Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Happy Twos-Day Tuesday! Please donate to WaterAid using the fundraising link on this video or direct at wateraid.org It's ridiculous that in 2022 not every human can go for a safe and sanitary number two.
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Ben Sparks - youtube.com/SparksMaths
Ayliean MacDonald - youtube.com/Ayliean
Grant '3Blue1Brown' - youtube.com/3blue1brown
Brady 'Numberphile' - youtube.com/numberphile
Hannah Fry - youtube.com/watch?v=Rzhpf1Ai7Z4
Simone Giertz - youtube.com/simonegiertz
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Geoff Marshall - youtube.com/geofftech2
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Eddie Woo - youtube.com/misterwootube
Vi Hart - youtube.com/Vihart
Rohin 'Medlife Crisis' - youtube.com/MedlifeCrisis
'Tom Rocks Maths' - youtube.com/TomRocksMaths
Destin Sandlin - youtube.com/smartereveryday
Tom Scott - youtube.com/TomScottGo
and VFX by Eugénie Von Tunzelmann - imdb.com/name/nm1590981
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CORRECTIONS
- Ok, I'll try to keep track of corrections but this one could be a wild ride. Let me know if you spot any significant mistakes!
- PS And I'll admit one correction right now: the titles claims 22 YouTubers but Ayliean is mainly a TikToker; Hannah Fry doesn't have her own channel and nor does Eugénie. But they all do loads of work on, in and with YouTube videos!
Filming of each clip was done by whoever is in the shot.
Editing by Alex Genn-Bash. It has aged him 22 years.
Stupid idea by Matt Parker with help from Steve Mould and Grant Sanderson.
Music by Howard Carter
Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson
English subtitles thanks to the world's greatest team of volunteers.
MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician
Website: standupmaths.com
US book: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610964/humble-pi-by-matt-parker
UK book: mathsgear.co.uk/collections/books/products/humble-pi-signed-paperback
Happy Twos-Day Tuesday! Please donate to WaterAid using the fundraising link on this video or direct at wateraid.org It's ridiculous that in 2022 not every human can go for a safe and sanitary number two.
Continue this video on Steve Mould Shorts: youtube.com/shorts/267MQF1z2PU
And then on Numberphile 2: youtu.be/2XKuG7cA03A
This video featured these humans. If you enjoyed their clip here: please do visit their channel and subscribe to them. Let's keep the edu-tuber community growing!
James Grime - youtube.com/singingbanana
Katie Steckles - youtube.com/KatieSteckles
Steve Mould - youtube.com/SteveMould
Ben Sparks - youtube.com/SparksMaths
Ayliean MacDonald - youtube.com/Ayliean
Grant '3Blue1Brown' - youtube.com/3blue1brown
Brady 'Numberphile' - youtube.com/numberphile
Hannah Fry - youtube.com/watch?v=Rzhpf1Ai7Z4
Simone Giertz - youtube.com/simonegiertz
Mehdi 'ElectroBOOM' - youtube.com/Electroboom
Mithuna 'Looking Glass Universe' - youtube.com/LookingGlassUniverse
Geoff Marshall - youtube.com/geofftech2
Jade 'Up and Atom' - youtube.com/UpandAtom
Jeremy Fielding - youtube.com/JeremyFieldingSr
Eddie Woo - youtube.com/misterwootube
Vi Hart - youtube.com/Vihart
Rohin 'Medlife Crisis' - youtube.com/MedlifeCrisis
'Tom Rocks Maths' - youtube.com/TomRocksMaths
Destin Sandlin - youtube.com/smartereveryday
Tom Scott - youtube.com/TomScottGo
and VFX by Eugénie Von Tunzelmann - imdb.com/name/nm1590981
Cheers to my Patreon supporters and everyone who supports all of the above content creators. We wouldn't have a such a variety of people doing this for a living if it was not for the dedicated audience who chip in. You can also help support and shape the videos I make: patreon.com/standupmaths
CORRECTIONS
- Ok, I'll try to keep track of corrections but this one could be a wild ride. Let me know if you spot any significant mistakes!
- PS And I'll admit one correction right now: the titles claims 22 YouTubers but Ayliean is mainly a TikToker; Hannah Fry doesn't have her own channel and nor does Eugénie. But they all do loads of work on, in and with YouTube videos!
Filming of each clip was done by whoever is in the shot.
Editing by Alex Genn-Bash. It has aged him 22 years.
Stupid idea by Matt Parker with help from Steve Mould and Grant Sanderson.
Music by Howard Carter
Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson
English subtitles thanks to the world's greatest team of volunteers.
MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician
Website: standupmaths.com
US book: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610964/humble-pi-by-matt-parker
UK book: mathsgear.co.uk/collections/books/products/humble-pi-signed-paperback









![How fast is a bullet? [featuring: pendulum calculation]
Thanks to the Cambridge Engineering Department for building the pendulum.
http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/
Much appreciation to Maria Kettle and Cambridge Engineering Outreach for organising the day.
http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/events-and-outreach/schools-and-community-outreach
And Hugh was there.
http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~hemh1/
The Cambridge University Rifle Association were super helpful and let us take over their range for most of the day! Katherine Fleck was our expert shooter with infinite patience.
http://cura.soc.srcf.net/
If you have other suggestions for calculating the speed of a bullet: let me know!
CORRECTIONS
- At 3:17 the close-up shows the sliding box already taped to a piece of paper. I only noticed when uploading that we had used this shot from later in the day by accident. It should have been the shot of the box sliding off the pendulum platform. Our solution to fix this problem was to tape it to a piece of paper.
- A few people have asked why we didn’t use a “chronograph”. We did actually use one which detects the movement of the bullet using infrared sensors. But the .22 bullet was too small to trip them.
- People have commented that we didn’t need to use the equation for the period as we know the length of the pendulum and the value of g. But the period is really easy to measure accurately by letting the pendulum swing for ages. Length could be measured fairly accurately (guessing the centre of mass) but g would require an extra assumption.
- Let me know if you spot anything else!
Thanks to my Patreon supports who do support these videos and make them possible. Here is a random subset:
Nicholas Main
Julian Metzler
Amanda Pagul
Christopher Wilson
Claire Greenhalgh
Support my channel and I can make more maths videos:
https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths
Music by Howard Carter
Filming and editing by Trunkman Productions
Sound production by Peter Doggart
Design by Simon Wright
MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician
Website: http://standupmaths.com/
NEW BOOKk: http://wwwh.umble-pi.com
Nerdy maths toys: http://mathsgear.co.uk/ How fast is a bullet? [featuring: pendulum calculation]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IoYm8lcJQ0o/mqdefault.jpg)
