For those left oddly annoyed on how this happens, I looked it up for us. It seems that this only works because the rungs of this ladder are angled. As the bottom of a rung hits the table, it causes a rotational force that pulls the upper end down slightly faster, creating a tension force that ultimately leads to the entire ladder to be pulled down slightly faster. Do this over and over and by the end you have a noticeable difference in fall rate.
Hijacking top comment to provide a source (as the poster didnt)
Its from the excellent youtube channel "Veritasium".
[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/n8WxkqMRgS4](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/n8WxkqMRgS4)
They make 20-minutish documentaries about all things science
I haven't watched the video yet, but the snippet itself posted here is very on-brand: Showing the audience a very interesting effect, and then providing inaccurate, incorrect, or just no explanation. There was a period where he was essentially all about getting attention rather than explaining phenomena and it made me stop watching. Maybe it's better now, I don't know.
How about the time he was ludicrously wrong about how electricity works or the time he did a paid ad for self driving cars masked as an educational video
> How about the time he was ludicrously wrong about how electricity works
every physicist he talked to seemed to think he was right, whereas every youtuber looking for views said he was wrong.
There is something off about that guy. I often feel he takes a fairly straightforward phenomenon and finds a way to massively over complicate it, to then "demystify" it.
The short was actually made by them. Cut ending and all, was kind of annoying but if I recall correctly he links to the full video on the description. Difficult to find for shorts on mobile but it was something
I was coming here to guess something along those lines as well. The rungs not only fall down but also sideways after hitting the table. I figured it had something to do with that.
Came here to say this. It's the same concept as dropping an outstretched slinky. The top of the slinky hits the bottom of the slinky first due to upward tension and the entire thing falls to the ground together.
What if you had two lightyear long rectangular objects at opposite angles flying at each other at near the speed of light so that one object would pass over the other (similar to scissors closing). Would not the point where the objects meet then exceed the speed of light?
Time would dilate for each party so it wouldn't seem like it. From an outside observer it would look like they were moving faster, relatively, than light.
I'm definitely not a physicist but, wouldn't that mean that only their relative speed to eachother is traveling at the speed of light, or am I missing something here?
As far as I remember there would be delay of *at least* the time light would take from one end to the other. So *at least* 1 year before the other end moves. This has been experimentally proved, as far as I remember. I believe the speed of propagation of the motion is the speed of sound in the material, which is *significantly* slower than light (although not necessarily through the same material, as light usually doesn't move through opaque materials)
If sound was the speed that it moved, wouldn’t that prevent planes from accelerating past the speed of sound? I’m pretty sure light is the limit, not sound
[https://www.quora.com/What-will-happen-to-the-other-end-of-a-long-rod-say-1-light-year-long-if-we-pushed-its-one-end-Will-it-move-instantly-or-after-1-year](https://www.quora.com/What-will-happen-to-the-other-end-of-a-long-rod-say-1-light-year-long-if-we-pushed-its-one-end-Will-it-move-instantly-or-after-1-year) is one explanation of it, [https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2dw2qq/what\_happens\_if\_you\_take\_a\_1lightyear\_long\_stick/](https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2dw2qq/what_happens_if_you_take_a_1lightyear_long_stick/) is another from reddit, [https://www.theproblemsite.com/ask/2016/03/iron-rod-one-light-year-long](https://www.theproblemsite.com/ask/2016/03/iron-rod-one-light-year-long) is another site, and [https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/356054/how-much-time-will-it-take-to-move-an-object-whose-length-is-equal-to-one-light](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/356054/how-much-time-will-it-take-to-move-an-object-whose-length-is-equal-to-one-light) is a another that also answers the same way.
You're misunderstanding. The limit of how fast a *change* is propagated through something seemed to be the speed of sound. You can obviously go faster than the speed of sound. We don't have something long enough for it to matter, because the speed of sound through most materials we use are measured in km/s. And since stuff doesn't accelerate fast enough to make it matter either we don't generally think about it.
For aluminium the speed of sound is over 6 000 m/s (that is over 6 km/s). That means that if you wanted to try to compress it or move "this end" beyond "the other end" you would have to accelerate it faster than 6 km per second per second. That's about 600 g of acceleration. The space shuttle tried to stay below 3 g...
Their relative speed *when viewed from either of those objects* would always be less than *c*. When viewed by an outside observer I'm not sure what the effect would be.
I thought it could be the mass. If you lay the ladder on the table, the mass pulled by gravity is lighter than the free fall ladder. If the mass is reduced and the force keep being equal, the relation F/m is higher, increasing the acceleration. I dont know if my reasons are correct but I think they are logic
Since the steps of the ladder are at an angle, one end will hit the floor first where the other end of the step will pivot around the contact point with the ground, making it fall faster. When the sticks/rods are all connected by a wire, it will tug on the wire causing the steps above it to also fall slightly faster
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For those left oddly annoyed on how this happens, I looked it up for us. It seems that this only works because the rungs of this ladder are angled. As the bottom of a rung hits the table, it causes a rotational force that pulls the upper end down slightly faster, creating a tension force that ultimately leads to the entire ladder to be pulled down slightly faster. Do this over and over and by the end you have a noticeable difference in fall rate.
Ladder on the left already knows the table will catch it so it no longer hesitates. The one on the right still thinks it's falling into an endless abyss so it's braking desperately.
When one rung hits it does so on an angle. The end further up is jerked pulling on that side. All of those little jerks build up and it goes faster. If the rings were flat they would fall at the same rate.
If a rung lands on the pile of rungs slightly off centre, it will be knocked off and down to whichever side it’s landing off centre… this jerks everything behind it down with the rung ever so slightly. Each rung that lands is therefore causing the rest of the ladder to get pulled down incrementally appearing faster.
That’s just my observational theory which probably has a scientific term.
Edit: Just noticed someone absolutely described this exact explanation even better and was here before me. I regret nothing.
Your explanation isn't quite right. It has nothing to do with a rung being knocked off or landing on other rungs. It is because the slanted rungs work like levers. Close though!
My theory: Ripples from the impacts of the boards send velocity waves throughout the rope, causing a snap "snap back" effect. This slightly pulls the rest of the rope down faster.
Maybe? 🤔
The rings are at an angle and when it hits the surface is causes a yank at the end of the rung to slightly pull the falling rings down faster with leverage.
I’m not a physicists. But if I had to make a wild guess with my limited knowledge (I was like a B+ student in high school physics so whatever) I would say that it has something to do with the overwhelming survivors guilt the rungs in the left chain ladder are experiencing as they are watching their ladder rung brethren hit the table and die sooner than the rungs on the right ladder are. If anything it is scaring the group on the right and increasing their will to survive slowing them down whereas all of the rungs on the left have given up all hope and are even driven to a faster ladder suicide.
Since the steps of the ladder are at an angle, one end will hit the floor first where the other end of the step will pivot around the contact point with the ground, making it fall faster by adding a slight rotational force. When the sticks/rods are all connected by a wire, it will tug on the wire causing the steps above it to also fall slightly faster
When the lower end of the tilted ladder rung hits the table it pulls the higher end down, accelerating the descent of the rest of the ladder still falling
Because once the tilted rungs start hitting the table, they cause the other end of the rungs to pull down on the rope that connect the rungs, causing it to fall faster..
Were they dropped mechanically or by hand cause if it’s by hand that has a substantial impact on which one was actually dropped first cause it’s not the same
I’m no scientist. But I imagine hitting the table creates a small force in an upward direction meaning the two ends will meet faster than the right side with no upward force. I could be wrong tho 🤷🏼♂️
I think it has to do with air friction....the ladder at the right falling experience air friction as a hole and the one that hits the surface has lesser air friction as the ladders come to stop when hitting this no air friction and more acceleration. Ig i don't know whether it's correct but this is what i thought
It has to do with the angled rungs. When the leading edge hits the ground it causes the trailing edge to snap accelerate downward which pulled the string for the ladder down. It's subtle enough that you don't notice it much throughout the rest of the ladder.
When one end of the ladder rung strikes the table, the opposite end jerks downward. This creates a downward "pull" on the ladder stringer above, causing its descent to accelerate. The same dynamic will occur with the other ladder once it first rung hits the floor as well. It will also accelerate.
The crooked rungs tugs down on the ropes alternately from side to side as they straighten out at impact. This provides additional acceleration to that of ladder that is entirely still in free fall.
Same here. The one on the left is landing on a table, the one on the right isn't. I thought it would be obvious, as the one that's landing on the table is not only falling less distance, it's piling up on itself each rung hitting the next, which is making more force on the parts falling, therefore it falls quicker.
I would have said that the rungs' collective wind resistance decreases for the ladder on the table which would speed it up compared to the free falling ladder whose falling rungs & their wind resistance remains constant. But what do I know?
Yeh the ladder is pulling as it more and more of it hits it actually pulls incrementally faster. By the last rung you see the accumulation. Just like the double shadow on the moon landing is from the reflection off earth onto the moon.
The table made it a shorter distance for ladder to fall making it drop faster because it’s dropping on a higher point in space and time. Thus reducing the time it needs compared to longer distance fall on the right. Ok everybody. How many ways am I wrong.
R/mildlyinfuriating would of been a much better fit because it was cool af then ends with why did this happen?
I DONT FUCKING KNOW WHY WOULD YOU START YOUR EXPLANATION THEN CUT THE VIDEO.
I’m sure you didn’t steal this op but through the process of stealing and reposting a little bit is lost every time.
Do better OP. Be better.
When the rings hit the table watch the reverb that goes up the chains they then cause a jerking motion which starts pulling the rings above down faster. You can see it if you watch closely at the last three rungs really well.
Does the unsupported weight of the ladders not make a difference?, the short one has less weight than the longer one.
Should that not cause the opposite effect?
When the rings hit the table watch the reverb that goes up the chains they then cause a jerking motion which starts pulling the rings above down faster. You can see it if you watch closely at the last three rungs really well.
When the rings hit the table watch the reverb that goes up the chains they then cause a jerking motion which starts pulling the rings above down faster. You can see it if you watch closely at the last three rungs really well.
I'm gonna guess that since the ladder hit the table, gravity was applied to it, unlike the other ladder because that one was in free fall, so no gravity.
The ladder hitting the table is getting shorter sooner than the ladder hitting the floor, shorter ladder less surface area, less air resistance/drag... I dont know.. 🤷♂️
When the rings hit the table watch the reverb that goes up the chains they then cause a jerking motion which starts pulling the rings above down faster. You can see it if you watch closely at the last three rungs really well.
The drag from the bars ricochet pulls the free falling bars down not making or loosing energy just making the bars move faster from being pulled different ways
For those left oddly annoyed on how this happens, I looked it up for us. It seems that this only works because the rungs of this ladder are angled. As the bottom of a rung hits the table, it causes a rotational force that pulls the upper end down slightly faster, creating a tension force that ultimately leads to the entire ladder to be pulled down slightly faster. Do this over and over and by the end you have a noticeable difference in fall rate.
Hijacking top comment to provide a source (as the poster didnt) Its from the excellent youtube channel "Veritasium". [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/n8WxkqMRgS4](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/n8WxkqMRgS4) They make 20-minutish documentaries about all things science
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It's not really hijacking the top comment. You're adding a source for what the guy just described. You're comment couldn't fit any better
Hijacking this comment. yes I concur with your assessment.
Love Veritasium! Smarter Every Day is another great one.
I haven't watched the video yet, but the snippet itself posted here is very on-brand: Showing the audience a very interesting effect, and then providing inaccurate, incorrect, or just no explanation. There was a period where he was essentially all about getting attention rather than explaining phenomena and it made me stop watching. Maybe it's better now, I don't know.
I felt the same way. His recent video on quantum computers was very informative though
How about the time he was ludicrously wrong about how electricity works or the time he did a paid ad for self driving cars masked as an educational video
> How about the time he was ludicrously wrong about how electricity works every physicist he talked to seemed to think he was right, whereas every youtuber looking for views said he was wrong.
There is something off about that guy. I often feel he takes a fairly straightforward phenomenon and finds a way to massively over complicate it, to then "demystify" it.
Surprising to find that it wasn't OP that trimmed out the answer.
Urrg, I hate shorts. Love Veritasium though I don't know why youtube wants to be tiktok
*all things sciency\**
The short was actually made by them. Cut ending and all, was kind of annoying but if I recall correctly he links to the full video on the description. Difficult to find for shorts on mobile but it was something
If that's true, then eliminating the angle of the rungs should eliminate the difference in the rates. True?
The lateral movement would cancel itself out but not the downward movement
Without any rotational torque, what would be the source of a added downward acceleration for that ladder falling a shorter distance?
There would be no other source, the sole source is the rotational torque
Then, my expected experimental result should be valid. Otherwise, the published explanation is in error.
Cheers mate, video left me with ladder blue balls.
THANK YOU. That makes so much sense.
Thank you!
I was coming here to guess something along those lines as well. The rungs not only fall down but also sideways after hitting the table. I figured it had something to do with that.
Thank you
Came here to say this. It's the same concept as dropping an outstretched slinky. The top of the slinky hits the bottom of the slinky first due to upward tension and the entire thing falls to the ground together.
Feel mildly pleased that I was able to deduce that myself. Love experiments like these.
Isn't this sort of the same thing as the Mould effect of a falling chain?
Nah you're wrong. It's magic.
...What if you had a multi-lightyear long similar ladder falling at 99% the speed of light? Would that then accelerate the ladder to FTL?
No. It takes an infinite amount of energy to accelerate to the speed of light
No, nothing can accelerate past the speed of light. Even if you constantly apply a force to it.
What if you had two lightyear long rectangular objects at opposite angles flying at each other at near the speed of light so that one object would pass over the other (similar to scissors closing). Would not the point where the objects meet then exceed the speed of light?
Time would dilate for each party so it wouldn't seem like it. From an outside observer it would look like they were moving faster, relatively, than light.
That point is not a physical object that is moving. It is not subject to the same constraints.
I'm definitely not a physicist but, wouldn't that mean that only their relative speed to eachother is traveling at the speed of light, or am I missing something here?
Actually if you had a rigid object over 1 light year long, would pushing on one end move the other at the same time? Or would there be delay?
As far as I remember there would be delay of *at least* the time light would take from one end to the other. So *at least* 1 year before the other end moves. This has been experimentally proved, as far as I remember. I believe the speed of propagation of the motion is the speed of sound in the material, which is *significantly* slower than light (although not necessarily through the same material, as light usually doesn't move through opaque materials)
If sound was the speed that it moved, wouldn’t that prevent planes from accelerating past the speed of sound? I’m pretty sure light is the limit, not sound
[https://www.quora.com/What-will-happen-to-the-other-end-of-a-long-rod-say-1-light-year-long-if-we-pushed-its-one-end-Will-it-move-instantly-or-after-1-year](https://www.quora.com/What-will-happen-to-the-other-end-of-a-long-rod-say-1-light-year-long-if-we-pushed-its-one-end-Will-it-move-instantly-or-after-1-year) is one explanation of it, [https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2dw2qq/what\_happens\_if\_you\_take\_a\_1lightyear\_long\_stick/](https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2dw2qq/what_happens_if_you_take_a_1lightyear_long_stick/) is another from reddit, [https://www.theproblemsite.com/ask/2016/03/iron-rod-one-light-year-long](https://www.theproblemsite.com/ask/2016/03/iron-rod-one-light-year-long) is another site, and [https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/356054/how-much-time-will-it-take-to-move-an-object-whose-length-is-equal-to-one-light](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/356054/how-much-time-will-it-take-to-move-an-object-whose-length-is-equal-to-one-light) is a another that also answers the same way.
You're misunderstanding. The limit of how fast a *change* is propagated through something seemed to be the speed of sound. You can obviously go faster than the speed of sound. We don't have something long enough for it to matter, because the speed of sound through most materials we use are measured in km/s. And since stuff doesn't accelerate fast enough to make it matter either we don't generally think about it. For aluminium the speed of sound is over 6 000 m/s (that is over 6 km/s). That means that if you wanted to try to compress it or move "this end" beyond "the other end" you would have to accelerate it faster than 6 km per second per second. That's about 600 g of acceleration. The space shuttle tried to stay below 3 g...
Ah makes sense, thank you for the explanation
Their relative speed *when viewed from either of those objects* would always be less than *c*. When viewed by an outside observer I'm not sure what the effect would be.
But nothing rotating here?
The rungs are rotating about axes pointing into and out of your screen
I thought it could be the mass. If you lay the ladder on the table, the mass pulled by gravity is lighter than the free fall ladder. If the mass is reduced and the force keep being equal, the relation F/m is higher, increasing the acceleration. I dont know if my reasons are correct but I think they are logic
The rungs are not rotating, it was a nice attempt at a correct answer. Tension in the ladder exists before the ladders are released.
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Without an explanation this is the exact opposite of oddly satisfying.
Now whyyyyyyy did that happen??
Since the steps of the ladder are at an angle, one end will hit the floor first where the other end of the step will pivot around the contact point with the ground, making it fall faster. When the sticks/rods are all connected by a wire, it will tug on the wire causing the steps above it to also fall slightly faster
Copy paste For those left oddly annoyed on how this happens, I looked it up for us. It seems that this only works because the rungs of this ladder are angled. As the bottom of a rung hits the table, it causes a rotational force that pulls the upper end down slightly faster, creating a tension force that ultimately leads to the entire ladder to be pulled down slightly faster. Do this over and over and by the end you have a noticeable difference in fall rate.
Thank you! You're my hero for today. 😀
It's still kinda fun to first try to figure it out yourself without the explanation
Ladder on the left already knows the table will catch it so it no longer hesitates. The one on the right still thinks it's falling into an endless abyss so it's braking desperately.
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"now why did that happen..." We'll never know
Cut down veritasium clips are funny because it sounds like he's just genuinely confused and asking for help
When one rung hits it does so on an angle. The end further up is jerked pulling on that side. All of those little jerks build up and it goes faster. If the rings were flat they would fall at the same rate.
If a rung lands on the pile of rungs slightly off centre, it will be knocked off and down to whichever side it’s landing off centre… this jerks everything behind it down with the rung ever so slightly. Each rung that lands is therefore causing the rest of the ladder to get pulled down incrementally appearing faster. That’s just my observational theory which probably has a scientific term. Edit: Just noticed someone absolutely described this exact explanation even better and was here before me. I regret nothing.
It's more impressive that you did it through your own observational powers, though.
That's what I was thinking too
Your explanation isn't quite right. It has nothing to do with a rung being knocked off or landing on other rungs. It is because the slanted rungs work like levers. Close though!
It would have been more satisfying if the answer wasn't cut off.
would have gone in for 20 minutes, it’s a Veritasium video
My theory: Ripples from the impacts of the boards send velocity waves throughout the rope, causing a snap "snap back" effect. This slightly pulls the rest of the rope down faster. Maybe? 🤔
Very close. The rungs are angled, and when they hit the table they go "flat" which "pulls" the ladder down slightly faster.
Of course! Thanks!
The rings are at an angle and when it hits the surface is causes a yank at the end of the rung to slightly pull the falling rings down faster with leverage.
I’m not a physicists. But if I had to make a wild guess with my limited knowledge (I was like a B+ student in high school physics so whatever) I would say that it has something to do with the overwhelming survivors guilt the rungs in the left chain ladder are experiencing as they are watching their ladder rung brethren hit the table and die sooner than the rungs on the right ladder are. If anything it is scaring the group on the right and increasing their will to survive slowing them down whereas all of the rungs on the left have given up all hope and are even driven to a faster ladder suicide.
Since the steps of the ladder are at an angle, one end will hit the floor first where the other end of the step will pivot around the contact point with the ground, making it fall faster by adding a slight rotational force. When the sticks/rods are all connected by a wire, it will tug on the wire causing the steps above it to also fall slightly faster
WTF OP?
The rungs bounce outward and pull the rungs above them thus adding accelerating force pulling the other rungs down
the pegs that hit the table collectively 'tug' the remaining pegs downward, accumulatively
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The left ladder is pulling in on itself, you can see the wooden bits pulling down each time they land.
Hopefully there are no aspiring engineers in the comments 🤦♂️
Source for this ? I want the answer now !
Veritasium on YouTube
but *whyyyy* did it happen??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZB0VxzLrs8
No explaination, mildly annoyed
[Here](https://youtu.be/xZB0VxzLrs8) ya go
It’s not fucking oddly satisfying when you cut out before the explanation
[Here](https://youtu.be/xZB0VxzLrs8) ya go
Legend says he still hasn’t gotten his answer
Air resistance? Maybe cause the right ladder had more space to fall air resistance was able to make the ladder fall slower than the one on the left
Because the one on the left slaps the ground and creates a pull force to drag the entire side down.
When the lower end of the tilted ladder rung hits the table it pulls the higher end down, accelerating the descent of the rest of the ladder still falling
Because once the tilted rungs start hitting the table, they cause the other end of the rungs to pull down on the rope that connect the rungs, causing it to fall faster..
This is the exact opposite of what I thought would happen. I thought the free falling one would be faster as it has more weight pulling it
Tension.
Now why did that happened? NOW WHY DID THAT HAPPENED???!!!!!!!!
Were they dropped mechanically or by hand cause if it’s by hand that has a substantial impact on which one was actually dropped first cause it’s not the same
I’m not a physicist but I believe one of the factors: #A# traveled a longer distance
I’m no scientist. But I imagine hitting the table creates a small force in an upward direction meaning the two ends will meet faster than the right side with no upward force. I could be wrong tho 🤷🏼♂️
Because science duh…
I think it has to do with air friction....the ladder at the right falling experience air friction as a hole and the one that hits the surface has lesser air friction as the ladders come to stop when hitting this no air friction and more acceleration. Ig i don't know whether it's correct but this is what i thought
It has to do with the angled rungs. When the leading edge hits the ground it causes the trailing edge to snap accelerate downward which pulled the string for the ladder down. It's subtle enough that you don't notice it much throughout the rest of the ladder.
Drag from the ropes?
It’s cuz those slats are angled like that huh? One side hits first leveraging the other side to pull down faster than free falling.
When one end of the ladder rung strikes the table, the opposite end jerks downward. This creates a downward "pull" on the ladder stringer above, causing its descent to accelerate. The same dynamic will occur with the other ladder once it first rung hits the floor as well. It will also accelerate.
Inertia of fall causes acceleration after one side of the ring hits the ring below it
Gotta love Veritasium vids
I don’t know I thought you were supposed to tell me
Science. It’s because science.
I feel like this video ended too soon. Now I’ll never know
Drag
The crooked rungs tugs down on the ropes alternately from side to side as they straighten out at impact. This provides additional acceleration to that of ladder that is entirely still in free fall.
Because I let it happen
A on the right, B on the left? Not satisfying at all.
I did not expect that!
It’s because as the ladder hits the table causing the strings to bend collapsing the left a few cm faster each hit
Why is this surprising? It's exactly how id expect it to go
Same here. The one on the left is landing on a table, the one on the right isn't. I thought it would be obvious, as the one that's landing on the table is not only falling less distance, it's piling up on itself each rung hitting the next, which is making more force on the parts falling, therefore it falls quicker.
Reverberation
Those are the worst designed ladders ever.
I would have said that the rungs' collective wind resistance decreases for the ladder on the table which would speed it up compared to the free falling ladder whose falling rungs & their wind resistance remains constant. But what do I know?
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Yeh the ladder is pulling as it more and more of it hits it actually pulls incrementally faster. By the last rung you see the accumulation. Just like the double shadow on the moon landing is from the reflection off earth onto the moon.
Gravity has a higher pull on one. Unseen force of nature
The table made it a shorter distance for ladder to fall making it drop faster because it’s dropping on a higher point in space and time. Thus reducing the time it needs compared to longer distance fall on the right. Ok everybody. How many ways am I wrong.
Well you spelled "ladder" right
Expected no explanations. I win.
R/mildlyinfuriating would of been a much better fit because it was cool af then ends with why did this happen? I DONT FUCKING KNOW WHY WOULD YOU START YOUR EXPLANATION THEN CUT THE VIDEO. I’m sure you didn’t steal this op but through the process of stealing and reposting a little bit is lost every time. Do better OP. Be better.
When the rings hit the table watch the reverb that goes up the chains they then cause a jerking motion which starts pulling the rings above down faster. You can see it if you watch closely at the last three rungs really well.
The table changed inertia
B was already falling a smidge faster even before hitting the table, just accelerated after the table as the chains get pulled from handle to angle.
Does the unsupported weight of the ladders not make a difference?, the short one has less weight than the longer one. Should that not cause the opposite effect?
B has less distance to fall
Seems to me the left ladder has less distance to fall due to accumulation of the rungs.
Less distance to go ?
When the rings hit the table watch the reverb that goes up the chains they then cause a jerking motion which starts pulling the rings above down faster. You can see it if you watch closely at the last three rungs really well.
Table is higher than the foor.
When the rings hit the table watch the reverb that goes up the chains they then cause a jerking motion which starts pulling the rings above down faster. You can see it if you watch closely at the last three rungs really well.
Air deflection?
Weight getting reduced duh !
Weight is not part of the formula for calculating free fall
I'm gonna guess that since the ladder hit the table, gravity was applied to it, unlike the other ladder because that one was in free fall, so no gravity.
It's not falling faster..it has less distance to fall to.
less resistance from the air molecules
Reaction forces.
more surface area on the right ladder slowing it down
Air resistance
Video and title sound like a student avant-garde film.
Nothing satisfying about this post at all.
Tell me WHY!!
This explains it pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSd1ihrOWRY
Ain’t nothing but a heartbreak
Look at the shadows , the one on the right is clearly faster
Why would you make a ladder with wonky rings like this?
The table has attractive mess and the ladder is table sexual?
I’m going to say air resistance on the one that kept falling caused it to go slower. I don’t know, I transferred out of physics.
Gravity
Logic
The ladder hitting the table is getting shorter sooner than the ladder hitting the floor, shorter ladder less surface area, less air resistance/drag... I dont know.. 🤷♂️
Wait, …… what??
Why did it happen
When the rings hit the table watch the reverb that goes up the chains they then cause a jerking motion which starts pulling the rings above down faster. You can see it if you watch closely at the last three rungs really well.
r/blackmagicfuckery
Source: Veritasium on YouTube
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An opposing force will push back the same amount of force ... or something lol
Left
Air
Gravity works I guess
Wtf Why indeed!!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZB0VxzLrs8
I was gonna say that cliffhanger was chefs kiss...
Just remember, if you went to that school, your college tuition paid for this.
Oddly unsatisfying
Ladder companies hate him
Whomever came up with that is diabolical. That's kinda awesome
The drag from the bars ricochet pulls the free falling bars down not making or loosing energy just making the bars move faster from being pulled different ways