Vibrated Cornstarch
Anyone who hasn’t already seen it should immediately watch the video showing what the Chaos Lab at UT Austin managed to do with corn starch and water. (Ok, they actually call themselves the “Center for Non-Linear Dynamics”, but “Chaos Lab” is a much better name, and “chaos” is the name of the group’s subdomain.) If [...]
Snowflake Physics
In the course of my efforts to design an original theme for this blog, I went searching for snowflake photos; what I found was quite beyond what I had been looking for. Ken Libbrecht of Caltech has an amazing website devoted to the the physics of snowflakes and ice crystal formation. His lab does a [...]
