How the tides REALLY work

This is a wonderful piece of work. It makes a relatively complex thing easier to understand, without dumbing it down. Excellent eductation going on here.

I'm 67 and no one has ever been able to satisfactorily explain tides to me...until now!!! THANKYOU!

The music is very distracting and loud on headphones. Only saying this because otherwise this is a fantastic explanation! The animations make it so intuitive, appreciate all the work and I hope you make more. Thank you!

Science teacher and long term sailor here saying Thank you. What a great explanation. It cleared up a few points I couldn't quite get. Excellent education.

Music is a bit loud and distracting, but great and informative video!

While a good explanation of the "tidal forces" between objects, they are not strong enough to cause ocean tides. You have to account for centrifugal forces on Moon and Earth orbiting their center of mass. See Richard Feynman, Lectures on Physics, section 7-4.

Just for future reference: the Bay of Fundy, with its funky resonance, has a counterexample. The Gulf of Thailand experiences one teeny tide per day. Very weird if you're planning your diving or navigation.

This is the first time I've actually understood the tidal mechanism.  The bit about the water being "left behind" was key. Well explained!

The very best explanation that I have seen. I understand the science and I watch certain vids to discover who does not, or cannot explain the science. You clearly know, and you can explain.

5:16 decompose the vectors from the upper and lower planet. You get arrows pointing perpendicular to the poles of the planet. This pushes water out to the sides. Why wasnt this included here? Also, the COG from the moon/earth system is on the moons side of the earth, making the ‘’polar force push’’ greater on one side.

That's the first time I've seen the "four little planets" explanation, or the ellipse-forming simulation. Very cool, very clear, and much more satisfying than the "traditional" explanations. Well done!

That was SO WELL done!!! A wealth of information in a beautifully illustrative short video. So many questions that I've had about tides became clear in a matter of moments.

Great Job, complete, clear and concise at the same time. Thank you !!

Thank you for this complete explanation of all the tides. Both lunar and solar. I realize their are more but knowing just those and how they interact satisfies my curiosity.

I would give this a Two-Thumbs-Up. As said in other comments, it takes a complex subject and explains it so more of us laymen can understand it. 👍😉👍

Waterlust crushed it! One of the best videos Ixve ever seen, in any subject. Not too long, not too short. Very well done. Take a victory lap!

Great job for giving a 80% complete explanation for the marines tides, but as I'm picky, I'm missing the "jewel on top of the crow" which would make this video really outstanding: the explanation about amphidromic points and the influence of the Coriolis force on all this moving water! You did the same trick as those videos that present the two bulges and says "too complicated to explain".

I grew up in Anchorage Alaska and they have the 4th biggest tidal change in the world and are number 1 for cities in the United States. Anchorage sits on a peninsula in Cook Inlet with Turnagain Arm to the south and Knik Arm to the north. The tidal change between high and low tide averages just around 30 feet and going up to over 33 feet for Anchorage and Turnagain Arm. Surfers and paddle boarders regularly ride the bore tides that occur when the tide is coming back in. They can ride the bore tide for miles if they’re lucky. But when the tide is low Turnagain Arm becomes a mudflat with just the river channels flowing through it. The mud is sticky and nasty and snags unsuspecting people in when they unknowingly walk on the mud. The extreme tides makes Turnagain Arm unusable for boats really because of its shallow depths.

Wow, I finally get tides! Insane how other videos and explanations in my textbooks growing up skipped all this. Thanks a bunch!!

This has been the best video about tides i've seen so far. However, it still sticks to the idea of two (or more) bulges circling our planet in pretty much one day.