MinutePhysics — Why December Has The Longest Days

Name: MinutePhysics — Why December Has The Longest Days
Uploaded: 2026-10-09T08:55:18.497+00:00
Duration: PT171.7S
Channel: Henry Reich
Description: A hand-drawn whiteboard-style physics explainer that overturns a common belief (the longest day is in June) by building up a solar-day argument step by step: a graph, a stick figure and sundial, a spinning Earth, an elliptical orbit, a tilted globe, then a table of noon times.

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Tutorial · Flat 2D · Hand-drawn · 172s

Length

171.7s

Beats

26· 8 hard cuts

Pace

9.1/min

Avg beat

6.6s

A hand-drawn whiteboard-style physics explainer that overturns a common belief (the longest day is in June) by building up a solar-day argument step by step: a graph, a stick figure and sundial, a spinning Earth, an elliptical orbit, a tilted globe, then a table of noon times.

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