“The potato is inertial”
July 1, 2022 3:54 PM   Subscribe

Potato physics with a knife is one of many videos made by Texas A&M University, featuring Prof. Tatiana Erukhimova, to have gone viral on TikTok. You can also find videos of Erukhimova on the Texas A&M physics and astronomy department’s YouTube channel, including such gems as Break a Ruler With Atmospheric Pressure, Pulling a Tablecloth with Inertia Physics and Will It Break? Egg Drop.
posted by Kattullus (10 comments total) 19 users marked this as a favorite
 
She seems totally, enthusiastically, into inertia as a thing. Delightful
posted by Windopaene at 4:04 PM on July 1, 2022 [2 favorites]


When I eat a lot of potatoes I definitely feel the added inertia.

Her energy and passion are infectious!
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:11 PM on July 1, 2022


This reminds me of how you're supposed to get an axe blade fully back on to its handle.
posted by clawsoon at 4:19 PM on July 1, 2022


These are wonderful. Wish I'd had her as a physics professor... though as I recall I had one not dissimilar! This sort of enthusiasm must be common in their genus.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 4:23 PM on July 1, 2022 [1 favorite]


Serious Julius Sumner Miller vibes. To be clear, I mean that as high praise.
posted by solotoro at 8:58 PM on July 1, 2022 [2 favorites]


Unbreaking eggs is it? Try pegging one over a house. Have done this with 2 out of 3 success: so about as good as Prof Erukhimova with her table clo(ooops)th.
posted by BobTheScientist at 11:04 PM on July 1, 2022


Julius Sumner Miller produced 46 demonstrations in physics, each about 15 minutes long. Such as this one on Bernoulli. I had enjoyed them as a teenager in the late 1970s and watched them all again about 3 years ago. I find him hilarious although YMMV.
posted by neuron at 11:11 PM on July 1, 2022 [2 favorites]


Good, that would be excellent to redirect my daughter towards worthy TikTok contents. Thanks Kat.
posted by nicolin at 4:10 AM on July 2, 2022 [1 favorite]


These are wonderful. It is one of the great joys of life to watch someone explain something that they love.
posted by gauche at 12:43 PM on July 2, 2022 [1 favorite]


Oh this is wonderful, thanks for sharing!
posted by Zumbador at 11:20 PM on July 2, 2022 [1 favorite]


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