Not everyone has the same foundational understanding of physics as you do. E.g. I personally didn't understand the differences between pressure, force, and weight before watching this. Nor were...
Not everyone has the same foundational understanding of physics as you do. E.g. I personally didn't understand the differences between pressure, force, and weight before watching this. Nor were the major topics discussed in the video (hydrostatics and Stevin's law) intuitively understandable for me until I heard Steve's explanations and saw his visual models illustrating the principles. And I'd say that him managing to get me to actually understand all those concepts within 13 minutes is quite an impressive feat... Which is why I shared it here, in case anyone else could similarly benefit from watching it.
I think the video was well-paced. I likely have a stronger background in physics than the average Youtube viewer, but I haven’t taken a fluid mechanics class so the second demonstration in the...
I think the video was well-paced. I likely have a stronger background in physics than the average Youtube viewer, but I haven’t taken a fluid mechanics class so the second demonstration in the video was new to me. The video didn’t belabor one point but showed different applications of the same principle, which is a great educational technique.
I also think your perspective on education is a bit miscalibrated. Most high schoolers only ever make it to Physics 1, where force diagrams are first introduced. Many students in those classes likely couldn’t explain what’s going on here, especially in the second demonstration because of the implicit pressure gradient.
The video certainly is trivial to someone who has taken a introductory fluid mechanics class and is used to those forces, but I think that’s fewer people than you’d think.
Not everyone has the same foundational understanding of physics as you do. E.g. I personally didn't understand the differences between pressure, force, and weight before watching this. Nor were the major topics discussed in the video (hydrostatics and Stevin's law) intuitively understandable for me until I heard Steve's explanations and saw his visual models illustrating the principles. And I'd say that him managing to get me to actually understand all those concepts within 13 minutes is quite an impressive feat... Which is why I shared it here, in case anyone else could similarly benefit from watching it.
I think the video was well-paced. I likely have a stronger background in physics than the average Youtube viewer, but I haven’t taken a fluid mechanics class so the second demonstration in the video was new to me. The video didn’t belabor one point but showed different applications of the same principle, which is a great educational technique.
I also think your perspective on education is a bit miscalibrated. Most high schoolers only ever make it to Physics 1, where force diagrams are first introduced. Many students in those classes likely couldn’t explain what’s going on here, especially in the second demonstration because of the implicit pressure gradient.
The video certainly is trivial to someone who has taken a introductory fluid mechanics class and is used to those forces, but I think that’s fewer people than you’d think.