Why Does A Spinning Top Lift Itself Up?

2021 ж. 29 Мам.
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I show you how the topsy turvy top works and how a top rights itself.
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  • "a pan of ice" probably the weirdest thing i heard in this video

    @dino6190@dino61903 жыл бұрын
    • Yeah, a pan of ice and fire. HBO is thinking about doing it as a mini series but totally fucking up the 8th and final season.

      @targuscinco@targuscinco3 жыл бұрын
    • @@targuscinco LOL

      @anonymousperson3433@anonymousperson34333 жыл бұрын
  • As the saying goes What spins around goes around

    @amadiohfixed1300@amadiohfixed13003 жыл бұрын
    • Nice user name

      @calebmadrid8367@calebmadrid83673 жыл бұрын
    • Bruh

      @tinytoonsMlg@tinytoonsMlg3 жыл бұрын
    • 😂 Bro why

      @s.banana7353@s.banana73533 жыл бұрын
    • Just like the blades of a ninja

      @69k_gold@69k_gold3 жыл бұрын
    • ANOTHER THING RELATED TO THE SERIES “PAC-MAN AND THE GHOSTLY ADVENTURES”

      @UnknownZ-nf7th@UnknownZ-nf7th2 жыл бұрын
  • The bird inside the egg be like "The wheels in the bus goes round and round"

    @axotato2629@axotato26293 жыл бұрын
    • 😂

      @shikharkumar734@shikharkumar7343 жыл бұрын
    • More like "WHAT IS GOING ON?!"

      @polydullmemes3497@polydullmemes34973 жыл бұрын
    • That might be egg of a snake 🐍

      @vibhav1319@vibhav13193 жыл бұрын
    • I'm gonna tell him

      @jacksondawn5629@jacksondawn56293 жыл бұрын
    • why are the wheels in the bus? shouldn't they be outside the bus?

      @bobert8125@bobert81253 жыл бұрын
  • I always learn something new from your channel. This one hit home with me! This one, and the forever spin top too have peaked my interest. Amazing!

    @BeybladeDad@BeybladeDad3 жыл бұрын
    • Can you kindly explain what you understood from this ? In a way i was not able to. Because to be honest he didn't explain anything related to physics at all.

      @mitu_pinju@mitu_pinju10 ай бұрын
  • I remember seeing this in a VSauce video. Seeing this here again is a treat as well. Great one TAL

    @unXpectedM@unXpectedM3 жыл бұрын
    • me too

      @Ashish.1.1@Ashish.1.13 жыл бұрын
    • *TAC

      @rosynguyen9075@rosynguyen90753 жыл бұрын
    • @@rosynguyen9075 the action cab??

      @iZetto1@iZetto13 жыл бұрын
    • Nvm he edited it

      @rosynguyen9075@rosynguyen90753 жыл бұрын
    • @@iZetto1 I wrote TLA instead of TAL. Then he corrected me with the wrong word. Everything was a mess lol

      @unXpectedM@unXpectedM3 жыл бұрын
  • You’re very fun to watch, sir. Always entertaining and informative. Of all KZhead channels, you are definitely one of my most consistently enjoyed ones.

    @forrest3491@forrest34913 жыл бұрын
  • Indians are pro at spinning traditional tops, miss my childhood. It is still practiced.

    @tora3492@tora34923 жыл бұрын
    • :')

      @HarshSharma-xu6oz@HarshSharma-xu6oz3 жыл бұрын
    • Yes brother

      @parshvpatel9644@parshvpatel96443 жыл бұрын
    • Also pro at street defacation

      @diobrando5415@diobrando54153 жыл бұрын
    • @@diobrando5415 you are pro at it I think as you directly talked about it , may be it is your strongest aspect

      @parshvpatel9644@parshvpatel96443 жыл бұрын
    • @@diobrando5415 Looks like you've a lot of experience watching them. What were you doing ? Looking at it, practicing and learning ?

      @tora3492@tora34923 жыл бұрын
  • Really you do what you said "one experiment is worth 1000 expert opinions." Thanks a lot action lab for teaching us in such a wonderful way.

    @archanasoni3495@archanasoni34953 жыл бұрын
  • This is alot like how orbits change when thrust is applied perpendicular to the orbital trajectory, 90 degrees ahead and behind will raise or fall depending on thrust direction changing an equatorial orbit all the way upto a polar orbit.

    @ikitclaw7146@ikitclaw71463 жыл бұрын
    • The good doggo approves of this

      @CT--tm2zm@CT--tm2zm3 жыл бұрын
  • “The center of mass of the egg is the center” “Ah yes, the floor here is made out of floor”

    @anonymousperson3433@anonymousperson34333 жыл бұрын
    • The center of the floor is the center of the floor

      @vuquangminh6482@vuquangminh64822 жыл бұрын
    • The center of the egg is the yolk

      @sanskritiseries2890@sanskritiseries28902 жыл бұрын
    • no most objects don't have their center of mass at the center. This only holds for symmetrically mass-balanced bodies.

      @ujjwal2473@ujjwal24732 жыл бұрын
  • A spinning top is not just a childs toy. in the sense that it helps to have a PhD in physics to figure out how it works. Besides, some adults DO play with spinning tops (check the web), and some make very elegant ones (see). A spinning top is remarkable because it tends to defy gravity while it is spinning. If spun fast enough, a spinning top will rise to a vertical position and happily stay there, despite the fact that it will fall over if it stops spinning. A spinning egg is just as amazing. If a hard-boiled egg is spun fast enough it will rise up and spin on one end. A tippe top does something similar, but is even more spectacular. It turns itself completely upside down and ends up spinning with its peg underneath the sphere that was originally spinning underneath the peg used to spin it. The basic physics behind all these effects is that a torque is required to rotate an object. The torque is equal to the rate of change of angular momentum. There is nothing magic about that. It is the rotational equivalent of what happens when an object accelerates along a straight line. In that case, the force on the object is equal to the rate of change of its momentum. Angular momentum is similar to linear momentum, but it refers to motion in a circular rather than a straight line path. Usually, the torque acting on a spinning top is just due to the weight of the top. If the top is perfectly upright there is no torque acting on it but if it leans sideways then it will tend to fall over due to the torque about the bottom end. It will indeed fall over if it is not spinning. If it is spinning then it does something else. Instead of falling down, it �falls� sideways. That�s the amazing part. The effect is described as precession, and is explained in simple terms below. A spinning top precesses slowly around a vertical axis through its point of support while it spins rapidly about its own axis. The usual �explanation� is that the change in angular momentum must be in the same direction as the torque on the top - that is, in the sideways direction. The spin axis must move sideways instead of down, but that is just stating the observed facts in fancy technical words.

    @aioallinone7128@aioallinone71283 жыл бұрын
    • I didnt notice how long did i type .... Just went keep on writing

      @aioallinone7128@aioallinone71283 жыл бұрын
    • Hoping for action lab to reply my comment

      @aioallinone7128@aioallinone71283 жыл бұрын
    • As a matter of fact, I have some toy tops of my own, they are called Beyblades!

      @dinothemcboy9219@dinothemcboy92193 жыл бұрын
  • I pretty much watch all your videos. I look forward to them. I love the science and the novelty!

    @timmusician5060@timmusician50603 жыл бұрын
  • Another nice job. Keep them coming brada!

    @snakedoktor6020@snakedoktor60203 жыл бұрын
  • friendship with Beyblade ended, now Topsy Turvy Top is my new friend.

    @returneefromthemoon@returneefromthemoon3 жыл бұрын
    • NO BEYBLADE FOREVER

      @wanderermain445@wanderermain4453 жыл бұрын
  • I've seen another video on the egg portion of the video and they talked about angular momentum but they never talked about how you need friction for it to work. Nice video!

    @danielyuan9862@danielyuan98623 жыл бұрын
  • This is cool. It reminds me of a video on another channel where they describe the force on a charge in a electromagnetic field and how the result is the charge travelling a circular path.

    @rockinrobin9093@rockinrobin90933 жыл бұрын
  • Fantastic brother, your explanation is great and you make people happy

    @neerajbaishya6502@neerajbaishya65023 жыл бұрын
  • I remember this toy from V-sauce

    @biznisman9406@biznisman94063 жыл бұрын
    • ايه ده جالى فى الاقاراحات V-sauce

      @omarhamza1492@omarhamza14923 жыл бұрын
    • @@omarhamza1492 الصدفة الاسطورية😆

      @biznisman9406@biznisman94063 жыл бұрын
  • Awesome work my dude 🙂

    @FIXDIY@FIXDIY3 жыл бұрын
  • the chik in the egg: *screaming*

    @FraQuelloDiQuazzo@FraQuelloDiQuazzo3 жыл бұрын
  • Great video and explanation as always. Have you or could you do an explanation video on the process by which a spinning gyroscope somehow loses weight?

    @brewski9456@brewski94563 жыл бұрын
  • GREAT EXPLANATION SIR.

    @Eswar_16.0@Eswar_16.03 жыл бұрын
  • Your channel is really giving much more knowledge than any school or school textbooks......... Never Gonna leave your channel, sir.👍

    @lewisoutten1610@lewisoutten16103 жыл бұрын
  • I love this channel.

    @kringhetto@kringhetto3 жыл бұрын
  • As a follow-up, perhaps look at the physics which causes some items to spin stably with their centre of mass as high as it can be. I have a ring, with a stone in a claw setting, whose centre of mass is heavily biased towards the stone. Whatever orientation I initiate a spin from, it always ends up spinning with the stone uppermost.

    @weevilinabox@weevilinabox3 жыл бұрын
  • Thank you so much.

    @johneonas6628@johneonas66283 жыл бұрын
  • That's one Interesting Toy! 🤔

    @arvindarvimass@arvindarvimass3 жыл бұрын
  • love your videos

    @itsjaroo@itsjaroo3 жыл бұрын
  • That was so simple and it took me this much time to learn this fact!

    @shanusays@shanusays3 жыл бұрын
    • The concepts involved in spinning objects are not simple, and many are counterintuitive.

      @tomterrific9459@tomterrific94593 жыл бұрын
  • Huh I always thought it was from force of the spin making the opposite side of where it was pushed rise back up (somewhat hard to explain without visual aid). Because of the tilt, the spin would be directed slightly upwards continuing to correct itself with each "throw" until it comes to rest completely upright again. Interesting video glad I know what really causes it now lol. Thanks!

    @jakehero95@jakehero953 жыл бұрын
  • I just bought a top and this video came at rhe perfect time!

    @corniferjr3300@corniferjr33003 жыл бұрын
  • "You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby right round round round".

    @MZPHWx@MZPHWx3 жыл бұрын
  • I actually loved it 🤩👍

    @hakhil3047@hakhil30473 жыл бұрын
  • I had this question from years!!!

    @annibot5124@annibot51243 жыл бұрын
  • My school is starting this week, but I started learning today 😂

    @sumanc2kster@sumanc2kster3 жыл бұрын
  • Wow what a practical example

    @legendaryexperiments7003@legendaryexperiments70033 жыл бұрын
  • My teacher should try like this tutorial... she can go home early to finish her class with 100% student understood and happy with your class 😍☺️

    @pandemicrespond8429@pandemicrespond84293 жыл бұрын
  • I've observed this in Beyblade with ball shaped tips (conical tips do sometimes do this as well but they aren't a perfect cone that comes to a defined point usually).

    @IkaSternenlicht@IkaSternenlicht3 жыл бұрын
  • That was really interesting, makes sense why is the top would upright itself

    @Leverguns50@Leverguns503 жыл бұрын
  • As someone who grew up obsessed with beyblades, for once i knew exactly what is going on right away.

    @RprShadow@RprShadow3 жыл бұрын
  • I love these videos.

    @jeremydeansausages1985@jeremydeansausages19852 жыл бұрын
  • Interesting again! Where do you get all your ideas from?

    @math_the_why_behind@math_the_why_behind3 жыл бұрын
  • Memories flowing

    @naidesurin@naidesurin2 жыл бұрын
  • I'm more impressed that you were able to spin that egg

    @kagiriearakan516@kagiriearakan5163 жыл бұрын
  • Love from 🇧🇼 Botswana ❤️

    @Kozibaw@Kozibaw3 жыл бұрын
  • Speaking of spinning tops, I was wondering about the science behind the concept of spin stealing in Beyblade. I never quite understood it but it looks very cool.

    @brwhite5368@brwhite53683 жыл бұрын
  • I like this man very much

    @fabtube7059@fabtube70593 жыл бұрын
  • Gyroscopic precession is taken into account with helicopter flight controls at the hub. You can see the input that pushes and tilts the rotor head is offset.

    @thedanpalen1@thedanpalen13 жыл бұрын
  • Hi! Here's an idea for a new video! Inspired by the latest Veritasium video. As I was trying to understand how that contraption works if it works at all, I got quite submerged into sailing and wind speeds. So, when I was trying to understand how come that the apparent wind speed is bigger than the real one, if boat travels perpendicular to the real wind, this idea came to my mind. The wind, that blows from the front of the boat, comes from the energy, stored in a kinetic form, of a wind that blew previously. So we can say that it is sort of the "wind from the past". And apparent wind is a sum of the actual and former wind. Simple, but a bit mind blowing concept, if you think about it :D

    @martinsancitis7566@martinsancitis75663 жыл бұрын
  • This is soo amazing

    @srineeka1388@srineeka13883 жыл бұрын
  • I learned about the 90° out of phase with rc helicopters. To move forward, apply lift right side of the rotor disc if spinning clockwise.

    @madhatter8088@madhatter80883 жыл бұрын
  • You learn something new everyday

    @GangstaVic@GangstaVic3 жыл бұрын
  • This is something I'd expect to see on grand illusions

    @rimblesag9446@rimblesag94462 жыл бұрын
  • You could be the new Mr. Wizard!!

    @Saint0914@Saint09143 жыл бұрын
  • You spin me right round friction right round Potential energy right round gravity right round

    @TheAdvertisement@TheAdvertisement2 жыл бұрын
  • Imagine being an embryo in that egg and you go on a crazy top-spinning experiment. Talk about vertigo.

    @jeremyhume5563@jeremyhume55633 жыл бұрын
  • Great video

    @rajendrakhanvilkar9362@rajendrakhanvilkar93623 жыл бұрын
  • So can we say that the normal reaction is non-uniformly distributed which leads to non-uniform frictional force at different points which produces torque to counter or even outforce the torque due to gravity along the rotation axis. Hence lifting the top.

    @gaussiit4855@gaussiit48552 жыл бұрын
  • At 1:09 I'm guessing it has something to do with angular momentum. Maybe a component points straight down? Edit: well, half correct 😞

    @eccentricOrange@eccentricOrange3 жыл бұрын
  • Mah dude I'm one of your fan in facebook and I just realised that you have KZhead channel

    @AmbatukamOfficial331@AmbatukamOfficial3313 жыл бұрын
  • Out of all the forces possible I wasn't expecting friction to do that, even though I knew that beyblades wouldn't spin on the platform covered in ice

    @69k_gold@69k_gold3 жыл бұрын
  • what a coincidence. i was thinking about ding topsy turvy video just before i got reccomended this video

    @sutapadey5274@sutapadey52743 жыл бұрын
  • It so cool i need it!

    @abhishekyaduvanshiji5175@abhishekyaduvanshiji51753 жыл бұрын
  • Sir can you demonstrate and teach something with gyroscopes please

    @sam-kk7dd@sam-kk7dd2 жыл бұрын
  • I hoped you had explained the vector component thing.

    @mdderrek9280@mdderrek92803 жыл бұрын
  • Hello Action lab buddy I wanted to know experimentally that if boiling point of water increases with increasing atmospheric pressure than What will be its boiling point in vacuum?

    @Ashish-mr1nl@Ashish-mr1nl3 жыл бұрын
  • I remember having a plastic-thin propeller like top which would spin on ceiling for a few seconds

    @anmolkumar6704@anmolkumar67043 жыл бұрын
  • This is how Gyro actually taught Johnny spin

    @silvasen1985@silvasen19853 жыл бұрын
    • Arigato... Gyro...

      @vishankpanchbhavi7054@vishankpanchbhavi70543 жыл бұрын
  • This is very amusing

    @mayaalvarez205@mayaalvarez2053 жыл бұрын
  • Will you cross upload to lbry/odysee?

    @morsmortium6582@morsmortium65823 жыл бұрын
  • moment of inertia can be used to explain easily

    @physics3566@physics35663 жыл бұрын
  • This guy does short videos but smart videos And this toy really really cool 🤩🤩🤩😊😊😊

    @jadenautry2033@jadenautry20333 жыл бұрын
  • When you learn Science and still have fun:

    @sophiedenise@sophiedenise3 жыл бұрын
  • Fun fact this is what they use on warships to keep them stable

    @typo9401@typo94013 жыл бұрын
  • If you attach a magnet to the top, when you attract it will it go towards the magnet or 90 degrees off?

    @PitchWheel@PitchWheel3 жыл бұрын
  • too much fun

    @MammaOVlogs@MammaOVlogs3 жыл бұрын
  • Watch some part of it in 0.25 speed he will look like he's drunk

    @GlenStic@GlenStic3 жыл бұрын
  • Connecting the oscilloscope album to an oscilloscope

    @buffed103@buffed1033 жыл бұрын
  • Conservation of angular momentum translates to pressures that right the top.

    @Hotlooksamerica@Hotlooksamerica3 жыл бұрын
  • you just explained the simple physics by which the military has used to operate antigravity craft for decades.

    @msyager@msyager3 жыл бұрын
  • I'm actually amazed that people like him are on youtube, I mean there's mark rober, veritasium and more, like wow

    @ulrichmaekolgonzales8131@ulrichmaekolgonzales81313 жыл бұрын
  • Sir, I want to understand why a rolling wheel can balance vertically and not a stationary wheel? Could you please explain it practically?

    @bharath_b@bharath_b3 жыл бұрын
  • Quick question does it matter which hand you use to spin it for that opposite thingymagic to happen?

    @RichDreamz87@RichDreamz873 жыл бұрын
  • Can we make water artificially by mixing the gases and compressing them?

    @ambilyvenugopal9172@ambilyvenugopal91723 жыл бұрын
  • this time i got short on explanation, i didn't quite get it, better a second part

    @No_id.@No_id.3 жыл бұрын
  • if you hold a weight vertically it would seem heavier but when you swing it back and forth the weight becomes lighter because the gravity can't force it because it's Centre of mass is not stable but you would feel the weight's pressure on your shoulder's top. Like this phenomenon so what if we use anti-gravitional force then can we float?

    @Ali-bw5sl@Ali-bw5sl3 жыл бұрын
  • increible 😮

    @Dariansumecha@Dariansumecha2 жыл бұрын
  • This is actually why actuators on helicopter main rotors are angled 90 degrees from the movement you want to get from them =)

    @fridaycaliforniaa236@fridaycaliforniaa2362 жыл бұрын
  • Can you please tell me where can i buy a toy just like the one you have (Topsy Turvy) . i have been surching the internet i couldn't find anything

    @yazankilany4741@yazankilany47413 жыл бұрын
  • Yes

    @NightySevenn@NightySevenn3 жыл бұрын
  • What would happen if the pressure in a horizontal cylindrical tank filled with saturated water at 2.35 bar drops down to 1 bar (opens to atmosphere). I am expecting approximately 4% of the water will turn into vapour which will push the liquid out of the tank. And lot of water (probably far more than 4%) will be expelled out. It will be great to know how much will actually expel out.

    @psnaruto@psnaruto3 жыл бұрын
  • If you spun it suspended in the air and somehow applied a force to the bottom momentarily, would it go up?

    @brycerush98@brycerush983 жыл бұрын
  • 0:32 peahat spin creature from legend of zelda oot

    @Lordoggin@Lordoggin3 жыл бұрын
  • I would show this to my younger brother

    @tansinsami6253@tansinsami62532 жыл бұрын
  • Can you put a solid block of normal ice in the vacuum chamber?

    @chiefgstar8966@chiefgstar89663 жыл бұрын
  • Action Lab SHORTS!?!?! Sheesh... the clothing options are endless.

    @RealRickCox@RealRickCox3 жыл бұрын
  • good science experiments

    @henrywang1762@henrywang17622 жыл бұрын
  • There are also spinning things that turn themselves over upside down, and one that turn in only one direction.

    3 жыл бұрын
  • I did this with a spaghetti squash the other day and was wondering what the heck was happening!

    @aquatrout@aquatrout3 жыл бұрын
  • "This should be weird to you"

    @gannonruby1119@gannonruby11193 жыл бұрын
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