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What Physics Teachers Get Wrong About Tides!

We all know tides have something to do with gravity from the Moon and Sun, but if gravity affects the motion of all objects equally, then how come oceans have large tides while other bodies of water don't? It's because your mental picture of the tides is probably WRONG!
Season 1 Episode 24 Length 09:09 Premiere: 09/05/15

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Season 1 Episodes

Do Events Inside Black Holes Happen?
S1 E25 Length 11:50 Premiere Date 04/28/16

What Physics Teachers Get Wrong About Tides!
S1 E24 Length 09:09 Premiere Date 09/05/15

General Relativity & Curved Spacetime Explained!
S1 E23 Length 08:52 Premiere Date 07/29/15

Can You Trust Your Eyes in Spacetime?
S1 E22 Length 09:23 Premiere Date 07/15/15

The Leap Second Explained
S1 E21 Length 02:20 Premiere Date 07/08/15

Can a Circle Be a Straight Line?
S1 E20 Length 08:16 Premiere Date 07/02/15

The Calendar, Australia & White Christmas
S1 E19 Length 05:48 Premiere Date 06/24/15

How to Signal Aliens
S1 E18 Length 06:14 Premiere Date 06/17/15

Is Gravity An Illusion?
S1 E17 Length 10:17 Premiere Date 06/03/15

Habitable Exoplanets Debunked!
S1 E16 Length 10:46 Premiere Date 05/27/16

Could You Fart Your Way to the Moon?
S1 E9 Length 05:55 Premiere Date 04/08/16

Space Used to Be Orange!!
S1 E7 Length 05:27 Premiere Date 03/25/15

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