PhysicsIsFun's spinning disk gets louder as it slows
An Euler's disk demonstration remains an archive draw during a week without new uploads.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
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Listen closely to PhysicsIsFun's Euler's disk: as its motion winds down, the oscillations become faster and the sound more insistent. Slowing down does not mean everything about the demonstration gets slower.
The presenter starts the steel disk on a slightly concave mirrored base, then explains its prolonged motion and changing wobble. By the closing seconds, the increasingly rapid oscillations supply their own soundtrack before the disk settles flat. It is a compact example of the channel's approach: put something intriguing in motion, then give the viewer a little physics to take away.
PhysicsIsFun posted nothing new this week, adding about 23,000 views while its subscriber count stayed unchanged. Daily viewing is currently a little over half its usual pace. Among the highlighted older uploads, the disk is drawing the most views per day, followed by demonstrations of pulleys and magnets.
Nearby science channels had varied weeks: Astrum Earth added a substantial audience, while Looking Glass Universe and Bizarre Beasts also had unchanged subscriber counts. PhysicsIsFun sits close in subscriber size to Bizarre Beasts and Art of the Problem.
Sound has a particularly well-established place in this archive. The channel's most-watched Short is a sound-wave demonstration with more than 30 million views, a much larger-scale outing for the physics you can hear.
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The videos drawing views on PhysicsIsFun right now
- Channel
- PhysicsIsFun
- Subscribers
- 397,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 23,129
- Videos published this week
- 0
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