The Green Brothers’ Bucket Problem

Hank just sent me here! Thank you for the awesome explantion! I got it when you mentioned honey!❤ keep the love for science and explaining it to people!! Dftba!

Ok you actually made me almost understand physics math for a sec, that’s big!

I dont know if you will see this but heres a follow up question. Does your weight now lower by the same amount when you put your hand in the cup of water? If you were on a seperate scale would your weight go down on its reading?

Y'all got me in my kitchen reproducing your experiment in the middle of the night here 😂

hello from the hank short!

Nicely done. Informative. Smart. Logical. Clear. All with high production values... bravo

this is wonderful, but what about the other half of the equation? what about the weight of the lemon man now that it’s lemon hand is in the water?

Yup that was my first thought. If the item would have floated, then if you tied a stick to it and pushed it under, it would put down force

Incredible presentation, can’t wait to learn more!!!!

Great video. Hank sent me!

go nathan and lauren!!

Love this

Now I want to try this with a balloon. I feel like you’d have to push down so hard on the balloon to get it to sink, but your hand could stay out of the water. How would that effect weight transfer. I also want to see a weight graph of someone pulling their body out of a pool onto a scale, which should be the same, but in reverse, right?

At first, when you mentioned to imagine honey, and how it takes some force to push it down, I was thus expecting the weight to increase as you're actively pushing into the water, but then go back to what it was before after I stop actively pushing, because it doesn't feel like I'm exerting any force to keep my hand in a bucket of water, And I don't imagine honey would be any different (although, granted, I have not tried holding my hand in a bucket of honey), When I think about it more the explanation does make sense, But definitely not something I would've thought of on my own haha.

Great video! How much does the bottle of teriyaki weigh independently of the water?

Alright, heard the question, now I’m gonna try answer it without hearing their explanation and see if I’m correct. The bucket you put your hand in would go down. I initially thought neither would change because the force pushing downwards against the bucket itself wouldn’t have changed because you wouldn’t be adding weight to the bucket if all you do is hold your hand there. HOWEVER, then I remembered that the volume of the water increased, which would increase potential energy of the water and increase the pressure against the hand and the bucket as it tries to reach its lowest energy position, so there would be increased energy pushing the bucket down, which would tip the scales. Edit: I was kind of correct? My answer was a factor in the full explanation but wasn’t the only reason why the weight increased. Yeah, the water would be pushing up against my hand, but my hand isn’t moving, so it would be pushing itself down.

Wouldn't the honey exaggeration be more of viscosity and not buoyancy? While it's more dense (1.4x), our idea of honey is more tied to it being thick (up to 10000x).

Teriyaki is not a brand, so why do you say "not sponsored"?