @OzarkMountainKing 2 дня назад

      @ianmanning4062 I used to take things apart all the time. I built my first computer when I was about 13. I bought plans from some catalog and parts from Radio Shack. It was essentially a TRS-80. Man, it was slick. It ran BASIC, and I had a cassette tape backup. My uncle, who was a systems analyst, helped me a lot. I was not a boy genius. I didn't invent anything. I was a curious kid who never stopped being curious. That little motor would go, "Zzzzzziiing!"

  • @StefanoBorini
    @StefanoBorini 11 дней назад +17

    The other factor of the failure of this engine in ancient times is that there was simply not a lot of potential use for it, although a similar technology also invented by him was used to open door temples. A lot of technology is discovered when there's no practical reason yet. Bayes rule only found use after 200 years from its creation.

    • @Plasmacore_V
      @Plasmacore_V 11 дней назад +2

      Also a huge problem against earlier industrialization was slavery.

  • @ryandonegan6374
    @ryandonegan6374 11 дней назад +6

    Can you imagine how different the world would be if they tried to harness the power of the engine instead of treating it like a novelty? 1700 more years of innovation.

  • @FenderSidekick
    @FenderSidekick 11 дней назад +194

    See if the slomo guys would be interested in a collab on this.

    • @terratec1001
      @terratec1001 11 дней назад +7

      Or you could just rotate the ball slowly.

    • @Claire-t8l5s
      @Claire-t8l5s 11 дней назад +8

      ​@@terratec1001 you mean defeat the entire purpose of trying to see how fast he could make the ball rotate?

    • @BigyetiTechnologies
      @BigyetiTechnologies 11 дней назад +2

      ​@@Claire-t8l5ssame principle as lifting lighter weights at the gym, it makes it easier.

    • @Claire-t8l5s
      @Claire-t8l5s 11 дней назад +6

      ​@@BigyetiTechnologies again, the entire point of The Action Lab doing the experiment the way they did was to see how fast it could go. So why deliberately sabotage that by slowing it down?

    • @furerorban1488
      @furerorban1488 11 дней назад

      See if the Shlomo guys would be interested in a collab on this... Just to clarify: if your hairy trumpball has only one hole for the gas to escape then the pitch of the sound is mathematically equal to the RPM of the ball. If the tone measures 1000hz then the ball is spinning at 60,000 RPM. (1000hz x 60seconds) If the RUclips frame rate is faithful to your orbanusmeter

  • @psych0GOD
    @psych0GOD 11 дней назад +168

    can you use it on steel balls?

    • @sslp2525
      @sslp2525 11 дней назад +50

      Bro isn't gyro zeppeli🙏😭

    • @eekee6034
      @eekee6034 11 дней назад +5

      There's no hollow inside ball bearings, so no. :( However, I once found a ball bearing can be caught in the air jet from a narrow nozzle connected to a compressor, and would spin up to crazy speeds! Point the air jet up.

    • @Revoltition
      @Revoltition 11 дней назад +3

      sadly you have to be crippled at minimum

    • @cbfull
      @cbfull 10 дней назад +3

      @@eekee6034why you automatically assume he meant a solid steel ball???

    • @eekee6034
      @eekee6034 10 дней назад

      @@cbfull you mean there are other kinds???!?

  • @DerangedPacman
    @DerangedPacman 11 дней назад +85

    lore of steel ball run:

  • @siphodeus02
    @siphodeus02 11 дней назад +105

    Can you 3d print a ball with propeller blades? It would be neat to get it spinning and fly into the air.

    • @octocreeper8182
      @octocreeper8182 11 дней назад +36

      Paint it gold and you have can play quidditch

    • @miguelalonsoperez5609
      @miguelalonsoperez5609 11 дней назад +5

      Probably the wings would break way before reaching max rotation or they will break the ball depending on the structure

    • @solanumtinkr8280
      @solanumtinkr8280 11 дней назад +1

      @@miguelalonsoperez5609 There are some horizontal propellers that spin along that axis like an old fashioned lawn mower. I can't remember the name for the effect used to make it fly. But the point is there should be ways to utilize the effect, and maybe a very simple battery, switch and heating element (maybe afine mesh in the inside of the chamber.... and the N2 should go nuts :P There may also be something better to use than a ping pong ball, thought light and strong would bre required...

    • @lucasthompson1650
      @lucasthompson1650 11 дней назад +3

      Wings would break, but you’d only need some properly shaped “nubs” at 60k RPM to generate enough lift to launch a ping pong ball plus a few mL of LN2.

    • @chaos.corner
      @chaos.corner 11 дней назад +1

      @@miguelalonsoperez5609 That's the spirit that pushes the frontiers of knowledge. "It might not work so why try?"

  • @ViiKing_
    @ViiKing_ 11 дней назад +20

    This channel has gotten so much better over the years and I love it

  • @KadenFinity
    @KadenFinity 11 дней назад +36

    Infinite spin

  • @sqdJetz
    @sqdJetz 11 дней назад +46

    so thats how tusk act 4 works...

  • @d4vidh4xor
    @d4vidh4xor 11 дней назад +10

    3:29 "that's so cool" all of science summarized in 3 words

  • @Soulsphere001
    @Soulsphere001 11 дней назад +24

    1:15 - You just proved rocketry.

    • @Uninterest
      @Uninterest 11 дней назад +2

      well he did just mention it 1:29

  • @ral2cool
    @ral2cool 11 дней назад +58

    it’s called spin and it was created by the zeppelis

  • @RyanRoss-d6z
    @RyanRoss-d6z 11 дней назад +2

    To do the audio trick:
    Import to audacity, then amplify to 0dB. Then go plot spectrum, use super auto-correction. The peak frequency is the base harmonic of the sound. Multiply that number by 60 and you have the exact RPMs. (I used this trick in uni to figure out the speed of turbines without having to use a tach into narrow spaces)

  • @ianmathieson65
    @ianmathieson65 11 дней назад +3

    To improve the positional stability of the ball when spinning, make a second hole diametrically opposite the first and at the same angle to the surface. You’ll then have two balanced jets instead on a single jet offset from the centre.

  • @pankajbsn
    @pankajbsn 11 дней назад +98

    Why not use an air vent to keep ball in one place and floating. You know like those toys where a ball stays in one place over an air vent. The air can be hot and also lower the friction for the ball to rotate even faster. Would love to see that

    • @weevilinabox
      @weevilinabox 11 дней назад +9

      Or a hairdryer, or hot air gun.

    • @Kwaiiii
      @Kwaiiii 11 дней назад +5

      Too hard to engineer, the ball isnt perfect, it will be fly away because of turbulence of itself

    • @AKG58Z
      @AKG58Z 11 дней назад +1

      The hot air will melt that ball

    • @weevilinabox
      @weevilinabox 11 дней назад +13

      @AKG58Z If any setting on your hairdryer melts a ping pong ball, you probably need a new hairdryer. And most hot air guns can be fun at even lower temperatures than hairdryers.

    • @henryml9999
      @henryml9999 11 дней назад +10

      The high rotational rpm’s would surely cause the ball to leave the air stream. It would be almost impossible to not have the two rotating vectors interfere.

  • @kilaueaproductions4210
    @kilaueaproductions4210 11 дней назад +4

    I just checked the frequency of the sound after it was dipped in the water by using Audacity to record my system sounds and played the video and then I put it in spectrogram mode to find the true fundamental and plotted the spectrum to get the exact frequency and it was 527Hz, which means it was 31,620RPM if it only had 1 hole.

  • @ghoti76ghoti
    @ghoti76ghoti 10 дней назад +1

    In order to heat the liquid N faster inside the ball I had a few thoughts: 1) warm a metal or glass dish in an oven for a while, maybe a glass bowl that is oven safe and would contain warmer air as well as a warmer surface. 2) along those lines, warm/heat one of those curved mirrors for an Euler's disk. 3) fill a small container with sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) that would maybe allow the ball to float (I don't know the relative densities so it may not work, if it does then you could heat the gas too.) and 4) Taking all precautions, heat a pool of liquid mercury and then put the ball on that ;)

  • @vasilis746
    @vasilis746 10 дней назад +13

    Heron Alexandreus (Alexandria 2nd century BC) was a Greek mathematician, engineer and inventor, whose most famous invention was the aeolosphere, the first steam engine in world history.
    He was the director of the Higher Technical School of Alexandria, the first polytechnic school that had been established in the Museum as an annex for engineers. It is said that he followed the theory of atoms and the Mechanical Syntax of Philo while the ideas of Ctesibius were the basis for some of his works.

    • @PHAESTOS64
      @PHAESTOS64 8 дней назад

      Αδελφέ ματαιοπονείς....άφεσον αυτοίς στο σκοτάδι τους.

  • @pyromaniac1441
    @pyromaniac1441 10 дней назад +2

    I noticed something that could have influenced your warm water test. The first time you did it, the dish was almost full of water. The second time you did it, the water was very shallow. I wonder if the reason it bounced out, was because it submerged briefly and the buoyancy launched it out.

  • @donfreecss7155
    @donfreecss7155 11 дней назад +16

    Gyro Zeppelin being exposed 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @uncletiggermclaren7592
    @uncletiggermclaren7592 10 дней назад +4

    Water ice is much hotter than liquid nitrogen. Get a big block of ice, make a dish shape in the top of it, the ball will spin almost friction-less on the ice, and self correct to stay near the bottom of the dish shape.
    The gas will come out still, just over a slightly longer time, which ought not change much about the peak speed.

  • @criznittle968
    @criznittle968 11 дней назад +5

    this actually happened to me once, when I was an explorer of the ancient world

  • @JorgBrown
    @JorgBrown 9 дней назад +1

    At 5:19 the levitation fails because the ball is experiencing the Dzhanibekov effect; put simply it wants to spin with the metal piece on the perimeter rather than in the center, so starting it with the metal piece in the center means it wants to flip around and spin around a different axis.
    To fix this, put the metal around the ball rather than at the top, so the spinning ball looks a little like Saturn. Once you do that, you'll be able to get a lot higher spin rate.

  • @randompesron8363
    @randompesron8363 11 дней назад +5

    I have perfect pitch. The pitch the ball made at 4:40 was a slightly sharp C5. I would estimate it to be around 530-535 hertz based on my ear alone. Multiply that by sixty, and you get around 31,800-32,100 RPM based on the sound alone.
    As another little fun fact, given the average ping pong ball is about 4 centimeters in diameter, that would mean the velocity of its rotational equator was about 66.7 meters/second, or 149 miles an hour.

    • @eekee6034
      @eekee6034 11 дней назад +2

      Impressively close to the results of an audio tech who measured carefully.

    • @DeathStrikeDemolisher
      @DeathStrikeDemolisher 10 дней назад

      ​@@eekee6034he read the top comment then made this crap up. Hes a nobody

    • @Tornadopelt
      @Tornadopelt 10 дней назад

      DAAAAAAMNNN. Your estimate was *bang-on.*

  • @runthenumbers9698
    @runthenumbers9698 11 дней назад +3

    From the pitch, I heard a little more than an octave difference between the time you got 18,000 and 13,000, and that suggests a little more than 2x the speed.
    Assuming that the 18,000 was not an artifact and you trust it, that would mean the ball was at almost 40,000 rpm.
    If you trust the 13,000 more, that would mean the second ball was more like 28,000 rpm.
    This is off the ear test btw.

  • @johndarksouls4566
    @johndarksouls4566 8 дней назад +4

    Bro assembled every JOJO fan

  • @mrpickle4976
    @mrpickle4976 11 дней назад +51

    arigato gyro

  • @prawnydagrate
    @prawnydagrate 11 дней назад +5

    1:23 - "heheh" **awkward silence** "it worked"

  • @nfineon
    @nfineon 11 дней назад +2

    "Hero from Alexandria, Egypt" which means he learned this from the Egyptians and just published it much like the Greek & Roman scholars did. If you make a larger version, you have a nice engine for a circular drill, good for cutting softened/heated limestone and granite!

  • @DevDreCW
    @DevDreCW 11 дней назад +5

    Average person : Earth is flat and space isn't real
    Random Greek tinkerer from 1600 years ago :

  • @xxmortikaixx4975
    @xxmortikaixx4975 11 дней назад +3

    The frequency of the pitch sounded close to 533-535Hz at the highest, which should be approximately 32,000rpm.

  • @UnlimitedPowXx
    @UnlimitedPowXx 11 дней назад +5

    Love everything about your videos, thank you for another great one!!

  • @kristoffpaul8824
    @kristoffpaul8824 4 дня назад +1

    the fact that it was spinning SO incredibly fast that it almost flew is crazy 4:37

  • @hi12345624
    @hi12345624 11 дней назад +3

    I'm surprised you didn't use the mirror like that is used for Euler's Disk to spin the ping pong ball on. Yeah it isn't a zero friction environment like you were trying for but it is a low friction surface. Added bonus that the mirror already bends inwards towards the middle so the ball might stay still

  • @3DPDK
    @3DPDK 11 дней назад +2

    Just to clarify: if the ball has only one hole for the gas to escape then the pitch of the sound is mathematically equal to the RPM of the ball. If the tone measures 1000hz then the ball is spinning at 60,000 RPM. (1000hz x 60seconds) If the RUclips frame rate is faithful to the frame rate at which the video was recorded, then measuring the frequency of the sound is more accurate than the laser RPM reader.

  • @mongkkorn5505
    @mongkkorn5505 11 дней назад +13

    "OMG Its works"..........."Holy cow i can't stop it"

  • @tomvondeek
    @tomvondeek 11 дней назад

    i love it also when it is explained, why and how the knowledge was sort of ahead of its time- like why they didn't start building steam engines way earlier etc. it is such a clever way to end up answerering not asked questions.

  • @i_am_the_spy_tf2
    @i_am_the_spy_tf2 11 дней назад +20

    Hontoni mawari michi tanta.. Hontoni... Hontoni.. nante toui mawari michi... Gyro kono tamini… Arigato, Soreshi ka yu kotoba ga mits kara nai Arigato, Gyro.

    • @sslp2525
      @sslp2525 11 дней назад +6

      Is this peak writing???

    • @VoltisArt
      @VoltisArt 9 дней назад

      @@sslp2525 phonetic Japanese. Google doesn't even know what to do with it, lol.
      It's like writing English using the pronunciations offered for each word in the dictionary, instead of the normal spelling.

  • @harleyborgais
    @harleyborgais 3 дня назад

    FYI I am willing to share a couple of my inventions with you if you will build and test them on your show: #1) I made one magnet attract itself towards an iron plate hiding another magnet behind it which then DID IN FACT repel the outer stator magnet making the inner rotor magnet and iron plate continue moving, and I only moved it 1,000th of an inch per second initially using a caliper and watch so I can calculate the forces. I wish I had recorded it! Now I plan to try and build it again but a full motor this time! #2) I think I figured out how to use counter-rotating magnetic weights and 'solenoids' to produce significant propulsive force in air, water, and space craft, with no outer apparent means of propulsion. And #3) If I can build both of these I could build craft which 'fly' through air, water, and outer-space, with no fuel or visible means of propulsion!
    Also I believe I am very close to answering the errors in equations relating the force of "Gravity" and "Quantum Mechanics", by showing how "electricity" is really just pressure upon space-time in 3D, "Magnetism" is a result of spinning that pressure to create "Dipoles" and "Lines of Force", then "Resonance" is the actual cause of the "Strong Atomic Force" (at the first "Nodal Point" where attractive forces are the Strongest), AND "Gravity" (Everywhere outside of that 1st "Nodal Point"), and the "Weak Atomic Force" is a result of the opposite "Force" we call "Dissonance". Now I have been studying Einstein's Field Equations and Maxwell's and many others (especially that "Stress-Energy Tensor" used to measure "Energy" in a 3D volume, HOW EXACTLY is "Energy" measured, and in which unit? Joules I think is the unit btw, and I think it was Grams for Mass and Meters per Second for Speed of Light, in E=MC^2). So I am willing to discuss that also, with anyone who actually comprehends "Integral and Differential Calculus" and all these equations, which I am still learning right now).

  • @Ali107
    @Ali107 11 дней назад +11

    4:26 taz the tasmanian devil ahh ball

  • @crome2021
    @crome2021 11 дней назад +85

    Is this a JoJo reference?

    • @Dogappel
      @Dogappel 11 дней назад +1

      💀

    • @bidoof_o7
      @bidoof_o7 11 дней назад +1

      yes

    • @Dhirgant
      @Dhirgant 2 дня назад

      Steel ball run!!😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😤😤

  • @patricioenglopez4562
    @patricioenglopez4562 11 дней назад +64

    IS THAT A JOJO REFERENCE

  • @Natureislife99
    @Natureislife99 11 дней назад +11

    Only youtuber to make theories into reality hats off to you ❤

  • @guest-r6f
    @guest-r6f 11 дней назад +12

    3:53 so fast that the black side was blurry looked like a gas giant for a second

  • @theonlypd
    @theonlypd 11 дней назад +1

    Will you put some fins on it so it can fly? Thank you greatly!

  • @tttITA10
    @tttITA10 11 дней назад +7

    This is probably the coolest physics demonstration I have ever seen.

  • @Namsep
    @Namsep 11 дней назад +1

    Use a container and above an infra-red light. That should heat it up without friction and not affected by the location of the ball.

  • @nagjrcjasonbower
    @nagjrcjasonbower 11 дней назад +4

    Ok this is SWEET! Thanks!

  • @rclabbotics5413
    @rclabbotics5413 11 дней назад +1

    Model aircraft pilot here I've heard a similar pitch from a 280mph rc plane called a voodoo and they rev to 56,000 in a dive it also has a one bladed propeller

  • @MirageUchiha
    @MirageUchiha 11 дней назад +5

    _Takes, "LET IT RIP!!!!!" to the EXTREME!!!_

  • @JJN603
    @JJN603 11 дней назад +1

    i think one fo the cooler things you demonstrated in this video is how that laser that was on the tachometer had enough energy to oinfluence the direction of the spinning ping pong ball. its minimal but that was clear influence

    • @VoltisArt
      @VoltisArt 9 дней назад

      Or he was following the jittery movement of the ball with his hand after a few practice runs, to keep the tach in the right place.

  • @mathewmclean9128
    @mathewmclean9128 11 дней назад +7

    Wow! When you put it in the water and it started spinning super fast, it sounded like it had an electric motor in it because of the noise it was making.

  • @ShaneH42
    @ShaneH42 10 дней назад +2

    Nuclear reactors are basically big Hero’s engines too

  • @nobody.of.importance
    @nobody.of.importance 11 дней назад +12

    Small correction to 1:45 "It doesn't matter how fast you're going", this ignores near-luminal speeds, at which point it takes more and more energy put in to get smaller and smaller acceleration out. Nothing with mass can reach c, so there IS a limit.

    • @David_Last_Name
      @David_Last_Name 11 дней назад +7

      Near light speed rotation? Cmon action lab, lets see that video demonstration!😁 Lol

    • @nobody.of.importance
      @nobody.of.importance 11 дней назад +4

      @@David_Last_Name oh hell yeah, let's see an axion demonstration!

    • @faaltov
      @faaltov 7 дней назад

      Akshooally

    • @nobody.of.importance
      @nobody.of.importance 7 дней назад

      @@faaltov I'm autitsic, I'm very picky about accuracy :p

  • @georgechita5287
    @georgechita5287 11 дней назад +2

    Using an app on my phone, it indicated that the frequency produced when introduced into water was 518 Hz. Considering that the gas flowing out of the pinholes produces the sound, the ball spins 259 times per second (518/2 because it has two holes), coming out at around 15540 RPM.

    • @TheActionLab
      @TheActionLab  11 дней назад +1

      there is only one hole

    • @georgechita5287
      @georgechita5287 11 дней назад +5

      @@TheActionLab Then it's 31080 RPM. Sorry.

    • @xxmortikaixx4975
      @xxmortikaixx4975 11 дней назад +1

      @@georgechita5287 I agree, I also have a frequency app and it was measuring at 533-535 at the highest for a very short time, which would be approximately 32,000rpm.

    • @justayoutuber1906
      @justayoutuber1906 11 дней назад

      @@TheActionLab So no A and B

  • @Jordan-tr3fn
    @Jordan-tr3fn 11 дней назад +5

    5:00 waiting for someone to do the calculations

    • @DrDeuteron
      @DrDeuteron 11 дней назад +3

      I did, and yt blocked it.

    • @Jordan-tr3fn
      @Jordan-tr3fn 11 дней назад +1

      @ why?

    • @eekee6034
      @eekee6034 11 дней назад

      @@Jordan-tr3fn RUclips is quite careless with comment data. Several other people have calculated it. Look for @PrincipalAudio who has done it well: first testing his method with the tachometer-measured ball.

  • @snakerman2612
    @snakerman2612 9 дней назад

    Throwing a weight when you are sitting on a rotating chair is actually one of the best experiments to explain action/reaction. I wish my teacher would have done this in school

  • @runcycleskixc
    @runcycleskixc 11 дней назад +22

    That pitch sounded around 1 kHz to me >>> 60K rpm.

  • @DGCMWC
    @DGCMWC 10 дней назад

    Great editing! I've always enjoyed your videos, but I feel like your quality has gone up so kudos!

  • @justayoutuber1906
    @justayoutuber1906 11 дней назад +5

    This also happens to astronauts who fart in space.

    • @PaulG.x
      @PaulG.x 11 дней назад

      Space flight organisations are extremely careful that the astronauts are selected based on the concentricity of their ani.
      It's little known fact that it is the most important attribute that they are tested for.
      An eccentric anus can be disastrous as was seen in the "Событие бобов" (Beans Event) on the Russian space station MIR in 1997 , and the "Beans Event" on Skylab in 1973

    • @DH-xw6jp
      @DH-xw6jp 11 дней назад +1

      "this is one small step for man, and one giant lea- [pfffft].... Houston, we have a problem."

  • @rosuav
    @rosuav 11 дней назад +2

    So cool! Any chance of a collab with The Slow Mo Guys to clock the thing?

    • @VoltisArt
      @VoltisArt 9 дней назад

      Not needed. Comments at the top used the method James offered in the video to compare pitch of the sound, and came up with similar speeds of about 30.5k to 32k rpm. Pretty slow for SMG, actually...they've been experimenting with the speed of electrical arcs in air, heh.

  • @Meekmonster
    @Meekmonster 11 дней назад +9

    Expert here. It was going really fast

  • @FelipeGarica37
    @FelipeGarica37 5 дней назад +1

    I saw this item on Ancient Impossible and Ancient Top 10 on prime video.

  • @kundi9211
    @kundi9211 11 дней назад +6

    The liquid nitrogen-fun starts at 2:10 for you all crazy fisiks freaks

    • @zinczombie
      @zinczombie 9 дней назад

      People really can't watch two minutes of pretense any more?

  • @charlestaylor3195
    @charlestaylor3195 11 дней назад

    What can you use the high rpm for. And does the high rpm have any torque or can you just stop it with your finger?

  • @mrdiamozz9612
    @mrdiamozz9612 11 дней назад +7

    4:33 that car sound tho 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @valis992000
    @valis992000 11 дней назад +1

    It's fun to think, what if Hero had tried to apply this to doing useful work? It seems like we were just a hair's breadth from having the industrial revolution a couple of thousand years early.

  • @user9b2
    @user9b2 11 дней назад +3

    Put that ping pong ball in a round bottom plate or bowl to reduce even more friction 4:10

  • @philballphotography
    @philballphotography 9 дней назад +1

    How about using a hair dryer hold it up in the airflow? With a gentle warming effect it can both levitate and accelerate the effect

  • @n4whhdb
    @n4whhdb 11 дней назад +4

    My tachometer read 80085 😊

    • @eekee6034
      @eekee6034 11 дней назад

      Check it against the 13000 RPM run, you'll probably see 32,500 RPM. :) Always test your method

  • @Dumbrarere
    @Dumbrarere 11 дней назад

    "Liquid Nitrogen isn't an energy source" While true, it's also important to mention that it is used as a monopropellant fuel source in cold gas RCS thrusters on spacecraft (correct me if I'm wrong ofc), going back to the same original principles as those in the Aeolipile. Just because it is energy negative, doesn't mean it isn't useful as a fuel under the right applications.

  • @jimmy9152
    @jimmy9152 11 дней назад +3

    I watched the video all the way through, and loved it!

    • @akemqiy
      @akemqiy 11 дней назад

      🧢

    • @redplater
      @redplater 11 дней назад

      lie detected

    • @Itachi-ex3bp
      @Itachi-ex3bp 11 дней назад +1

      This video was uploaded 2 minutes ago and 9 minutes long
      How did you watched it through
      Or my internet just sucks

    • @jimmy9152
      @jimmy9152 11 дней назад

      @@Itachi-ex3bpI watched it on 4 times speed.

    • @akemqiy
      @akemqiy 11 дней назад

      that’s how you get 5 replies in 4 minutes ig 0.0

  • @MammaOVlogs
    @MammaOVlogs 8 дней назад +1

    wow, how interesting, loved it

  • @planktonfun1
    @planktonfun1 11 дней назад +3

    pingpong ball goes brrrr!

  • @TSGEnt
    @TSGEnt 10 дней назад

    That was fasinating. The speed incredible. The sound was awesome.

  • @axellno1759
    @axellno1759 11 дней назад +6

    9:23 ... Probably not... probably it all started with a lucky accident and a smart observer.

  • @TheBluemindedGod
    @TheBluemindedGod 11 дней назад

    This is so rad! I never would have thought of this experiment.

  • @WayneTheSeine
    @WayneTheSeine 11 дней назад +3

    LOL....that was incredible. You never disappoint.

  • @ismaeelaboshayeb
    @ismaeelaboshayeb 6 дней назад

    You should try doing it with the punctures angled obliquely not horizontal as seen in here and putting it in a long lab tube with water at the base and see how high it could propel itself upwards.