Veritasium — Why Waves Travel Faster At The Top

Name: Veritasium — Why Waves Travel Faster At The Top
Uploaded: 2026-10-09T03:42:15.575+00:00
Duration: PT117.2S
Description: A vertical science short that starts in a real wave pool, drops into a hand-drawn cross-section of water to explain why floating objects drift with waves, then returns to the pool to show that low-frequency waves outrun high-frequency ones.

Veritasium @veritasium

Desktop story · Captions · Documentary · 117s

Length

117.2s

Beats

22· 15 hard cuts

Pace

11.3/min

Avg beat

5.3s

A vertical science short that starts in a real wave pool, drops into a hand-drawn cross-section of water to explain why floating objects drift with waves, then returns to the pool to show that low-frequency waves outrun high-frequency ones.

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