Rhett Allain
@rhettallain.bsky.social
#physics stuff. WIRED blogger. #MythBusters #science and #MacGyver technical advisor.
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New #physics post - do rubber bands follow Hooke's law and act like springs? Here I use the Vernier go direct cart to collect data.
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Do Rubber Bands Follow Hooke’s Law Like Springs?
There are plenty of great uses for a rubber band. Personally, my favorite is to stretch one between by thumb and finger and then pluck it…
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November 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
New #physics post - do rubber bands follow Hooke's law and act like springs? Here I use the Vernier go direct cart to collect data.
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New #physics video - magnetic vector potential. I think making a 3D visual with #python really helps. #electrodynamics
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Electrodynamics: The Magnetic Vector Potential due to a Straight Wire
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November 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
New #physics video - magnetic vector potential. I think making a 3D visual with #python really helps. #electrodynamics
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Real World #physics - how fast would you have to run to parkour wall run the side of this curved bridge?
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Could You Use Physics to Wall-Run This Bridge?
Everybody loves parkour — it’s like when a human becomes a superhero and does the unthinkable. Oh, you think only Spider-Man runs on walls…
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November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Real World #physics - how fast would you have to run to parkour wall run the side of this curved bridge?
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Here’s my required #aroura pic from last night in #louisiana
November 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Here’s my required #aroura pic from last night in #louisiana
Here's my #physics explanation of calculating the magnetic field due to a line, a loop, and a solenoid. Oh, of course #python is included. #electrodynamics
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Magnetic Fields: From Lines to Loops to Solenoids
The electrodynamics course starts off with a bunch of electric field stuff. After that, it finally gets to magnetostatics (non-changing…
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November 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Here's my #physics explanation of calculating the magnetic field due to a line, a loop, and a solenoid. Oh, of course #python is included. #electrodynamics
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#physics meets #art - visualizing the magnetic field due to a solenoid with #python #vpython
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Electrodynamics: Visualizing the Magnetic Field due to a Solenoid
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October 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
#physics meets #art - visualizing the magnetic field due to a solenoid with #python #vpython
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New #physics #electrodynamics video - finding the magnetic field due a solenoid 3 ways: Ampere's law, Biot-Savart and #python (of course).
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Electrodynamics: Magnetic Field due to a Solenoid
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October 31, 2025 at 8:28 PM
New #physics #electrodynamics video - finding the magnetic field due a solenoid 3 ways: Ampere's law, Biot-Savart and #python (of course).
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New #physics #python video - visualizing the magnetic field due to a loop of current. Bonus: calculating the magnetic dipole moment for #electrodynamics
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Electrodynamics: Visualizing B due to Loop and the Magnetic Dipole Moment
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October 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
New #physics #python video - visualizing the magnetic field due to a loop of current. Bonus: calculating the magnetic dipole moment for #electrodynamics
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New #physics video - finding the magnetic field due to a loop of current. No tricks in this derivation - but I do it again with #python (you probably knew that). #electrodynamics
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Electrodynamics: Magnetic Field due to a Loop of Current
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October 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
New #physics video - finding the magnetic field due to a loop of current. No tricks in this derivation - but I do it again with #python (you probably knew that). #electrodynamics
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New #physics post - using a stair climber machine at the gym as a work energy homework problem.
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Does This Exercise Equipment Understand Physics? Let’s Find Out.
The university rec center updated their fitness equipment. With that, they put in these four stair climber machines (Matrix Performance…
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October 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
New #physics post - using a stair climber machine at the gym as a work energy homework problem.
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New #physics post - does Gauss's Law still work with dielectrics? This is basically a summary of the electric displacement field. #electrodynamics
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What Is the Electric Displacement Field and How Does It Cheat Physics?
We know that there are interactions between electrically charged objects. If two things have the same net electric charge, they will repel…
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October 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
New #physics post - does Gauss's Law still work with dielectrics? This is basically a summary of the electric displacement field. #electrodynamics
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New #physics post - what's the maximum grade road you could ride a bike up? There are three things to consider: power, friction, center of mass. #iteachphysics
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According to Physics, What Is the Steepest Gradient You Could Cycle?
A cycling race on completely flat roads might be a little boring — but also not very realistic as very few roads are without hills. So, if…
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October 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
New #physics post - what's the maximum grade road you could ride a bike up? There are three things to consider: power, friction, center of mass. #iteachphysics
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AAPT is pleased to announce that Rhett Allain has been selected to receive the 2026 Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award. The award will be presented during the 2026 AAPT Winter Meeting. Read more at ow.ly/UpA350Xe7e6 #AAPTAwards #AAPTWM26
October 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
AAPT is pleased to announce that Rhett Allain has been selected to receive the 2026 Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award. The award will be presented during the 2026 AAPT Winter Meeting. Read more at ow.ly/UpA350Xe7e6 #AAPTAwards #AAPTWM26
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Congratulations @rhettallain.bsky.social !🎢
AAPT is pleased to announce that Rhett Allain has been selected to receive the 2026 Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award. The award will be presented during the 2026 AAPT Winter Meeting. Read more at ow.ly/UpA350Xe7e6 #AAPTAwards #AAPTWM26
October 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Congratulations @rhettallain.bsky.social !🎢
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Immigrants Make Up More Than 30 Percent of Nobel Science Winners Since 2000 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys
The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.
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October 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Immigrants Make Up More Than 30 Percent of Nobel Science Winners Since 2000 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
As a #physics blogger, am I going to be replaced by AI? Maybe someday - but that day is not today. I asked AI to make a physics diagram for circular orbits. The results weren't too good.
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Can A.I. Make Physics Diagrams? Let’s Find Out.
I’m not sure if you already know this, but I often create physics diagrams for blog posts and stuff. Sometimes I even create stuff for…
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October 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
As a #physics blogger, am I going to be replaced by AI? Maybe someday - but that day is not today. I asked AI to make a physics diagram for circular orbits. The results weren't too good.
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New #physics #electrodynamics video - using #python to display the electric field due to dipole water molecule.
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Electrodynamics: Calculating the Electric Dipole Moment For Water
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October 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
New #physics #electrodynamics video - using #python to display the electric field due to dipole water molecule.
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New #physics post - mass vs. weight and measuring them with just a rubber band. #iteachphysics
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Rubber Band Physics: Measuring Weight* and Mass
What’s the difference between mass and weight and how do you measure both of them? Yes, that’s what we are going to do — measure these two…
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October 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
New #physics post - mass vs. weight and measuring them with just a rubber band. #iteachphysics
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Another look at Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) from this morning. Here's three 8-minutes exposures showing its motion against the background of the stars. 🔭
October 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Another look at Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) from this morning. Here's three 8-minutes exposures showing its motion against the background of the stars. 🔭
New #physics #electrodynamics video - 2 different ways to find the electric field from the dipole moment.
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Electrodynamics: Two Versions of the Electric Field due to a Dipole Moment
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October 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
New #physics #electrodynamics video - 2 different ways to find the electric field from the dipole moment.
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This #physics #electrodynamics video is for future-Rhett because he's going to forget how to make a quiver plot and contour plot due to an electric dipole. #python #iteachphysics
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Electrodynamics: Plotting the Potential and Electric Field for a Dipole with Python
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October 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This #physics #electrodynamics video is for future-Rhett because he's going to forget how to make a quiver plot and contour plot due to an electric dipole. #python #iteachphysics
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New #physics #electrodynamics video - finding the electric potential and electric field due to a dipole. #iteachphysics
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Electrodynamics: Finding the Electric Potential and Field due to a Dipole
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September 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
New #physics #electrodynamics video - finding the electric potential and electric field due to a dipole. #iteachphysics
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I came up with a new line that I like.
We don’t do science to get stuff, we get stuff because we do science
We don’t do science to get stuff, we get stuff because we do science
September 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I came up with a new line that I like.
We don’t do science to get stuff, we get stuff because we do science
We don’t do science to get stuff, we get stuff because we do science