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Monthly Archives: April 2011

Making Ripples in Your Lecture Just Got Easier

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Arbor Scientific

Every once in a while we come across something that has the chance to make a real difference in the classroom in both engaging the students and making your life as a professor a little easier. We think this may be one of those times. Ripple tanks are such a wonderful way to teach your [...]

This post was posted in CoolStuff Newsletters, Sound & Waves and was tagged with interference, waves, refraction, ripples, lecture, Mini Ripple Tank, defraction
Duke students find a way to walk on water... Well, not quite.

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Arbor Scientific

The students of Duke University filled a pool with a mix of cornstarch and water to create a non-Newtonian fluid known as"oobleck". When stress is applied to the liquid it exhibits properties of a solid. Watch as they walk, run and jump on this amazing fluid!

As the YouTube video below shows, stopping or even slowing [...]

This post was posted in CoolStuff Newsletters, Pressure & Fluids and was tagged with Duke, walk on water, oobleck, rheology

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