Bill Nye ’77 on the physics of flying discs
During a visit to the Cornell University campus, “Science Guy” Bill Nye ’77 weighs in on the workings of Frisbee-type saucers (and plays a round of disc golf).
During a visit to the Cornell University campus, “Science Guy” Bill Nye ’77 weighs in on the workings of Frisbee-type saucers (and plays a round of disc golf).
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Finding out that Bill Nye plays my favorite sport just made my day
@raddaks2039
Ай бұрын
The inner child in me is very happy.
@JacksonOwex
Ай бұрын
@@raddaks2039 The child in me feels OLD seeing him getting old!
@beenschmokin
Ай бұрын
He also thinks little boys are trapped in girl's bodies...
@Javaman92
Ай бұрын
Same here, disc golf rocks!
@Janiix89
Ай бұрын
Right?!
Never would have thought Billy Nye the Science Guy would teach me about Disc Golf. But I am here for it!
@seymourglass26
Ай бұрын
But now that you're seeing it, are you surprised? I mean, it's basically aerospace engineering in sport form.
@cable7152
Ай бұрын
@seymourglass26 it makes perfect sense actually, not surprised at all he plays disc golf.
@jeffreyhomburg822
Ай бұрын
He was an Ultimate player and coach back in the 1970s and he's been playing disc golf more in recent years, with players like Stork (#003) and other legends of the game!
Playing a round with Bill Nye goes straight on the bucket list
PLEASE PLEASE DO AN ADVANCED PHYSICS TUTORIAL SERIES ON DISC FLIGHT 🙏 Bill Nye the Disc Flight Guy
@ryanfawcett33
Ай бұрын
He's no Bill Nye, but this was an excellent video made a month ago on the physics of why discs fly the way they do! I learned so much. kzread.info/dash/bejne/mIBopsp6fczPeKw.html&ab_channel=PeteUlibarri
@jackto7669
Ай бұрын
Please!
@commonbrown
Ай бұрын
We need this content!
@jpric155
28 күн бұрын
IM GLAD IM NOT THE ONLY PERSON TYPING IN ALL CAPS HERE
Forget flight numbers, I need equations on my discs.
We need Bill Nye on a Jomezpro practise round!
@EricJenkinsDiscGolf
Ай бұрын
This would be epic 🤘
I NEED MORE OF THIS! Bill please! I beg you! Do a 30 minute special on the dynamics of discs in flight! PLEASE!
@tomholton6912
Ай бұрын
Second this
One of the disc golf companies better make a bill nye “tour” series disc
The Dark Art of Disc Golf!!!
He throws like an ultimate player.....awesome to see one of my favorite guys playing my favorite sport. Been showing his show to my students for years and there's nothing better.
@ar374
Ай бұрын
I believe he played ultimate for the Buds when he attended CU
@sethgreenwood6488
28 күн бұрын
It says in the video that he started an ultimate team
More physics on disc golf... More More More More 😊
Is no one going to talk about the fact that he is throwing all green discs? Savage
BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL ! the og
My favorite “scientist” plays my favorite sport, at 77. Hero.
@fishiefish6179
Ай бұрын
He’s 68. The title is saying he graduated class of ‘77. I thought it said he was 77 at first too lol
Love to hear Bill break the flight physics down!
That needed to be much, much longer. More Bill playing disc golf please!
BUT BILL, HOW DO I GET MY HYZERS TO BE NOSE DOWN?
@njott1021
Ай бұрын
Pour the coffee!
1:19 for a crushed putt
This is so awesome 🤘 it's nice to hear the science behind my favorite sport. Also to know that Bill plays it is crazy 🙌
Now I want to see a Bill Nye In the bag, I NEED to know what discs he throws!!!
I ran into Bill Nye years ago while picking up hiking permits at the base of Mount St. Helens. Saw him again along the rim. He was strapping on backcountry skis. Next to glissading down the mountain, meeting Bill in his natural environment was the highlight of the trip.
Bill Nye the Disc Golf Guy!! ❤️🥏⛓️🤙
It's always so awesome to see disc golf hit the mainstream!!
Love Bill hes awesome!! Glad he loved DG just like I do
As a fellow hucker of discs this absolutely was the best thing to pass by my feed all day
I would love to play disc golf with Bill Nye.
What's up Bill! Thanks for playing! They used to show us your science videos in school. Ive seen alot of them. Glad to see you enjoy the sport as well.
Love this! I've been playing disc golf since 1994! 🥏🥏🥏🥏
Amazing one liner at the end
I hope Bill Nye lives FOREVER!!!
Nice team stamp! Would love to hear more about gyroscopic procession, off axis torque, and all the other factors that go into this dark art!!!
This is amazing!
I love that Cornell's logo looks like a disc golf basket.
god, I love Bill.
Air foil crates lift, spin creates stability, force creates forward movement. It works basically like a glider if the wings were 360° Love this man and this sport - Flight Instructor
LOVE IT!! 🥰
Bill Nye the disc golf guy!
Bill loved to watch you as a kid in the 90s and early 200s in science class. you always made science fun!
@arcticowl2401
Ай бұрын
Without proper punctuation that statement sounded really weird
One of my childhood heroes.
Dang, didn't know Bill was chill like that.
Reppin the DC Breeze hat!! We know which disc sport is in his heart ;)
Dark art indeed
I'm starting to like this timeline again.
Bill Nye the Disc Golf Guy
Can we get an in the bag video?
MORE DISC GOLF WITH BILL!!
this is beautiful.
I love that Bill Nye is into the same two niche things as me--- disc golf and swing dance
Very cool.
This is a good start, but a more thorough explanation of the physics of turn and fade would be very interesting to hear. I've argued a lot with my buddies about why the disc behaves how it does and which features of the disc exactly cause under or over stability.
0:25 Cool! I didn't know he was at the forefront of flying disc sports!!!
I need a practice round with bill
Bill needs a signature disc
Bill Nye with the Innova team stamps!!
Hear me out: All discs have sub-optimal airfoils because they must be symmetric due to rotation. This causes discs to be especially prone to stalling, which causes them to pitch up as they lose energy. However, due to the rotation of the disc and the effect of gyroscopic procession, the pitching-up motion is instead realized as a roll, causing the characteristic fade to left at the end of a right handed backhand.
@Flyzguy
Ай бұрын
Oh my gosh I found someone else who knows this!!! And the high speed nose down moment of discs with a lot of camber ("low wing") to roll right for RHBH. It's all just airfoil pitching moments and forces - but precessed 90 degrees!
@grunskm1
29 күн бұрын
@@Flyzguy Yes! A slept-on aspect of disc flight dynamics. I'd love to see someone like Scott Manley cover this.
@Flyzguy
29 күн бұрын
I could run some CFD cases and contribute. I'm a professional aerospace engineer and I've done some educational work, but I have no video production experience
That makes sense
Respect 🫡
Whats Bill bagging?
Ok Bill but what makes an overstable disc an overstable disc? Why does it cut to the left when thrown with a Right hand back hand and cut to the right when thrown with a Left hand back hand??
@spartacus10
Ай бұрын
Quite a few factors there, but I believe the main differences come in the injection molding phase. Here's a quick vid of that: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hp-ml7lyYMu-nrQ.html . The higher the parting line is (line on the outer rim) the more over-stable the disc will generally be. That has to do with how it interacts with surrounding air as it flies. For a 12-14 speed the line is high and those discs have to be thrown at high RPM to get them to fly as intended. Lower RPM means mode fade for drivers. For putters and mids the speed/rpm to stability math becomes different. Then there's all the different plastic types, how many nicks a disc has, textured rims/patches on disc etc. Could make a long video out of that. But main difference comes down to the parting line. Super domey discs will be beefcakes.
@shneekyshnake
Ай бұрын
@@spartacus10 Why does it go left and not right though? (RHBH)
@ajr2112
Ай бұрын
@shneekyshnake It's actually really complicated. I looked into this and long story short, it's because the disc is a gyroscope and therefore it has angular momentum; whether the force of lift (i.e. the torque applied to the disc) is centered infront or behind the center of the disc while it travels will determine if it "turns" or "fades." things that impact the location of the center of lift are the shape of the disc, how fast the disc is falling, and nose angle. Understable discs usually have a more convex dome and less of a ramp angle on their rim. Overstable discs are usually flatter on top and have a steep ramped rim.
@Flyzguy
Ай бұрын
Yep AJR has it right. To understand a disc rolling left and right, we have to understand it's a gyroscope with forces trying to pitch it up or down. At the end of a flight the air is hitting the nose at a higher angle of attack, trying to push the nose up. Depending on spin direction, this nose up torque precesses (gyroscope) acts like a left or right roll.
@shneekyshnake
Ай бұрын
@@Flyzguy Found some good explanations when looking up the Magnus Effect
Where should I play during AbGradCon?
Whaaaat Bill Nye has a team innova stamped disc?
what's with the "77"?
The only thing iI am bummed about is that I didn't know here was playing here! We play in and around the finger lakes like every weekend!!
Bill Nye the Disc Golf Guy 🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶
He’s got pretty good form
Bill Nye and disc golf. Can't lose
Watching this before my round of discgolf
Spinning disc = 1d gyroscope Edge lip = airfoil Together it holds orientation (gyro)and flies(airfoil)... Mind that anything with a coeff of drag will "fly", some bad some good.
Bill, bill, bill, bill!
Please get Bill to play a celebrity round. We need a Pro Am in disc golf to get some more viewership from the main stream.
I knew it! The recent test of spin rates had 3 women in the top 15 even though they all had 10 MPH less arm speed and significantly less distance. EVERYONE on that vid said spin equals distance. I countered that arm speed equals distance and spin helps hold the line (throw a weak sky anny and it goes as far but tails out). And Bill just affirmed it! He said the spin is for holding the line.
Ah. This is cornells little 9 hole course. Thats where I first played!
Bill Nye the Frisbee guy!
You go, Bill. I'm seventy and still throwing. Will be as long as I can and then some in the next life.
Bill!! Bill!! Bill!! Bill!! Bill Nye the disc guy!
OK now who do I kick off my dream card to add Bill?
Now we need bill to explain why Kc Pro Rocs are the best disc ever
😮😮😮
Bill! Bill! Bill!
The Marie Curie MVP Reactor exists; I would pay good money for a Bill Nye MVP Inertia. I'd pay a lot of dollar bill, bill, bill, bill, bill, bills!
OMG MY CHILDHOOD IDOL PLAYS MY FAVORITE SPORT
@nautilusshell940
28 күн бұрын
WE DID IT REDDIT!
This is awesome, now if I only understood scientific terms
BILL NYE PLAYS DISC GOLF?!?!?! NO WAY!!!!!
time to get Bill on Jomez!
DG just got cooler thanks to Bill Nye. Awesome.
This solidified the fact that I’ll never play disc golf again
Bill Nye the Hyzer guy
BILL! BILL! BILL!
Bill Nye the Frisbee Guy
I know
Someone needs to tell the science guy to follow through on his shot.
Bill Nye the hyzer guy
Bill please start a discgolf channel!! Please!!!!!
They need bill nye on a jomez practice round
"the dark art of disc golf"
BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL!!!
can one of these disc manufacturers put Bill Nye on payroll to make disc golf videos promoting the sport? Pros like Ricky Wysocki or Nate Sexton are always putting out beginner/promotional videos for disc golf, but I think we need Bill doing these! Who do you think someone with no disc golf knowledge would listen to? Pros Ricky Wysocki/Nate Sexton, or Bill Nye the Disc Golf Guy!
You know, he’s right.
Bill Nye VS. Uli's caddy, Brad...?
also dont forget to look at datass