Domino Chain Reaction (geometric growth in action)
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2009
- A domino can knock over another domino about 1.5x larger than itself. A chain of dominos of increasing size makes a kind of mechanical chain reaction that starts with a tiny push and knocks down an impressively large domino.
Original idea by Lorne Whitehead, American Journal of Physics, Vol. 51, page 182 (1983).
See
arxiv.org/abs/physics/0401018 and
arxiv.org/abs/1301.0615
for sophisticated discussions of the physics.
As seen on QI in the "kinetic" episode. I was contacted by those Elves.
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"If I had 29 dominoes, the last one would be as tall as the empire state building"
Terrorism gone dominoes?
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FreeCreeperHugs 9/11 was not the empire State building, it was the world trade center.
Omg your comment killed me man xD
@@matthewprather189 even better, that's 2 for 1...from the perspective of maximum return on investment and value, plus their resemblance to dominoes. Matter of fact, Building 7 would have made the perfect final domino. Have you seen the footage of building 7 falling? It is an absolute must see game changer. Cheers!
"Buum"
None Russian “ crazy Russian hacker”
Iroden lol i was gunna write that. Hah
It's pronounced, *🅱️ ewm*
fuck you
29
Okay, so when's the video with 29 dominoes coming?
ha ha ha. I want to see this one too!
Yeaaah I wanna see the Empire State building fall over!!
Kabishen I
*Do it on the moon*
September eleventh
This is pretty much exactly what is done with "pumped storage" hydroelectric power systems, except they use water instead of dominos. Surplus power is used to lift water to a higher reservoir. The energy is thereby stored as potential energy. When the power is needed, the water is allowed to fall back down through a turbine. Most of the energy used to lift the water is recovered.
Stephen Morris this requires a lake above another lake to work though, however once you can find one you basically have a giant cell.
btm wtfb 😂😂
Stephen Morris. You got scared
Rather than over complicating it with ‘potential energy’, could a hydroelectric power system just simply be explained by water finding its level?
That retirement commercial brought me here!!
Max Power ht6ecfxrsrqfjkudc👺👹👺👺😈👻👿👽😻
As an older man I've seen a lot of things get pushed over, on, around and thru, why just the other day one of the nursing staff pushed me down the hall in my wheel chair since they took my scooter for running over people. I know all about being pushed around because I'm older and wiser than you. Moderator of /r/oldfartz * tips old wrinkly fedora *
*be the 14th domino .*
It still works.
Did they patched this already? Or still works?
METROMAN 4 Sorry to burst your bubble but they patched in in 2016 Christmas Update
&&& &&& that's sad
A good metaphor for life challanges and creating small wins just like dominos .
If we're smart enough, we can go through life, knocking over thousands of tiny dominoes that result in worldwide improvements.
Now I wanna see the last domino being big enough that an adult human couldn't push it over :D
But a baby could start the chain reaction!
Absolutely fantastic video! You took a simple concept, demonstrated it clearly, and then explained the physics behind the "awesome" factor! Great job!
I love how the sound changes for each domino...
Look at this fatcat waste in his own words "billions of energy" on this pointless thing. He should've used the energy like i did and that was scouring the trash bins for food the fatcats waste like banana peels, mouldy bread etc. Saves a ton of money.
Fruge Lenton, moderator of /r/frugal
no, you're a regular from 4chan /mlp.
Thank you for playing "Misty" at the end. That's actually one of my favorite songs.
For the record, as was asked before Google comments came in, a procession of 60 dominoes, the last would be 122,560km high, only slightly under 1/3 of the way to the moon.
Speaking of chain reactions, did you know that your comment is anti zionist until I open it up to see what you really wrote? It reads:
"Zionism goes much deeper than most people realize! Look up The Noahide Laws and you'll see what I'm talking about!"
I like your actual comment better, and please understand that this means your account is being used for social engineering via aggressive propaganda to agitate the public. I spoke with someone from NZ yesterday, the 8th of May, in the year 2019, who reported that the reactions to such comments are being gathered to label people as anti semitic. They have equated anti zionism with anti semitism and white supremacy. In NZ, the authorities are visiting the homes of those people they have falsely labeled white supremacists, and their firearms are being confiscated. Do you think it is acceptable to use your account, which is likely dormant, to divide us? I write this to inform anyone who reads it of what is being weaponized against us. Chain reactions can be stopped by not reacting. The h8 is fake, the struggle is real. Fight for truth.
First time I understood compound investment!!
This is how Warren Buffet made his billions!
Thank you
So simple, and yet such a very fantastic display, fantastically explained. Thank you, Mr. Morris.
I believe I used a spacing equal to the width, which is half the height. Every dimension, including the spacing, should scale by the same factor from one stage to the next. I did not make a detailed study.
Troll Science.
fabio I LOVE YOU
well that escalated quickly...
You have to make them yourself.
How bout you do it you lazy bum.
Or you can pay me and ill do it
Who’s here from the memes?
Me
Me 😂
who isnt?
I love how comments have nothing to do with the video :D
I still love McDonalds ;-)
Great example of how a little thing can have a huge impact of something really big!
Weird how all the guys from what I presume is 4 Chan are essentially having satirical conversations almost exclusively amongst their fictional RUclips personas. It's just so bizarre. How much time do you lot actually dedicate to this? When one of you eventually has the corresponding inevitable and catastrophic existential crisis (surely some already have?), can you message me please and tell me what it was like? I think it'd make an interesting case study. Thanks.
When you understand the power of the domino effect and you have seen the timeline for all the major cataclysms documented in historic records and you know another - much larger - cataclysm is coming, and if you've managed to continue to do your research, you would also have realized the power of the domino effect is precisely the force that broke and subducted the tectonic plates, it's the force that carved out the ocean trenches and placed the archipelago islands in place - it's the exponential power of the domino effect that resulted in the explosion of thousands of volcanoes along the Pacific Ring of Fire - all in under 24 hours - and when you see the exact date for that devastation recorded in different languages by people more than 16,000 km apart - because of your unusual tenacity, you know the few places on Earth that will be relatively safe from the next domino effect that will destroy most of our world - and since you know the CO2 scare is a scam, the 2C lunacy has come and gone, etc. - you know the true horror that's rapidly approaching so you've already packed and relocated, stocked up and mentally and emotionally prepared while the less aware twiddle their thumbs as if they can think of nothing better to do - the existential crisis related to climate collapse is not what most people think it is
Please can I use a part of this video for educational purposes with full credit?
I wonder if anyone will react to this so their video will be titled: Domino chain reaction reaction.
“ and the smallest one is about 0.5 millimeters tall and 0.1 millimeters *THICC* “
hehehe
He said it was 100 lbs just to flex picking it up
Obey gravity. It's the LAW.
this dude looks like the penguins younger, better brother
true
This definitely deserves a bump!!!
I can't get full picture...man to understand plz someone give me explaination about conservation of energy ....imbalanced moment and how momentum is responsible for that
Heavy breathing
lol yeah
i remember seeing this video so long ago when i was into dominos this is nostalgic
This is so cool to watch when it's happening! It looks like it's not possible, although you know full well it is!
That is a beautiful noise.
Geosynchronous means an orbit with a period of 24 hours. The moon's period is about 27 days. I think what you had in mind is that the same side of the moon always faces the earth. This is due to tidal locking.
I randomly pondered this question. Thankyou for answering this. 👍😆
You're the kind of fun teacher that schools should have.
Educational fun.
PS: If you add a kitten, it heights the excitement level.
This is actually Amazing!
There must be a way to harness the energy in the domino effect.
this guy started out in the 80s, working at bicycle parking lots in China. i'm happy for him.
Physics for the WIN! ( Domino Chain Reaction )
Simply AMAZING!
100 lbs?! you lifted that with finger grip like it was nothing
ok well that thud confirms it. You didnt tell us you used to powerlift
Fascinating. Thank you.
Thats really cool! Though I hope I am not the only one who thought about that domino scene in the movie „Robots“
you have great imagination and creativeness!
I believe it was Archimedes who said, "Give me a large enough domino, and I'll tip over the world."
dat slow mo!!! Pretty cool video!! :)
You are the best, please make more videos. very well done. What is your next video for this idea?
It’s like the scene from the movie robots were the dominos keep getting bigger
This guy offered me candy out of his van last week.
I bet he did that a million times...and yet he still freaks out when the last one falls...
The domino effect appears to go slower and slower as the domino size increases, i.e. it takes longer and longer for them to fall over? So how long would 29 dominoes take (Empire State building example)? Latency as a function of domino count?
Another physics phenomena next to "stored potential energy": listen to the sound when the stones touch each other. The smaller the stones the higher the sound.
It just shows what you can accomplish if you put a little energy in.
its cool how it works
His reaction when the big one fell 😂😂
This guy makes me happy.
The smallest ones are made of aluminum. The larger ones are made of plywood (laminated for the big ones). Making the smallest ones out of wood does not work too well as they are too light. They are all painted white to look nice.
This guy is so into Dominos.
Hi Steve. Well done! A powerful simple and effective demonstration of the physics. I would like to use your domino video in my teaching toolset to teach the principle of linear amplification of the domino effect, but I do not always have an internet connection available to play it live from RUclips. Would it be possible to get a download of the short video demonstration?
Not too internet savvy eh? Just go to google and search "download youtube videos" and click the first link you see. Put in the link and download to your computer. Be sure to credit the guy though.
Fun and educational! Two subjects that are hard to mix!
COOL even with my BSc. in physics, my first guess would be that the change won't happen and that the process will stop in the middle, because of the great difference in mass between the tiny dominos and the bigger ones (newtons law about mutual effect) so... I could almost imagine how the smaller domino will bounce back.
Of course I completely forgot the source of the energy for the whole thing here. the STORED energy in the erected dominos.
THANK YOU!!!!
lmao I was watching the part at 0:25 and then read your comment, and then proceeded to spit ginger ale everywhere
I wonder if the weight and density of the materials used is also calculated at 1.5 increase?
Probably not.
It is very satisfying
You're killing me smalls!
The look on his face right after he says "Empire State Building" >>
do u know the title of that song at the end ?i need to kno thanx
29 dominos is only a theory until it is actually tested.
excellent!!!
That's freaking cool!
He was out of breath after knocking over that little domino!
This reminds me of the cow tipping scene in tommy boy. "You ram into its side....and then what.....and then it tips over!"
What material are the stones made of?
When the last domino hits his reaction makes me laugh
Is there an optimum ratio between domino height and spacing?
At 1:28 he says that we're "storing" gravitational potential energy in the domino. I totally get how this is a helpful explanation and visualization, but it also introduces confusion since there really isn't any "stored" energy in the system. But still. VERY cool demonstration. I'm totally saving this one.
How is it "not stored"? Seems pretty correct to me. My physical effort ends up as gravitational potential energy that is later released.
Of course the system is very dissipative --- lots of friction and inelastic collisions that turn the "stored" gravitational potential energy into heat. But the energy is stored while the dominos are all standing up.
@@smorris123 thanks for the replies! And I understand what you're saying, but I still don't understand how the energy is stored or in what form it is stored. Consider the following example so that maybe you can explain it to me: we have a hole that is 100 meters deep. We also have a rock on the ground next to that hole. I pick up the rock and drop it on the ground. I pick up the rock again and drop it down the hole. Did it have two different potential energies at the same time? Did the potential energy change based on where it would go in the future? If the rock wasn't "lifted" 100m (~102m), did it have the potential energy to fall 100m at some point?
Potential energy is always relative to some arbitrary level. Once you decide where zero is, everything is fixed relative to that. Only differences matter. Potential energy can be negative. It does not need to know about its future values. Go read a first year textbook.
The rock does not use up energy in order to fall 100m. The gravitational force does work on the rock, adding to its kinetic energy, while reducing its potential energy.
This is fucking mind-blowing.
It also seems that the time it takes for the domino to hit each successive one follows in inverse time curve.
i love the sound
I think we all know what needs to be done. We need to build this with 29 dominos.
Kinda wanna that building-sized domino fall over.
very nice vdo and nice explaination. Amazing..Subscribed.
where did u get the song during the slowmo part
Impressive!
When it falls over you don’t get the gravitational potential energy back, because theres no where left to fall, theres no possibility of it falling, unless you flip it, if it’s standing up straight it does have GDP, because it’s taller, and not flat
I love how this became a meme
0:55 when you're trying to poop quietly in a public bathroom but it splashes too loud.
Bailey Brown paper. You need paper in the bowl first
That's the "ripple effect" not the "domino effect".
A good metaphor for life challanges and creating small wins just like dominos .
GladX you mean small mistakes right? Success doesn’t happen in life.
Rainbowforce5 Someone had a traumatic experience.
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@Manek Iridius Let him think he's being philosophical. The world needs bus drivers.
I thought like you GladX until I realized that Gravity only translates to failure not success
"Give me a domino and I shall knock over the world." ~Archimedes
XD
Cool example of potential energy in action. Hendrik Henderson
That's incredible. Something so simple but you don't realize the latent power in this. I just received an e-mail from life coach guru Brian Johnson who mentioned this domino effect and he compares it to achieving your full potential in life by lining up your domino's correctly (goals) starting with smallest micro-goal. That's what brought me here!! Pretty powerful and inspiring stuff.
Just like Butterfly Effect..
Love it! Amazing video! Can't wait to watch what else you guys come out with.
That first tiny domino is me going "Maybe instead of going to sleep, I stay up and watch a video about dominoes!"
It is a common question. The energy released is just some fraction (less than 100%) of the energy that you needed to expend to lift the dominos into place. So there is no net gain of energy to be harnessed.
You meant to say 2 million, not billion? Billion is too high.
Great! Thanks! As a retired instructor it is great to see someone like you as it is obvious you know what you are doing and present it quite well.