How a quartz watch works – its heart beats 32,768 times a second
How a quartz watch works – its heart beats 32,768 times a second
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Quartz watches have a tiny crystal tuning fork inside that vibrates at 2^15 Hz and there’s a really clever reason for that. This video also talks a bit about how mechanical watches work.
CORRECTION: Ok, so I actually hung 16 flip flops! So you do need 15. I’m an idiot.
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this helped … it looked like pendulum balls swinging…
I wonder why whenever and whatever I watch about clocks, watches etc in internet, My clock’s on wall "tic tac tic tac" perfectly matches with those in videos.
wow, you are 1000x better than my physics professor. thanks for sharing!
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This gave me an idea to build a clock in Minecraft with some redstone gates
I always make the off by one error when guessing how many days from let’s say the 16th till the 30th of the month.
As he realizes he could have picked up just 7 pairs of identical flip flops from Target.
And now we can all have an atomic clock!!!
https://youtu.be/JK3eTGkX6qY
What if we used quartz to be an energy source on a massive scale. Can it be amplified to induce such a level of electron generation to power homes or other things?
use the shwartz
32,768. Damn that’s such a specific / lucky number.
flip flops – ho ho ho !
I looked at the accuracy and decided that quartz watches were hugely superior to mechanical, until the battery dies…
Never heard it called a ‘flip flop’ but, ok. I guess it’s a regional thing???
Your flip flop got me, thanks for explaining ! Lol
good explanation ! respect
I got into watch repair because I discovered the old accutron watch
4:50 Well That was oddly sexual..
Nice. Amazing video!
Makes you wonder, can dogs and cats hear battery powered watches?
How do they tune the pitchforks so precisely? You mentioned they put gold on and shave bits off til it’s right, but how do they know, with that level of precision, when it’s "right"?
Its nothing my smart watch does 1000000000 hz per second .. basically 1 ghz
12:16 just explaining how binary works
You’re looking over there because your friend has a really big display calculator that you are reading from. LOL
Very well explained. Thank you
Fantastic explanation!! Thank you!
amazing! thank you
Watching the flip-flops count up reminds me of binary or I suppose counting by Binary.
Please normalise the audio in your vids ☺️
Is a broken flip flop also correct twice a day?
those flip flops count up in binary
How much did he spend on flip flops for that joke?
How can the eigenfrequency of a quartz tuning fork be shifted ?
now make a funky logic gate pyramid
ahhh i get why its a one off error now…. clever
Low pressure to high pressure. Why crystals oscillate. Two lattice shrink. Opposite lines.
where do they buy that small flip-flops to fit into a clock?
I actually thought they ran on 4 quartz of milk. Edit… and why does Nord sound like a private part?
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The of by one flip-flop is just to relatable xD
well you did need 15 flip flops….there was no mistake in that … but you had taken 16 of them so you got an extra one
Do you think a quartz watch can lose a second or two a day because of a bit flip? a bit flip flop?
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Am i the only commenter who counts 16 flip-flops, not the stated 15 or 14? 😛 either way this video was a good time, it really resonates with me.
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I have two casio g-shock watches that are slow and loose about two minutes over a period of two n half months. Not counterfeit.
But watches display tenths of a second, which are in base 10 system.