2019-02-03

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3Blue1Brown

The third and final part of the block collision sequence.

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Error correction: I wrote the answer as floor(pi/theta), when really it should be ceiling(pi/theta) - 1 t account for values of theta perfectly dividing pi. For example, the case of equal masses gives an angle of pi/4, and 3 total clacks.

This beautiful result, and the solution shown here, are due to Gregory Galperin:

https://www.maths.tcd.ie/~lebed/Galperin.%20Playing%20pool%20with%20pi.pdf

And here's a lovely interactive built by GitHub user prajwalsouza after watching this video: https://prajwalsouza.github.io/Experiments/Colliding-Blocks.html

Speaking of looking glass universes...

https://www.youtube.com/user/LookingGlassUniverse

NY Times blog post about this problem:

https://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/pi/

The plushie pi shown at the video's start:

https://www.3blue1brown.com/store

If you want to contribute translated subtitles or to help review those that have already been made by others and need approval, you can click the gear icon in the video and go to subtitles/cc, then "add subtitles/cc". I really appreciate those who do this, as it helps make the lessons accessible to more people.

Music by Vincent Rubinetti.

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https://vincerubinetti.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-3blue1brown

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https://open.spotify.com/album/1dVyjwS8FBqXhRunaG5W5u

Thanks to these viewers for their contributions to translations

Hebrew: Omer Tuchfeld

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