# MinutePhysics — Why December Has The Longest Days

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.

- Code: EX-0053
- Kind: Explainer
- Format: Tutorial
- Brand: MinutePhysics
- Made by: Henry Reich
- Length: 171.7s · 26 beats · 9.1 beats/min · 8 hard cuts
- Industry: Education, Media
- Style: Flat 2D, Hand-drawn, Handwritten type, Light UI, Morph transitions, Data viz, Music-led, Captions
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZMMuv0Ltyo
- Full breakdown: https://cutmap.co/v/minutephysics-why-december-has-the-longest-days

## The breakdown

The full breakdown has eleven sheets: Snapshot, Opening, Structure, Timeline, Rhythm, Look, Movement, Sound & words, Why it works, Production, Build brief. It is available to Cutmap Pro members at https://cutmap.co/v/minutephysics-why-december-has-the-longest-days.