/r/physicsgifs
GIFs that show physics principles at work in the real world or in a simulation.
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This subreddit is dedicated to showcasing interesting and entertaining physics principles in work in the real world or in a demonstration.
Rules
Submit gifs that show the interesting world of physics. Be it pendulums, crashes, or physical models.
Explanations for whatever is happening in the gif would be preferred, but isn't required. If you understand what's happening in the gif, feel free to put an explanation in the comments.
Also, please upvote intelligent and informative comments. Don't keep the upvotes soley for puns and references and all of that jazz.
Don't post videos.
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Symbols, Superscripts and Subscripts
Superscript
- E = mc2 is written as E = mc^(2)
Subscript
- vo = vf - (a * t) is written as v*_o_* = v*_f_* - (a * t)
Arrows
- Equilibrium arrow: ⇌
- Left Arrow: ←
- Right arrow: →
- Left/Right Arrow: ↔
- Up Arrow: ↑
- Down Arrow: ↓
- Up/Down Arrow: ↨
Equality Signs
- Less Than or Equal To: ≤
- Greater Than or Equal To: ≥
- Not Equal: ≠
- Approximation: ≅
Additional Symbols:
- Theta: θ
- Degrees: °
- Mu: μ
- Sigma: Σ
- Delta: Δ
- Phi: ϕ
- Omega: ω
- Alpha: α
- Pi: π
- Plus or Minus: ±
- Integral Sign: ∫
- Square Root: √
Please use these to help out fellow redditors that haven't studied physics! Live Example.
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Can Someone Explain This?
Balloon with confetti in it wants to stay in the air stream even when pushed out of the way.
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The cross product cartel!
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Deep Water Wave
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Gandalf Says: You Shall Not Pass(ymptote)!
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I captured a slow motion video of a thrown tomahawk hitting the block and rotating in a very strange way.
I thought this was so cool, I've never seen anything like this before.
15:26 UTC
[OC] Automatic differentiation can find fluid initial conditions that evolve into any configuration
21:54 UTC
Gravity's Sidekick: mg Sin θ
14:20 UTC
The Doppler Effect (red/blue shift)
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Integration Station
13:24 UTC
Basic N-Body Fluid Simulation in VPython
05:53 UTC
Looking for an animation
I’m working on an art project related to physics, and I remember a gif (I think) of a three axis pendulum, in black and white, with random movements reminiscing the physics of a three body problem… does it ring any bell for someone ? Research brings nothing so far. Many thanks in advance !
12:32 UTC
How uranium multiplies exponentially
14:53 UTC
Neutron (black) hitting Uranium 235 (blue) | Critical mass simulation
08:31 UTC
Fast nano-precision piezo stages (credit: Xeryon)
06:43 UTC
Fluid dynamics of soap and water
Beautiful physics in motion!
18:22 UTC
An LYSO Scintillator placed, mostly out of the way, inside a type of X-Ray spectrometer made to collect XAFS and XANES data.
13:44 UTC
GOES-16 satellite imagery of the total solar eclipse traversing North America
02:24 UTC
Graph of Life
Graph of Life
Hello everyone. I have been working on an evolutionary algorithm based on game theory and graph theory for three years now. In this algorithm complex life emerges through autonomous agents.The nodes are all individuals with their own neural networks. They see each other, make decisions and compete for scarce resources by attacking or defending. They evolve with natural selection and are self organizing. They decide themselves with who they want to interact or not. Reproduction happens at a local level and is dependant on the decisions of the agents. The algorithm happens in discrete iterations.
I‘m reaching out because I‘m a bit stuck currently. Originally the goal was to invent an algorithm where open ended evolution can occur, meaning that there is no optimal strategy, meaning that cooperations with ever encreasing complexity can emerge. The problem is that I don’t know how to falsify or prove this claim. The problem I have is that I don‘t know how to analyse this algorithm and the behaviors that emerge. I don‘t know how to find out what behaviors emerge and why other behaviors vanish. Also I don‘t know how I could quantify cooperation (if that happens at all).
Also one thought experiment that would be interesting: lets say intelligent life would emerge in this algorithm and they would do physics to find out how their reality works: what is the most fundamental thing they would be able to measure? I also don‘t know how to approach that, essentially it would be interesting to somehow interact with the algorithm and try to gain as much information as possible.
Also keep in mind that this is not just one algorithm, but a whole family of algorithms, that all work slightly differently. So the concept should in some way be general enough to be implemented for all cases.
Find the code at my github repository: https://github.com/graphoflife Find more videos at my instagram: https:// www.instagram.com/graph.of.life
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Juggling Joules: Without Losing a Joule
14:50 UTC
Physics 2024 papers
I found this youtube channel useful for those preparing for the may june exams.
It has topical questions solved from past papers in both multiple choice questions and structured questions. Checkout the playlists in the site below
10:48 UTC
Conservative Force: The No-Waste Energy Club
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[SST] Asteroid impact timelapse
23:08 UTC
Movie from 1960 of the first ever computer-made N-body simulation of a galaxy
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Cosmological Simulation: Structure formation in a 50 Mpc/h cube with ~2 million dark matter particles.
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