Science off the Sphere: Thin Film Physics

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  • Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
  • International Space Station Expedition 30 astronaut Don Pettit demonstrates physics in space for 'Science off the Sphere.' Through a partnership between NASA and the American Physical Society you can participate in Pettit's physics challenge and view future experiments here: www.physicscent...

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  • @AlphasysNl
    @AlphasysNl 12 лет назад +1

    Awesome. Next best thing to actually being there and doing it myself. I certainly would like to see more performances of experiments in micro-gravity.

  • @izzazaparolli2728
    @izzazaparolli2728 9 лет назад +4

    Lucky guy indeed! I am addicted to these videos now

  • @RMoribayashi
    @RMoribayashi 12 лет назад

    Brilliant!! Reminds me of two Spacelab fluid experiments from around 1990. One was a convection experiment, the other used sound to suspend a sphere of water. Not only did they inject tracers and air into the spheres, they were able to spin them at high speed by adjusting the frequency of one or more of the tones. The Shuttle video was intended for ground researchers to monitor the experiments. That we early NASA TV watchers got to see it was just a side benefit.

  • @jonsprivatelife
    @jonsprivatelife 11 лет назад +1

    Beauty regardless of the beholder.

  • @dystopiansage
    @dystopiansage 12 лет назад +1

    Don! Can you do that with ferrofluids in the ring, then send electricity through the ring or something so we can see how it reacts to a electromagnetic fields of different frequencies? And I don't know if it's possible to make a white ferrofluid, but it might look cool to see how the fluid swirls when in that erratic state. Thank you so much for spending the time on these videos, and showing us this data. I'm waving at you.

  • @hz0acid
    @hz0acid 12 лет назад

    please keep these videos coming, they are fascinating

  • @Anonymoose
    @Anonymoose 12 лет назад

    Fascinating experiments!

  • @mdgnys
    @mdgnys 12 лет назад

    Fascinating. Thank you Mr. Pettit!

  • @DaBamBamMan
    @DaBamBamMan 12 лет назад

    Looks like the atmosphere of Jupiter or Saturn. That's pretty awesome. More videos like this please.

  • @navic209
    @navic209 12 лет назад

    Great series, thanks Don Pettit!

  • @UFOyourVUE
    @UFOyourVUE 12 лет назад

    You are in space how cool is that!. Seen anything strange up there? guess a million have ask already. If you have time could you please record some space debris focus on them so they are clear then unfocus as far as you can this is just to prove a subject I have been working on it would help me out big time. Wish I was you

  • @blackandgold318
    @blackandgold318 12 лет назад

    Why would we close our space program?
    Science is the way to further our knowledge!

  • @danosqu
    @danosqu 12 лет назад

    I'm pretty sure it has something to do with hot water expanding, the redistribution of mass and surface tension....

  • @Corvid24
    @Corvid24 11 лет назад

    I second this. I would also really like to see videos of "space fire"

  • @DaBamBamMan
    @DaBamBamMan 12 лет назад

    @ikijas I would think the amount of inertial energy combined with the size of the droplet would decide if it goes through, sticks and mixes, or bounces off. Not a physicist though so it's pretty much a guess lol.

  • @asmundhagen
    @asmundhagen 12 лет назад

    Thank you for presenting peculiar zerogravityexperiments.
    Norway

  • @blokprintzprintwithpaint972
    @blokprintzprintwithpaint972 5 лет назад

    It's possibly the type - ie speed - of vibration that repels some of the droplets. What does sound do to the film?

  • @victoriasmith2512
    @victoriasmith2512 8 лет назад +2

    Omg when u add the white stuff it looks like the universe spinning round or should I say Galaxy .u get the idea lol

  • @nurz33
    @nurz33 12 лет назад

    super cool!! love it!!!

  • @AV1461
    @AV1461 10 лет назад +4

    Did anyone think of using these films as lenses to make a two lens telescope? like a Kepler configuration telescope?
    If you get them pretty thick then the focusing distance will be small.

    • @mizar_copernicus138
      @mizar_copernicus138 9 лет назад

      yeah but water likes to absorb dirt which is hard to get off it and you can clearly see even small movement defomr its shape so it is cool idea but totally unpractical

    • @AV1461
      @AV1461 9 лет назад

      More or less. I don't know if the ISS is clean in that regard, but I think it is. But it would be also hard because the water won't stop still on the frame for a long long time. So yeah, a little unpractical.

  • @Digger318
    @Digger318 12 лет назад

    oh wow... that is amazing...
    almost like some digital star gate effect in movies

  • @DevinBates
    @DevinBates 12 лет назад

    I think you should do the same thing but with magnets. See how the lack of gravity affects the behavior of magnets.

  • @MewK_
    @MewK_ 12 лет назад

    We do what we must, because we can :D Nice video!

  • @KijasCQ
    @KijasCQ 12 лет назад

    This video is awesome!!! Congratulations on being curious. So... why do some of the water drops bounce off??? that's interesting.

    • @fewbitsgames94
      @fewbitsgames94 4 года назад

      Surface tension of water film, cohesion and adhesion of water molecules, volume of water drops from the syringe.

  • @JimZanax
    @JimZanax 12 лет назад

    "Hey Bubba, where's the saw-dering iron? I need it to fix the re-entry computer."
    "I broke it screwing around during the thin-film water experiment."

  • @carpetmonk
    @carpetmonk 11 лет назад

    so incredible.. I love every one of these video by Mr. Pettit. there are entire PhD's wrapped up in these expiriments. a favorite of mine, is a video called "lenses and vortices" check it out!

  • @MrWoorocks
    @MrWoorocks 12 лет назад

    What happens to a helium balloon in a space ship, where does it tend to travel. (up/down?)

  • @whyamiwastingmytimeonthis
    @whyamiwastingmytimeonthis 4 года назад

    "Because I'm here and I can"😁

  • @fisch747
    @fisch747 11 лет назад

    How wuld fire burn in the ISS, in zero gravity, if you take for examle an firelighter cube. Will it burn? In which direction will the flames go? There is no top.. May a round ball shaped flame? But where should new O2 come from.. ^^ thx

  • @EthanNin0
    @EthanNin0 12 лет назад

    Bubble blowing in space must be intense.

  • @metturscience116
    @metturscience116 12 лет назад

    how can fire burns in zero gravity? whether it is upwards!

  • @DaBamBamMan
    @DaBamBamMan 12 лет назад

    @EthanNin0 New Olympic sport!!!

  • @mrsmartypants9136
    @mrsmartypants9136 11 лет назад

    What was that tracer? Guanine crystals?

  • @shukfahid
    @shukfahid 11 лет назад

    i love this stuff. this is the kinda shit i would do in orbit.

  • @toocoolforu
    @toocoolforu 12 лет назад

    Ok people, I have an idea, I speak russian, english and french, I am in great physical shape, so I'm ready to go to the ISS and make all your requested experiments up there in zero G. NASA should fly me to the ISS to make your wishes come true!

  • @G1NZOU
    @G1NZOU 12 лет назад

    It just stays there unless you push it.
    There's no up or down in space.

  • @monochromatic2987
    @monochromatic2987 9 лет назад

    Ok how did the water vapor from contact with the iron rise up if it is in a 0 g area

  • @sleepingeye
    @sleepingeye 12 лет назад

    In space there is no up/down. The helium balloon wouldn't go anywhere.

  • @drugxsirus
    @drugxsirus 6 лет назад +1

    Lucky guy to fly above earth, technically not in space.

  • @UFOyourVUE
    @UFOyourVUE 12 лет назад

    +1

  • @born2rule326
    @born2rule326 12 лет назад

    Fifth Fascinating

  • @DaBamBamMan
    @DaBamBamMan 12 лет назад

    @zoozaful OMG NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! How dare he have a piece of paper floating off camera so he doesn't trail off and sticks to topic, and so he doesn't forget the main points of what he wishes to address. HOW DARE HE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @acefighterpilot
    @acefighterpilot 11 лет назад +1

    As weird as Don is, he's pretty rad.

  • @WatashiwaOyu
    @WatashiwaOyu 11 лет назад

    What if you cut your finger? this is kinda creepy.