# Veritasium — Why Waves Travel Faster At The Top

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.

- Code: EX-0030
- Kind: Explainer
- Format: Desktop story
- Brand: Veritasium
- Length: 117.2s · 22 beats · 11.3 beats/min · 15 hard cuts
- Industry: Education, Media
- Style: Captions, Documentary, Dialogue, Flat 2D, Voiceover, Technical
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmHcX5oVzvs
- Full breakdown: https://cutmap.co/v/veritasium-why-waves-travel-faster-at-the-top

## 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/veritasium-why-waves-travel-faster-at-the-top.